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Twinkie
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09-24-2002
| Sunday, October 24, 2004 - 1:10 pm
My mother and I used to love to go thru cemetaries looking for unusual headstones and big monuments. I haven't done it in many years so today my best friend, Chis and I went thru the biggest one in the area taking pics. We had a blast but didn't get to some that we really wanted to get to because the cemetary is so big. But we are going back to take more pics. My batteries in my camera ran low. Now, I didn't get Rick James' because he doesn't have a monument yet. The guy that works there said the family is trying to get it in before winter hits. But we'll be back to do this again. Here are a couple of pics for now. I figured I'd space them out for the updaters.
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Twinkie
Member
09-24-2002
| Sunday, October 24, 2004 - 1:12 pm
Red Jacket was an important Indian in his time and the last thing he wanted was to be buried in the white man's cemetary. So, of course, here he is LOL
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Twinkie
Member
09-24-2002
| Sunday, October 24, 2004 - 1:15 pm

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Twinkie
Member
09-24-2002
| Sunday, October 24, 2004 - 1:17 pm
And, yes, I am wearing my Dolphins jacket. The only time I get to wear it is when the Bills beat us. LOL More pics to come! If anyone else has a passion for old cemetaries please post!
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Yankee_in_ca
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08-01-2000
| Sunday, October 24, 2004 - 9:26 pm
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Twinkie
Member
09-24-2002
| Sunday, October 24, 2004 - 10:04 pm
My best friend, Chris, in front of Frank Lloyd Wright monument.
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Twinkie
Member
09-24-2002
| Sunday, October 24, 2004 - 10:06 pm
A closer look at his monument.
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Twinkie
Member
09-24-2002
| Sunday, October 24, 2004 - 10:08 pm
And a closer look at Chris and the FLW monument.
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Twinkie
Member
09-24-2002
| Sunday, October 24, 2004 - 10:10 pm
Fall colors and pond.
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Twinkie
Member
09-24-2002
| Monday, October 25, 2004 - 1:51 pm
Well, this thread sunk like a stone so I won't post anymore pics.
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Landi
Member
07-29-2002
| Monday, October 25, 2004 - 2:11 pm
i enjoy seeing your pics twinks, i just don't have an interesting cemetary here. you obviously have one there!
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Mocha
Member
08-12-2001
| Monday, October 25, 2004 - 2:31 pm
I don't really care for cemetaries but the one I was in the other week I already posted about in the trip thread.
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Goddessatlaw
Member
07-19-2002
| Monday, October 25, 2004 - 2:51 pm
I love these pics, Twinkie, and they're just beautiful with all the fall colors - I just don't have any famous ones of my own to post. They're all family/genealogy related - truly I knock around in alot of cemetaries. Shit, I even get married in them. Colossus is going to dig the Frank Lloyd Wright one - he's a real fan. I'll send him over to have a look.
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Colossus
Member
05-24-2004
| Monday, October 25, 2004 - 2:56 pm
Twinkie; Thank you for thinking of me. Maybe if we found some movie stars to show off some other people would get excited. Here in Indiana we only have gangsters & outlaws in our cemetaries.
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Yankee_in_ca
Member
08-01-2000
| Monday, October 25, 2004 - 3:16 pm
Twinkie -- I have some, but will need to scan them 
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Hippyt
Member
06-15-2001
| Monday, October 25, 2004 - 3:34 pm
Well,I was at a very old cemetary in Galveston a couple of weeks ago. Here is Edward Lea,who died in battle in 1863.
This angel looks over a large family plot. I have a lot more,need to re-size them.
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Twinkie
Member
09-24-2002
| Monday, October 25, 2004 - 3:43 pm
Thanks guys! Hey, Gal and BigC I think any really old cemetary is a cool one and gangsters and outlaws are great if they say something! And I LOVE that you got married in a cemetary and that's what got me back out there! Hey, we have a pretty large contingency of "Cal-e-forn-ian's". LOL You guys should be able to come up with some good ones! The best one I've been in was in Savannah, GA. Very old big headstones and mauseleums of some famous people. And most told the story: 'Shot in a Duel' or 'died of cholera' Hippy, I LOVE those pics!!!There are some at Forest Lawn where we took these pics that are so old its hard to read them. I can't wait to go back to get our 17th President Millard Fillmore and Martha Washington's great granddaughter. And get Rick James when it goes up. Its a fun way for me to get out of the house and have fun with a friend. Send 'em in, Yankee! I can't wait to see!
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Schoolmarm
Member
02-18-2001
| Monday, October 25, 2004 - 4:55 pm
I spend lots of time in cemetaries doing geneology and looking at graves of dead composers. I'll post some if I ever get my laptop revived and running.
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Hippyt
Member
06-15-2001
| Monday, October 25, 2004 - 5:51 pm
J. Knape-The Shipwrecked Fisherman & Mariners Society The interesting thing about this cemetary is that it has survived many hurricanes, including the "Great Storm of 1900" that killed approx. 6,000 people. As you can read in one of the headstones,some of the bodies were lost in storms. There are many stories of hurricanes making the coffins float to the surface. And,with that grisly tidbit,on to more photos!
Darling CJ. There is a big childrens' section there. Makes you really thankful for modern medicine and all we have today.
In memory of our Mother
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Bookworm
Member
12-18-2001
| Monday, October 25, 2004 - 6:00 pm
I also love cemetaries in the daytime--so peaceful. My family actually has a weird tradition involving cemetaries. On Easter we meet at Grandma's for a big potluck dinner. About midafternoon some of us take the kids out to visit one of the cemetaries in our county while the Easter bunny hides the candy in Grandma's backyard. I have one aunt who is a great story teller and she always has some stories to tell about the cemetary we visit. Most of them are made up on the spot, but it's still fun. My siblings, cousins, and I have lots of fond memories about our cemetary visits.
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Hippyt
Member
06-15-2001
| Monday, October 25, 2004 - 6:14 pm
Texas Historical Commission Thomas Joseph 1823-1905 Born in Hartford Conn., Thomas came to Galveston about 1841 with his mother,Annis (Rogers) (d.1879)and the family of his uncle Alexander Edgar. Admitted to the bar, he became a Chief Justice,(county judge), Mayor, State Legislator,and Senator. He and his wife Mary Minor (Trueheart) had eight children. Joseph may be buried over his mother's grave site,which like others, was lost after several storms.
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Beachcomber
Member
08-26-2003
| Monday, October 25, 2004 - 6:26 pm
I love this thread as I am a genealogy nut and love the engravings and sayings that are on old tombstones! Thanks Twinkie!
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Melfie1222
Member
07-29-2002
| Monday, October 25, 2004 - 8:30 pm
A friend and I were on a trip to Honolulu, we took the bus to one of the museums (the Bishop Museum I think?) and when we went back to catch the bus again we saw this sad neglected little old graveyard right there in the middle of the neighborhood. On this grave part of the right end of the cross is broken off, so you can't see her last name, first name is Maria. And the person who carved it made a mistake in one of the numbers - born 1903, died 1915, age 22.
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Melfie1222
Member
07-29-2002
| Monday, October 25, 2004 - 8:35 pm
Here's another one... that's me looking at one of the graves. The little red patch at the top end of the grave near the tree(if you can see it) was a bouquet of fresh red flowers - it seemed strange and sad since everything else in the graveyard appeared to have been pretty much forgotten.

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Kristylovesbb
Member
09-14-2000
| Monday, October 25, 2004 - 8:45 pm
Great pictures you guys!!!
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