Category Archives: Memorials
Memorials: Find a Grave
I’ve been sidelined from visiting physical cemeteries due to knee issues, but I’ve been exploring online memorials as part of my PhD work, so I thought I would share some of what I’m learning. Date Visited for Review: July 20, … Continue reading
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Memorials: Mount Auburn Cemetery
Mount Auburn Cemetery, which was founded in 1831, is one of the original garden or rural cemeteries in the country. It was designed both to provide a more rural space to bury Boston residents, but also as a tranquil place where people could escape the hustle and bustle of Boston. Mount Auburn has open spaces for animals and for people to relax. Continue reading
Memorials: Smailes Cemetery
Date of Visit: June 13, 2024Address:17102 Stanaford Road, Danese, WV 25831 One of the things that I love about traveling is finding small cemeteries along country roads and wandering through them to check out the history of a place. Unfortunately, … Continue reading
Memorials: Old Town Graveyard
Date visited: June 1, 2024Address: 265-299 E. Liberty Street, Medina, OH Medina’s Old Town Cemetery appears to be the quintessential church graveyard, as it is a small and quiet field of graves nestled between two churches, the Congregational Church to … Continue reading
Memorials: Spring Grove Cemetery
Date visited: June 1, 2024Address: 785 E Washington St, Medina, OH 44256 Medina’s Spring Grove Cemetery, which is the town’s “new” cemetery, dates to 1883 and is characteristic of a rural or garden cemetery with winding paths, old growth trees, … Continue reading
Memorial: Cleveland Potter’s Field
Date Visited: May 20, 24Address: Green Rd, Highland Hills, OH 44122 A poem of my father’s introduced me to Potter’s Fields. I can’t locate the poem now, but I remember my sadness in reading about people who had lived their … Continue reading
Memorial: God’s Little Acre, Newport
Date Visited: March 26, 2023Address: Farewell Street, Newport, RI 02840 As a Midwesterner, I grew up believing that slavery only happened in the South and that the northern states, especially New England, were all abolitionists at heart. That changed when … Continue reading
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Memorials: Knollwood Mausoleum
Date Visited: June 2, 2024Address: 1678 SOM Center Rd, Mayfield Heights, OH 44124 Knollwood Cemetery is an almost 100 acre rural/garden cemetery established in Mayfield Heights, OH in 1908. The first burials were bodies transferred from the Erie Cemetery in … Continue reading
Memorials: Being Buried with Your People
A question was asked at a Death Cafe I participated in earlier this week about whether or not it mattered where you were buried. Should you be buried somewhere you had a plot? Should you be buried near family? Or … Continue reading
Memorial Day 2024
Mermorial Day is an interesting holiday for me. I truly give thanks for those who have made the ultimate sacrifice for our freedom and there is something about the solemnity of national cemeteries like the Ohio Reserve National Cemetery that … Continue reading
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