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A darker turn for your Sunday stroll.
On Saturday 21st May we headed to the Nunhead Cemetery Open Day. We had a lovely time wandering around, taking photos, looking at the overgrown graves, listening to a tour, and generally enjoying the atmosphere of the place. The cemetery has been well maintained in the last few years after a period of decay. It's great to see the place being cared for again.
Happy Halloween. Abney Park Cemetery, Stoke Newington, London Borough of Hackney.
I was on travel to Marietta for work and the hotel we were staying in was across the street from a confederate cemetery. I woke up one morning and walked over to grab a couple photos. This is a black and white version that I edited and cropped. ISO-100, f/2.8, 1/400 sec., 19mm, Olympus C2000
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In Nottingham's General Cemetery For another view see here
These tombstones were photographed at the Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge, Massachusetts The Wilkinson Family Plot Martha Wilkinson Died June 22, 1895 Aged 86 years Edward Tuckman Wilkinson In Memoriam (note the anchor, for he died at sea and was buried at sea) In Memoriam Arthur son of A & M. W. Wilkinson Died May 31, 1860 Aged 18 years "PRAEREPTUS MORTI IMMATURA JUVENIS INGENIO ET VIRTUTE PRAESTAT IN COELUM TRANSUT ET IN CHRISTO VIVIT" MARTHA ELIZABETH OUR ONLY BELOVED DAUGHTER (back of the stone) M.E.W. DAUGHTER OF A & M. WILKINSON DIED SEPT. 28, 1857 AGED 14 YEARS The Wilkinson Family plot is next to the Turner family plot Arthur Wilkinson was the son of Oliver Wilkinson (1766 - 1848) and Betsey Munn, born 13 November 1803 in Greenfield, Massachusetts, died 16 April 1868 in Cambridge, Massachusetts; married on 3 December 1840 in Dorchester, Massachusetts to Martha Walker Turner, widow of Edward Dunning and the daughter of Rev. John Turner and Lucy Sargent. She was born 13 February 1809 in Biddeford, Maine, and died 28 June 1895 in Cambridge. They had five children: 1. Henry Wilkinson, died young 2. Arthur Wilkinson, b. 27 October 1841, d. 31 May 1860 3. Martha Elizabeth Wilkinson, b. 1 May 1843, d. 25 September 1857 4. Edward Tuckerman Wilkinson, b. 14 October 1844, d. 27 December 1873 on board the Cimbria 5. George Wilkinson, b. 29 September 1848, d. 6 September 1849 Arthur Wilkinson was a woolen goods merchant, who lived in Boston and retired to Cambridge, Massachusetts. All his children died young. The son, Edward, died at sea. I found this obituary in the Boston Daily Advertiser, January 7, 1874. The death of Edward Tuckerman Wilkinson of Cambridge, noticed elsewhere, removes one of the last remaining representatives of one of the most widely known and highly honored families of this vicinity, and carries a shock of surprise and sorrow to a large number of relatives and friends. Young Wilkinson, who had not reached the age of thirty, was a Harvard graduate of the class of 1866, and will be especially remembered by those familiar with college life of his time for his interest and proficiency in athletic sports- boating in particular. He was, we think, the member of at least one winning University crew in one or more famous contests. Many substantial qualities of mind and heart endeared him to a wide circle of acquaintances, who will mourn for him as a man and brother; while his singularly fine presence, like that of his noble and lamented father, the late Arthur Wilkinson, esq., must remain an unfading picture in the memory of all who ever knew him. He had gone abroad a few months since, hoping by a winter's sojourn in the south of France he might regain his health, which had been for some time feeble and failing; but the experiment no fesulting favorably he determined on return, and took the Cimbria, at Southampton, England, for New York, December 20, accompanied by his cousin, Dana Turner, of this city. But it was not for him again to see his native land. The voyage proved tempestuaous and exhausting, and he did not live it through, but died on the 27th, conscious to the last, and then falling as it were peacefully asleep. His body was buried at sea the day following, and so now rests in the element which, while he was living, had so much of his affection. The cousin, Dana Turner, mentioned in this obituary was Nathaniel Dana Turner (1851 - 1893) is buried a few feet away in the Turner family plot, right next to the Wilkinson family plot. front (above) and back (below) of the plot card for the Wilkinson family ---------------------------------- The URL for this post is http://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2014/07/tombstone-tuesday-wilkinson-family-plot.html Copyright (c) 2014, Heather Wilkinson Rojo
Built on a hill in London's West Norwood, the world's first ever Gothic-style cemetery was opened in 1837 as the capital's population grew rapidly towards the end of the Industrial Revolution.
An open mausoleum, complete with aging coffins.
BEST VIEWED LARGE! Anytime i go into Edinburgh with my camera, i'm always drawn to the old graveyards and their macabre headstones. I lose myself for hours wandering around reading the inscriptions and imagining the lives of the people below me. I've photographed this particular one many times and i love the old carvings on it and that it has been here in this spot for over 350 years. I wonder at the tragic story this stone tells of two sons lost in the same year. The inscription reads:- Captain John Gray ordered this stone to be erected to the memory of his parents ELISABETH WILKINS who died Feb 3rd 1747 aged ? and THOMAS GRAY Wright in the Pleasants who died May 3rd 1732 aged ? whose bodies lie here interred also MICHAEL SWAN who died in 1746 aged 6months and JOHN SWAN who died in 1746 aged 9 years both sons to James Swan
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St Cuthbert Kirkyard Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland, UK
Old cemetery in former gold mining boomtown turned ghost town Goldfield, Nevada, USA
Nunhead Cemetery,Linden Grove, London SE15 3LP.
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