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The Hardy Tree In the churchyard of St Pancras Old Church in London, hundreds of old gravestones circle an ash tree. In the 1860's an older part of the churchyard was designated to make way fo...
The Hardy Tree In the churchyard of St Pancras Old Church in London, hundreds of old gravestones circle an ash tree. In the 1860's an older part of the churchyard was designated to make way for a new railway line. Coffins were removed with care and reburied elsewhere. Some of the headstones were placed in a circular pattern around a young ash tree in the churchyard. Over the decades the tree has, inevitably grown and parts of the headstones nearest the tree have disappeared in to its growth.
The Hardy Tree is in the churchyard of St Pancras Old Church in London, hundreds of old gravestones circle an ash tree. In the 1860's an older part of the churchyard was designated to make way for a new railway line. Coffins were removed with care and reburied elsewhere. Some of the headstones were ...
The Hardy Tree is in the churchyard of St Pancras Old Church in London, hundreds of old gravestones circle an ash tree. In the 1860's an older part of the churchyard was designated to make way for a new railway line. Coffins were removed with care and reburied elsewhere. Some of the headstones were placed in a circular pattern around a young ash tree in the churchyard. Over the decades the tree has, inevitably grown and parts of the headstones nearest the tree have disappeared in to its growth.
OOOH! Yes.... something supernatural or paranormal..... LOL! This may sound macabre...but I love going into old graveyards that have the standing headstones, and reading the names and dates. My girlfriends and I found one that only a few people knew about..... we stumbled upon it actually. It was ver...
OOOH! Yes.... something supernatural or paranormal..... LOL! This may sound macabre...but I love going into old graveyards that have the standing headstones, and reading the names and dates. My girlfriends and I found one that only a few people knew about..... we stumbled upon it actually. It was very old and had not been looked after...but someone had been in and had started cleaning it up and even had started figuring out who was buried there, even though some of the headstones had been destroyed. They had erected little crosses with brass name plates on them! It was the most interesting graveyard I've been too! Most of the graves were from the early 1800's!
Yep I like! Thanks Mark!! Can't imagine what those parents felt like losing five young children in just one week...especially around Christmas time!! Will have to look at it more later tonight!
We have Old Erie Cemetery right in downtown Cleveland...some of the headstones date back to the 1700s. One fella fought in the Revolutionary War, the French and Indian War, the War of 1812, and some other things, only to die of cholera right in his own home!
That's why I love old cemetaries.... it's the stories that you get from reading the old headstones...... I love personal histories...guess that's why I love doing Geneology too!
Baton Rouge has Magnolia Cemetery. The Civil War Battle of Baton Rouge, 1862, was fought among the headstones and mausoleums. I have pictures of the cemetery in my collection of photos.
I lived in St. Augustine as a teenager and we used to go to ALL the cemetaries, it was a great place to hide from police and parents, ha!( all teens did that right ?) including the Tolomato Cemetery which was founded in 1565 and dubbed the oldest cemetery in Florida.
This may sound macabre...but I love going into old graveyards that have the standing headstones, and reading the names and dates. My girlfriends and I found one that only a few people knew about..... we stumbled upon it actually. It was ver...
Will have to look at it more later tonight!
I love personal histories...guess that's why I love doing Geneology too!