Author: Jehu Z. PowellPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cass County (Ind.)
Languages : en
Pages : 762
Book Description
History of Cass County Indiana
Author: Jehu Z. PowellPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cass County (Ind.)
Languages : en
Pages : 762
Book Description
Texas Graveyards
Author: Terry G. JordanPublisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 0292788436
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 287
Book Description
Where 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.
Native Cemeteries and Forms of Burial East of the Mississippi
Author: David Ives BushnellPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cemeteries
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
... Native Cemeteries and Forms of Burial East of the Mississippi
Author: David Ives Bushnell (Jr.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Indians of North America
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
NATIVE CEMETERIES AND FORMS OF BURIAL EAST OF MISSISSIPPI
Author: DAVID I. BUSHNELL The Searcher
Author: Haunted Cemeteries
Author: Tom OgdenPublisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1493036637
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 313
Book Description
Everybody knows better. Yet from the days of ancient Greece, people have hurried their steps as they passed by—or, heaven forbid, walked through—a cemetery after dark. Indeed, over the centuries there have been countless stories of ghost encounters at churchyards, secular cemeteries, ancient burial grounds, and isolated graves. The second edition of Haunted Cemeteries exhumes more than 200 haunted happenings from restless graveyard ghosts in cemeteries across each of the fifty states and Washington, DC, including: Nevermore!: At least four entities, including the spectre of Edgar Allan Poe, haunt Westminster Burying Ground in Baltimore. And just who is the mysterious Man in Black that shows up every year on January 19, the writer’s birthday?. The Resurrection Apparition: A “hitchhiking ghost” outside Justice, Illinois, vanishes from the car she’s riding in as it passes Resurrection Cemetery—earning her the nickname Resurrection Mary. The Queen of Voodoo: The restless spirit of Marie Laveau, the nineteenth-century Queen of Voodoo, is said to appear in New Orleans’s St. Louis Cemetery No. 1 in the form of a gigantic black crow or a phantom black hellhound—when she’s not walking through the French Quarter.
Texas Cemeteries
Author: Bill HarveyPublisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 0292779348
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
Winner, Journalistic Achievement Award, Texas Historical Foundation, 2004 From the simplest slab of weathered stone to the most imposing mausoleum, every marker in a Texas cemetery bears witness to a life that—in ways small or large—helped shape the history and culture of the state. Telling the stories of some of these significant lives is the purpose of this book. Within its pages, you'll meet not only the heroes of the Texas Revolution, for example, but also one of the great African American cowboys of the traildriving era (Bose Ikard) and the first woman in Texas elected to statewide office (Annie Webb Blanton). Visiting cemeteries from every era and all regions of the state, Bill Harvey recounts the histories of famous, infamous, and just plain interesting Texans who lie at rest in Texas cemeteries. The book is organized alphabetically by city for easy reference. For each city, Harvey lists one or more cemeteries, giving their location and history, if significant. At the heart of the book are his profiles of the noteworthy people buried in each cemetery. They include not only famous but also lesser-known and even unknown Texans who made important contributions to the state in the arts, sports, business, military service, politics—truly every area of communal life. For those who want to visit these resting places, Harvey also includes tips on finding cemeteries, locating gravesites, and taking good photographs. Spend time with him in the graveyards of Texas, and you'll soon appreciate what fascinating stories the silent stones can tell.
History of Cass County, Missouri
Author: Allen GlennHistory of Cass County, Illinois
Author: William Henry PerrinPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385475341
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 362
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1882.