I always thought that it was really cool how back in the day people would include a picture of the person on their tombstone.  I like to wander around cemeteries and look at the old stones that include pictures...some of them are SO old!! :o

I always thought that it was really cool how back in the day people would include a picture of the person on their tombstone.  I like to wander around cemeteries and look at the old stones that include pictures...some of them are SO old!! :o



Heh, I did that tonight. I only saw, like, three of them, though. I have a few pictures I've taken, I'll post them later. Actually, I might wait until I get my camera and take better ones.

Heh, I did that tonight. I only saw, like, three of them, though. I have a few pictures I've taken, I'll post them later. Actually, I might wait until I get my camera and take better ones.




were any of them of children? Were they real clear?

were any of them of children? Were they real clear?



I didn't see children tonight.. I have seen them before, though. They weren't too clear, no.

can i post cemetary/headstone pics here?

duh, lok at the thread title  :-[

can i post cemetary/headstone pics here?




sure...that would be awesome! ;)

I used to be really into old cemeteries...I'd go around to them and look for stones from the 1700s and early 1800s, take photographs of them as art, and spend hours reading all the inscriptions and dates and writing reflective poetry. I particularly love crypts.

I used to be really into old cemeteries...I'd go around to them and look for stones from the 1700s and early 1800s, take photographs of them as art, and spend hours reading all the inscriptions and dates and writing reflective poetry. I particularly love crypts.



yes...they are quite fascinating!

yes...they are quite fascinating!


They have alot of great ones in general in New England, but in older areas, all of them, they're great too. Do you have alot of older cemeteries in the Pittsburgh area? There's one near my school that has a stone from the very early 1800s with somebody with the same name as my classmate on it...and it's on the street that he lives on!

They have alot of great ones in general in New England, but in older areas they're great too. Do you have alot of older cemeteries in the Pittsburgh area? There's one near my school that has a stone from the very early 1800s with somebody with the same name as my classmate on it...and it's on the street that he lives on!



well..I'm not sure about right around near Pittsburgh, I've never explored any around there...however, where I live (about 45 minutes east of Pittsburgh)...there are quite a few old ones.

well..I'm not sure about right around near Pittsburgh, I've never explored any around there...however, where I live (about 45 minutes east of Pittsburgh)...there are quite a few old ones.


I'm pretty sure W. Pennsylvania was settled first as the "backcountry" in revolutionary times, and wasn't Fort Duquesne at the "Three Forks" a major fort? Most of the W. Pennsylvania settlers back in the 1700s were poor squatters who often were in conflict with the native population, and George Washington himself. You can always tell alot about an area from the tombstones, the ethnic populations, the elements of style they liked, etc. Like you can tell when there were epidemics, times of prosperity, times of misfortune, and such. If you go into "bad areas" where I am, you can find the best ones, since those were settled earlier...there's a gorgeous one by this great old church just at the border of the slums that has stones going back to the 1720s, and a few great "flat ones" with a whole paragraph of text and more complicated fluting with the angels. Also, there are differences in the types of stone and design used overtime, and differences between the stones used by the Dutch and English populations...I have all these guides to the cemeteries of New Jersey.

This is my mom's headstone at the cemetary in French Camp, California, just on the outskirts of Manteca where I grew up. I had to take care of all the arrangements (that was morbid) & I chose to use her entire Yugoslavian name on the stone. These pics are from Feb. 2006.  Two pics are similar but one has the shadow of branches from the big sycamore tree. Her grave is right under the tree. I got to choose the spot & figured the tree would help me remember where it is when I visit to place flowers.  8)

There's an extremely old cemetary not too far from our house and they have graves there that go back to Civil War times.  They are extremely ornate and some of the statues are massive.

There's an extremely old cemetary not too far from our house and they have graves there that go back to Civil War times.  They are extremely ornate and some of the statues are massive.
That's been the fascinating thing to me about cemetaries, trying to find the oldest grave. This place has dates from the 1840's, 1850's. I'll take a couple pics of those next time. Those big ornate statues and monuments are incredible.

I do alot of family tree research so I've wandered many a cemetery.  I like them, they very peaceful and I love all the ornate stones.

