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The Kuamoʻo Burials (also known as the Lekeleke Burial Grounds) is an historic Hawaiian burial site for warriors killed during a major battle in 1819. [2] The site is located at Kuamoʻo Bay in the North Kona District , on the island of Hawaiʻi , United States .
She was buried the next day on the palace grounds by the Royal Tomb without any high ceremony. The official Polynesian devoted a few lines to her obituary. It was indicated that she was "out of favor in the royal circle of Honolulu", partly because she preferred the traditional Hawaiian values, including the ancient religion, and had resisted ...
The name Oheyawahi means "a sacred place much visited; the place where people go for burials". [3] It had long been sacred to the Dakota people. Descriptions by early white settlers demonstrate its continued use by the Dakota in the 19th century: Charles La Trobe described a tomb of an Indian chief at the summit of the hill in 1832–1833, [2] French explorer Joseph Nicollet described a "great ...
Queen Emma was so overcome with grief that she camped on the grounds of Mauna ʻAla, and slept in the mausoleum. [2] The mausoleum was completed in 1865, adjacent to the public 1844 Oahu Cemetery. The mausoleum seemed a fitting place to bury other past monarchs of the Kingdom of Hawaii and their families. The remains of past deceased royals ...
Even though her funeral was a public affair, and televised, little is known about what Queen Elizabeth II will take to her grave – and one expert believes that this may remain the case.
The cemetery was established in the 1800s as the sacred burial grounds for the Duwamish Nation. Seattle's earliest settlers followed [ citation needed ] . The monuments, headstones, and grave markers etched with history, are cenotaphs marking nothing after the burial grounds were bulldozed by the City of Seattle on November 2, 1987.
This list of cemeteries in San Bernardino County, California includes currently operating, historical (closed for new interments), and defunct (graves abandoned or removed) cemeteries, columbaria, and mausolea in San Bernardino County, California.
The tomb, formally numbered Wady D Tomb 1, is located at the head of Wady D in Wady Gabbanat el-Qurud, southwest of the Valley of the Kings. [12] This "remote and unfrequented" area of the Theban necropolis, part of the Western Wadis near the Valley of the Queens was used as a burial ground for queens and royal children during the early Eighteenth Dynasty.