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The logo of Find a Grave used from 1995 to 2018 [2] Find a Grave was created in 1995 by Salt Lake City, Utah, resident Jim Tipton to support his hobby of visiting the burial sites of famous celebrities. [3] Tipton classified his early childhood as being a nerdy kid who had somewhat of a fascination with graves and some love for learning HTML. [4]
a three-metre-high (9.8 ft) Celtic cross with shamrock motif erected for Thomas and Katherine Barret and their children (1910s) a three-metre-high (9.8 ft) sandstone broken column with a rusticated pedestal and white marble tablet and a sandstone football for Tom Harrow Manson in 1907 and 'erected by his many sporting friends'
This list of cemeteries in Louisiana includes currently operating, historical (closed for new interments), and defunct (graves abandoned or removed) cemeteries, columbaria, and mausolea which are historical and/or notable.
In 2020, it was reported North Rockhampton Cemetery's imminent closure would occur in 2022. [10] As of 2018, there had been over 25,100 burials in the North Rockhampton Cemetery. [2] This includes the Rockhampton War Cemetery which is located within the North Rockhampton Cemetery and maintained by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission. [11]
The South Sea Islander village of Joskeleigh is located 40 kilometres (25 mi) from Rockhampton, on the coast. [1]The cemetery site comprised approximately a quarter of an acre and was originally part of a 100-acre freehold block.
Open vaults on a tomb at Lafayette Cemetery No. 1. The caveau at the bottom of the tomb is visible. For above-ground tombs in New Orleans, when a burial is needed, the cemetery sexton opens the outer tablet marking the opening to the vault of the tomb.
Chalmette National Cemetery is a United States National Cemetery located within Jean Lafitte National Historical Park and Preserve in Chalmette, Louisiana.The cemetery is a 17.5-acre (7.1 ha) graveyard adjacent to the site that was once the battleground of the Battle of New Orleans, which took place at the end of the War of 1812. [2]
In 1867, an 8-acre (3.2 ha) plot was appropriated from a local resident to establish the Alexandria National Cemetery. It was originally intended as a place to bury Union soldiers who died in the area during the Civil War, but later, remains from Mount Pleasant, Cheneyville, Yellow Bayou, and Fort Brown, Texas, were re-interred in Alexandria.