Following our tour of the Poe parts of town (see Part 1), in Part 2 we search cemeteries for words that say it all, y’all.
Moore Memorial Gardens Cemetery.
Mount Olivet Cemetery.
Oakwood Cemetery. Note that in 1914 the city hired a man named “Graves” as sexton of Pioneers Rest Cemetery.
Oakwood Cemetery.
Mount Olivet.
Parker Memorial Cemetery in Grapevine.
Rose Hill Cemetery. (Oh, come on. Admit it: You’ve had the fantasy, right?)
And now a few words from cemeteries around the state (photos from Find A Grave):
Restland Memorial Park, Dallas County.
Fairmount Cemetery, Tom Green County.
Dumas Cemetery, Moore County.
Mission Burial Park South, Bexar County.
Even if you died rich, you still died. Zoar Lutheran Church Cemetery, Colorado County.
Bethlehem Baptist Church Cemetery, Marion County.
Rogers Cemetery, Bell County.
Tumlinson Cemetery, Atascosa County.
Cedar Grove Cemetery, Camp County.
Llano Cemetery, Randall County.
Oakland Cemetery, Dallas County.
New Braunfels Cemetery, Comal County.
As Hamlet said in his dying words:
The
Rose Hill Cemetery, Smith County.
Is
Brookside Memorial Park, Harris County.
And now a few words from cemeteries out of state, north of the border, and across the oceans (photos from Find A Grave):
Osseo, Minnesota; Newark, New Jersey; Ontario, Canada.
Wynyard, Australia.
Hanover, Kansas.
Spencer, Oklahoma.
Flushing, New York; Brooklyn Park, Maryland.
Oak Hill Cemetery, Missouri.
Unity Burial Ground, Connecticut; Echota Cemetery, Oklahoma.
Durham, Pennsylvania.
South Coogee, Australia.
Colebrook, New Hampshire; Healdsburg, California.jpg
Superior, Wisconsin; Shoreline, Washington; North Belle Vernon, Pennsylvania; Northville, South Dakota.
Tacoma, Washington.
Whynotts Settlement, Canada.
Andersonville National Historic Site, Georgia. Charles Devil of New York died in 1864.
Louisville, Kentucky. Private S. Casket of Ohio died in 1863.
Sand Lake, Wisconsin. “Andrew Headstone,” born 1841, died 1897.
Peterborough, England. For all you peckish zombies.
Crestwood, Missouri. Speaking of zombies, I would suspect a “May B. Zombie” tombstone to be a gag (ala “Nick Beef”) if not for the obvious age of this stone. The birth date seems to be 1903 or 1908. The surname Zombie is rare in North America but more common in Africa.
And now for the stars of scary movies:
Perth Amboy, New Jersey.
Beaumont, California.
Milwaukee.
Elmira, New York.
Hillside Cemetery, Wisconsin.
London, Canada.
Greenwood Cemetery, Florida.
Little Prairie Cemetery, Missouri.
Burr Oak Township Cemetery, Michigan.
Saint Mary’s Cemetery, New York.
South Lawn Memorial Cemetery, Arizona.
Zion Hill AME Church Cemetery, Georgia.
Elmwood Cemetery, Winnipeg, Canada.
Grandview Cemetery, Pennsylvania.
Middlesbrough, England.
Duluth, Minnesota.
Somerset Methodist Cemetery, Ohio.
Berlin Cemetery, New Jersey.
Culley’s MeadowWood Memorial Park, Florida.
Forest Hill Cemetery, Alabama.
Toledo, Ohio; Lanesboro, Minnesota.
Los Angeles.
Saint Joseph Cemetery, Ohio; Mount Avon Cemetery, Michigan; Forest Lawn Cemetery, West Virginia.
And now, dearly beloved, let us say a few final words as we lay to rest the mortal remains of this blog post:
Long Prairie Cemetery, Oklahoma.
to
Cramp Cemetery, Oklahoma.
and
Oak Hill Memorial Cemetery, Arkansas.
to
Elmwood Cemetery, Missouri.
Robinson Memorial Park, Canada; Summerville Cemetery, Oregon.
Y’all Hallows’ Eve (Part 3): Ghoulies and Ghosties and Long-Leggedy Beasties
Posts About Cemeteries
The way kids are it could be tough growing up with some of those names.
Boy, ain’t that the truth, Janean! I was surprised at the names I found.
We are liking (and curios about) Scare and Murder.
Thanks, Sally. What an amazing range of surnames we have.
Too bad they couldn’t put SHAKE, by Rattle & Roll
And Rattle and Roll, like Shake, are real surnames! But I find none in Texas with a photo on Find a Grave.