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Forest Hill Cemetery: A Guide – An introduction to various aspects of the cemetery, including its history and ecology; the symbols used on gravestones and the geology of those stones; the religious traditions and rituals represented; the effigy mounds constructed on the site long before it became a modern cemetery; and the geography and ...
Inspired by Mount Auburn Cemetery, Forest Hills Cemetery was designed by Henry A. S. Dearborn to provide a park-like setting to bury and remember family and friends. In the year the cemetery was established, another 14 + 1 ⁄ 2 acres (5.9 ha) were purchased from John Parkinson. This made for a little more than 71 acres (29 ha) at a cost of ...
Following the Battle of Island Number Ten, about 1400 Confederate soldiers who surrendered there, many from the 1st Regiment Alabama Infantry, were taken at the end of April, 1862, to the Union training field Camp Randall in Madison, Wisconsin, which was found to be unsuitable, [3] resulting in the deaths of 140 prisoners before the remaining survivors were sent to Camp Douglas (Chicago) at ...
English: The Confederate Rest section of Forest Hill Cemetery in Madison, Wisconsin in 2017. The cemetery is the northernmost Confederate cemetery in the United States.
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Forest Hill Cemetery or variation may also refer to: United States. Forest Hill Calvary Cemetery, Kansas City, Missouri; Forest Hill Cemetery (Greencastle, Indiana)
Pages in category "Burials at Forest Hill Cemetery (Madison, Wisconsin)" The following 69 pages are in this category, out of 69 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Joseph Boggs (1749–1843), army officer, moved from Old Westport Cemetery in 1915 [7] Daniel Boone III (1809–1880), and Mary Constance Philibert Boone (1814–1904), early Kansas City founders who settled in the area that later became Forest Hill Cemetery [8] Louis C. Boyle (1866–1925), Kansas Attorney General and lawyer [9]