Here's a man a long way from home. Cemetery at Dunwich North Stradbroke Island. Queensland.
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Grave stones that catch the eye
Here's a man a long way from home. Cemetery at Dunwich North Stradbroke Island. Queensland.
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One gravestone I found on a lonely forested ridge along the Appalachian Trail in Tennessee stuck with me. The inscription read:
Old Nick Grindstaff
Lived Alone.
Suffered Alone.
Died Alone.
Tom
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Another one.
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I saw this on the Skeleton Coast, Namibia.
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preceded in death by her ten children
Simpler is better, except when complicated looks really cool.
Formerly a Smallboat Guy
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In the same cemetery as my great great grandfather, there is this stone:
"O, silent grave to thee we trust This precious part of earthly dust. Gaurd [sic] it safe O sacred tomb. Till we their Children ask for room"
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Great great grandfather's brother has a historical marker commemorating his murder:
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Canoe History Enthusiast
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The grave stones of some canoe builders had canoes on them like George R. "Steve" Stephenson at https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/...e-r-stephenson and https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/...-edwin-wickett for Alfred Edwin Wickett who had a canoe instead of a dash between his dates.
Benson
Last edited by Benson Gray; 03-14-2023 at 03:05 PM.
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The father of powerboating. Trinity Church, NYC.
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There are two kinds of boaters: those who have run aground, and those who lie about it.
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Came across this 18 century graveyard bushwalking top of the Myall Lakes.
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The Emigrant.
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And some of the Typhus graves.
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Rogue
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Somewhere out walking during an Eggemoggin Reach cruise on Nat Benjamin’s Charlotte in 2008.
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Landlocked Expat
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Not so fast!Originally Posted by Paul Pless
preceded in death by her ten children
Maybe she died first, or at the same time. No way of knowing (from the information given) that they died before she did.
Ten children, though. My grandpa had 9 sisters, and no brothers. But they all survived to old age.
Tom
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See https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/...ary-calderwood for more details. This says "The family of Samuel & Mary took in a shipwrecked sailor who was ill. Within a short period of time, the family lost five (!) children to this." It appears that only two children may have lived longer than she did.
Benson
Last edited by Benson Gray; 03-17-2023 at 11:04 AM.
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I believe that is the same churchyard on Wall Street where Alexander Hamilton is buried, right near the fence.
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Yep, Hamilton is buried beside him!
The Church is on Broadway. Wall comes in and ends T-boning Broadway.
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Not gravestone, but I was surprised to see this at the Tambourine Rainforest Skywalk nature park in Queensland:
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I came across an abandoned graveyard in Tasmania with the grave of 6 children who died of diphtheria in4 days, and their mother.
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This site is an amazing resource. I found it when researching my family tree as they had the complete list of my ancestors dating back to the early 16 hundreds in Sheffield Uk. The section of the website that housed the family trees is now hosted elsewhere but for a collection of interesting headstones, there are many to be found here:
http://www.gravesoftas.com.au
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