Cemetery Histories
Cemeteries, Gravyards, Churchyards, Boneyards, God's Acres, Marble Gardens, and so on...
Graveyards go by many a name--after all, not all of them even have gravestones! So what is in a name, really? Why is this burial ground where it is and what it is? Where did it come from? Who started it? These are the types of questions we will be focusing on here when looking into...
The Cemetery Histories
Taking a step back from our individual and family Grave Histories, let us better understand the context where our interred are. Whether it is those random gravestones by the side of the street or a delicately designed columbarium and garden, these spaces themselves have stories too. There is so much history to add to...
Our Beloved Dead
If you had any worry that we have drifted away from the individual Grave Histories, don't worry, you can still find them here!
Christ Church Churchyard
Church of the Holy Comforter Cloister
Old City Cemetery (Channing Street Cemetery)
Graveyard of the Lady Elgin Unknown
Graveyard of the Lady Elgin Unknown, Highland Park, IL (est. pre-1860)
Photograph from The Chicago Sunday Tribune, 26 March 1899 (p. C1)
Moederkerk Stellenbosch grafkelder & gedenkmure
Moederkerk Stellenbosch, Stellenbosch, South Africa (est. 1801)
Calvary Cemetery
Calvary Cemetery, Evanston, IL (est. 1859)
Old Helena Cemetery
Old Helena Cemetery, Town of Wyoming, Iowa Co., Wisconsin (est. 1850c.)
Rawlings Cemetery
Rawlings Cemetery, Parke Co., Indiana (est. 1830c.)
Wunder's Cemetery
Wunder's Cemetery, Chicago, IL (est. 1859)
St. Joseph Cemetery
St. Joseph Cemetery, Wilmette, IL (est. 1843)
Illinois State Training School Cemetery
Illinois State Training School Cemetery (a.k.a. Geneva Girls' School Cemetery), Geneva, IL (est. 1894)
Graceland Cemetery
Graceland Cemetery, Chicago, IL (est. 1860)