r/cemetery

Let’s us know what you hear !!! 👻🍑

Washington Soldiers Home Cemetery in Orting, Washington

We visited this memorial to two brave Norwegian resistance fighters from WW2. I’ve never seen a grave marker or memorial with this specific shape. Does anyone know its meaning?

A few times a week with like to get to different locations and find areas to explore without disturbing anyone or anything! We have probably so far hit 40 different locations 👻👻

Went to Whitby abbey yesterday, seen in here some wonderful grave stones and thought I would add my own. This lady was born in 1661!

lPineview Cemetery in Rocky Mount, North Carolina.

The marker memorializes Ernest Tuttle, the infant son of Herbert and Kathleen Elliott Tuttle, who passed away in March 1932.

She died before him. I wonder if he knew her name? 😂

One hundred and twenty-one victims of the RMS Titanic sinking are interred at Fairview, more than any other cemetery in the world. Most of them are memorialized with small gray granite markers with the name and date of death. Some families paid for larger markers with more inscriptions. The occupants of a third of the graves, however, have never been identified and their markers contain just the date of death and marker number. Surveyor E. W. Christie laid out three long lines of graves in gentle curves following the contours of the sloping site. By co-incidence, the curved shape suggests the outline of the bow of a ship.^([3]) A complete listing of those victims buried in Fairview can be found here.

Rookwood Cemetery • Sydney, Australia

Patrick Joseph Kennedy, aged 25, was killed instantly on 1st June 1923 when a catastrophic explosion destroyed the Allan Liversidge acetylene gas and calcium carbide factory on Hutchison Street, Annandale, where he was working as the nightwatchman. The blast completely demolished the building, shattered windows throughout the surrounding area and was heard across the neighbourhood.

A coronial inquiry investigated the disaster, taking evidence from the Explosives Department and the company. Although the exact cause of the explosion was never determined, it was believed to have involved the ignition of volatile acetylene gas associated with the factory’s carbide operations. The tragedy was one of Sydney’s most significant industrial explosions of the era.

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Beulah Lee Rutherford Carter in Hereford, Texas. What a great memorial!

In April 1898, Cecil Hudson, the young son of Redfern timber merchant George Hudson, was fatally injured in a cycling accident in Regent Street, Sydney.

Cecil was cycling with his older brother when they encountered a six-horse wagon carrying sheepskins near the intersection of Regent and Banks streets. While swerving to avoid a passing milk cart, Cecil’s bicycle slipped on the wet wooden roadway, throwing him beneath the heavily laden wagon. One of its wheels passed over his left thigh, causing catastrophic injuries.

He was rushed to hospital, where doctors were forced to amputate his leg due to severe crushing and damage to the major arteries. Despite their efforts, Cecil died later that evening.

Rookwood Cemetery, Sydney Australia

Find a Grave:
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/93912294/cecil-edwin-hudson

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The cemetery was turned into a park in 1970s, but a lot of monuments were left there. Some were left to be taken by nature (they have little fence around them and a warning not to enter). The biggest chapel in the cemetery, you can actually rent it for events (!!!). I fell in live with this place, it scratches the gothic itch in me.

Saw this in a dry part of the country while visiting relatives in the cemetery. Best guess is that the soil is different when it’s turned over. Any thoughts?

American Legion Cemetery in Granite Falls Washington