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In the News (Wed 25 Nov 09)

  
  Crown Hill Connection
The Genealogical Society of Marion County has formed an alliance with Crown Hill Cemetery: Crown Hill has given us permission to publish many of the records they have in their files.
The History of Indianapolis is tied into the history of Crown Hill Cemetery and many records of genealogical value are in these files.
It is the 4th largest cemetery in the nation.
ourworld.compuserve.com /homepages/family123/CrownHil.htm   (392 words)

  
 Crown Hill Cemetery   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Crown Hill Cemetery was established in 1864, 44 years after the founding of Indianapolis.
Crown Hill is the highest point in Indianapolis, and affords a great view of the city skyline.
The cemetery offers educational programs and tours throughout the year, and is also home to the Indiana AIDS Memorial and the Anatomical Gift Memorial, which honors those who donate their corpses to Indiana University.
www.theinternetisboring.com /crownhill.htm   (267 words)

  
 Crown Hill National Cemetery   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
This cemetery is under the supervision of Marion National Cemetery.
Cemetery policies are conspicuously posted and readily visible to the public.
The Department of Veterans Affairs does not permit adornments that are considered offensive, inconsistent with the dignity of the cemetery, or considered hazardous to cemetery personnel.
www.cem.va.gov /nchp/crownhill.htm   (452 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Crown Hill Cemetery is located in the Northwest area of Seattle, at the top of Crown Hill.
Crown Hill Cemetery is a privately-owned, endowed cemetery, where the life and spirit of a loved one can be memorialized.
Crown Hill Cemetery provides a beautiful and peaceful setting for families and their chosen form of permanent and perpetual memorialization.
www.crownhillcemetery.us   (244 words)

  
 Indiana Regiments   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
The soldier's remains were removed to Section 32 in Crown Hill Cemetery, and buried in a mass grave.
Crown Hill Cemetery is the nation's third largest cemetery, located 2.8 miles northwest of downtown Indianapolis.
Crown Hill was incorporated as a nonprofit, nondenominational cemetery on September 25, 1863, at a time when, as mentioned above, Greenlawn Cemetery was the principal burial ground in the city.
www.indianainthecivilwar.com /prisoners/indy/crown.htm   (510 words)

  
 Marker Descriptions, Seriation Exercise
Cemeteries like Crown Hill were introduced in the nineteenth century as spaces in which the dead could be memorialized.
Crown Hill includes the highest point in Indianapolis, known as the "Crown," where writer James Whitcomb Riley was buried in 1917.
This public dimension of cemeteries fueled rapid changes and continual innovation in grave marker style because it was understood that markers would be very public representations of the dead and, by extension, their living families and friends.
www.iupui.edu /~anthpm/markers.html   (2227 words)

  
 Crown Hill: Time stands still in tranquil cemetery   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
At the Crown Hill Cemetery, established in 1903 by a group of Ballard citizens, owner John Miller presides over what is surely Crown Hill's most tranquil spot.
On a recent morning, after escorting an elderly gentleman to the grave of a former neighbor, Miller took some time to discuss how he came to be president of Crown Hill's Chamber of Commerce, which hasn't met in a year.
Asked to describe Crown Hill, a region he represents on the neighborhood planning council, Miller quips: "It is a suburb of the great metropolis of Ballard."
seattlepi.nwsource.com /neighbors/crownhill/ceme30.html   (316 words)

  
 Find A Grave - Crown Hill Cemetery
He was cofounder of the Urban League of Indianapolis, chief steward of the Indianapolis 500-Mile Race and the former head of Indiana National Bank.
At age 8 years and two months, he was enlisted as a musician in Company L of the 21st Indiana Volunteer Infantry, one of the first three-year enlistment regiments from the state.
Served as the Mayor of Indianapolis, Indiana, from 1901 to 1903, and 1906 to 1910.
www.findagrave.com /php/famous.php?page=cem&FScemeteryid=84781   (894 words)

  
 The City of Salem, Indiana - Crown Hill Cemetery
Established in 1824, Crown Hill Cemetery is located on the southwest edge of the City of Salem.
Crown Hill Cemetery presently occupies over 90 acres which provide the necessary area for future cemetery expantion and development.
Saint Patrick's Catholic Cemetery, which was established in 1857, is also located adjacent to the northeast corner of the cemetery property.
www.cityofsalemin.com /departments/cemetery-2.html   (274 words)

  
 Descendents of Barnard (Barney) O'Donnell - odog03.htm - Generated by Personal Ancestral File
She was buried in 1944 in Crown Hill Cemetery, Indianapolis, IN Sec 44.
George was buried in 1920 in Crown Hill Cemetery, Indianapolis, IN Sec 44.
She was buried in Crown Hill Cemetery, Indianapolis, IN; Marion County..
www.barneyodonnell.com /web/descenden/odog03.htm   (1023 words)

  
 CITY OF TWINSBURG, OHIO   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Wrentmore stated that the cemetery was classified and zoned as public facility but now it is turning into a business and is a different type of use.
Blessing stated that the mausoleum and the cemetery are one entity and the funeral home is by itself.
This is not for the sole purpose of Crown Hill Cemetery.
www.twinsburg.oh.us /Boards/ZA/Meetings/2002/Minutes/za080702m.htm   (1661 words)

