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Cicely – enslaved servant of a Harvard tutor (the oldest surviving gravestone of a Black person in the Americas) [2] [7] Several Presidents of Harvard College are buried here [8] including: Charles Chauncy – second President of Harvard, 1654 to 1672 [2] [5] Henry Dunster – first President of Harvard, 1640 to 1654 [2] [5]
Captain Andrew Drake (1684–1743) sandstone gravestone from the Stelton Baptist Church in Edison, New Jersey. A gravestone or tombstone is a marker, usually stone, that is placed over a grave. A marker set at the head of the grave may be called a headstone. An especially old or elaborate stone slab may be called a funeral stele, stela, or slab.
In 1854 when Hancock Cemetery in the center of the town had been filled to near capacity, a committee was formed at a town meeting to determine the site of a new burial ground. The committee chose a plot of land in the town farm, which had been donated by William Coddington and was located just west of the site of Quincy's founding spot, Mount ...
[4] [5] The New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission's chair said at the time: "The Vanderbilt Mausoleum is an extraordinary monument to America's Gilded Age." [3] In June 2021, the mausoleum was nominated for inclusion on the New York State and National Register of Historic Places. [6] It was added to the NRHP on July 30, 2021. [2]
Monument to Sir Charles Cotton, Admiral of the White (d.1812). [34] Monument to Mrs. E. Knight in All Saints Church (Milton, Cambridgeshire). [23] John Franklin (d.1831), English, "monumental mason of local note whose tablets frequently appear in east Wiltshire and neighbourhood". [35] John Frazee, carver active in mid-19th-century New York.
In April 2014, it was announced the cemetery would add an additional 800 to 1,000 gravesites near the main entrance while also adding a columbarium, which will hold cremated remains above ground. An estimated 60,000 to 70,000 people are interred in the cemetery. [5]
There are over 300,000 headstones and hundreds of memorials at Arlington National Cemetery. Arlington House itself is a memorial to George Washington.The son of Martha Dandridge Custis Washington, John Parke Custis purchased the 1,100-acre (450 ha) tract of wooded land on the Potomac River north of Alexandria, Virginia in 1778.
Today, the Evergreens is the final resting place of more than 526,000 people. [3] The cemetery borders Brooklyn and Queens and covers 225 acres (0.91 km 2) of rolling hills and gently sloping meadows. It features several thousand trees and flowering shrubs in a park-like setting. Cypress Hills Cemetery lies to its northeast.