Rememberance

   Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, Virginia

Bruton Parish Churchyard in Colonial Williamsburg

 Here lieth the Body of Mr Joseph

Scrivener who was born at Oldney

in Buckinghamshire in England

and died here the 14th of October

1772 in the Fiftieth Year of his Age 

Confederate General Robert E Lee died October 12, 1870

   In October of 1865, Robert Edward Lee was inaugurated as president of Washington College in Lexington, Virginia. In September of 1870 he suffered a stroke, and passed away on October 12th. He is buried in the Chapel at Washington College, along with many other members of his family. Even his horse, Traveler, is buried just outside the door. In the main chapel is the statue in the photo above, "Recumbent Lee", designed by Edward Valentine.

Jack Daniel died October 10, 1911

  Jack Daniel founded the famous whiskey distillery somewhere around 1875 in the southern Tennessee town of Lynchburg. He was supposedly born around 1850 somewhere around Lynchburg. He died from blood poisoning on October 10, 1911. The old tale is that he kicked a safe he couldn't open and infection set in. Who knows if that is really true or not! But the distillery is world famous, the little town is still little, and people leave all manner of offerings at Jack's grave.

Simply to thy cross I cling

Pass Christian, Mississippi

April 15

Certainly an inauspicious day, the day Lincoln died, the day the Titanic sank, it was even the first day of the most disastrous flood in US history along the Mississippi in 1927.

Wickham Cemetery