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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]
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.
The North Rockhampton Cemetery is a cemetery in Rockhampton, Queensland, Australia, which was established in 1879. [1] It is situated approximately 11 hectares of land beside the Bruce Highway at the junction of Yaamba Road and Moores Creek Road in Norman Gardens. It currently contains over 25,100 graves. [2]
Researchers excavated five unmarked graves at the cemetery in 1999 in an effort to find Samuel Washington’s resting place. They recovered small bones and teeth from three burials, but DNA ...
[1] Group photograph of Linda Memorial Committee at the Monument, Mt. Morgan, 1909. The Linda Memorial is a concrete structure approximately 6.5 metres (21 ft) high. It comprises a square base surmounted by a broken, reeded column, symbolising life cut short, which is about 2 metres (6 ft 7 in) high and surmounted by a wreath. Marble panels on ...
Greenwood Cemetery is a historic rural cemetery in New Orleans, Louisiana. The cemetery was opened in 1852, [1] and is located on City Park Avenue (formerly Metairie Road) in the Navarre neighborhood. The cemetery has a number of impressive monuments and sculptures. [2] It is one of a group of historic cemeteries in New Orleans.
Locust Grove State Historic Site, located near St. Francisville, Louisiana, commemorates a family cemetery that is part of the former Locust Grove Plantation.Locust Grove Plantation was once owned by the family of former Confederate President Jefferson Davis' sister Anna E. Davis Smith.
Brooklyn Church and Cemetery is a historic church in Chatham, Louisiana. The church building is a plain wood-frame structure built in 1902. It was deemed significant "as an almost perfectly preserved example of an austere turn-of-the-century country frame church. It represents a local North Louisiana unpretentious