Spotted this mausoleum and took a peek through the glass door. Gorgeous stained glass.

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Saw this today and never saw one with this type of design with a woman’s head before. RIP, Patience. Had you stayed alive another decade or two, you would have seen a lot of changes!

This is at a small cemetery attached to a no longer used church in Shockeysville Va. I walk by it often and think so much of the time someone put into carving it. I can see the "infant son" and surname of Crouse. But the dates seem backwards? Perhaps I'm reading it wrong?

Herrin Cemetary in Herrin Illinois. During a prolonged mine strike the mine’s owner brought in scab workers and an eventual battle took place between the townspeople and the strikebreakers along with their hired guards.

Criminal podcast has an excellent episode about this incident if anyone is interested.

I cut and pasted some of the following from Wikipedia.

The strikebreakers sent out a mine guard, Bernard Jones, with an apron tied to a broomstick. Jones told the mob the men would surrender if their safety would be guaranteed. He was told, "Come on out and we'll get you out of the county." The nearly 50 strikebreakers, guards and superintendent McDowell did as they were told, and the union miners began marching them all to Herrin, five miles away. After about a half mile, the strikebreakers encountered more men waiting at Crenshaw Crossing. One of them shouted, "The only way to free the county of strikebreakers is to kill them all off and stop the breed!" The mob grew more agitated and violent as the procession of prisoners continued. Some struck the strikebreakers with the butts of their rifles and shotguns.

The group was eventually lined up against a fence and fired upon. Some died at the scene others ran away and were later captured and killed.

Six strikebreakers were recaptured and ordered to remove their shirts and shoes. They were told to crawl to Herrin Cemetery. By noon a crowd of about 1,000 spectators had gathered at the cemetery. They watched as the strikebreakers were roped together, and union men took turns beating and shooting them. They were also urinated upon. Those still alive at the end had their throats cut by a union man with a pocketknife. Townspeople came to watch and taunt the dead and dying along the route to the cemetery. A reporter tried to give a dying man some water and was told that if he did, "he wouldn't live to see the next day."

The town displayed the bodies as trophy’s in the local businesses before burying them in Herrin Cemetery without markers. The location of the victims were lost until a research team found 8 of the bodies in the cemetery buried under other graves in 2013.

Cherry blossoms for days in Vancouver’s Mountain View cemetery. Makes for an even more peaceful and beautiful place to rest.

Located on campus at the University of Montevallo, Montevallo Alabama

I found this churchyard overall and this grave very beautiful. It was so atmospheric with the greenery and hazy hills in the background.

My mom and I went to Spring Grove Cemetery last week on my birthday. I love this cemetery and if you have never been it’s worth the trip. Plus it has some interesting and hilarious history of the people buried there.

This is in a very small, not well kept up Slovak Lutheran Cemetery. Graff Cemetery, or Dr. Martin Luther Memorial Cemetery. “Tu Spocvia Ju,” means something like “he rests here.” Pavel, is Polish/Slovak/Czech for Paul. He was 60 when he passed. Bozena, is a feminine name. Comes from the Polish word for God “Bog.” Bozena was 13 when she died. That’s all I have discovered so far. Took this pic yesterday.