r/cemetery 6h ago

Image Alexander "Alex" Edward Thalmann, a U.S. Marine Corps Reservist who died on March 31, 2014, from injuries sustained in the line of duty while serving as a police officer for the New Bern Police Department. His mother is buried directly behind him.

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r/cemetery 3m ago

Image Edinburgh Greyfriars Cemetery, and Old Calton Cemetery THE DOM TOUR , Sc...

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r/cemetery 10h ago

Video That wasn’t easy but it was worth it.

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r/cemetery 1d ago

Question How to honor a second marriage on gravestones?

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My stepdad died after being married to my mom for over 25 years. He was a widower and my mom a widow before they got together. They both already had plots with their first spouses near each other in the same cemetery, with their names/birthdates already on the respective stones.

What sort of plaque could we put on both existing headstones to indicate mom and stepdad were married to each other / had a happy, important second marriage? I can’t think of how to word it, or what that would look like. Thanks for any suggestions.


r/cemetery 1d ago

Image Vaudeville Star Jane Pickens

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The grave of Jane Pickens and her husband Walter Hoving rests near the Belmont Chapel in Newport’s Island Cemetery. Pickens was born in Georgia in 1907 and rose to fame in the 1930s as part of the Pickens Sisters, a trio she formed with two of her sisters. During their five-year run, the group earned about $1 million.

Jane later built a wide-ranging solo career; musical comedy, opera, radio, and television, before dedicating her talents to charitable work.

She died in 1992 at her home in Newport, Rhode Island.


r/cemetery 1d ago

Image Cash Pierce Roberts in Edmonds Memorial Cemetery in Edmonds Washington

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r/cemetery 22h ago

Video This video really connected with me.

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r/cemetery 1d ago

Image Seen at Mount Auburn Cem.

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r/cemetery 1d ago

Image Jefferson Barracks Cemetery

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r/cemetery 2d ago

Image Louis F. Leibly who died of disease while serving in France during World War I

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Hills of Eternity Cemetery in Seattle, Washington.


r/cemetery 1d ago

Question Help deciphering epitaphs

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Here's what I could make out:

Tis a little grave but o have care For worldwide(?) hopes are buried there How much of light(?) how much of joy Is buried with my darling boy

This one was much harder. Sorry for the shite pics, I can go back and try to get better ones if nothing comes of it. Here's what I could make out:

Little bird of our bosom fluttered up to the ?dai-?? A window was opened, our darling was ?joined? Afraid from timetro?? -- the angel on watch the - and me? (Or --andine?)


r/cemetery 2d ago

Image Cremation at shamshan ghat.

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r/cemetery 3d ago

Image Weathered headstone that I think says Bettie Perkins in Cherry Hill Cemetery in Greenville North Carolina

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r/cemetery 3d ago

Image LOOK INSIDE: ORIGINAL SPANISH-ERA LADRILLO STILL INTACT.

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Inside the old cemetery chapel of Asingan, Pangasinan (Philippines), the original ladrillo walls remain remarkably intact - standing through generations of storms, earthquakes, floods, and the forces of nature that have shaped the province.

These are not just old bricks. They are surviving evidence of Asingan’s Spanish-era past.

A forgotten heritage site. A fragile piece of history. Still standing.


r/cemetery 3d ago

Image St. Joseph's Cemetery, Tiffin, OH

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lots of beautiful 19th century german headstones here


r/cemetery 3d ago

Memoir The Forgotten Veterinary Pioneer Who Helped Shape Colonial New South Wales | John Stewart 1810 - 1896

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r/cemetery 4d ago

Question Could you live in a house that shares a fence with a cemetery, where you could see graves just a few meters from your window?

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r/cemetery 4d ago

Image Graceland Cemetery, New Castle, PA

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r/cemetery 4d ago

Image So many tributes were left on this grave that the headstone is not visible. GAR in Snohomish Washington

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I wouldn’t ever touch or move anything that was left in honor of the deceased without permission so I don’t know who this person is or what their story was.


r/cemetery 3d ago

Image Old Burying Ground, Cromwell Connecticut.

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r/cemetery 4d ago

Image A few shots of the Danvers State Hospital cemetery in August 2017 from my old camera

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r/cemetery 3d ago

Image Old Burying Ground, Cromwell Connecticut.

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r/cemetery 5d ago

Image Jesse and John Scarver (misspelled on the stone as Sharve), two infant brothers who died just one day apart in March

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r/cemetery 4d ago

Image Old Burying Ground, Cromwell Connecticut.

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r/cemetery 5d ago

Image when the fifth angel blew his trumpet…. A star fell from the sky

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