Here's a couple of the more interesting ones in my travels:

http://www.geocities.com/bellaireohiocemeteries/HowardPalmerJr.jpg

http://www.geocities.com/bellaireohiocemeteries/CaptJMSpangler.jpg

http://www.geocities.com/bellaireohiocemeteries/Spanglercannon.jpg

http://www.geocities.com/bellaireohiocemeteries/James_M_KirkdOct311827age78.jpg
James Kirk died in 1827 age 78

http://www.geocities.com/bellaireohiocemeteries/treecemetery.jpg
William Keyser - died 1818

I do alot of family tree research so I've wandered many a cemetery.  I like them, they very peaceful and I love all the ornate stones.

Here's a couple of the more interesting ones in my travels:

http://www.geocities.com/bellaireohiocemeteries/HowardPalmerJr.jpg

http://www.geocities.com/bellaireohiocemeteries/CaptJMSpangler.jpg

http://www.geocities.com/bellaireohiocemeteries/Spanglercannon.jpg

http://www.geocities.com/bellaireohiocemeteries/James_M_KirkdOct311827age78.jpg
James Kirk died in 1827 age 78

http://www.geocities.com/bellaireohiocemeteries/treecemetery.jpg
William Keyser - died 1818



Those are great pictures Patty! :)

Propably one of the recent controversial gravestones in the UK belongs to comedian and former Goon Spike Milligan.

http://www.glenister.info/grave6.jpg

http://www.spikemilligan.co.uk/mediac/400_0/media/DIR_66313/spikes$7Egrave~closeup.jpg

http://www.spikemilligan.co.uk/mediac/400_0/media/DIR_66313/grave1.jpg

Milligan gets last laugh on grave


Comedy legend Spike Milligan has finally got the last laugh, more than two years after his death. It follows an agreement with the local diocese over the wording on the headstone of his grave at St Thomas's Church in Winchelsea, East Sussex. Relatives of the former Goon have now decided that it can bear the star's epitaph: "I told you I was ill." However, the inscription had to be written in Gaelic in order for it to be approved by the Chichester Diocese. Milligan, who was an Irish passport holder, was buried close to his home in Udimore after he died, aged 83, from liver failure in February 2002. But fans visiting his grave found it was only marked by some plants and a small statue because his family had been unable to agree on the headstone. It now bears the words "Duirt me leat go raibh me breoite", or "I told you I was ill", and the English words "Love, light, peace". Bill Horsman, chairman of the Goon Show Preservation Society, said: "News of the headstone going up on Spike's grave is marvellous. "We had been very concerned for some time about the situation. "It was very sad that the grave was in such a state, but it was down to very sensitive family problems and we simply could not get involved. "We're very pleased it's been resolved and with such a classic Spike line. "We all fell about laughing when we heard it." Milligan formed the Goons with Peter Sellers, Harry Secombe and Michael Bentine and was widely regarded as one of the greatest influences on British comedy.

Words courtesy of the BBC.

My dad actually sent a photographer to Lithuania to film the gravestones of my ancestors and take pictures of them. Surprisingly, most of them were not defaced/knocked over by the Nazis.

I love how in England, they have old graves in the walls and floors of the churches and cathedrals, and giant monuments sticking out of the floor fashioned like a statue of the couple lying in a four-poster bed.

Some of the oldest graves I've ever seen are at Christ Church on St. Simons Island.  The athuor Eugenia Price is buried there.  If I can get some photos from my mother-in-law, I'll post them. 

http://www.ghosttoursofstsimons.com/cem2.jpg


http://www.gacoast.com/navigator/cctomb.GIF


http://www.gacoast.com/navigator/ep2.html

Oh and if you go to St. Simons you need to go on the Ghost Tour...
http://www.ghosttoursofstsimons.com/

The grave of the avatar Charles Babbage at Kensal Green Cemetery in West London.

http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~lloyd/tildeImages/People/Babbage/Babbage480.jpg

The grave of the avatar Charles Babbage at Kensal Green Cemetery in West London.

http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~lloyd/tildeImages/People/Babbage/Babbage480.jpg




You can't hotlink, Philip.

You can't hotlink, Philip.
In fact his grave is only 1

I think it is so sad that in England now you are not allowed to put poems or the like on graves anymore, also most diocese will not allow angels or crosses anymore. To me they are what make graveyards unique and beautiful.

