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Evergreen Cemetery is a 90-acre (36 ha) cemetery located in Murfreesboro, Tennessee. [1] The cemetery began as a slave cemetery until its owner Dr. James Maney (the owner of Oaklands Plantation), deeded a 20-acre (8.1 ha) portion of his land to the city of Murfreesboro in 1872 to replace the "Old City Cemetery" which is located near downtown Murfreesboro.
Evergreen Cemetery – formerly called Citizen's Cemetery [1] [2] and Ever Green Cemetery – is a historic 29.12 acre rural cemetery [3] located just outside Gettysburg Borough, in Cumberland Township, Adams County, Pennsylvania, United States. [4]
Evergreen Cemetery purchased most of the 9-acre (36,000 m 2) potter's field from the county in 1964. It then prepared the newly recovered parcel for burials by covering it with 8 feet (2.4 m) of compacted soil. Only the crematorium was retained by the county. In 2007, the cremated remains of over 1700 unclaimed bodies were buried in the ...
Evergreen Cemetery was established around 1860, but it does not appear to have been used extensively, except by the Chidsey family, until recent years. It was not included in the Hale census of Connecticut cemeteries conducted in the 1930s. The white-marble Chidsey obelisk is one of the chief objects of historical interest.
Elizabeth Möser Thorn (December 28, 1832 – October 17, 1907) was an American cemetery caretaker who served as the caretaker of Evergreen Cemetery in Adams County, Pennsylvania, while her husband was serving in the Union Army. While pregnant, Thorn buried approximately one hundred soldiers who had died at the Battle of Gettysburg in 1863. [1] [2]
Evergreen Cemetery, Richmond, Virginia. Evergreen Cemetery is a historic African-American cemetery in the East End of Richmond, Virginia, dating from 1891. The most recent burial in the historic section of the cemetery dates from the 1980s. Much of the privately owned cemetery had completely overgrown with kudzu or is returning to forest until ...