October 26, 2023 post by Smith & Sons Funeral Home on Facebook:
Read our latest article: Cemetery vs Graveyard: Unearthing the Differences
- See Fort Wayne Medical College for grave robbing and body snatching information.
- Who cares for pioneer cemeteries? The DNR - Department of Natural Resources Cemeteries web page has information and links to Indiana cemetery laws and information. The Indiana Pioneer Cemetery Restoration Project is a good volunteer source of information. Follow discussions on their Facebook page.
Albert Fearnaught (originally Fürchtenicht) operated a photo studio at 16-18 E. Washington St. in Indianapolis from 1886 to 1892. His other contribution to society was an 1882 patent for a grave signal. Should a person awake to find themselves buried alive, a tug on a rope around their wrist would trigger a spring-loaded red flag on the surface. The design also allowed fresh air into the coffin until a rescue could occur. It is not known if the device was ever manufactured, but with the name Fearnaught the product marketing and naming possibilities were interesting.
Copied from an April 30, 2022 post by The Indiana Album on Facebook. Retro Indy: Albert Fearnaught and his signal from the grave by Dawn Mitchell published January 5, 2015 in the IndyStar. s Signals from the Grave Early patents for detecting life in buried persons from American Artifacts, issue 45, July 1999 by Richard Van Vleck. GRAVE SIGNAL. No. 260,379. Patented July 4,1882 on patents.google.com.- Cleaning Products That Do No Harm at Cemetery Conservators United Standards.org.
- Cleaning tombstones, Reading Stones and Don't Read Stones with has good
Do No Harm
information with photos by Cemetery Conservators for United Standards - Sometimes the unexpected occurs in cemeteries that could damage tombstones!
Lightning Sets Tree Ablaze in St. Louis Cemetery
Totally eerie -- a tree burns from the inside out after a lightning strike
Posted by The Weather Channel on Friday, March 3, 2017Friday, March 3, 2017 post by The Weather Channel on Facebook:
Lightning Sets Tree Ablaze in St. Louis Cemetery
Totally eerie -- a tree burns from the inside out after a lightning strike
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Family bringing new life to forgotten cemetery (fixing vandalized graves) posted Jun 28, 2022 by Daniel Beals on YouTube.
Off of State Road 1 in Ossian, lies a forgotten cemetery that is now bustling with life. Interrupting over a century of stark quietness, are the sounds of chainsaws and heavy machinery. Less than a year ago, the plot of land off of Young Street was overgrown with brush, and dying trees — that is, until the Heckber family stepped in.
Ossian is just south of the Allen County line in Wells County, Indiana. The list of names of those buried there is in the longer article 21Country: Ossian family bringing new life to forgotten cemetery Historic burial grounds being restored after a century of neglect by Daniel Beals Updated: Jun. 28, 2022 on 21AliveNews.com. - Flag-Folding Procedures traditional method from The American Legion.
- Grave Concerns originally with a video discussing grave robbing when
In 1879 five physicians founded the Fort Wayne Medical College in the old Hugh McCulloch mansion on Superior Street. Students were required to pay tuition, study hard and provide their own cadavers for dissection. The need for medical cadavers inspired the very lucrative profession of grave robbing and no cemetery within fifty miles of Fort Wayne was safe.
by Eric Olson, 21Country Featured Reporter originally published November 13, 2018 on 21AliveNews.com is now on Internet Archive Wayback Machine. - History’s Best Strategies for Avoiding Being Buried Alive These ingenious 19th-century techniques aimed to make sure dead really meant dead by Ashawnta Jackson published October 10, 2017 on AtlasObscura.com.
- History Through Headstones on the History Center Notes & Queries blog posted May. 24, 2021
- Premature burial, and how it may be prevented, with special reference to trance catalepsy, and other forms of suspended animation by Tebb, William; Vollum, Edward Perry; publication date 1905 on Archive.org.
- Photo of tombstone advertisement in early 1900s Sears catalog posted March 31, 2018 in Cemetery Conservators For United Standards on Facebook.
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Best trick EVER to read old Gravestones given by a stone carver! Do No Harm photographing illegible tombstones in the vertical center without touching or damaging the stone! Use a mirror to light up dark gravestones by Pumpkintown Primitives on YouTube. They have other interesting videos.
Best trick EVER to read old Gravestones given by a stone carver! PART 1 posted Jul 7, 2020 by Pumpkintown Primitiveson YouTube
We are all guilty of trying every trick in the book to read old gravestones. Almost all of these methods can over time harm the stone. This is a hands off approach used by researchers that will help preserve our old stones for many more years. David is a Professional Grave Stone Carver who tells his method for viewing stones that he has used to write his book, " A Brief Treatise on Tomb and Grave Stones of the 18th Century."
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You don't see them as much anymore, but back in the 19th century, grave bells were a common occurrence next to...
Posted by Find a Grave on Wednesday, June 12, 2024Wednesday, June 12, 2024 post by Find a Grave on Facebook:
You don't see them as much anymore, but back in the 19th century, grave bells were a common occurrence next to gravestones. Along with safety coffins, these were mechanisms used in case a person was buried alive. If they woke up and found themselves trapped underground, they could ring the bell and alert someone that they were alive. There are many other variations of the safety coffin, but the grave bell is one you might even see today. You can find an example of one here: Charles Ferdinand Mills
Photo: GinaC