1,080 Comments for Mount Rose Cemetery

"Love those high vaulted ceilings. "

('i' before 'e'....0"

except after C :-)

The organ is probably no longer there. That is a facade. The organ was behind. The passageway was probably to access the organ for tuning. There are still many pipe organs around and many people that play them. This is beautiful. Too bad it is in such sad shape, but it does have a beauty about it, even now.

If it is like my G-Grandparents graves, the caskets were wood and would have decayed long ago. The tree would absorb the remains, bodies and caskets alike, and they would in turn feed the tree. In effect the tree has become the living representation of the deceased. What a better monument to have.

My favorite shoot so far. the markers all facing the steps that lead, where else, upwards.

More like definance in the face of death, for the dead believed in the afterlife and the body was only a husk.

"By this sign shall ye conquor."

Usually when a crypt was sealed in this manner it meant there were no more members of this family who survived. In effect, the end of this particular line no longer exsists, no mourners, no one to care for the crypt or tomb.

My husband is a former Marine who transfered into the Navy. This would be his monument too.

Holiday Wallpaper!!!!!!!

I noted how the leafless bough tends to cover what would be "chin whiskers" and "thinning hair" on Father's stone. While Mother's stone is clean and daintingly free of such. Speaks volumes.

SkedAddled, Maybe the single words were more than enough, they would be for me and my husband.

Motts, i wouldn't count on it. Viral diseases can remain dormant for decades in a dry area such as this. I hope you get yourself checked out by your doctor SOON!!!!

PS TELL HIM Where you were!!! OK??

If the Chapel is restore (I hope, I hope, I hope), then there would have to be an examination of this caske tand any contents.

That would recquire a HAZMAT crew and the state & county Medical Examiners Offices.

Motts, how far from the floor to the rail the material is on?

It could well be the "Pall". A large cloth that would have been draped over the casket. As this is an European Chapel, they would have coninued to use European customs. Often the PALL would have been split down the middle to allow for varying sizes of adult caskets.

Kim, DITTO!!!!!!!

All it needs is some wiring, a T-storm, some glass containers and ....

"It's alive, it's alive, it's alive!!!"

Now that wopuld be freaky.