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The headstone was for the vintner Ebenezer Lennox Scroggie, a relative of Adam Smith, who had won the catering contract for the visit of George IV to Edinburgh and the first contract to supply whisky to the Royal Navy.
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By 1996, the cemetery and marker were in poor condition, but a new granite headstone was erected in 1997.
To commemorate the 250th anniversary of Euler's birth, the headstone was moved in 1956, together with his remains, to the 18th-century necropolis at the Alexander Nevsky Monastery.
The tomb was protected by two large stones-a headstone and a larger stone six feet ( 182 cm ) in length.
He had once quipped that he wanted his headstone to bear the words " I told you I was ill ." He was buried at St Thomas's cemetery but the Chichester diocese refused to allow this epitaph.
According to a letter published in the Rye and Battle Observer, Milligan's headstone was removed from St Thomas's churchyard following the burial of his wife Shelagh.
The roof of St. Patrick's Cathedral was made of roofing slate from Monson, as is the headstone of John F. Kennedy.
In 2012 the original burial place was officially recognised with a new headstone.
For many years it was accepted that she was born in the city of Limerick, as she herself claimed, possibly on 23 June 1818 ; this year was graven on her headstone, which seemed to make it the literal ' last word '.
Usually, the more writing and symbols carved on the headstone, the more expensive it was.
They have Wanda buried with a headstone bearing the name she was born with, Alvin Mann, dressed in a suit and with her hair cut short.
In a column on Mitchell's death William Safire wrote, " His friend Richard Moore, in a eulogy, noted that near Mitchell's grave in Arlington National Cemetery was the headstone of Colonel Gregory " Pappy " Boyington, a Medal of Honor recipient, who used to call Mitchell yearly to thank him for saving his life.
It was an era when many headstone, memorials and wayside crosses were erected.
His headstone was originally in Belgrade, but is now found in Edirne, the second capital of Ottoman Empire.
Murphy's headstone was smashed in 1989 and had to be replaced.
A tall headstone marked Mary A. Stampfli 1821-1867 was placed above her grave.
His headstone was later erected that year by Irish members of the 8th New Hampshire Infantry Regiment, then encamped in Thibodaux.
Though Chief Kanosh still has a headstone in an honored location of the city cemetery, it was not until 1929 that the U. S. Government granted official recognition of the tribe and deeded them a small reserve near their ancestral lands at Corn Creek.
A granite headstone was added later.
Plath's headstone is regularly vandalised by removing Hughes's surname from the memorial, because some of her fans believe he was responsible for her death.
He was originally interred at Angelus Rosedale Cemetery in Los Angeles, but was moved by his wife, Geraldine Tatum, to the Great Mausoleum of Glendale's Forest Lawn Cemetery in 1991, so she could ultimately be buried next to him, although his headstone was left at Rosedale to commemorate where he was first laid to rest.
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No one claimed him, so a carnival took his body, mummified it, and toured all over the South with him, calling him the “ The Famous Mummy Man .” McLean ’ s song inspired radio station WGN in Chicago to tell the story and give the song airplay in order to raise money for a headstone for Anderson McCrew ’ s grave.
George Ville calculated an average age at death at 27 for gladiators ( based on headstone evidence ), with mortality " among all who entered the arena " around the 1st century CE at 19 / 100.
Marcus Junkelmann disputes Ville's calculation for average age at death ; the majority would have received no headstone, and would have died early in their careers, at 18 – 25 years of age.
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As with most other human property such as houses and means of transport, richer families used to compete for the artistic value of their family headstone in comparison to others around it, sometimes adding a statue ( such as a weeping angel ) on the top of the grave.
Those who could not pay for a headstone at all usually had some religious symbol made from wood on the place of burial such as a Christian cross ; however, this would quickly deteriorate under the rain or snow.
Coming upon a graveyard, Alan notices a headstone for a stranger named George Staub ( Staub is German and means dust ): " Well Begun, Too Soon Done.
