Graveyards

Good Evening,
I’m just in the process of closing down my “Graveyard Rabbit” blog and have moved all the files here to “Echo Hill Ancestors.”  This will allow me to be more focused on my family history and developing this blog and all the entries.  Everything moved here from the Graveyard Rabbit blog will be found [...]

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Barkerville, British Columbia, Canada

The other night I was browsing through some of our old photo albums and what should fall out but some old pictures of a graveyard in British Columbia Canada! Mr. Ed and I took the pictures about 25 years ago on a camping trip, put them in our album and stashed it on a bookshelf. [...]

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Edminster Cemetery

Good Evening,
Edminster Cemetery is located near the village of Cornish in New Hampshire and though it seems to be out in the country a good distance it’s well maintained and still in use. It contains both historic graves as well as some quite recent. The Edminsters buried in this cemetery are descended from John Edminsteire [...]

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Journey to Pine Grove

 

 
Pine Grove Cemetery, Arbela Michigan
 
Tonight I want to share with you one man’s journey into genealogy and family history via the gravesite of his great-great-grandfather. Dale Leach, my husband’s cousin wrote the following personal story of this very tender part of his life.
By way of explanation, Pine Grove Cemetery can be found in the little [...]

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The Gravestones of St. Alfege

In the Village of Greenwich, England, UK, located just south of London across the Thames you’ll find the Parish Church of Greenwich, known as St. Alfege with St. Peter. A little history: Alfege was the Archbishop of Canterbury when in the year 1011 it came under seige from the Danes and Alfege was captured. He [...]

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Edinburgh Castle’s Dog Cemetery

Several years ago when Mr. Ed and I were traveling about in the British Isles we visited Edinburgh Castle, a truly amazing place. And being true to the nature of a “Graveyard Rabbit” we found the Dog Cemetery especially fascinating. It seems that the castle (which was a fortress after all) was for periods of [...]

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Stone Coffins and a Tomb

Although the Association of Graveyard Rabbits didn’t exist ten years ago, Mr. Ed and I, like many of you, were visiting graveyards whenever we had the chance. Lo and behold as I was wandering through an old photo album/scrapbook about our trip to the British Isles in 1999 there were pictures of several graveyards interspersed [...]

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Graveyard Boo-Boos

As a genealogist and keeper of the family history I’m always excited to discover the graves of ancestors, especially if I’m attempting to ascertain their death date. Cemetery stones so often give that information, plus other family members might be listed…. but of course you’re already aware of that. The tricky part comes when information [...]

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The Rock of Cashel

About 10 years ago Mr. Ed and I went “across the pond” to  the British Isles for a month and among the places we visited was The Rock of Cashel in County Tipperary, Ireland. The “rock” is a marvelous place and “must see” for anyone traveling in Ireland.  We had decided to do our trip [...]

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A New Blog to Peruse….

Hello Everyone,
It’s Friday night and as the week winds down I wanted to let you know that I’ve opened a new blog. It’s called “The Graveyard Rabbit of North Snohomish County” and is dedicated to the study of graveyards, their stones, and all other related material. I’ve posted a couple of articles and [...]

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