Diary of a graveyard.

Just bookmarking. I followed your other thread about the headstones with the stars on them and I find this fascinating. I can see why you took this on.

Hi wolfie. Thanks for an interesting thread. Will look forward to more posts here.



Teeny suggestion though. Watch the pixel sizes on some of your great photos so it makes them easier to view without a lot of scrolling and page stretching. Suggested maximum size for a board like this should probably be about 640 x 480.

Keep 'em coming!

I hear ya, loud and clear.. but, let me explain. :wink:

I pick certain ones to remain larger ( as you can see) then the thread so that you , as the viewer,can get an idea of how big something is.

An example being the picture of the road in the graveyard.

As a small picture, it doesn't quite convey the size of the yard.

If I make it just a bit bigger then thread size, it is a good visual aid for what I am talking about in that post.

Same with some of the grave stones.

Some are OK viewed in smaller pictures. But others look better when the entire background is encompassed. With a large resolution, you can get the feeling of it being , alone? if that is what I am trying to convey.. or , of it being tall.. etc. etc.

I defiantly don't do it to bother anyone. Just to help explain and show the emotion I see and feel when I am there.

Here are some of the more interesting ones.

it will be a mix of all gravestones, and not limited to the pauper area.



The natural mold growing on this stone, in the sunlight, makes it look like green glitter.

It is very beautiful.

One of my friends suggested ( quite morbidly .. ) that it looks like the decay pattern of leprosy on her hand.

This is an actual boot.

If you remove the flowers, you CAN place your foot in side and it fits like a boot should.


What ever it is coated in is begining to wear down and I wonder sometimes if the boot will be exposed some day.





This is in the 'newer' section of the yard, across the street from the pauper area.

Ah, I see. Carry on then.

Lovely shot of the statue, by the way.

My wife (who is from England) has told that there are some great old graveyards in the area she came from -hundreds of years old. Amazing history.

From what I can see, Benjamin here is technically the oldest " person" there.
I have not found a birthdate before his yet. So, he has earned a place on this thread simply because of that...
Even our semi-popular Mary Murphy was born , according to her headstone, in 1788.

You'll find such in any older European town on churchyards (nowadays the stones are mostly taken inside the churches, preservation reasons).

I would LOVE to see those!

You're welcome .... and invited :wink:

Edgar Allan Poe
1809-1849

Edgar Allan Poe is buried in the Westminster Cemetery, Baltimore, Maryland, USA.

In September 1849 Poe left Richmond and headed for New York to help a lady friend with her manuscripts. For reasons unknown he stopped at Baltimore on the way and on the 3rd October he was discovered in the street outside a polling station in a delirious and semi-conscious state. It is not known whether he was suffering from excessive alcohol, heart failure or epilepsy - or possibly a combination of all three.

Poe was taken to hospital but died four days later. His last words were: "Lord help my poor soul." He was buried the next day in the Baltimore Presbyterian Cemetery in an unmarked grave.

John Wilkes Booth
Birth: May 10, 1838
Death: Apr. 26, 1865

The assassin of President Lincoln. He was born on the small farm of his parents, both British immigrants, in Harford County, Maryland. The body was buried in the family plot in Green Mount Cemetery in Baltimore on Saturday, June 26, 1869. John's individual grave is unmarked at request of the Booth family. It remains that way today.

Sometimes I wonder if she was angry with her parents at all -

And now, the "famous" Mrs Mary Murphy who is known in a few countries thanks to A2K members, AND has a headstone/grave marker that is rare in these parts as well.

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A view from the top, as best I could-





If you were standing over the top of her gravemarker, that little hole almost appears to be a keyhole.

How fascinating it would be to be able to have that key.
Not that it opens anything, there is no mechanism for the key to turn.
I think it was made just for a keepsake for the family.

As I have said before , if I were not so opposed to being buried, this is the gravemarker I would want for myself.

And the last picture I took of her grave, and the last that I will post today is this one-



I made it in black and white so that you could see through the glare of the sun that it is actually several pieces bolted down.

To me, it looks like a cake pan.. HA!


Im telling you guys, this cemetery is FACINATING. And I will post more pictures as I take them.