A Victorian Cemetery

Woodland Cemetery---The necropolis that in life (Cornelius Volk) did so much to beaut(ify) and make attractive" (Quincy Daily-Herald, 1898). Among significant historical Woodland memorials are the gravestones of Orville and Eliza Browning. Abraham Lincoln's closest Quincy friends. The couple rest ...

Bartlett Tucker Family Cemetery

Forty graves in this cemetery

containing the remains of

Bartlett Tucker (1874-1861)

and members of his family

were relocated to this spot

from 0.22 acres s/w known as

Tract No. 1300 C-2 in 1983.

There were no identifiable marked

graves. The Tucker family moved

from this area in December ...

Old Lorimier Cemetery

Cape Girardeau's

Oldest Shrine

Earliest Inscription 1808

In this old cemetery

gift of

Don Louis Lorimier

lie pioneers, founders, builders and defenders of our country.

Marker is on North Fountain Street.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Cemetery Hill

Fighting Among the Tombstones

During the Civil War, Moorefield could be seen in front of you from this then-treeless hill. Beyond the town is the confluence of two watercourses that form the South Branch River, which flows north through a fertile ...

Flat Rock Cemetery

Founded 1802

Four Acres of Land Deeded to

the Trustees of Flat Rock

Methodist Episcopal Church

Baxter Mosley, Edmond Hames

Thomas Hames, Charles Hames

and Coleman Fowler, on May 10, 1802

by Israel Fowler

Recorded December 3, 1839

Marker is at the intersection of Eisontown Road and Peter ...

Congregation Sons of Israel Cemetery

The oldest unmarked grave in this cemetery is that of a Jewish peddler killed by Indians in 1840. His grave, supposedly beneath a large tree, was the reason why the surrounding land was designated a Jewish cemetery in 1911. The ...

Ahavath Chesed and B'nai Israel Cemeteries, Gate 5 Evergreen Cemetery

Because the Jewish section at the Old City Cemetery was running out of space in 1890, the synagogue acquired three acres adjoining Evergreen Cemetery for Jewish burial. A makeshift fence was placed around the cemetery to set it apart from ...

Old City Cemetery

Resident Moses Serfarty died in 1857 and was buried in Charleston, South Carolina because Jacksonville had no Jewish cemetery. Subsequently, Jacksonville Jews organized the Hebrew Benevolent Society and acquired what became the first cemetery designated for Jewish burial in Florida. ...

B'nai Israel Section, Evergreen Cemetery

Established in 1926, the Jewish cemetery section is marked by a white archway bearing the words B'nai Israel (Children of Israel). Members of the Fort Lauderdale Hebrew Congregation dedicated it in 1935 and later renamed it Temple Emanu-El. Many of ...

Mt. Nebo Cemetery

In use since the 1940s, this cemetery is the oldest stand-alone Jewish cemetery in Dade County. Among its thousands of gravesites are those Morris Cooper, founder of Cooper City; Meyer Lansky, a known member of organized crime; and Isidor Cohen, ...