Photo Essay

My post, Photo Monument: a photo essay, was posted over on the Online Journal of The Association of Graveyard Rabbits, where I served as online editor for a year.

Stop by if you have time. I share about the West Point Cemetery of Kingman County, Kansas.

Photo essay: A set or series of photographs that tell a story or evoke emotions in the viewer.

Died in Southsea England

I have been researching my family history 12 years. I have never crossed the pond in my research. Does anyone have any connections to Southsea England?

Learn more about Southsea over at Wikipedia.

Vinita Cemetery

Dibbens lot



Anna Dibbens
Info online leads me to believe this is a cenotaph



Arthur Dibbens

Gertrude Dibbens

I am a big fan of Ancestry.com. I've been a subscriber since 2000. I use it for my personal research and also for people I want to know more about.

I found a passport record from October 1919 for Arthur and Anna, which includes his photo. This is most likely the trip in which she died.

Also at Ancestry.com are the following:
[Not sure if you can see without a subscription]

Their home at this link.
Anna's photo [Anna Ruth Jarman]
Anna & Arthur's photo

There are many more links to records, like census, for this family. I sure wish I could find my family this easy.

Cross on a hill

I was reviewing the photos I had taken in this rural cemetery when I noticed the little symbol. To me it looks like a cross on a hill enclosed in the circle. Has anyone else seen this before?

Rago Cemetery

Calista
wife of
CB
Tripp
Jan 29
1861
Mar 8 1902

Stephen
Tripp
Dec 12
1819
Mar 10
1900

Not dead but gone before

Fred Thorne
Born Dec 15, 1887
Died Aug 29, 1903
Not dead but gone before

Upchurch Cemetery

Tombstone Photo of the Week

Pleasant Hill Cemetery

Tombstone Photo of the Week

Maud Cemetery

Tombstone Photo of the Week

Hunt Cemetery

Tombstone Photo of the Week

Rago Cemetery

Unknown

Mt. Vernon Cemetery

Resting

What a beautiful stone.
Walnut Hill Cemetery

Anna & T. C. "Mack" Settle

Lot with a view

This picture doesn't reveal the view very well but it looks out over the open Kansas plains. It is a very peaceful resting place.

Murdock Cemetery

Cemetery Walks

Take a walk - see more photos online.

Gypsum Hill Cemetery
Lebanon Cemetery
Murdock Cemetery
Mt. Calvary Cemetery
Mt. Vernon Cemetery
St. Rose Cemetery
Walnut Hill Cemetery

GYR or Bunny?

You decide.

Murdock Cemetery

Meet my new friends

I made some new friends at the cemetery today.

As I made my way down the row I noticed I had an audience.

 

I thought perhaps I'd spook them if I approached them and soon found out they were actually following me.

Hey lady, take my picture too!

Take mine first!

And as they left one turned to me and said "keep up the good work"

It's nice to be appreciated.

Walnut Hill Cemetery

I will wait

I know I saw this when I photographed this stone but last night it touched me.

Ben Clouse
St. Louis Cemetery

Annie lay me by the gate
and there I will wait
for you, Lillie and George

There are several family trees on Ancestry.com and there I found a little more information:

Ben: 1858 - 1934
Anna Margaret Biggs: 1872 - 1944
Lillie married John Fay: 1888 - ?
George: 1889 - 1957

St. Louis Cemetery Walk

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Take a walk - see more photos online.

Tombstone Photo of the Week

Hoosier Cemetery

Remembered

Hoosier Cemetery