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Funeral and Cemetery Evolution
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New American
Victorian/Rural Cemeteries
Rosehill Cemetery
So how did we
go from here
Cremation More Common in U.S.
Oakdale Cemetery
Magnolia Cemetery
Hollywood Cemetery (left)
"Golden
Age of Death"
To here?
1975- 10%
2016- 42%
2020- 50%
England- 90%
Cremation Cost:
$2,000 vs $10,000
1849- Hollywood Cemetery, Richmond, Va.
1850- Magnolia Cemetery,Charleston
1855- Oakdale Cemetery, Wilmington, N.C.
1859- Rosehill Cemetery, Chicago
England's Queen Victoria
(reign from 1837-1901)
Magnolia Cemetery
Founded 1850
Paris
Catacombs
(My 2017 Visit)
The Victorian Era
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victorian_era
My 2008 Photo Montage
America's
Traditions
My 2010 Video:
http://mybirdseyeviews.blogspot.com/2017/06/paris-pinching-yes-im-really-here.html
Paris' Old and Influential Cemeteries: Pere-Lachaise and Montparnasse
European Influences
African Influences
http://mybirdseyeviews.blogspot.com/2017/06/old-paris-cemeteries-exude-unique.html
My 2015 "Best of" Video
William Ashmead Courtenay Bust
U.S & US
Have Changed
--Mobile America
--Transient Society
--Industrial Age
--Urban Growth
--Less Religious
https://www.apnews.com/f15241378057486ea437cad490a2ed67
--Wars and their
atrocious death
rates
--Death less
"romanticized"
--Cost concerns
--Cremations on the rise
Circular Congregational Church (1681)
150 Meeting St.
http://www.circularchurch.org/graveyard
"Funeral" and
"Cemetery" Word Origins
"Funeral"- Latin for torch
Timeline: The History of Funerals
http://thefuneralsource.org/history.html
Slaves Brought Burial Customs Africa to the U.S.
Human Body "Disposal"
1. Burial
2. Burn/Cremation
3. Donate to science
https://aaregistry.org/story/slaves-brought-burial-customs-from-africa-to-the-united-states/
- http://superbeefy.com/where-did-the-word-funeral-come-from-and-what-does-funeral-mean-in-latin/
"Cemetery"
Greek for "place of rest"
Other Burial Sites
--Public Cemeteries
--Private Cemeteries
--Military/Veterans Cemeteries
--Family Cemeteries
--"Customary" Cemeteries
(p. 56, "Stories in Stone")
--Lodge Cemeteries
--Ethnic Cemeteries
A dolmen, also known as a cromlech, portal tomb, portal grave or quoit, is a type of single-chamber megalithic tomb, usually consisting of two or more megaliths supporting a large flat horizontal capstone ("table"), although there are also more complex variants. Stonehenge in England is best known dolmen example.
Bethel AME Church of North Santee
Kahal Kadosh Beth Elohim Cemetery (KKBE)
Charleston
Fascinating Funeral Traditions Around the Globe
http://ideas.ted.com/11-fascinating-funeral-traditions-from-around-the-globe/
"Graveyard" vs.
"Cemetery"
Interchange-able words?
Graveyards are at churches.
Cemeteries are everywhere else.
Graveyards are also called "churchyards"
Indonesia (above)
Madagascar (right)