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Old Calton Cemetery, looking towards Calton Hill. The villagers of Calton, a village at the western base of Calton Hill, buried their dead at South Leith Parish Church.This was so inconvenient that, in 1718, the Society of the Incorporated Trades of Calton bought a half acre of ground at a cost of £1013 from Lord Balmerino, the feudal superior of the land, for use as a burial ground for the ...
William Joseph "Wild Bill" Donovan (1883–1959), US Army Major General, commanded the 165th Infantry Regiment (federalized designation of the 69th New York Infantry, the "Fighting Irish") during World War I, and was Chief of the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) during World War II; also awarded the Distinguished Service Cross, Distinguished Service Medal, and National Security Medal, making ...
The Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC) aims to commemorate the UK and Commonwealth dead of the World Wars, either by maintaining a war grave in a cemetery, or where there is no known grave, by listing the dead on a memorial to the missing.
William Short (1759–1849), private secretary and "adopted son" for Thomas Jefferson; William M. Singerly was the publisher of The Philadelphia Record William M. Singerly (1832–1898), businessman and newspaper publisher; Arthur Donaldson Smith (1866–1939), physician, hunter, explorer of Africa
Established in 1845, it is one of the city's oldest cemeteries, and its first private non-sectarian cemetery. Its burials include a number of the city's high-profile civic and business leaders, as well as a substantial indigent population, and artist Frederic Edwin Church. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2011. [1]
Dolly Cepeda (1964–1977), victim of the Hillside Strangler (original grave site, moved to Forest Lawn in Cypress) Mario Chamlee (1892–1966), opera singer; George Chandler (1898–1985), actor, Uncle Petrie Martin on TV's Lassie [33] NP Lon Chaney (1883–1930), actor (unmarked grave) [34] Charles Chapman (1853–1944), founder of Chapman ...
Homewood Cemetery is a historic urban cemetery [1] in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States.It is located in Point Breeze and is bordered by Frick Park, the neighborhood of Squirrel Hill, and the smaller Smithfield Cemetery.
Grave of John Huston. George Hackathorne (1896–1940), actor (aged 44) Joan Hackett (1934–1983), actress (aged 49) [2] Bianca Halstead (1965–2001), musician (aged 36) Harley Hamilton (1861–1933), musician (aged 72) John Hamilton (1887–1958), actor (aged 71) Curtis Harrington (1926–2007), director (aged 80) Kenneth Harlan (1895–1967 ...