Index to "History in Headstones."
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Page : 24 pages
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Release : 1970
Category : Cemeteries
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Author : Michelle Wilson
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Page : 303 pages
File Size : 34,86 MB
Release : 1981
Category : Cemeteries
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Page : 66 pages
File Size : 32,31 MB
Release : 1981*
Category : Cemeteries
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An index to History in headstones : a complete listing of all marked graves in known cemeteries of Crawford County, Arkansas / compiled by Susan Stevenson Swinburn and Doris Stevenson West. Van Buren, Ark. : Press Argus, 1970.
Author : Richard F. Veit
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 29,71 MB
Release : 2008-09-17
Category : History
ISBN : 0813545668
From the earliest memorials used by Native Americans to the elaborate structures of the present day, Richard Veit and Mark Nonestied use grave markers to take an off-beat look at New Jersey’s history that is both fascinating and unique. New Jersey Cemeteries and Tombstones presents a culturally diverse account of New Jersey’s historic burial places from High Point to Cape May and from the banks of the Delaware to the ocean-washed Shore, to explain what cemeteries tell us about people and the communities in which they lived. The evidence ranges from somber seventeenth-century decorations such as hourglasses and skulls that denoted the brevity of colonial life, to modern times where memorials, such as a life-size granite Mercedes Benz, reflect the materialism of the new millennium. Also considered are contemporary novelties such as pet cemeteries and what they reveal about today’s culture. To tell their story the authors visited more than 1,000 burial grounds and interviewed numerous monument dealers and cemetarians. This richly illustrated book is essential reading for history buffs and indeed anyone who has ever wandered inquisitively through their local cemeteries.
Author : M. Ruth Little
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File Size : 30,41 MB
Release : 2014-06-02
Category : Epitaphs
ISBN : 9781469621357
Sticks and Stones: Three Centuries of North Carolina Gravemarkers
Author : Emily Williams
Publisher : Vernon Press
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 41,69 MB
Release : 2020-10-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1648890555
In 1866, Alexander Dunlop, a free black living in Williamsburg Virginia, did three unusual things. He had an audience with the President of the United States, testified in front of the Joint Congressional Committee on Reconstruction, and he purchased a tombstone for his wife, Lucy Ann Dunlop. Purchases of this sort were rarities among Virginia’s free black community—and this particular gravestone is made more significant by Dunlop’s choice of words, his political advocacy, and the racialized rhetoric of the period. Carved by a pair of Richmond-based carvers, who like many other Southern monument makers, contributed to celebrating and mythologizing the “Lost Cause” in the wake of the Civil War, Lucy Ann’s tombstone is a powerful statement of Dunlop’s belief in the worth of all men and his hopes for the future. Buried in 1925 by the white members of a church congregation, and again in the 1960s by the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, the tombstone was excavated in 2003. Analysis, conservation, and long-term interpretation were undertaken by the Foundation in partnership with the community of the First Baptist Church, a historically black church within which Alexander Dunlop was a leader. “Stories in Stone: Memorialization, the Creation of History and the Role of Preservation” examines the story of the tombstone through a blend of object biography and micro-historical approaches and contrasts it with other memory projects, like the remembrance of the Civil War dead. Data from a regional survey of nineteenth-century cemeteries, historical accounts, literary sources, and the visual arts are woven together to explore the agentive relationships between monuments, their commissioners, their creators and their viewers and the ways in which memory is created and contested and how this impacts the history we learn and preserve.
Author : John G.S. Hanson
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 44,67 MB
Release : 2021-11-15
Category : History
ISBN : 1476643296
The graveyards of old New England hold an incredible range of poetic messages in the epitaphs etched into the gravestones, each a profound expression of emotion, culture, religion, and literature. These epitaphs are old, but their themes are timeless: mourning and faith, grief and hope, loss, and memory. This book tells the story of a years-long walk among gravestones and shares insights gained along the way. It identifies the source texts and authors chosen for these stones; interprets something of the tastes and beliefs of the people who did the choosing; offers some hypotheses on the various ways these texts were accessible to readers in remote towns and villages; gives a brief summary of the religious context of the times; and reflects on how the language and literature chosen for these epitaphs express these peoples' conflicted and evolving attitudes towards life, death, and eternity.
Author : William O'Kane
Publisher : Genealogical Publishing Com
Page : 58 pages
File Size : 15,61 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Cemeteries
ISBN : 0806316160
"The user will find graveyards listed by parish for the nine counties of Antrim, Armagh, Derry, Donegal, Down, Fermanagh, Louth, Monaghan and Tyrone."--Back cover.
Author : United States. Veterans Administration. Department of Memorial Affairs
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Page : 8 pages
File Size : 11,34 MB
Release : 1980
Category : National cemeteries
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