r/findagrave

This grave is 135 years older than the founding of America.

It is 101 years older than the first use of the word dinosaur.

9 years older than the first ever coffee shop.

163 years older than trains, 240 years older than light bulbs.

66 years older than the founding of the United Kingdom

40 years older than the classical musician bach.

It reads (to the best of my knowledge) "Anne the wife of Christopher Dobson a Bishop Auckland yeoman, died in child birth December 23rd 1641.

I'm unsure of the bottom text.

10 years old is wild

Super-centenarian born in 1770 is crazy

This unusual and unique gravestone was recently shared from a cemetery in Lenawee County, Michigan. The remains were accidentally unearthed during an MDOT (Michigan Department of Transportation) road project in 2010. Based on artifacts reportedly found with the remains, investigators believed the burial may have dated to before the 1860s and could have been connected to an old pioneer-era grave site. Despite the discovery receiving local attention at the time, the woman was never identified. The remains were later reburied and memorialized as “Jane Doe.”

Looking for some help, I did try to search the Reddit for this question being asked before and couldn’t find anything so forgive me if this has previously been asked!

I visited a very old decaying graveyard here in Scotland today and have a couple of headstones that only have carvings such as the one here - I have gps for them, but obviously no information about the person buried here, how do I upload these kinds of pictures? Or should I even at all? I have scoured for burial records for the church that once stood here to try and find some names or plot info but the only available records on ScotlandsPeople are communion records, none for burials. The church went out of service in the early 1800s and there was one grave with an inscription of 1699 as death so that’s how far potentially these graves go back. Would really appreciate some guidance on the best way to document these - there are only 16 memorials at this church on FG and have checked and no one has put pictures of these graves up yet.

Thank you in advance! :)

If you look closely at the bottom right corner, you'll see a star.

IS THAT NOT GEMINI‽

Everyone has varying opinions on the morality of using AI to restore old photos and I understand both sides. Personally, I think it’s great if it’s done carefully, tastefully, and guided by very strict human prompts. The cheapo, one-click apps like Remini? Not a fan.

Anyway, last night I stumbled upon a photo “restoration” on a man’s Find A Grave memorial that I can only describe as… well, remember the “Ecce Homo” Jesus painting in that Spanish church an old lady tried to “restore” in the early 2010s? Yeeeah.

Poor guy looked like he was melting and was colorized by Crayola.

I felt so bad for the deceased victim of this botched photo that I went to Ancestry to find the source photo and did my own very conservative restoration. I also grabbed the man’s death certificate and his World War II draft card so I’d have enough images to push the botched “restoration” below the “see more” threshold. (Luckily, the memorial was managed by Find A Grave when I found it, so I was able to do this without marking the documents as “grave” or “person.”)

All that to say if you restore photos, make sure you’re doing it with a light hand and strict parameters. Anything less than that is an insult to the deceased. And always mark down in the caption that it’s an AI restoration and show proof of work, either by also uploading the original, unrestored photo or noting in the caption where the original can be easily found.

Today’s conserved stone is that of Ellen Phebe Coit. Born in 1812 in New London, Connecticut to Dr. Elisha and Hannah North. She would marry Rev. John Culkins Coit and pass at the young age of 31. We still have a little bit of work to do on her stone to finish it up.
📍Old Saint David’s Episcopal Church Cemetery, Cheraw, SC.