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Heinrich Funck is commonly believed to have been born in the Palatinate region of Germany.No baptismal record is known. He was a descendant of Swiss Mennonites who were expelled from Bern, Switzerland, in the 17th century based largely on their religious beliefs. [2]
The tombstone is believed to belong to Sir George Yeardley, a colonial governor of the earliest English settlement and one of America’s first slaveholders, who was knighted in 1618. The death of ...
There are some shared characteristics of cemeteries in North Bergen. In the Annual report of the National Board of Health in 1879 four cemeteries, historically Grove Church, Hoboken, Machpelah, and Weehawken, all lie on the western side of the Hudson Palisades which gives them similar soil deposits and somewhat uniquely, the presence of trap rock on the grounds. [3]
Find a Grave is a website that allows the public to search and add to an online database of human and pet cemetery records. It is owned by Ancestry.com.Its stated mission is "to help people from all over the world work together to find, record and present final disposition information as a virtual cemetery experience."
And “tombstone tourists” are always encouraging more to consider a cemetery’s the macabre beauty. “For me, a cemetery is like an art museum,” said Joy Neighbors, an author who writes ...
Rockville Cemetery is located on the eastern edge of Rockville [1] at 1350 Baltimore Road, adjacent to the Rockville Civic Center.It occupies 26.64 acres (10.78 ha) in two sections, an older, western or upper section of 7.7 acres (3.1 ha) and a newer, eastern or lower section of almost 16.9 acres (6.8 ha).
Memorial Park, in Hayward, California, is a public park managed by the Hayward Area Recreation and Park District.The park contains an indoor swim center, the Hayward Plunge, which opened in 1936. [1]
After two assassination attempts on Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, a Brooklyn artist thought it was a good idea to resurrect his 500-pound art project: a tombstone with the former ...