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3 unusual facts about Cemetery


Cemetery

The Merry Cemetery in Săpânţa, Romania has extravagantly decorated grave markers with original epitaphs.

Charlie Birt

Along with former Mayor Bill Norrie, he has recently been involved in a project to restore the Elmwood Cemetery.

Children's Poems from Terezin Concentration Camp

They had been expelled from the schools, forced to sew stars on their clothes, and were not allowed to play in places other than cemeteries.


Albert Clinton Horton

He died on September 1, 1865 in Matagorda, and was buried in Matagorda Cemetery located on South Gulf Road.

Albert Kingsbury

2 Kingsbury died in 1943, and was buried at the Quaker Cemetery, Spring Mills, Pennsylvania.

B'nai Israel Synagogue and Montefiore Cemetery

Montefiore Cemetery in Grand Forks is one of many institutions named for Sir Moses Montefiore.

Behavior Cemetery

The African American cemetery is believed to date to before the American Civil War although the earliest marker is dated to the late 19th century.

Ben Lilly

He died at eighty, on December 17, 1936, on a ranch in Pleasanton, near Silver City, New Mexico and is buried in the historic Memory Lane Cemetery in Silver City.

Berthold of Hanover

When Berthold attempted to bless the Christian cemetery at Holm, they decided either to burn the bishop together with his church at Holm or to drown him in the Düna.

Bierówka

Bierówka is the location of World War II cemetery situated at Bierowskie Doły (pictured), with unmarked mass graves of prisoners of the Szebnie concentration camp nearby, covering the entire perimeter.

Brick Presbyterian Church

Brick Chapel Church and Cemetery, Canton, New York, a historic Presbyterian church and cemetery

Delville Wood Commonwealth War Graves Commission Cemetery

Sited opposite the Delville Wood South African Memorial and designed by Sir Herbert Baker, Delville Wood cemetery is located just off the D20 that runs between Longueval and Guillemont (11 km east of Albert), France and contains 5,523 burials of which two-thirds are unknown.

Dernancourt

2131 Commonwealth soldiers are buried in the military cemetery here

East New Market, Maryland

Thus the continued use of the older burial ground of their former location at "Union Chapel" was no longer needed; it coincides with a more general trend known the rise of the cemetery movement (for a general discussion of the topic of the cemetery movement see the book Lincoln at Gettysburg by historian Garry Wills)

Errancis Cemetery

Errancis Cemetery or Cimetière des Errancis is a former cemetery in the 8th arrondissement of Paris and was one of the four cemeteries (the others being Madeleine Cemetery, Picpus Cemetery and the Cemetery of Saint Margaret) used to dispose of the corpses of guillotine victims during the French Revolution.

Florence War Cemetery

Florence War Cemetery is a Commonwealth War Graves Commission burial ground for the dead of World War II located in Italy near Florence in the locality Girone-Compiobbi (municipality of Fiesole), close to the Arno river.

Floyd Speer

Speers was returned to his hometown of Booneville, where he was buried in the Carolan Community Cemetery, 5 miles outside of town.

Frederick Illingworth

After his resignation from the Legislative Assembly in August 1907, he must have returned to Victoria, for he died at Brighton, Victoria on 8 September 1908, and was buried in Melbourne Cemetery.

Great Mound

Great Mound (Marietta, Ohio), at Mound Cemetery, aka "Conus" or "Mound Cemetery Mound" (NRHP site #73001549), listed on the NRHP in Washington County, Ohio

Hana Mašková

Her tomb is at the Vyšehrad cemetery in Prague, decorated by a winged female torso made by Jan Štursa.

Harry W. Musselwhite

He died in San Lorenzo, California and is interred on the other side of the state in Cypress Lawn Cemetery of Coloma.

Hayward, Oregon

It has a cemetery and once had a post office, and before 1891, the neighboring town of Greenville, Oregon had the only nearby post office.

Henry W. Keyes

He died in 1938 in North Haverhill, New Hampshire, and is buried at the Oxbow Cemetery in Newbury, Vermont.

Holy Innocents' Cemetery

In Anne Rice's The Vampire Lestat, Armand's coven of vampires resides in the Cimetière des Innocents when Lestat first encounters them, and they remain there until shortly before the Cemetery is finally destroyed.

Hudson Taylor

Buried 9 June 1905 in Protestant Cemetery (no longer existing) in Zhenjiang, Jiangsu, China

Jewish cemetery in Währing

Around 1900 an avenue of lime trees was planted in the middle of the unused cemetery.

