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Author : Eric J. Brock
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ISBN 13 : 9781570880551
Total Pages : 107 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (85 download)
Download or read book A Necrology of Graves at the Old Oakland Cemetery written by Eric J. Brock and published by . This book was released on 1988-10-01 with total page 107 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (181 download)
Download or read book A Necrology of Graves at the Old Oakland Cemetery of Shreveport, Louisiana written by and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Eric J. Brock
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Download or read book A Necrology of Graves Atthe Old Oakland Cemetery of Shreveport, LA written by Eric J. Brock and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Tevi Taliaferro
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1439612110
Total Pages : 185 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (396 download)
Download or read book Historic Oakland Cemetery written by Tevi Taliaferro and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2001-06-20 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To learn about a communitys past, the city cemetery is the place to visit. As Atlantas oldest permanent landmark, Oakland Cemetery holds the past, present, and future history of the Gateway to the South. Established in 1850 as a small municipal cemetery on the southeastern edge of town, Historic Oakland has evolved into 88 acres of art, history, architecture, gardens, and peaceful green space in the heart of downtown Atlanta. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976 as a significant example of an historic Victorian-era cemetery, Oakland is the final resting place of more than 70,000 deceased. People of both statewide and national importance have been buried throughout the cemeterys grounds in the past 150 years, including author Margaret Mitchell, golfing legend Bobby Jones, Confederate generals and soldiers, Georgia governors, Atlanta mayors, and ordinary people known only to their families. Historic Oakland Cemetery explores the history of both the cemetery and the people who were laid to rest there. From the famous to the infamous, the legendary to the ordinary, every person buried in the cemetery has a story to tell. For all of its emphasis on the past, Oakland remains an active cemetery, a public park, and an educational resource in which to study lush landscapes and Georgia history.
Author : Robert E. Zaworski
Publisher : Turner Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 1681622394
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (816 download)
Download or read book Headstones of Heroes written by Robert E. Zaworski and published by Turner Publishing Company. This book was released on 1998-06-01 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Restoration and History of Confederate Graves in Atlanta's Oakland Cemetery
Author : Kate Sweeney
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 0820346896
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (23 download)
Download or read book American Afterlife written by Kate Sweeney and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2014-03-15 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An award-winning writer explores the patchwork American cultural history of grieving the departed. One family inters their matriarch’s ashes on the floor of the ocean. Another holds a memorial weenie roast each year at a green-burial cemetery. An 1898 ad for embalming fluid promises, “You can make mummies with it!” while a leading contemporary burial vault is touted as impervious to the elements. A grieving mother, 150 years ago, might spend her days tending a garden at her daughter’s grave. Today, she might tend the roadside memorial she erected where her daughter was killed. One mother wears a locket containing her daughter’s hair; the other, a necklace containing her ashes. What happens after someone dies depends on our personal stories and on where those stories fall in a larger tale―that of death in America. It’s a powerful tale that we usually keep hidden from our everyday lives until we have to face it. American Afterlife by Kate Sweeney reveals this world through a collective portrait of Americans past and present who are personally involved with death: obit writers in the desert, an Atlantic funeral voyage, a fourth-generation funeral director―even a midwestern museum that shows us our death-obsessed Victorian progenitors. Each story illuminates details in another, revealing a landscape that feels at once strange and familiar, one that’s by turns odd, tragic, poignant, and sometimes even funny. “Sweeney’s quest for the “why” behind mourning rituals has given us a book in the best tradition of narrative journalism.”—Jessica Handler, author of Braving the Fire: A Guide to Writing about Grief and Loss
Author : Ren Davis
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 0820343137
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (23 download)
Download or read book Atlanta's Oakland Cemetery written by Ren Davis and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through engaging narrative, rich photography, archival images and detailed maps, a versatile guide to Atlanta's oldest public cemetery is a great way to tour the cemetery's landscape of remembrance, as well as a unique way to explore Atlanta's history. Original.
