An old brick mausoleum in Searcy, Arkansas.
Showing posts with label cemetery. Show all posts
Showing posts with label cemetery. Show all posts
Wednesday, January 16, 2013
Wednesday, November 28, 2012
Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind
Family marker at Glenwood Cemetery in Houston, Texas.
The Glenwood Cemetery is located at 2525 Washington Avenue in Houston, Texas. It was the first cemetery in Houston to be professionally designed and opened in 1871. The cemetery is situated between Washington Avenue on the North side and Memorial Drive on the South side, the latter overlooking Buffalo Bayou.
Buried in the cemetery is William P. Hobby, after whom Hobby Airport in Houston, Texas, is named. In 1938, the William P. Hobby Airport in Houston, known at the time as Houston Municipal Airport, was renamed “Howard Hughes Airport,” but the name was changed back after people objected to naming the airport after a living person. This is also the location of pioneering heart surgeon Dr. Denton Cooley’s family grave-site. Anson Jones, the last president of the Republic of Texas, is also buried here.
This historic cemetery is the final resting place of a number of individuals who were citizens of the short-lived Republic of Texas. The grave sites of those individuals have been designated with metal markers and are frequently decorated with the flag of the Republic and State of Texas.
Keith Rosen, a Houston area history professor quoted in the San Antonio Express-News, said that the cemetery is the "River Oaks of the dead."
Title quote from William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream
Wednesday, October 10, 2012
With ancient markings etched on weathered stone, Above ruins of the dead and finite dust of hollow bones
In 1875, the land, which had
previously been used for slave burials, was purchased by Richard Brock, Houston's
first black alderman.
It opened as a cemetery for black Methodists
in 1877. When Olivewood was platted, it was the first African-Americans
burial ground within the Houston city limits.
Many 19th century influential
African-Americans were buried in the cemetery, including Reverend Elias Dibble,
first minister of Trinity United Methodist Church; Reverend Wade H. Logan, also
a minister of the church; and James Kyle, a blacksmith; as well as Richard
Brock.
The cemetery includes more than 700
family plots around a graceful, elliptical
drive that originated at an ornate entry gate. It contains graves of both the
well-to-do and those who died in poverty; therefore, the grave markers run the
gamut from elaborate Victorian monuments to simple, handmade headstones.
Burials at Olivewood Cemetery continued through the 1960s.
In 2003, after decades of neglect
and abandonment, the "Descendants of Olivewood," a nonprofit
organization, was established to take guardianship of the cemetery, "to
provide care and to protect its historical significance."
Olivewood was designated an Historic
Texas Cemetery. By 2010 water and vandals threatened to damage graves in a
portion of the cemetery.
On a spookier side note:
Over the years, there have been numerous reports of mysterious after-dark sightings and strange movements within the graveyard.
Cathi Bunn, a paranormal investigator, began exploring Olivewood in 1999. One moonlit midnight, Bunn said she videotaped the ghost of Mary White, who was buried in 1888, hovering above her headstone.
Olivewood Cemetery on Wikipedia
Sunday, September 16, 2012
And with the morn those angel faces smile, which I have loved long since and lost awhile
The blog title quote is by John Henry Newman; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Henry_Newman
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