Local Cemeteries
Dec 2, 2014 17:20:01 #
I'm sure this topic has been explored before, but I would like to suggest cemetery markers. I visited our Lemon Bay Cemetery some time ago and took a few shots. The cemetery has been built up about 8-10 above the surrounding area since nowhere here (Englewood, FL) is more than a few feet above sea level. The first photo is a very early, primitively carved marker. It is hard to imagine what life must have been like here before any infrastructure or amenities, but this early settler managed to live to a ripe old age. The second photo is a bronze plaque attached to an above-ground crypt made of brick. The inscriptions read: Landinspektor Edv. Jensen 3-22, 1865 - 6-15-1919 and Knud H. Jensen 10-28-1905 - 3-30-1927. Early Danish immigrants? I can't tell if the plaque suggests the rising sun or something else.
Early Marker
Memorial Plaque
Dec 2, 2014 17:24:41 #
You may be interested in one of the cemetery photography projects
http://www.google.com/#q=cemetery+photography+project
http://www.google.com/#q=cemetery+photography+project
Dec 2, 2014 17:32:10 #
You might also check out findagrave.com and become a contributor to help expand their database.
Dec 2, 2014 17:34:20 #
While in Nashville Tn. went to a local cemetery they had many civil war graves from both sides. While there I found a headstone with my mane on it including my middle initial.
Dec 2, 2014 17:58:55 #
Imagigraphic wrote:
I'm sure this topic has been explored before, but ... (show quote)
Thank you for your post. I have never heard of anyone else besides my daughter and I who enjoy spending time in old cemeteries. Our friends and family think we are 'odd' because my daughter and I love walking through old cemeteries and grave yards. We read the inscriptions on as many headstones as we can and we imagine aloud what that person and their family were like and the kind of life they lived. I found some interesting old crude/rough markers in Alaska that actually told how the person died.
Besides telling a story, some of these headstones are true works of art.
Dec 2, 2014 18:02:10 #
Dec 3, 2014 14:05:01 #
jsharp wrote:
Was it you?While in Nashville Tn. went to a local cemetery they had many civil war graves from both sides. While there I found a headstone with my mane on it including my middle initial.
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