Author : Loren Rhoads
Publisher : Black Dog & Leventhal
ISBN 13 : 0316473790
Total Pages : 425 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (164 download)
Download or read book 199 Cemeteries to See Before You Die written by Loren Rhoads and published by Black Dog & Leventhal. This book was released on 2017-10-24 with total page 425 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A hauntingly beautiful travel guide to the world's most visited cemeteries, told through spectacular photography andtheir unique histories and residents. More than 3.5 million tourists flock to Paris's Pè Lachaise cemetery each year.They are lured there, and to many cemeteries around the world, by a combination of natural beauty, ornate tombstones and crypts, notable residents, vivid history, and even wildlife. Many also visit Mount Koya cemetery in Japan, where 10,000 lanterns illuminate the forest setting, or graveside in Oaxaca, Mexico to witness Day of the Dead fiestas. Savannah's Bonaventure Cemetery has gorgeous night tours of the Southern Gothic tombstones under moss-covered trees that is one of the most popular draws of the city. 199 Cemeteries to See Before You Die features these unforgettable cemeteries, along with 196 more, seen in more than 300 photographs. In this bucket list of travel musts, author Loren Rhoads, who hosts the popular Cemetery Travel blog, details the history and features that make each destination unique. Throughout will be profiles of famous people buried there, striking memorials by noted artists, and unusual elements, such as the hand carved wood grave markers in the Merry Cemetery in Romania.
Author : Janice McDonald
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1467103985
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (671 download)
Download or read book Residents of Oakland Cemetery written by Janice McDonald and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2019 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first person buried at Oakland was laid to rest in May 1850, a month before the land was purchased by Atlanta to become its city cemetery. The fast-growing municipality eventually expanded the burial grounds to include 48 acres. Since then, what is now known as Historic Oakland Cemetery has become the final home to more than 70,000 residents. Among those are celebrated politicians, authors, and athletes and those whose impact has been felt but who are not as well recognized. A few of those residents include Gordon Burton Smith, who helped build the Panama Canal; Andre Steiner, who created the master plan for Stone Mountain; and Sally Connally Hardie, who helped run the National Trust of Scotland. They rest among gardened paths in elaborate mausoleums, exceptional funerary art, humble headstones, and sometimes unmarked graves.
Author : Melvin LeRoy Green Macklin
Publisher : Turner Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 1681622165
Total Pages : 533 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (816 download)
Download or read book Traces in the Dust written by Melvin LeRoy Green Macklin and published by Turner Publishing Company. This book was released on 2001-01-01 with total page 533 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (From the Preface) Traces in the Dust focuses upon the African American families and residents of Carbondale since the founding of the Carbondale Township (1852). It is meant to provide a glimpse of the growth, progress, and development of the Black American community in the city through the exploration of recorded data and oral history.
Author : Gary D. Joiner PhD
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1625853793
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (258 download)
Download or read book Shreveport's Historic Oakland Cemetery written by Gary D. Joiner PhD and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2015-03-09 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nearly as old as the city itself, Oakland Cemetery is one of Shreveport's most significant historical landmarks. Notable residents were laid to rest here as early as 1842. In a mass grave lie nearly eight hundred victims of a virulent yellow fever epidemic that struck the city in 1873. Others interred include Annie McCune, the famous Shreveport madam who operated a brothel in the city's red-light district, as well as hundreds of Civil War soldiers, city founders and the first African American physician, Dr. Dickerson Alphonse Smith. Some souls are said to haunt the grounds still. Join authors Gary D. Joiner and Cheryl White and discover some of Shreveport's oldest stories.
