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Abel-meholah is believed to have been located in that area. Abel-meholah (Hebrew: אָבֵל מְחוֹלָה, Avel Mehola) was an ancient city frequently mentioned in the Hebrew Bible (Old Testament of Christianity). It is best known for being the birthplace and residence of the prophet Elisha.
An American girl who disappeared on August 15, 2002, and whose skeletal remains were found by a deer hunter on March 18, 2005, near the gated forest of New Jersey's Six Flags Great Adventure theme park. [70] [71] Murdered 2 + 1 ⁄ 2 years 2002 Sydney Collins: Unknown Australia A member of a motorcycle gang with known links to underworld figures.
The cause of the incident was never fully established. Initially posted as missing, Turnbull was confirmed dead on 4 September when troops from the 2/12th Battalion found the wreckage of his plane and his body inside. He is buried in the Bomana War Cemetery, Port Moresby. [137] Killed in action 8 days 1942 Joan Pearl Wolfe: 19 United Kingdom
The graves of soldiers are to the south of the Confederate Soldier Monument, [6] [7] with cannons pointing north, [8] forever protecting the deceased Confederates. [9] [10] Elodie Todd Dawson, buried nearby, was head of the Ladies Memorial Association (later the United Daughters of the Confederacy) and spearheaded the effort to build the $5,500 Confederate Monument in the cemetery.
Elijah Stephens also spelled Elisha Stevens was a blacksmith and trapper who was born in South Carolina. In 1844, he left Council Bluffs, Iowa as the captain of the Stephens-Townsend-Murphy Party, the first wagon train to cross the Sierra Nevada mountains into Alta California. He then moved to Cupertino, California, in 1848.
Key Underwood established the cemetery on September 4, 1937, interring his coon dog, Troop, in an old hunting camp [5] [6] [7] located in rural Colbert County, Alabama, US. The closest town is Cherokee, Alabama. [8] [9] At the time, Underwood only intended to bury Troop in a place they had coon hunted together for 15 years. The memorial was a ...
Former Alabama River shipping port Riverton [4] [9] [10] Point Smith 1846-1851, Chickasaw 1851-1890, Riverton 1890-1930s: Colbert: 1846: 1930s: Submerged: Former Tennessee River port town, now underwater due to the construction of the Pickwick Landing Dam. The only current remnant of Riverton is a cemetery located along the Rose Trail ...
It lies within the Talladega National Forest and is administrated by the US Forest Service. Congress designated the area on January 3, 1983 [ 1 ] and expanded it in 1988. From the stone tower on the summit of Cheaha Mountain , Alabama's highest point at 2,407 feet (734 m), a dense second-growth woodland stretches south across Cheaha State Park ...