Sentences with phrase «of older cemeteries»

The headstones of older cemeteries, in particular, could reveal some pretty unique names.

I happened to be in St. Thomas, Ontario, recently, and was taken on a tour of the old cemetery, which dates back to the founding of the town in about 1810.

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A guy will swear to you that it was a friend of a friend's sister who disappeared on prom night 20 years ago and her ghost now hitchhikes along the lonely road between town and the old cemetery.

On July 5, 2012, Spc. Edward Marshall of the 3d U.S. Infantry Regiment (The Old Guard), walked his last walk as a Sentinel at the Tomb of the Unknowns in Arlington National Cemetery, Va..

Vosough's father - in - law was buried with just a paper marker bearing his name and the number of the cemetery plot, she says, staring at an old color photograph of the grave.

The village in Northern Bavaria (Bavaria is the Catholic hinterland of Germany, whereby in Northern Bavaria you will find some evangelic places), where I come from, even has got an age - old Jewish cemetery.

Yet after they had returned to Ohio and buried Jack alongside his father in the Hiram cemetery, Anna confided in a letter, «While I am proud of his honors, he was all I had and I am old and alone, the future is dreary and lonesome.»

Here they come like a herd of happy elk, down Newgate Street, turning off at St. Andrews, milling past an old cemetery with crazily angled headstones, thin and flat like long tea wafers, past the Northumberland Arms and Richard Charlton, Ltd., which deals in Bass ale, and up the hill to the ground, a starkly simple stadium with stands that are more like big sheds and unsophisticated light towers at each of the four corners.

My running shoes evoke the poignant esthetics of a plain old New England cemetery.

Visitation 3 to 8 p.m. Thursday at theGlueckert Funeral Home, Ltd., 1520 N. Arlington Heights Rd., Arlington Heights and Friday at St. Matthew Lutheran Church, 24500 Old McHenry Rd., Hawthorn Woods from 10 a.m. until the time of funeral service at 11 a.m. Interment Ridgewood Cemetery.

The headstones were randomly scattered in a section of cemetery larger than a football field, and many were more than a century old.

The city's points of interest include the Edward M. Cotter fireboat, considered the world's oldest active fireboat [165] and is a United States National Historic Landmark, Buffalo and Erie County Botanical Gardens, the Buffalo and Erie County Historical Society, [166] Buffalo Museum of Science, [167] the Buffalo Zoo — the third oldest in the United States --[168] Forest Lawn Cemetery, Buffalo and Erie County Naval & Military Park, the Anchor Bar and Darwin D. Martin House.

Four employees of the Burr Oak Cemetery in Alsip, Ill., have been charged in connection with the grave scheme, which entailed wrongfully exhuming old plots and selling them as new.

After police were tipped off about potential wrongdoing at a historic cemetery outside Chicago, they found a large back lot strewn with hundreds of cast - off coffins, smashed sepulchers and old bones.

Christina Warinner and Cecil M. Lewis, Jr., professors in the Department of Anthropology, OU College of Arts and Sciences, collaborated with researchers from Arizona State University and Pennsylvania State University on the capture, enrichment and high - throughput sequencing of DNA extracted from six individuals at the 700 - year - old Oneota cemetery, Norris Farms # 36.

The cemetery is one of the oldest in the city.

7,000 - year - old city unearthed in Egypt — Egypt has unearthed a more than 7,000 - year - old city and cemetery dating... in some instances than royal graves in Abydos dating back to the First Dynasty, which proves the importance of...

Haunted things - whether it's a hayride through an old cemetery or a haunted theme park or shopping mall, taking your date to a spooky event can be fun and will definitely give you something to talk about - even if it was kind of lame.

Cemetery Man is campy at times, there's lots of old school gore, black humor, murder sprees, a supernatural reoccurring love story, odd characters and shifts in tone (the first half is VERY different from the latter half).

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Linnea Quigley achieves instant B - movie stardom as the punk chick who, in the cemetery, has a brief monologue about how she dreams about old drunken men attacking her and ripping off her clothes before she strips naked and dances around on top of a tombstone.

Country music plays gently in the background, and the camera follows her pensive gaze to what looks like a cemetery of old advertising.

When you catch yourself, it's kind of messed up, but I'm in a baby cemetery for infants looking for the plot of one of his aunts that died when she was 2 years old.

«I had always loved walking through the cemetery, looking at the old monuments and appreciating the artistic detail of some of the older ones,» Prather told Education World.

The white deacons of Good Hope's Victory Baptist Church, trying to protect the centuries - old traditions of their cemetery, have the body exhumed.