  
 CANOE Travel - USA - Ode to presidents, poets & robbers   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
About 25 miles of road and 4,000 trees lie within Crown Hill, which, at 555 acres, is one of the largest cemeteries in the country.
Crown Hill is the third largest non-government cemetery in the United States.
Atop the cemetery's crown is the Greek revival-style grave marker of James Whitcomb Riley, the Indiana-born poet who created the characters Old Aunt Mary, The Raggedy Man and Little Orphant Annie.
www.canoe.ca /Travel/USA/CentralUSA/2005/10/24/1276641-ap.html   (1324 words)

  
 Cyndi's List - Cemeteries & Funeral Homes
Cemeteries of Illinois and Wisconsin by county and township.
CD-ROMs of cemeteries in Livingston County, Missouri and the surrounding counties.
Cemetery Inscriptions from Eastern Cemetery in Louisville, Kentucky.
www.cyndislist.com /cemetery.htm   (4063 words)

  
 Crown Hill: From farmlands, a community grows   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
"Crown Hill is like pornography," says John Miller, owner of Crown Hill's historic cemetery and president of the community's listless chamber of commerce.
But there is no town center in Crown Hill, no strong identity, or sense of character.
Today, Crown Hill's residential areas are peaceful and quiet, its yards well-tended.
seattlepi.nwsource.com /neighbors/crownhill   (809 words)

  
 Marking of the Confederate graves   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
On October 3rd 1993 a four year project was completed when a monument was dedicated to 1,616 Confederate soldiers and sailors at Crown Hill Cemetery in Indianapolis, Indiana.
Years later when bodies were removed from this cemetery to make way for industrialization, the first monument to the Rebels was removed to a city park.
Several years later, the bodies of the Confederates were moved to Crown Hill Cemetery, without their monument.
www.geocities.com /CapitolHill/6265/marking.htm   (367 words)

  
 The City of Salem, Indiana - Crown Hill Cemetery - Cemetery Sexton
Since being assigned to the cemetery, approximately four new additions, totaling 8,000 grave spaces, have been platted.
Crown Hill Cemetery offers services including Mowing, Opening Graves, Pouring Foundations, Repairing Broken Stones, and Managing Lot Sales.
Crown Hill Cemetery — Directions to Cemetery — Burial Database — Cemetery Layout Map
www.cityofsalemin.com /departments/cemetery.html   (191 words)

  
 Ken Long & Associates V3.0: 2005 Jason M. Baker Public Safety Scholarship Run & Walk   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Founded in 1863, Crown Hill Cemetery is Indiana's largest cemetery and the third largest non-government cemetery in the nation with over 190,000 burials.
Thousands of visitors tour Crown Hill each year to enjoy the peaceful beauty of the grounds, study the exquisite architecture of the buildings (Gothic Chapel, 1875), sculpture, historic Gothic gate (1885), and to visit the burial sites of Indiana's most notable citizens.
New in 2004 is the "Field of Valor," Crown Hill's newest veteran's section and mausoleum, to be dedicated on Veteran's Day (November 11).
www.kenlongassoc.com /baker05.htm   (1101 words)

  
 Taphophilia (dot) Com - Vandals hit Crown Hill memorial   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Police were seething today after the discovery of vandalism on a 1-1/2-year-old memorial at Crown Hill Cemetery meant to honor fallen law enforcement and firefighters.
At 550 acres it is one of the nation's largest cemeteries.
Crown Hill workers cleaned up the paint today and believe the damage probably occurred during normal operating hours on Sunday.
www.taphophilia.com /modules.php?name=News&file=print&sid=565   (315 words)

  
 Crown Hill Park   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Crown Hill Park specializes in the latter, with 242 mostly-wild acres wedged between Wheatridge and Lakewood.
The Crown Hill Cemetery Tower of Memories (8500 W 29th Ave) towers over the cemetery and adjacent park.
This seven-story mausoleum, whose construction spread over 60 years, features an entrance hall with a pictorial history of the cemetery, a chapel, and the metro area's first multi-tiered mausoleum.
www.bikepaths.com /trails/CrownHill.html   (473 words)

  
 Cemetery Department
Orr Cemetery is the original cemetery started around the 1870s, and is located on the corner of North Mill Street and East Church Street.
The current operating cemetery is Crown Hill Cemetery, which was opened in the early 1900s.
It is located at the corner of North Crown Hill Road and West High Street.
www.orrville.com /DEPT/CEMETERY.HTM   (93 words)

  
 Jon Hahn: At Crown Hill Cemetery they work in peace   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Legend has it that in 1916, he was buried upright, according to directions he left after committing suicide, sitting in his wheelchair, in the mausoleum he built for himself in the tiny Crown Hill Cemetery.
And after studying possible purchase of the Crown Hill Cemetery for a group of investors who later backed away, he opted to take the leap himself.
While John is waxing mellow about his "little country park" of a cemetery, Tony is feeding "Lily," the local cat who adopted them several months ago and now makes their tiny frame bungalow office her home as well.
seattlepi.nwsource.com /neighbors/crownhill/hahn.html   (1119 words)

