Graveyards of the Wild West
Author: Heather L. Moulton
Publisher: America Through Time
Published: 2020-09-28
Total Pages: 128
ISBN-13: 9781634992589
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Texas Graveyards
Author: Terry G. Jordan
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Published: 2010-07-05
Total Pages: 287
ISBN-13: 0292788436
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhere more poignantly than in a small country graveyard can a traveler fathom the flow of history and tradition? During the past twenty years, Terry G. Jordan has traveled the back roads and hidden trails of rural Texas in search of such cemeteries. With camera in hand, he has visited more than one thousand cemeteries created and maintained by the Anglo-American, black, Indian, Mexican, and German settlers of Texas. His discoveries of sculptured stones and mounds, hex signs and epitaphs, intricate landscapes and unusual decorations represent a previously unstudied and unappreciated wealth of Texas folk art and tradition. Texas Graveyards not only marks the distinct ethnic and racial traditions in burial practices but also preserves a Texas legacy endangered by changing customs, rural depopulation, vandalism, and the erosion of time.
The Graveyard Book
Author: Neil Gaiman
Publisher: Harper Collins
Published: 2010-09-28
Total Pages: 338
ISBN-13: 0060530944
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIt takes a graveyard to raise a child. Nobody Owens, known as Bod, is a normal boy. He would be completely normal if he didn't live in a graveyard, being raised by ghosts, with a guardian who belongs to neither the world of the living nor the dead. There are adventures in the graveyard for a boy—an ancient Indigo Man, a gateway to the abandoned city of ghouls, the strange and terrible Sleer. But if Bod leaves the graveyard, he will be in danger from the man Jack—who has already killed Bod's family.
The Family Tree Cemetery Field Guide
Author: Joy Neighbors
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2017-10-20
Total Pages: 279
ISBN-13: 1440352143
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNot all research can be done from home--sometimes you have to head into the field. Cemeteries are crucial for any genealogist's search, and this book will show you how to search for and analyze your ancestors' graves. Discover tools for locating tombstones, tips for traipsing through cemeteries, an at-a-glance guide to frequently used gravestone icons, and practical strategies for on-the-ground research. And once you've returned home, learn how to incorporate gravestone information into your research, as well as how to upload grave locations to BillionGraves and record your findings in memorial pages on Find A Grave. • Detailed step-by-step guides to finding ancestors' cemeteries using websites like Find A Grave, plus how to record and preserve death and burial information • Tips and strategies for navigating cemeteries and finding individual tombstones in the field, plus an at-a-glance guide to tombstone symbols and iconography • Resources and techniques for discovering other death records and incorporating information from cemeteries into genealogical research
Cemeteries of the Smokies
Author: Joey Heath
Publisher:
Published: 2017-10-05
Total Pages: 704
ISBN-13: 9780937207925
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn in-depth guide to the more than 150 cemeteries in Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Includes cemetery locations, histories, list of burials, and cemetery preservation issues.
A Place Apart
Author: Helen R. Prillaman
Publisher: Genealogical Publishing Com
Published: 2009-06
Total Pages: 196
ISBN-13: 0806347066
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Williamson Road area, which was annexed by the city of Roanoke in 1949, was originally a part of Botetourt County and thereafter of the northern part of Roanoke County. "A Place Apart" traces the history, places, and families of the Williamson Road. The book begins with various sketches of Roanoke Valley pioneers and early land owners. The second part of the volume continues with sketches of families that arrived during the late 18th or early 19th century, including Barren, Bushong, Campbell, Cannaday, Fellers, Garst, Harshbarger, Huntingdon, Nelms, Nininger, Oliver, Petty, Read, Rudd, Stokes, Watts, and Williamson. Community leaders associated with the Roanoke Valley's recent history are treated elsewhere in the book.
Mortuary Monuments and Burial Grounds of the Historic Period
Author: Harold Mytum
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 2012-12-06
Total Pages: 308
ISBN-13: 1441990380
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis practical volume focuses on the study of historic burial ground monuments but also covers some below ground archaeology, as some projects will involve the study of both. It will be an incomparable source for academic archaeologists, cultural resource and heritage management archaeologists, government heritage agencies, and upper-level undergraduate and graduate students of archaeology focused on the historic or post-medieval period, as well as forensic researchers and anthropologists.
Family Reunion
Author: Jennifer Crichton
Publisher: Workman Publishing
Published: 1998-01-01
Total Pages: 292
ISBN-13: 9780761105855
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPresents information on four basic reunion types with tips on finding the perfect site, menus, geneology, and games, with sample activity programs and timetables
A Grave Situation
Author: Libby Howard
Publisher: Libby Howarad
Published: 2023-10-10
Total Pages: 218
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDavid Driver isn't the only one buried in his grave. Kay's friend Olive has a family feud on her hands over who should have inherited the only remaining plot in their family section of the cemetery. When a cousin finally gives in and agrees to relocate her son's casket the cemetery staff discover there's an extra body in the plot. Was the mysterious woman murdered by an ex-boyfriend? A family member seeking revenge? Was David's grave just a convenient spot to dispose of a body, or were the two connected in some way? When Olive asks for her help in solving the mystery Kay jumps in to assist, and in her quest to find the killer uncovers some long buried family secrets.
Death and Dying in Central Appalachia
Author: James K. Crissman
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 1994
Total Pages: 268
ISBN-13: 9780252063558
DOWNLOAD EBOOKJames Crissman explores cultural traits related to death and dying in Appalachian sections of Tennessee, Virginia, Kentucky, North Carolina, and West Virginia, showing how they have changed since the 1600s. Relying on archival materials, almost forty photographs, and interviews with more than 400 mountain dwellers, Crissman focuses on the importance of family and "neighborliness" in mountain society. Written for both scholarly and general audiences, the book contains sections on the death watch, body preparation, selection or construction of a coffin or casket, digging the grave by hand, the wake, the funeral, and other topics. Crissman then demonstrates how technology and the encroachment of American society have turned these vital traditions into the disappearing practices of the past.