Josef Armberger

Josef Armberger's grave is located at the military cemetery Champigny in the department of Eure.

Kurt Schork

After Schork died, as per his personal wishes, upon cremation half of his ashes was buried next to his mother in Washington, D.C., and half at "Groblje LAV" (The Lion Cemetery) in Sarajevo, next to the grave of Boško and Admira, the central figures in Schork's acclaimed story.

Layton Cemetery

Layton Cemetery contains the graves of 139 Commonwealth service personnel of World War I and 39 of World War II, besides, from the latter war, 26 airmen of the Polish Air Force (whose headquarters in exile were in Talbot Square in the town), and one airman of the Royal Yugoslav Air Force.

Louis Campagna

Campagna was buried at Mount Carmel Cemetery, in Hillside, Illinois, in what observers described as the most lavish mob funeral since Capone's death.

Louise Elisabeth de Meuron

She died just before the age of 98 in the Riggisberg borough hospital and lies buried in the cemetery at Gerzensee.

Macclesfield Cemetery

Macclesfield Cemetery, is a Victorian cemetery located on Prestbury Road, Macclesfield, Cheshire.

Monmouth, Illinois

Abner C. Harding, Civil War General and Republican Congressman, lived in Monmouth and is buried in Monmouth Cemetery.

Nicholas Fish II

Fish was buried at Saint Philip's Church Cemetery in Garrison, New York.

Northwood, Philadelphia

Northwood is bounded on the north by Roosevelt Boulevard, on the northeast by Cheltenham Avenue, on the west by Oakland Cemetery and Greenwood Cemetery, Juniata Park and Frankford Creek, and on the southeast by Frankford Avenue.

Polish Cemetery at Casamassima

The cemetery is maintained by the municipality of Casamassima and the Polish Honorary Consul General in Bari, Italy.

Pope Boniface V

Boniface completed and consecrated the cemetery of Saint Nicomedes on the Via Nomentana.

Randolph Perkins

He was interred in Fairview Cemetery, West New Brighton, Staten Island, New York.

Robert W. Lyon

He was buried in Calvary Cemetery in the west suburb of McKees Rocks.

Russian Orthodox Cemetery, Nice

3.000 Russians, including the descendants of Russian immigrants and refugees after the October Revolution and the members of royal families were buried at the cemetery such as Galitzine, Naryshkin, Obolensky, Volkonsky, Tsereteli and Gagarin family.

Sai Wan War Cemetery

The cemetery is located on the northeastern corner of Hong Kong Island.

Salarrué

He died in Los Planes de Renderos, near San Salvador, and is buried in the Cementerio de los Ilustres ("Cemetery of Distinguished Citizens").

Selman Waksman

Selman Waksman died on August 16, 1973 and was interred at the Crowell Cemetery in Woods Hole, Barnstable County, Massachusetts.

St. John's Cemetery

St. John's Cemetery, Frederick, Maryland, a Roman Catholic cemetery located in Frederick, Maryland

St. Pantaleon-Weyer concentration camp

The dead bodies of the Sinti were – according to consistent testimonies of contemporary witnesses – for the time being deposited between shovels and pots in the gravedigger’s cell at the cemetery Haigermoos, and then buried during the night – without discernible gravesite.

Sykia, Voula

It is next to the asphalt road continuing from the cemetery of Voula.

The Alchemyst: The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel

Dee brings all the dead in a nearby cemetery alive and they start to attack them, Josh hits Dee with a Hummer distracting Dee long enough to escape with Scathach, Sophie and Nicholas Flamel by using a leygate (a teleportation device where two or more lines of energy, ley lines, cross the world) to go to Paris which is Nicholas Flamel's old home.

Thomas R. Ranson

After the war, Ranson went there and had a marble marker placed over the unmarked grave of Julia Neale Jackson (1798–1831) in Westlake Cemetery, to make sure that the site was not lost forever.

Tomales Presbyterian Church and Cemetery

Tomales Presbyterian Church and Cemetery is a historic Presbyterian church at 11 Church Street in Tomales, California.

Tulsk

His grave, amongst 370, can be viewed at Borre British Cemetery in northern France (grave number 11.F.6).

V Beach Commonwealth War Graves Commission Cemetery

Amongst the graves is that of Captain Garth Walford who was posthumously awarded the Victoria Cross (along with Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Doughty-Wylie) for organising and leading an attack through Seddülbahir and the fort adjacent to the cemetery.


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