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The logo of Find a Grave used from 1995 to 2018 [2] Find a Grave was created in 1995 by Salt Lake City, Utah, resident Jim Tipton to support his hobby of visiting the burial sites of famous celebrities. [3] Tipton classified his early childhood as being a nerdy kid who had somewhat of a fascination with graves and some love for learning HTML. [4]
Jerome Avenue gate. The Cemetery covers more than 400 acres (160 ha) [2] and is the resting place for more than 300,000 people. Built on rolling hills, its tree-lined roads lead to some unique memorials, some designed by famous American architects: McKim, Mead & White, John Russell Pope, James Gamble Rogers, Cass Gilbert, Carrère and Hastings, Sir Edwin Lutyens, Beatrix Jones Farrand, and ...
Georgia National Cemetery is a United States National Cemetery located near the city of Canton, in Cherokee County, Georgia.Managed by the United States Department of Veterans Affairs, it encompasses 774.9 acres (313.6 ha), and has been undergoing development with the intention of servicing the interment needs of United States military veterans and their families for the next fifty years.
Starting in the 1930s, it became a training area for the United States Army and control of the facility was turned over to the Pennsylvania National Guard in 1998. In 1976, a section of Fort Indiantown Gap Military Reservation was selected as the national cemetery for the states of Delaware, Maryland, New Jersey, Virginia and West Virginia.
Bellefontaine Cemetery is a nonprofit, non-denominational cemetery and arboretum in St. Louis, Missouri.Founded in 1849 as a rural cemetery, Bellefontaine has several architecturally significant monuments and mausoleums such as the Louis Sullivan-designed Wainwright Tomb, which is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
The Columbia Cemetery in Columbia, Missouri has been in use as a cemetery since 1820. [2] The cemetery historically contains, White, African-American, and Jewish (Beth Olem Cemetery, Beth Shalom Cemetery) sections.
A section of the cemetery called the "Unknown Plot" contains the bodies of 777 flood victims who could not be identified, and a monument to the flood victims was purchased by the state of Pennsylvania and dedicated on May 31, 1892 before an estimated crowd of 10,000 that included the governor of Pennsylvania.
Oakwood Cemetery at Find a Grave; Restore Oakwood; Richmond Parks & Recreation Cemeteries List; Stereograph of Confederate Graves April–June 1865; Photographic Tour of Oakwood Cemetery; Memorial Address May 10, 1916 by Dr. Douglas Southall Freeman; List of Confederate Hospitals in Richmond, VA, during the Civil War