Shadows of the Past

Shadows of the Past
Author: Sylvia H. Clark
Publisher:
Total Pages: 203
Release: 2005-01-01
Genre: Clarendon County (S.C.)
ISBN: 9781578643134

A Bradham Family History and Genealogy

A Bradham Family History and Genealogy
Author: Janet Bradham Brewster
Publisher:
Total Pages: 690
Release: 1986
Genre: Reference
ISBN:

Bradhams are believed to have arrived in South Carolina from Virginia or North Carolina before 1750. There is evidence that some of them, including James Randolph Bradham, whose descendants are the focus of this work, participated in the Revolutionary War with General Thomas Sumter and General Francis Marion. Bradham families documented by the author have resided chiefly in South Carolina, North Carolina, Florida, Georgia, Tennessee, Indiana, and Illinois.

What Lies Beneath

What Lies Beneath
Author: Cynthia Leal Massey
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 401
Release: 2021-08-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 1493048619

Unearth the Mysteries of Those Who Lie Beneath the Oldest Graveyards in the Lone Star State Texas, the second largest state, both in land mass and population, has more than 50,000 cemeteries, graveyards, and burial grounds. As the final resting places of those whose earthly journey has ended, they are also repositories of valuable cultural history. The pioneer cemeteries—those from the 19th century—provide a wealth of information on the people who settled Texas during its years as a Republic (1836-1845), and after it became the 28th state in 1845. In What Lies Beneath: Texas Pioneer Cemeteries and Graveyards, author Cynthia Leal Massey exhumes the stories of these pioneers, revealing the intriguing truth behind the earliest graveyards in the Lone Star State, including some of its most ancient. This guide also provides descriptions of headstone features and symbols, and demystifies the burial traditions of early Texas pioneers and settlers.

Haunted Cemeteries

Haunted Cemeteries
Author: Tom Ogden
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 313
Release: 2018-09-01
Genre: Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN: 1493036637

Everybody knows better. Yet from the days of ancient Greece, people have hurried their steps as they passed by—or, heaven forbid, walked through—a cemetery after dark. Indeed, over the centuries there have been countless stories of ghost encounters at churchyards, secular cemeteries, ancient burial grounds, and isolated graves. The second edition of Haunted Cemeteries exhumes more than 200 haunted happenings from restless graveyard ghosts in cemeteries across each of the fifty states and Washington, DC, including: Nevermore!: At least four entities, including the spectre of Edgar Allan Poe, haunt Westminster Burying Ground in Baltimore. And just who is the mysterious Man in Black that shows up every year on January 19, the writer’s birthday?. The Resurrection Apparition: A “hitchhiking ghost” outside Justice, Illinois, vanishes from the car she’s riding in as it passes Resurrection Cemetery—earning her the nickname Resurrection Mary. The Queen of Voodoo: The restless spirit of Marie Laveau, the nineteenth-century Queen of Voodoo, is said to appear in New Orleans’s St. Louis Cemetery No. 1 in the form of a gigantic black crow or a phantom black hellhound—when she’s not walking through the French Quarter.

Mortuary Monuments and Burial Grounds of the Historic Period

Mortuary Monuments and Burial Grounds of the Historic Period
Author: Harold Mytum
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 308
Release: 2012-12-06
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1441990380

This practical volume focuses on the study of historic burial ground monuments but also covers some below ground archaeology, as some projects will involve the study of both. It will be an incomparable source for academic archaeologists, cultural resource and heritage management archaeologists, government heritage agencies, and upper-level undergraduate and graduate students of archaeology focused on the historic or post-medieval period, as well as forensic researchers and anthropologists.