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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]
The grave, once in disrepair, was restored in 2006 by admirers. Franz von Suppé: 1895 Composer Wiener Zentralfriedhof, Vienna, Austria Joan Sutherland: 2010 Opera singer Clarens-Montreux Cemetery, Montreux, Switzerland Beside her grave is the future final resting place of her widower, conductor Richard Bonynge. Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck: 1621 ...
The cemetery changed its name to Evergreen Washelli in 1962. The Evergreen Washelli cemetery was started as an "endowment care" cemetery, therefore a portion of the cost of a grave is designated into a trust fund for maintenance of the grounds. This allows for a cemetery to remain as a perpetual landmark.
Friends Quaker Cemetery, Windsor Terrace; Green-Wood Cemetery [9] Holy Cross Cemetery, East Flatbush; Kings County Cemetery, also known as Kings County Farm Cemetery and Potter's Field (not to be confused with Potter's Field on Hart Island, Bronx), was located on Clarkson Avenue, East Flatbush; Maimonides Cemetery, Cypress Hills
James Gillespie (1747–1805), Revolutionary War soldier, Representative – North Carolina, reinterred at Congressional Cemetery 1893 at R60/S58. Cenotaph at R31/S59. Francis Jacob Harper (1800–1837), Representative Pennsylvania, died before taking office. Reinterred at Congressional Cemetery 1848. R55/S101.
The Cemetery in the 1830s, seen from Ecclesall Road.. The General Cemetery was one of the first commercial landscape cemeteries in Britain.Its opening in 1836 as a Nonconformist cemetery was a response to the rapid growth of Sheffield and the relatively poor state of the town's churchyards.
Originally called Boothill Cemetery, the graveyard was founded in 1878. [4] After a new city cemetery was built elsewhere, the old cemetery stopped accepting new burials in about 1883 (save for very few exceptions) and fell into disrepair until the 1940s, when the city began to restore and preserve it. [3]
The cemetery in 1889. The Old Burying Ground, or Old Burial Ground, [1] is a historic cemetery in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, located just outside Harvard Square. [2] The cemetery opened in 1635. [1]