Descriptive Essay About A Cemetery

The Beth Hamedrosh Hagodol Cemetery is located in St. Louis, Missouri state. Its address is 9125 Ladue Rd, St. Louis, MO 63124. It is on a six-acre piece of land along the Ladue Road. The cemetery is close to other Jewish cemeteries, B'nai Abraham, and the Hrabik Cemeteries. When combined, they make up the Fisher Farm Cemeteries named after Willard Fisher, who buried his children in that land after a tragedy in 1883. The Beth Hamedrosh Hagodol Cemetery is also referred to as the Mount Sinai Cemetery (Hamilton and Baer). The cemetery is active though it is almost filling up.

Mortuary remains are a major source of data on human social relations. In this exercise, you will analyze data from a fictive mortuary assemblage (described below and separate data sheet), and then discuss some of the ambiguities and pitfalls of this sort of analysis.

I then traveled to Beaty’s Funeral home in Mineola, Texas. Upon my arrival I spoke with David Goff, he advised that the nun sisters came down to visit the grave site and they came and asked him about the headstone. David Goff stated he told them that

The graves of many famous people are at Arlington Nationel Cemetary. It did not start out that way. In 1861, a Confederate General and his wife owned the house and the land. That General was Robert E. Lee. His house was across the river from Washington, D.C. The Union Army took over the land at the start of the Civil War. Union soldiers that were killed in the war was buried near the house. These soldiers were poor. Their families could not pay for them to be buried. Arlington was called a "potter's field." A potters field is a place where poor or unknown people are buried. After the war, something odd started to happen. Union officers asked to be buried at Arlington. They wanted to be near those men who had been in the war with them. Americans

There is a small white church located on a U.S. highway near the intersection of two Interstate highways in northern New Jersey. There, a Scottish flag flies over an easily missed gravestone in a small churchyard. This stone was erected by an American Founding Father over the burial plot of an officer in the British Army during the Revolution.

There are beauties unknown deep in the ground of Concordia. Stories that have been altered over the course of time and history that has tailgated behind these tombstones of deceased bodies. Gunfighters who thought they would rule the world were slain by the scythe of death. They were once owners of land, beholders of beauty, famous gun ringers, loving family members, and burdened veterans of war. Concordia Cemetery, the land that once gave birth to crops now lays burdened with the segregation of death, where even then people were all divided by their race, credentials, ethnicity and even gender. Gunfighters were caged underneath their tombstones where people were sure that they wouldn’t rise again.

About 18 miles North East of Manhattan there isn’t much around but small hills covered in crop fields and the occasional farmstead. If you drive just a little ways up King Road, just off highway 13 you will find a cemetery with a sign above two wire gates that says King’s Cemetery. There are three other names listed below King’s Cemetery, other names the grounds have been know as. One of these names is Adam’s Peak. This is rather strange considering the cemetery is not on a peak, nor is there a single stone bearing the name Adam. Upon further investigation you will find Adam’s Peak was, during the 1870’s and 80’s, a town and community.

City of Miami Cemetery which is located in Miami, state Florida, considered as the city’s oldest cemetery. This historical place located in the address: 1800 NE 2nd Ave

As some of you may be aware, Woodlawn National Cemetery is the final resting place for our fallen soldiers who have paid the ultimate sacrifice for our great Country. It is the duty of the workers of the cemetery and even us to make sure that their sacrifice for Freedom is not forgotten. This beautiful and sacred ground is also a final resting place for another group of soldiers.

The Arlington National cemetery is a final resting place for some of America's most famous war heroes and fallen soldiers. The cemetery conducts around 27-30 services a day and between 6-8 on Saturday. The grounds of the cemetery honor those who have served our nation by providing a sense of beauty and peace for our guests.

The City of Miami Cemetery was built in 1897 during Miami’s pioneer era, as a result of tradeoff of ten acres of land territory, made by the City of Miami and one of the City’s founder families, the Brickell’s. The purpose of this funeral landmark was creating a place to commemorate people’s lives, as William and Mary Brickell wished. According to the data, it is the oldest and only municipal cemetery in Dade County. During 1897 and 1898 this place was laid out and divided into plots, this made easily the organization of the families who were buried. It provides a historical resemblance to the late 19th Century and the early 20th century when it comes to the architectural headstones and classical mausoleums of the Cemetery. Also has visual

Now if the dead are buried far away from their homes, graves are decorated with the idea that the dead return their first and then to their how with livens. Mexicans visit graveyards, decorate the graves in their best forms and spend time there, in the presence of their departed friends, family members and lovesome. In some villages, they lay flower petals as paths, candles and offerings along the path leading from the cemetery to their homes. The spirits will be able to find their way. In some communities, it is expected to spend the whole night in the cemetery, and people throw a party of it, having a picnic supper, playing music, talking and drinking through the night. Gatherings are often held during the yearly event, it can involve the

West Los Angeles is home to two prominent cemeteries: the Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery and the Los Angeles National Cemetery. The Westwood Cemetery was constructed in 1905, serving as the rest place for many famous individuals within the entertainment industry. Famous names such as Marilyn Monroe, Dean Martin, Natalie Wood, Roy Orbison, and Jack Lemmon are buried at this grave site. Nearly less than a mile away from this cemetery is the Los Angeles National Cemetery. Established in 1889, this national cemetery is home to many members of the armed forces who have actively served in the military and/or law enforcement. These two distinct cemeteries may only appear to share relativity through their short distance, but they also symbolize many cultural aspects of the American ideology. The Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery and the Veterans Cemetery reinforces American societal conformities and ideals by perpetuating the idea of gender bias, displaying extreme idolization of celebrity status, and imprinting religious affiliation. Through tombstone appearance, cultural imprints on the tombstones, and categorization of the tombstones, both cemeteries embody contemporary American and Los Angeles culture.

Today was funeral day. My mom’s funeral. It was a dark October thursday, the clouds were brewing a storm. A slight breeze disturbed my neck. My uncomfortable suit sleeves bellowed in the cold breeze.. I hadn’t felt any emotions since the day of her death, which was weeks ago, almost as if my emotion is grey. It was warm then, as my mind was too. Nowadays, up until today, my mind has been a dark fog, as if my mind was released into the sky, darkening everyone’s day, arriving at my mom’s funeral or just to cuddle up with their friends and family in front of a warm crackling fire, telling the stories of their childhood and how times were better. Not me, my dad usually ignored me and he only worked on managing my mom’s fortune. Yeah. My mom’s

The cemetery I chose to visit and explore was the Woodlawn Cemetery in the Bronx. On the way to the cemetery I couldn’t help but feel anxious. When I began to drive past the cemetery to its entrance, all I could see were miles and miles of headstones. It was eerie to say the least. As a kid, whenever my family would drive by a cemetery, my siblings and I would hold our breath until we passed so as to not breathe in the wandering, lost souls. Actually going into a cemetery to look around seemed counterintuitive, I wasn’t sure if I would be able to hold my breath for that long. It didn’t help that right when I entered those black gates that separated the living from the dead, clouds of smoke and ash permeated the air around me due to bodies being cremated on site.