Fascinating Old Cemetery Treasures.......photos

16 years ago

Hello fellow roselovers!

This post is a follow-up of sorts to my last post about some of the wonderful old roses we have found in old cemeteries. We don't often find surviving old roses in the numerous cemeteries we visit but we still find many interesting discoveries and I wanted to share a few of them with you all. This is to show that when you set off in search of old roses, you often find intriguing history and unexpected surprises instead of roses....and you feel rewarded just the same.

Celeste

WE WERE OUT LATE EXPLORING, AND CAME UPON THIS RURAL CEMETERY JUST AS THE SUN WAS SETTING....

I HAD SEEN THIS BUTTERFLY FLOATING ABOUT THE GRAVEYARD AND FOLLOWED IT UNTIL IT LANDED FOR A BRIEF SECOND....I SNAPPED THE PICTURE THEN IT FLEW OFF....

WE WERE EXPLORING THE OLD NORTH CEMETERY IN OUR CAPITOL CITY OF CONCORD, NH AND CAME UPON THIS MARKER AND THEN THE GRAVESITE OF OUR 14TH PRESIDENT....FRANKLIN PIERCE....

THIS TOMBSTONE WAS IN A VERY OLD CEMETERY AND THE DATE INSCRIBED WAS 1789....THIS WAS A GRAVE OF A CHILD AND THIS IS HIS CARVED LIKENESS...

WE WERE WANDERING AROUND A SMALL CHURCHYARD CEMETERY AND CAME UPON SEVERAL GRAVE MARKERS WITH THE FIRST NAME OF "THANKFUL"....ALL WOMEN. I COUNTED 9 DIFFERENT STONES WITH THANKFUL AS THE FIRST NAME....IN A VERY SMALL GRAVEYARD. I GUESS BACK IN THE EARLY TO MID-1800'S, THE PEOPLE OF THAT TINY TOWN HAD A LOT TO BE THANKFUL FOR!!

O.K...HERE IS A EERIE PHOTO THAT I SAVED FOR LAST....

IT WAS GETTING DARK AND DH AND I WANDERED AROUND THIS OLD CEMETERY LOOKING AT TOMBSTONES, FOUND NO ROSES, AND PROCEEDED TO LEAVE. BEFORE I LEFT, I SNAPPED SEVERAL PHOTOS OF THIS CEMETERY AND WENT HOME AND UPLOADED THEM.

THIS PHOTO WAS THE ONLY ONE TO HAVE THE GLOWING ROUND BALL IN THE SKY. I HAVE TAKEN LITERALLY THOUSANDS OF PHOTOS AND NEVER HAD THIS APPEAR. NOT TO MENTION THERE WERE NO HOUSES AROUND, NO CAR (WE WERE ON THE MOTORCYCLE), AND ALL AROUND WAS COMPLETELY DENSE WOODS SO I DON'T KNOW HOW THIS COULD BE A REFLECTION. THE SUN HAD ALREADY SET AND WAS BEHIND THE MOUNTAINS AND THERE WAS ONLY WHAT LITTLE NATURAL LIGHT THAT REMAINED. IT WAS NOT RAINING, EITHER, SO ITS NOT A WATER DROPLET. I THOUGHT THIS PHOTO WAS INTERESTING, SINCE THE GLOWING ORB IS RIGHT OVER A GRAVE.

I AM SURE SOMEONE WILL OFFER UP A PROBABLE EXPLANATION, BUT I PREPER TO THINK IT WAS A SPIRIT MAKING ITS PRESENCE KNOWN. I ALWAYS SAY A PRAYER FOR THE DEPARTED SOULS WHENEVER I AM IN CEMETERIES....PERHAPS I WAS HEARD?

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garden_party
16 years ago
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Celeste, that is very interesting. It's a little spookie too!

- Lois
sandy808
16 years ago
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Celeste, thank you for sharing. The photo with the glowing ball is fascinating. Even if some people do not believe in an afterlife, we still have a basic law of physics that scientists recognize (and that we were taught in high school), that "matter can be neither created nor destroyed". If we consider that water can change into different forms, such as ice and water vapor (which we cannot always see, but is there), I don't think it's too far fetched to believe that our life force changes into another form. Life is a form of energy.

I'd like to think that the departed soul wanted to let you know it heard your prayer. Too bad there weren't any roses to take cuttings from.

Sandy
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grnthumber
16 years ago
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Thanks for the pictures, Celeste. I have always enjoyed visiting older cemeteries in the past--your posts are rekindling my determination to start again.
Krista_5NY
16 years ago
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Very interesting pics, thanks for sharing.

A few years ago I visited the President Coolidge Historic Site in Vermont, and it was a wonderful place to visit.
veilchen
16 years ago
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Very interesting! I love exploring old cemetaries around New England too.
zeffyrose
16 years ago
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Celeste---How did I miss this post? It is wonderful

I love the last one-----very interesting.

Florence
celeste/NH
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16 years ago
last modified: 9 years ago
Hi all,

We went to a small town cemetery today looking for roses and were lucky enough to find some Scotch rosebushes on a grave site. These had the largest hips we have ever seen on any of the Scotches, and the suspense of waiting till next June to see the bushes bloom so we can I.D. it will be excruciating!

Anyways....
we came upon this very unusual gravestone today and it was something I wanted to share here. It was the first grave marker for a HORSE that we have encountered. And not just any horse! Look at this.....

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Celeste
veilchen
16 years ago
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That must have been one special horse!
pagan
16 years ago
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cool pix and stories! there are several old cemetaries locally that I like to explore... My favorite is the Unitarian Church Graveyard, resting place of the famous Annbelle Lee, lost love of Poe. The story goes that Poe loved her, but since she was only 14 her family shut her up in a room to keep them apart... she died soon after and was buried anonymously in the graveyard. The family did not want Poe to come to her grave to mourn her (or dig her up!) so they did not mark the site... This is also known as the Garden Cemetary and is supposed to be the most haunted graveyard in Charleston!
zeffyrose
16 years ago
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Celeste-----you found another treasure-----You have no idea how much I'm enjoying all your discoveries-----

How about a book ???? I'm sure lots of people would find it very interesting--

"Roses and Headstones"--------put my name on the list

Pagan-----that is a sad story-----I wish I had explored some graveyards when I lived in Charleston

Thanks,
Florence

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