Category Archives: Memorials
Memorials: Smailes Cemetery
Address:17102 Stanaford Road, Danese, WV 25831 Date of Visit: June 13, 2024 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. … Continue reading
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Memorials: Knollwood Mausoleum
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 downtown Cleveland and the first new internment is in 1910. The mausoleum was … Continue reading
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Memorial: God’s Little Acre, Newport
As a Midwesterner, I grew up believing that slavery only happened in the South and that the northern states, especially New England, were all abolistionists at heart. That changed when I started working on a project in Rhode Island. I … Continue reading
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Books: Over My Dead Body
Link: Over My Dead Body There are over 144,000 cemeteries in the United States, according to author Greg Melville, and he’s visited a lot of them and cataloged some of his visits in Over My Dead Body. ALthough some books … Continue reading
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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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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
Memorials: Lake View Cemetery Overview
Lake View Cemetery is a garden style cemetery locaed in 1869 on 211 acres on Cleveland’s east side. It is modeled after other gaden style cemeteries including Mount Auburn in Cambridge, MA and Laurel Hill Cemetery in Philadephia. Garden style, … Continue reading
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Memorial: Cleveland Potter’s Field
Address: 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 whole lives and then … Continue reading
German Cultural Garden
The German Cultural Garden is one of 36 gardens that make up the Cleveland Cultural Gardens and, like the rest of the gardens, it is both a celebration of cultural and a memorial to important cultural figures. As I wander … Continue reading
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Memorials: Cleveland Cultural Gardens
Memorials come in many forms including cemeteries, memorial walls, and memorial buildings. Memorials are even present in places that are designated as memorials. The Cleveland Cultural Gardens is one such place. The Cleveland Cultural Gardens were established in 1916 with … Continue reading