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It was donated to the cemetery by Jeptha Wade II in memory of his grandfather, cemetery and Western Union co-founder Jeptha Wade. The overall design was by the newly-founded Cleveland area architectural firm of Hubbell & Benes, and was their first commission. The interior's overall design is by Louis Comfort Tiffany based on a preexisting 1893 ...
This list of cemeteries in Ohio includes currently operating, historical (closed for new interments), and defunct (graves abandoned or removed) cemeteries, columbaria, and mausolea which are historical and/or notable.
1911. President James A. Garfield, a resident of nearby Mentor, Ohio, was shot in Washington, D.C., on July 2, 1881.He died on September 19, 1881. Garfield himself had expressed the wish to be buried at Lake View Cemetery, [2] [3] [4] and the cemetery offered a burial site free of charge to his widow, Lucretia Garfield.
Lake View Cemetery is a privately owned, nonprofit garden cemetery located in the cities of Cleveland, Cleveland Heights, and East Cleveland in the U.S. state of Ohio. Founded in 1869, the cemetery was favored by wealthy families during the Gilded Age, and today the cemetery is known for its numerous lavish funerary monuments and mausoleums.
Calvary Cemetery was consecrated on November 26, 1893. [3] [9] Within just a few years, the cemetery featured a stone receiving vault, waiting room at the entrance, and a number of roads. [7] A streetcar spur ran adjacent to the cemetery, allowing caskets and funeral parties to reach the cemetery by electric train. [4]
The cemetery holds the Akron Rural Cemetery Buildings, a registered historic site, listed in the National Register on 1980-09-27. They are credited to prominent Akron architect Frank O. Weary. The four buildings are: The Memorial Chapel, built in 1876 as an American Civil War monument and was erected by Buckley Post #12 Grand Army of the Republic.
Monument to Sir Charles Cotton, Admiral of the White (d.1812). [34] Monument to Mrs. E. Knight in All Saints Church (Milton, Cambridgeshire). [23] John Franklin (d.1831), English, "monumental mason of local note whose tablets frequently appear in east Wiltshire and neighbourhood". [35] John Frazee, carver active in mid-19th-century New York.
There were a number of American companies in the 1880s that through their catalogs sold zinc ornaments nationwide, such as “urns, eagles, civic ornaments, architectural details, and even cigar store Indians.” Mullins of Salem, Ohio was the most prominent but only Monumental Bronze purveyed it in grave markers. [2]