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Lewis

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I have a question for you guy's, do you all think that I am weird, just because I have always been drawn to graveyards, I think it is because of the architecture and the stories that I read on the tombstones. I like to stop and ponder that persons life. I also belong to find a grave.com. I love that site. I even made the final documentation, on the tallest tombstone in America, a 150 foot, 15 stories oblisk here in the Woodlands cemetery, here in Philly. Before my study this information was not known on a national scale, even the Woodlands cemetery director did not know. Well really a few suspected it, but nobody tried to find out. I had people searching all over America, we found that the the memorial of Thomas Wiltberger Evans, is the tallest in America. And I also get to see where the famous are buried, and read about them belonging to http://www.findagrave.com I have always been drawn to this type of stuff even when I was coming up, I was even going to go to school for Mortuary science, but my alcohol and drug usage ended that. They call us Gravers, but hey there are millions like me, I don't want to lay in a graveyard yet myself, but I like this stuff, even watching a cremation once, that was really interesting. But anyway, just thought, that I would throw this out there, not really caring about what is thought about me being this way. You can call me weird I don't really care, and I don't mean that in a sarcastic way.
 
while i'm not like that i love history and find gravemarkers can have stories to them. Have you ever been to the cemeteries in New Orleans. Some of the graves there predate the u.s.

Near where gojubrian lives in arkansaw(off hwy 71) there's alot of churches still active, when i was there, with cemeteries in the back, That the history of our culture, he church(bulding) was our school house, town hall, and other things, yes these were small remote areas that did that, but it still fascinating to me, near where i live is one of those structures, i'll post a picture when have a chance with the strory behind it.

jason
 
No I have not been to the ones in New Orleans, But I have always marveled at them, they are some of the most interesting in the world.
 
Lewis W said:
No I have not been to the ones in New Orleans, But I have always marveled at them, they are some of the most interesting in the world.
i osnly got to see them from at distance they are huge. Lots of masons buried there, if you know what your looking at.

jason
 
jasoncran said:
Lewis W said:
No I have not been to the ones in New Orleans, But I have always marveled at them, they are some of the most interesting in the world.
i osnly got to see them from at distance they are huge. Lots of masons buried there, if you know what your looking at.

jason
What makes them interesting, is the way they are grouped together for space reasons, and are above the ground for water table reasons, and the designs of the tombs are first rate.
 
Lewis W said:
jasoncran said:
[quote="Lewis W":36zol1it]No I have not been to the ones in New Orleans, But I have always marveled at them, they are some of the most interesting in the world.
i osnly got to see them from at distance they are huge. Lots of masons buried there, if you know what your looking at.

jason
What makes them interesting, is the way they are grouped together for space reasons, and are above the ground for water table reasons, and the designs of the tombs are first rate. [/quote:36zol1it]
and the cadaver may float in any hard rain that not only happend there but as far away as lafayette,ville platte, and other towns

jason
 
Yeah I think they found a body in a casket during Katrina, if I can remember right, about 60 something miles away from the grave. Raging floods tend to dig up caskets.
 
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Lewis,

I don't think you are weird for being interested in the epitaphs (engravings etched on tomb stones) of people about their beloved or of the last words of it individual people themselves. I've always had an interest but never really made a hobby out of it because I have too many hobbies going already. :lol Lake View Cemetary on the East Side of Cleveland is one of the most interesting around here. In the chapel all the stained glass was made by Tiffany, you can find Tiffany's work spread through out the famous sites on the grounds. The Garfield monument is there, it has over 102,000 graves in it on 285 acres of land, has the largest concrete dam east of the Mississippi and contains the graves of Ray Chapman (baseball player from the 20's) , James Garfield,Elliot Ness, JD Rockefeller, Jeptha Wade, Carl Stokes, Garrett Morgan (inventor of the traffic light) and way too many others to mention here. It's a really neat place. click: Lake View Cemetary Sites of Interest and some really nice photos taken by various photographers here: Photos


Also, I got to see some of the graves in Boot Hill Cemetary in Tombstone Arizona when I was on a vacation there. That was sooo coool! I've got some pics but I'd have to dig in my old photos to find them.... But here's a link you might find interesting : Boot Hill Cemetary Man! Talk about death caused by a crminal act! sheesh! So many deaths by shootings! And think, to this day... the crimes by gunfire still continue. Sad..... aye? :sad


Memories! :yes



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I'm another one who likes to visit graveyards. As a matter of fact, when Steve and I were first dating, we would often take our lunches to the local cemetery and eat, then walk down the paths together.
Romantic? You be the judge. ;) At any rate, my family was the type to always visit the historic graveyards in the various towns we lived in.

When I was 9 we moved to a very small town in central California called Chinese Camp, named so because the Chinese who worked on the railroads used to camp there. Anyway, it was a town that sprung up during the Gold Rush era and had a graveyard from dating back to the 1850's.

My sisters and I decided to take a walk in the graveyard one day, and had already freaked ourselves out a bit because the neighbor kids had told us it was haunted. A lot of the gravestones had fallen over or were cracked, including one above ground crypt that had some strange carvings on it. Although this was more due to the mild earthquakes the area was prone to rather than ghosts it was mildly spooky. Then my sister tripped over one of the stones and looked down and saw someone who was named Watrous and was buried exactly 15 years to the day before our dad's birthday. We freaked and ran home.

Dad and Mom were immediately interested in the fact that someone named Watrous in the cemetery as Watrous isn't that common of a name, so we all walked back to the cemetery after supper and took a much better look. The grave was for a child, a little over a year old, who died in 1919, of influenza. We looked at the dates of more of the markers, and found that the flu had hit the town pretty hard. The stone also marked the names of the little guy's parents.

We called Grandpa who had extensive research on the family genealogy and found that there was a cousin of our great-grandfather's who had lived in the area at the time, but he didn't know what happened to him. So, Grandpa planned a visit and when he came he used his excellent research abilities and found that our great-great-grandfather's brother came out to California, a little late for the gold rush, but apparently with high hopes of striking it rich anyway. He didn't, but he did eventually marry and have one son, who lived in various gold towns along the California foothills. He married as well and it was his son buried in the tiny little town of Chinese Camp. We found out that his wife died later that same year and was buried in Jamestown, another gold mining town. In another odd coincedence he died in 1934, which was the same year that Dad was born, only not the same date, never knowing that in 38 years, his newly born second cousin (once removed) daughters would stumble over his son's grave and solve the family mystery of what happened to him.
 
It really was amazing, when you think about it. Especially since the great-great's all lived in Michigan.
 
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