Index to "History in Headstones."
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Page : 24 pages
File Size : 45,38 MB
Release : 1970
Category : Cemeteries
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Author : Michelle Wilson
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Page : 303 pages
File Size : 28,37 MB
Release : 1981
Category : Cemeteries
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Page : 66 pages
File Size : 13,95 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 : M. Ruth Little
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File Size : 37,89 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 : 23,51 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 : 47,11 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 : United States. Veterans Administration. Department of Memorial Affairs
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Page : 8 pages
File Size : 11,64 MB
Release : 1980
Category : National cemeteries
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Author : Eleanor Phillips Passano
Publisher : Genealogical Publishing Com
Page : 506 pages
File Size : 31,62 MB
Release : 1967
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9780806302713
The major part of this work is an alphabetically arranged and cross-indexed list of some 20,000 Maryland families with references to the sources and locations of the records in which they appear. In addition, there is a research record guide arranged by county and type of record, and it identifies all genealogical manuscripts, books, and articles known to exist up to 1940, when this book was first published. Included are church and county courthouse records, deeds, marriages, rent rolls, wills, land records, tombstone inscriptions, censuses, directories, and other data sources.
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Page : 104 pages
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Release : 1956
Category : Meteorology
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A summary of information available on substation locations, elevations, exposures, instrumentations, records and observers from date station was established through the year 1955.