Comments on: Eerie, but fascinating graveyards near my home in Bedford

By: john stockbridge

john stockbridge — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 23:29:30 +0000

Martha,

Would love to give you a tour, perhaps with a few Farmer's Club members!
Let me know.
Our committee is active, and restoration activities are beginning.

John
666-4745 (Historians office)
241-0407 (home)
turbo471@gmail.com (home e-mail)

By: Suzanne Riviere

Suzanne Riviere — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 00:00:50 +0000

Thanks Martha for sharing with all of us who have enjoyed your contribution to homemaking and history in your efforts to preserve and share what you've learned over the years. I've enjoyed your times with this since I was a new bride back in the 60's.

By: Jeanine

Jeanine — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 03:27:47 +0000

i believe the face in the stone of photo #40 is the deaths head angel.

By: Mary Collings

Mary Collings — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 16:32:44 +0000

My goodness, to think that those early ones have survived the weather, heat, and cold for so many years and still be as legible as they are. It's amazing! Thank you Martha for a fascinating peek. I also find graveyards fascinating and quite peaceful.

Karin - I'd love to see your spirit photos...could you post a link?

By: Karin

Karin — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 05:38:11 +0000

Should you be interested, I have an amazing photograph of a spirit walking towards me at the Old Bedford Cemetery. My favorite, also in Bedford is Buxton Cemetery. There you will find Russian royalty (perhaps they are responsible for the Egyptian Mau's found in Bedford?) This cemetery is v-e-r-y active. I even have a ghost dog(!) picture from there..... it's a most wonderful cemetery to walk around and enjoy. Thank you for sharing all your wonderful knowledge!

By: Holly G.

Holly G. — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 04:12:00 +0000

Thanks Martha! I sometimes thought my fiance' and myself were the only ones who enjoyed visiting cemeteries for their historical value! It is so interesting and beautiful and dark/spooky. Beautiful photography as well.

By: delia

delia — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 17:18:20 +0000

what an awesome blog! I have done my Genealogy for years and love cemeteries, we lived across an old Missouri cemetery once, and wished I had taken photos...I got to see my family crypts in Dresden Germany and then I discovered my paternal side where Americans, my Grandmother was Georgianna Ives from the clock/printer "Ives" Hartford Connecticut...someday I would like to go to their cemetery...they had a great deal to do with the establishment of the Colonies....love all the photos here, well done...great subject!

By: Mark in Chicago

Mark in Chicago — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 14:35:59 +0000

This was very interesting. Thank you!

By: Kandy Maharas

Kandy Maharas — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 21:59:13 +0000

My husband and I have had many fun times visitiing cemetaries as well. On Veteran's Day one year, we had the most interesting time when we heard a Civil War band play Civil War instruments and a speaker talked about the soldiers who were buried there, how they died and their tombstones. Fascinatiing history!

By: Felicia Salamendra-Dvornicky

Felicia Salamendra-Dvornicky — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 20:56:59 +0000

I enjoy going to old graveyards and reading the stones. It's amazing to see the dates of some of the oldest ones. We have a Confederate cemetery in Elmira, NY. We have a ghost named Walter who haunts the technology at our Community Arts Mansion, who appears to be a Confederate soldier. Phones and Fax machines go crazy because of him. I used to be an art teacher and had my students do grave stone rubbings. We have Mark Twain and his whole family in our cemetery.