  
 Event Details   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
The race is a 5-mile run and 3-mile walk through Crown Hill Cemetery on NEW courses.
Both courses are very scenic and the running course includes "THE HILL," which is the highest hill (842 ft.) in Marion County and the resting place of the famous Hoosier Poet, James Whitcomb Riley.
The race-day entrance to Crown Hill Cemetery is at 700 West 38th Street and is located off of 38th Street and Clarendon Road.
www.active.com /event_detail.cfm?event_id=1039547   (590 words)

  
 Crown Hill Cemetery   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Crown Hill is a perpetual record of yesterday - a history of people.
It is a sanctuary of today, paying tribute to the life - not the death of a loved one.
Crown Hill belongs to the people we serve and will continue to be a timeless tradition for families of all faiths.
www.crown-hill.com /intro.htm   (199 words)

  
 CITY OF TWINSBURG   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Schiffer, Chairman called the Public Hearing for Crown Hill Cemetery for a temporary trailer approval to order at 7:07 PM.
Finch stated that the temporary construction trailer is located in a public facility district at Crown Hill Cemetery on Darrow Road.
Alan Fisher representing Crown Hill Cemetery displayed the site plan indicating the location of the two structures and noted where the trailer would be located.
www.twinsburg.oh.us /Boards/PC/Meetings/2001/Minutes/pc110501m.htm   (2852 words)

  
 Crown Hill Cemetery, Coldwater, Comanche County, Ks>
The southern entrance of Crown Hill Cemetery in winter.
The Original Coldwater Cemetery "It now appears that our present cemetery, consisting of 40 acres, has been proven up by some unscrupulous party and sold, so it cannot be used longer as a cemetery." -- The Western Star, 9 July 1887.
Detail from a July 1, 1980 USGS topographical map of Comanche County, Ks, showing the location of the Crown Hill Cemetery east of Coldwater, Kansas.
www.rootsweb.com /~kscomanc/cemetery_crown_hill.html   (3014 words)

  
 IUPUI : Senior Academy : Events : Insurance Continued
Whether it is because of their material (one monument is a little piece of Ireland), the unique subjects or carving, or even the story behind them, you will enjoy seeing some of Crown Hill's most interesting monuments.
DIRECTIONS: Entrance to Crown Hill is at 34th and Boulevard Place and can be reached by going west from Meridian Street on 34th Street directly to the gates of Crown Hill.
To reach the Riviera Club from Crown Hill, go east on 34th Street to Illinois and north to the Riviera Club which is located immediately across the canal from Westfield Boulevard.
www.iupui.edu /~sacademy/crownhill.htm   (276 words)

  
 JS Online: Marked by many visitors
The women do not know her - she died in 1904 - but they are learning a bit about her as part of an art and architecture tour at Crown Hill Cemetery.
The mix of historic figures and lush grounds draws 2,000 to 3,000 people a year to Crown Hill's public tours, generally offered twice monthly from March through November.
At 555 acres, Crown Hill is one of the largest cemeteries in the nation.
www.jsonline.com /dd/destmid/sep05/359032.asp   (514 words)

  
 The Political Graveyard: Marion County, Ind.
Assignment of birthplaces, deathplaces, and cemeteries to counties is subject to error.
Original interment at Greenlawn Cemetery (which no longer exists); reinterment in 1892 at Crown Hill Cemetery; statue at Monument Circle.
A large private mausoleum was built for him in Crown Hill Cemetery, Indianapolis, but he was never entombed there.
politicalgraveyard.com /geo/IN/MA5.html   (2561 words)

  
 Descendancy of Charles Medaris (5)
Cemetery of I.O.O.F Boston Lodge in Clermont County, Ohio.
Rose of Sharon Cemetery in Clermont County, Ohio.
She is buried in Crown Hill Cemetery, Centerville, Indiana.
www.mindspring.com /%7Ekellcin/charles.htm   (10298 words)

  
 Our Hoosier heroes
Crown Hill Cemetery is the burial site of famous Hoosiers like President Benjamin Harrison and poet James Whitcomb Riley.
But on Memorial Day, Crown Hill will pay tribute to some equally important men and women: Indiana's military heroes.
The 137th ceremony at Crown Hill will include a roll call commemorating the lives of Hoosier military heroes, an artillery salute, music and a keynote speech by Colonel Charles P. Wilson II, a recipient of the U.S. State Department Superior Honor Award.
www.intakeweekly.com /articles/0/022669-3710-P.html   (192 words)

  
 Tomb With A View -- April Event Picks
By wandering through just a handful of the cemetery's burial sections, you will discover first hand Victorian and modern day attitudes toward death and memorialization and see the symbolism used in a variety of statues, monuments, and mausoleums.
American cemeteries contain a surprising diversity of art, history and rich cultural heritage.
Join Cleveland's "Cemetery Lady", Katie Karrick, for a knowledgeable look at historic cemeteries to learn how they differ and are similar throughout the country.
members.aol.com /TombView/picks401.html   (456 words)

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