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Three years later, he donated an additional 45 acres (18 ha), which is the majority of the Moravian Cemetery and the site of the private Vanderbilt plot. Later, his son William Henry Vanderbilt gave a further 4 acres (1.6 ha) and constructed the residence for the cemetery superintendent. William commissioned the family mausoleum, and was the ...
Memorial Park Cemetery was founded in 1924 by E. Clovis Hinds on initial 54 acres (.22 km 2). [2] It is located at 5668 Poplar Avenue in Memphis , Tennessee. Different species of trees of different ages, as well as bushes, can be found throughout the cemetery, enhancing the atmosphere of a park-like setting.
Mount Olivet Cemetery is a 206-acre (83 ha) cemetery located in Nashville, Tennessee. It is located approximately two miles East of downtown Nashville, and adjacent to the Catholic Calvary Cemetery. It is open to the public during daylight hours.
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.
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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.
Boothill Graveyard is a small graveyard of at least 250 interments located in Tombstone, Cochise County, Arizona. [2] Also known as the "Old City Cemetery", the graveyard was used after 1883 only to bury outlaws and a few others.
The organization numbered approximately 150 members but had limited resources. It emphasized restoration of tombs of notable people. They also located descendants of notable people to enlist their aid in restoration. [2]: 163 Cemetery restoration. By the mid-1970s, deterioration of the historic cemeteries of New Orleans was significant.