There was outrage in a couple of our graveyards when at first it looked like they had been dreadfully vandalised,with stones scattered about broken and lying flat.It then turned out that the local authoritiy had actually sent workers out to 'lay flat' any leaning stones for health and safety, incase they fell on anyone !?! Considering this guys were filmed booting over stones or wacking them with mallets until they either broke or fell over it was concluded they were pretty damn strudy in the first place. I believe following the public out cry most of the stones were put back up by the council though sadly some were damaged beyond repair. I hope those guys get haunted !! I swear if it was my grave I'd come back and follow them around booting them up the arse every few minutes !

One of the times we went to Massachusetts we took some pictures of the headstones there.  They have some really cool cemeteries there and the graves are so old, some date back to the 1600s.  I wish I had some of the pictures, I think they're all at my mom's house, dang.

I think this might be one of the cemeteries that we went to http://www.graveaddiction.com/burypt.html  There is a menu on the left where you can click to see more pictures.

One of the times we went to Massachusetts we took some pictures of the headstones there.  They have some really cool cemeteries there and the graves are so old, some date back to the 1600s.  I wish I had some of the pictures, I think they're all at my mom's house, dang.

I think this might be one of the cemeteries that we went to http://www.graveaddiction.com/burypt.html  There is a menu on the left where you can click to see more pictures.
that's pretty cool, I'll check more later

One of the times we went to Massachusetts we took some pictures of the headstones there.  They have some really cool cemeteries there and the graves are so old, some date back to the 1600s.  I wish I had some of the pictures, I think they're all at my mom's house, dang.

I think this might be one of the cemeteries that we went to http://www.graveaddiction.com/burypt.html  There is a menu on the left where you can click to see more pictures.




whoa...those are awesome! ;)

I didn't take these photos but I thought you would like these...

All of the cemeteries are all from my hometown, Merrel Cemetery is at the end of the street that I grew up on.


http://www.forgotten-ny.com/CEMETERIES/morestat/ichabod.html

The worst by far is Sylvan Cemetery

http://www.forgotten-ny.com/CEMETERIES/Sylvan%20Cemetery/sylvan.html

This makes me sick.  :\'(

I didn't take these photos but I thought you would like these...

All of the cemeteries are all from my hometown, Merrel Cemetery is at the end of the street that I grew up on.


http://www.forgotten-ny.com/CEMETERIES/morestat/ichabod.html





Those are really cool.  It's so sad that people put graffiti on those.

Those are really cool.  It's so sad that people put graffiti on those.


Sad, isn't it?

Chicago has some beautiful cemeteries with amazing markers (especially one called Rosehill)

http://www.flickr.com/photos/doctorbeef/21558291


http://eternelle.archivepop.com/plphs00/011015/14k27003.jpg
Also Paris, France (Pere-Lachaise Cemetery)  This is definately worthwhile page to peruse...love the pictures
http://eternelle.archivepop.com/plartuk/stasomm0.htm

I love graveyards and spend alot of time browsing stones.  I may have pictures i can download, if not I will take some.  I have been to the one in Salem Massachusetts many times.  The one of Judge Hathorne is contoversial in that a woman condemned by him to be hanged as a witch told him he would drink his own blood, and when he died  he had an anyourism and blood come out of his mouth!.  He was the grandfather of Nathaniel Hawthorne who was so ashamed of the incident of the judges part in the trials he added the "w" to his name to distance himself. There are many graveyards in Massachusetts that are odd.  I have also visited Highgate in London and Pere LaChaise.

Very sad.  Whatever happened to respect.

Very sad.  Whatever happened to respect.
I assume you don't mean the witch telling the judge he would drink his own blood after he'd sentenced her. ;)

There's a little cemetary behind the place where my daughter works. There are houses and buildings built all around  it, and grass and weeds everywhere. It's really old and I can tell no one takes care of it anymore. It's pretty much right in someones backyard, so I'm wondering if it belongs to whoever bought the house. I'd like to find out, and see why nobody has taken care of it, and maybe I could go over and clean it up.

No caring of graveyards comes down to the dead relatives are now distant to the living relatives, and they are truly ignorant of their existance.

I visited the graves of my one of my Great-Grandfathers in Oxford and found it well kept.

My family had to finally pay for perpetual care of our relatives' graves because we couldn't get up there enough to make sure they were well-kept. 

This is a picture of Christoph Wippel's gravestone.  He's one of my family members that chose to stay in Germany.