Metairie Cemetery, New Orleans. Louisiana

Campo Santo, Pisa

Grave of Buffalo Bill Cody, Lookout Mountain, Colorado

Rock Point Cemetery, Gold Hill, Oregon

My sentiments exactly.

Photos by Squid Wizard.

Tomb of Msgr. Seraphin Bauer, St. Joseph's Cemetery, Fremont, Ohio

Photos by Kevin Hammer.

Weston, Warwickshire

St. Roch Cemetery, New Orleans

I've been finding old postcards, cheap, on E-Bay. Expect to see them from time to time.

Tomb of Warren G. Harding, Marion, Ohio

Tomb of Boethius, Pavia

Mummies

Interesting article, with a rather amazing picture.

Woodlawn Cemetery, Toledo, Ohio

Fairmount Cemetery, near Uniopolis, Ohio

Laurel Hill Cemetery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Forest Lawn Cemetery, Glendale, California

Photo by Fenobarbidoll.

"Buried in Style?" WTF?

In general, I don't have a problem with elaborate coffins, but this is just bloody ridiculous.

But, on the other hand, the coffin inspired furniture looks like fun. Wouldn't mind having that bookcase.

Then again, the use your own coffin as a bookcase idea doesn't impress me much. It makes one butt-ugly bookcase.

FYI

I haven't forgotten about this blog, I've just been otherwise occupied. Regular posts will resume when things settle down.

Old Colony Burial Ground, Granville, Ohio

Not husband and wife. Brothers apparently.


Wonderful epitaph.

Sherlock Mower. He died before Conan Doyle was born, so there's no connection to Holmes.

An Egyptian Prince Buried in Vermont

I'm still fuming from this item. In fact, I'd very much like to kick Mr. George Mead's ass for him. He was a museum director who had the mummy of an Egyptian child cremated, then buried in West Cemetery, in Middlebury, Vermont. Whether Mr. Mead was an ignorant bastard or a full-scale arrogant prick is difficult to determine. Even in Mr. Mead's time, it wouldn't have required much research to realize that having one's body burned was the most terrifying fate any ancient Egyptian could have imagined. The soul's survival depended on the body's survival. What Mr. Mead did to that child was inexcusable. To add insult to injury, he even had a cross put on the tombstone.
UPDATE: Since starting this post, I did a bit more research. Mr. Mead was both an ignorant bastard AND an arrogant prick, plus a dozen other names I'm thinking of at the moment. There's more information here. While I'm at it, I'll say that the town of Middlebury, Vermont ought to be ashamed of itself for tolerating a so-called "museum" like this! The whole fucking story is sick.

More Mummies

Here's an interesting article on some mummies that turned up, unexpectedly, at Vacs, Hungary, in 1994. Interesting coffins, too.