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10-06-2003, 10:56 PM
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cemeteries
do you like to visit cemeteries
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10-07-2003, 01:16 AM
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I love poking around cemeteries, the older the better. Something about the history. Had a great time last year when visiting Boston, nice old cemeteries there. Once stumbled upon an old cemeteries buried way back in the National Forest along the Sabine river, out in the woods a little east and south of Pontroon, TX. The newest head stone in that yard was 1900.
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10-07-2003, 07:37 AM
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Small town cemeteries are sometimes great places to learn about the people who lived there. Scanning through the list of names, you get an idea of where the people came from.
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10-07-2003, 09:31 AM
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Yes. My favorite so far is Highgate cemetary in London. Lots of famous people buried there. (Marx, Spencer, Eliot, Clifford). But the coolest thing about it is the dense tree growth and vines that wind around the gravestones. Just about the spookiest yard I've ever seen. Still burying people there. There was a space of about 1 foot between two old graves with a new stone and fresh dirt piled up. They must just bury skinny people nowadays.
There was also a large patch of Iraqi communists buried in the recent past around Marx's grave. I assume they were victims of Hussein's brutality.
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10-07-2003, 11:31 AM
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Re:Cemetarys
Hi All
As an amature genealogist, here in the northeast we have some of the oldest burial grounds in the us.. The carvings, and,enscribed words give you a feeling of what colonial americans were thinking when they buried their loved ones. My wifes family goes back to the 1640s and we have found some of these sites in Boston. Gunny
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10-07-2003, 12:37 PM
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Re: Re:Cemetarys
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 I've taken a couple trips back to Minnesota where my dad's family is from and spent more than a few hours cruising cemetaries looking for dead relatives. Actually very satisfying to find the grave of someone you're researching. I've taken pix of all the headstones, and even a few rubbings. There is something peaceful about cemetaries.
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10-07-2003, 02:41 PM
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Some cemetries are worthwile going anyway:
 Kind regards Eberhard
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10-07-2003, 03:04 PM
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Eberhard, is that a casting, carving or whitewashed real car?
To me the best cemeteries are the national ones. One of my favorite running destination is Jefferson Barracks here in St louis. My all time favorite is Arlington. You could spend days there if you are a history buff. It had been Robert E Lee's property and it was meant as an insult to him that his land was made into a cemetery after he joined the confederates. Instead it became the nations most famous monument. I am lucky and privelaged to be running the Marine Corps marathon there later this month. The start and finish are at the Iwo Jima Memorial. What a wonderful place.
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10-07-2003, 03:18 PM
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Fine Vermont Granit.
You'll find the stone at the Rosedale cemetry which is about 20 minutes south of Newark. Kind regards Eberhard 
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