Maple Park Cemetery was founded as a rural cemetery, a style of cemetery that became very popular starting in the nineteenth century. Rural cemeteries have park-like, landscaped grounds where people may come and enjoy nature. Cemetery visitors are encouraged to picnic on the lawns, take long walks around the grounds, and enjoy the architecture and scenery. Rural cemeteries are … [Read more...] about Maple Park Cemetery Gravestones: Researched, Conserved, Reconstructed, and Reset by Samantha Jester
The Union Campground Cemetery was established in 1840, and the graves in this integrated cemetery include people from all levels of wealth and status. Slaves and the poor marked their family graves here with rough fieldstones and sometimes with molded concrete grave markers, while people of more wealth erected monuments of local limestone and sandstone that were carved in … [Read more...] about Union Campground Cemetery Gravestones: Researched, Conserved, Reconstructed, and Reset by Jordan Davis and Sharlee Gunther
The Union Campground Cemetery was established and used from the 1840 through 1920. After the last burial, the cemetery was gradually forgotten and fell into neglect until it was rediscovered in 1992 by the founders of the Union Campground Cemetery Association, an organization that is dedicated to restoring and preserving the cemetery. As with most cemeteries, gravestones in … [Read more...] about Gravestones in the Union Campground Cemetery: Researched by Paige Whitcomb and Tana Redman
Nineteenth-century gravestones, like those in the Union Campground Cemetery, use a great deal of symbolic imagery to convey meaning about the deceased and the sentiments of their families and friends. A prevalent 19th-century symbol exists in the pair of clasped hands on Jane C. Caldwell’s gravestone. This symbol is interpreted by many sources as a goodbye, where the living … [Read more...] about Gravestone Images in the Union Campground Cemetery: Researched and Conserved by Jasmine Currey
The main purpose of a gravesite is to provide a resting place, but it is also to provide a place where family and friends can visit and show respect to the deceased. Styles of graves and gravestones can vary in style due to income, social class, location, religious beliefs, and time period. Thomas Patterson Ellison’s grave is the oldest in the Union Campground Cemetery, and … [Read more...] about Gravestone Shapes and Types of Graves in the Union Campground Cemetery: Researched and Conserved by Emma Schupbach