Author : Lori Erickson
Publisher : Westminster John Knox Press
ISBN 13 : 1611649552
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (116 download)
Download or read book Near the Exit written by Lori Erickson and published by Westminster John Knox Press. This book was released on 2019-08-13 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "An ideal guidebook to facing the inevitable." Foreword Reviews After her brother died unexpectedly and her mother moved into a dementia-care facility, spiritual travel writer and Episcopal deacon Lori Erickson felt called to a new quest: to face death head on, with the eye of a tourist and the heart of a pastor. Blending memoir, spirituality, and travel, Near the Exit examines how cultures confront and have confronted death, from Egypt's Valley of the Kings and Mayan temples, to a Colorado cremation pyre and Day of the Dead celebrations, to Maori settlements and tourist-destination graveyards. Erickson reflects on mortalityâ€"the ways we avoid it, the ways we cope with it, and the ways life is made more precious by accepting itâ€"in places as far away as New Zealand and as close as the nursing home up the street. Throughout her personal journey and her travels, Erickson  helps us to see that one of the most life-affirming things we can do is to invite death along for the ride.
Author : Cathy J. Kaemmerlen
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1625844204
Total Pages : 154 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (258 download)
Download or read book The Historic Oakland Cemetery of Atlanta: Speaking Stones written by Cathy J. Kaemmerlen and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2007-10-29 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Approximately seventy thousand souls lay in rest at historic Oakland Cemetery in Atlanta, Georgia. They are the silent witnesses of what has gone on before. Their stones carry their stories and the history of Atlanta. Cathy Kaemmerlen, renowned storyteller and Georgia author, explores the tales behind many of the cemetery's notable figures, including: " Margaret Mitchell, of Gone with the Wind fame " Bobby Jones, 1930 winner of all four major golf championships " The Rich brothers, founders of Rich's Department Store " Joseph Jacobs, in whose pharmacy the first Coca-Cola was served
Author : Shirley F. Kinney
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (2 download)
Download or read book Oakland Cemetery Obituaries and Interments written by Shirley F. Kinney and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Florence M. Jumonville
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313076790
Total Pages : 810 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (13 download)
Download or read book Louisiana History written by Florence M. Jumonville and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2002-08-30 with total page 810 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the accounts of 18th-century travelers to the interpretations of 21st-century historians, Jumonville lists more than 6,800 books, chapters, articles, theses, dissertations, and government documents that describe the rich history of America's 18th state. Here are references to sources on the Louisiana Purchase, the Battle of New Orleans, Carnival, and Cajuns. Less-explored topics such as the rebellion of 1768, the changing roles of women, and civic development are also covered. It is a sweeping guide to the publications that best illuminate the land, the people, and the multifaceted history of the Pelican State. Arranged according to discipline and time period, chapters cover such topics as the environment, the Civil War and Reconstruction, social and cultural history, the people of Louisiana, local, parish, and sectional histories, and New Orleans. It also lists major historical sites and repositories of primary materials. As the only comprehensive bibliography of the secondary sources about the state, ^ILouisiana History^R is an invaluable resource for scholars and researchers.
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Publisher : Turner Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 1563116200
Total Pages : 367 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (631 download)
Download or read book Montgomery Co, TN written by and published by Turner Publishing Company. This book was released on 2000-04-03 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Tom Ogden
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1493036637
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (93 download)
Download or read book Haunted Cemeteries written by Tom Ogden and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2018-09-01 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Everybody knows better. Yet from the days of ancient Greece, people have hurried their steps as they passed by—or, heaven forbid, walked through—a cemetery after dark. Indeed, over the centuries there have been countless stories of ghost encounters at churchyards, secular cemeteries, ancient burial grounds, and isolated graves. The second edition of Haunted Cemeteries exhumes more than 200 haunted happenings from restless graveyard ghosts in cemeteries across each of the fifty states and Washington, DC, including: Nevermore!: At least four entities, including the spectre of Edgar Allan Poe, haunt Westminster Burying Ground in Baltimore. And just who is the mysterious Man in Black that shows up every year on January 19, the writer’s birthday?. The Resurrection Apparition: A “hitchhiking ghost” outside Justice, Illinois, vanishes from the car she’s riding in as it passes Resurrection Cemetery—earning her the nickname Resurrection Mary. The Queen of Voodoo: The restless spirit of Marie Laveau, the nineteenth-century Queen of Voodoo, is said to appear in New Orleans’s St. Louis Cemetery No. 1 in the form of a gigantic black crow or a phantom black hellhound—when she’s not walking through the French Quarter.