In 1994 at the urging of writer Dick Waterman, Raitt funded the replacement of a headstone for one of her mentors, blues guitarist Fred McDowell through the Mt.
The Javanese majority of Indonesia are known for their pre-Islamic Kejawen traditions of washing the headstone using scented water from the traditional terracotta water-jug, the kendi, and sprinkling hyacinth and jasmine over the graves.
A headstone paid for by Bonnie Raitt was erected by the Mt.
Wooden headstone for two of the British soldiers killed at Ohaeawai, preserved at Te Waimate mission
The headstone, which features a portrait relief, was paid for and erected by the Royal Scottish Academy.
A memorial headstone, designed by the local architect Robert Burn, for Fergusson's grave was privately commissioned in 1787 by Robert Burns and paid for at his own expense.
As with most other human property such as houses and means of transport, richer families used to compete for the artistic value of their family headstone in comparison to others around it, sometimes adding a statue ( such as a weeping angel ) on the top of the grave.
Those who could not pay for a headstone at all usually had some religious symbol made from wood on the place of burial such as a Christian cross ; however, this would quickly deteriorate under the rain or snow.
This is the current headstone for Doc Holliday.
His headstone is a replica of an award he received in 1972 for International Guitarist of the Year.
Tunku caused a search to be made for her grave, and when it was found, totally neglected, he raised enough to meet the cost of providing a white marble covering and an inscribed headstone.
* In " The Night that Terror Stalked the Town ", Loveless has a headstone prepared for West, showing his birthdate as July 2, 1842 87 years before the birth of Robert Conrad.
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Smith and Dale are buried in the same cemetery plot, with a common headstone.
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Families of the deceased who could afford the work of a stonemason had a headstone carved and set up over the place of burial with an indication of the name of the deceased, date of death and sometimes other biographical data.
Meeker City Hall has a museum dedicated to Carl Hubbell, who is buried in the town's New Hope Cemetery in a grave with a simple headstone.
Families of the deceased who could afford the work of a stonemason had a headstone carved and set up over the place of burial with an indication of the name of the deceased, date of death and sometimes other biographical data.
He was buried in Guillemont Road Cemetery, where his headstone is inscribed ' Small time but in that small most greatly lived this star of England ', a concluding line from Shakespeare's " Henry V ", about a warrior king who had died in his thirties after campaigns in France.
The headstone of Dorothy LoudonLoudon was married to Norman Paris, a composer who wrote the theme song for the television game show I've Got a Secret and arranged the music for Stephen Sondheim's television musical Evening Primrose, from 1971 until his death in 1977.
He was buried in an unmarked grave until 2004 when Peoria, Illinois anesthesiologist Jeremy Krock contacted members of the Society for American Baseball Research to try and get a proper headstone on the grave of Crutchfield, who originally comes from the same town as Krock.
In the Roman Catholic parish church of St Patrick's there is a headstone remembering the large number of people who died in the parish during the Famine.
Erin, who apparently came to visit the graves of both Alex and her sister, puts the necklace that bonded her and Alex on his headstone before leaving as she explains her renewed sense of mortality in a voice-over.
* Robert Buie was a local resident who fought in WW1, and his headstone in the Brooklyn cemetery credits him with shooting down Manfred von Richthofen, the German air ace who is more commonly known as the " Red Baron ".
In 1986 the location of the grave was re-discovered by Ron Buddle, a Metropolitan Policeman and Victoria Cross historian, who with financial assistance from the Kings Regimental Association erected the present headstone.
He was buried in the Old Ballarat Cemetery near those who had died in the Eureka rebellion, a headstone was erected by the people of Ballarat.
After Doc Hostetler sells Books something to ease his pain and advises him not to die a death like he has described, Books bargains with someone who plans to profit from his death, the undertaker Hezekiah Beckum ( John Carradine ), from whom he orders a headstone with specific writings on it.
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