Eighteen - year - old Maddy Harris is an introspective girl who often comes to the cemetery to escape the other kids at school and a life of loss.

The oldest, continuously operating pet cemetery is just north of the Animal Medical Center in Hartsdale, New York and has been in operation since 1896.

AHMP is believed to be the second - oldest pet cemetery in the nation, and is the final resting place for various animal celebrities, including stars of movies and television, pets of a U.S. president and heroes of foreign wars, as well as more than 50,000 beloved pets of families in Montgomery County and beyond.

See their photos, new and old, of the cemetery grounds.

The Hoover dogs are not the only celebrities at the 70 - year - old Aspin Hill cemetery, which is owned by People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, a non-profit animal rights organization.

Situated at Desert Haven Animal Refuge, two miles south of Williamsburg, NM on Highway 187 (old 85), the pet cemetery offers a commanding view of the Caballo mountain range.

Weather permitting, visitors will learn some of OHS's 100 + year history, stop by the beautiful Memorial Rose Garden, see the oldest animal cemetery west of the Mississippi River, and hear the story of Bobbie of Silverton.

Located next to the Animal Rescue League of Boston's (ARL) Dedham Animal Care & Adoption Center, Pine Ridge Pet Cemetery is the oldest continuously operated pet cemetery by a humane society in the UnitedCemetery is the oldest continuously operated pet cemetery by a humane society in the Unitedcemetery by a humane society in the United States.

This is a very old and eclectic part of the city; a mosque, Hindu temple, Thai Buddhist temple and Chinese cemetery are all a short walk from the guesthouse.

Due to the smell and spread of disease, the overflowing cemeteries spilled their less important clientele into the caverns and old limestone quarries underneath Paris, forming what are now known as the catacombs.

Meet a temple priest and wander through the evocative Okuno - in cemetery, where the tombs of more than 200,000 samurai warriors and other dignitaries fill a grove of age - old cedar trees.

On Saturday, September 29, community members will meet in the Mission Dolores Cemetery for a brief tour of Mission Dolores before setting off on a 4 1/2 - mile hike along the Old Mission Road, from Mission Dolores to Rob Hill Campground in the Presidio of San Francisco.

You can still find gold in the area, particularly around the old town site which is 16 kilometres east of Halls Creek and also features ruins of mud brick buildings and a small cemetery.

Other artifacts include Sumerian cuneiform clay tablets (some of the world's oldest writing), Egyptian mummies, a crystal ball owned by China's Dowager Empress, monumental stone sculptures from the ancient Maya and 4,500 - year - old jewelry from the Royal Cemetery at Ur.

While in Coldfoot check out the ruins and cemetery of «Old Coldfoot» or visit the historic village of Wiseman just 13 miles up the road.

In the old days, the most common way to buy time is by burying the body of the deceased in the cemetery and unearthing it when the time for ngaben ceremony is come.

On Nevis, some of the most intriguing spots include Alexander Hamilton's birthplace, a Jewish Cemetery containing gravestones dating from 1679 to 1768, and the ruins of what is thought to be the oldest synagogue in the Caribbean.

An old brick wall surrounds the cemetery, where five generations of the Washington family rest.

Visit key attractions including Savannah's oldest neighborhood, Colonial Park Cemetery, the Cathedral of St. John the Baptist and a few of Savannah's 22 squares that provide greenery amid all of the businesses and historic houses.

The games will have access to a variety of areas in South Brooklyn, including Prospect Park, the Old Stone House, Green - Wood Cemetery, Gowanus, and «the streets, sidewalks, and other public areas waiting for the perfect game.»

When he paints Remains at the Site of the Old Military Cemetery in the show's two most recent works, every word in the title conveys abandonment but at, of, and the.

This piece of timeworn rock rests at an angle, as an old monument dug out of a crowded graveyard might lean against the cemetery wall.

The auction will have its share of haunting landscapes, led by Josef Sudek's foreboding one - of - a-kind pigment print Gravestone of the Rabbi Lowe, the Old Jewish Cemetery, Prague, 1932, with an estimate of $ 25,000 to $ 35,000, as well as the silver print Landscape (lake scene), 1920s ($ 10,000 to $ 15,000).

«The Cemetery of Reason» features old and new work including paintings, photographs, silkscreens, and painted objects, many of which are arranged into some pretty awesome clusters.

Inspired by Edinburgh's famous One O'clock Gun and the city's ancient maritime history, Timeline explores themes of sound and distance, plotting a series of short sound installations in some of the city's most atmospheric sites, from The Nelson Monument on Calton Hill, to Old Calton Cemetery, Waverley Bridge and The National Gallery of Scotland on The Mound.