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Book Chippiannock Cemetery

    Book Details:
  • Author : Minda Powers-Douglas
  • Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
  • Release : 2010
  • ISBN : 9780738577418
  • Pages : 132 pages

Download or read book Chippiannock Cemetery written by Minda Powers-Douglas and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2010 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Built on a ridge named for the great Native American spirit Manitou, Chippiannock Cemetery has honored the dead of Rock Island County for over 150 years. Chippiannock, which means "village of the dead" in the Sauk and Fox languages, is truly a village. People from all walks of life are buried in the majestic rolling grounds. From railroad and lumber barons to blacksmiths and riverboat captains, here one will find the people who made this land along the Mississippi River thrive. Upon stepping through the gates of Chippiannock, one finds memorials to the dead, ranging from artistic and stately to simple or humble. Each stone tells a story-whether it is a cenotaph in honor of Civil War major general John Buford or the two Dimick children who passed away on the same day in 1878 of diphtheria. Today Chippiannock remains an active, "living" cemetery, beloved by locals and considered a jewel of the Quad Cities.

Book Passages

Download or read book Passages written by Terri Wiebenga and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To celebrate the 150th anniversary of Chippiannock Cemetery in Rock Island, Illinois, the Chippiannock Cemetery Heritage Foundation has collected personal histories of historic notables, multi-generational families, individuals buried in Chippiannock, and also those who choose to be buried in the cemetery in the years ahead.

Book 150 Years of Epitaphs at Chippiannock Cemetery

Download or read book 150 Years of Epitaphs at Chippiannock Cemetery written by Chippiannock Cemetery Heritage Foundation and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: History of the Chippiannock Cemetery and information on some of the people buried there.

Book Chippiannock

    Book Details:
  • Author : John R. Klatt
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1985
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 34 pages

Download or read book Chippiannock written by John R. Klatt and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Index to Chippiannock Cemetery Tombstones

Download or read book Index to Chippiannock Cemetery Tombstones written by Blackhawk Genealogical Society and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 89 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Where They re Buried

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  • Author : Thomas E. Spencer
  • Publisher : Genealogical Publishing Com
  • Release : 1998
  • ISBN : 0806348232
  • Pages : 635 pages

Download or read book Where They re Buried written by Thomas E. Spencer and published by Genealogical Publishing Com. This book was released on 1998 with total page 635 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume invites readers to get up close and personal with one of the most respected and beloved writers of the last four decades. Carolyn J. Sharp has transcribed numerous table conversations between Walter Brueggemann and his colleagues and former students, in addition to several of his addresses and sermons from both academic and congregational settings. The result is the essential Brueggemann: readers will learn about his views on scholarship, faith, and the church; get insights into his "contagious charisma," grace, and charity; and appreciate the candid reflections on the fears, uncertainties, and difficulties he faced over the course of his career. Anyone interested in Brueggemann's work and thoughts will be gifted with thought-provoking, inspirational reading from within these pages.

Book Cemeteries of Illinois

    Book Details:
  • Author : Hal Hassen
  • Publisher : University of Illinois Press
  • Release : 2017-05-22
  • ISBN : 0252099664
  • Pages : 352 pages

Download or read book Cemeteries of Illinois written by Hal Hassen and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2017-05-22 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Illinois is home to cemeteries and burial grounds dating back to the Native American era. Whether sprawling over thousands of acres or dotting remote woodlands, these treasure troves of local and state history reflect two centuries of social, economic, and technological change. This easy-to-use guidebook invites amateur genealogists, historians, and cemetery buffs to decipher the symbols and uncover the fascinating past awaiting them in Illinois 's resting places. Hal Hassen and Dawn Cobb have combined almost three hundred photographs with expert detail to showcase how cemeteries and burial grounds can teach us about archaeology, folklore, art, geology, and social behavior. Features include the ways different materials used as gravestones and markers reflect historical trends; how to understanding the changes in the use of iconographic images; the story behind architectural features like fencing, roads, and gates; what enthusiasts can do to preserve local cemeteries for future generations. Captivating and informed, Cemeteries of Illinois is the only guide you need to unlock the mysteries of our state 's final resting places.

Book Historic Illinois

Download or read book Historic Illinois written by and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Illinois Geographic Names

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  • Author : Geological Survey (U.S.). Topographic Division. Branch of Geographic Names
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1980
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 908 pages

Download or read book Illinois Geographic Names written by Geological Survey (U.S.). Topographic Division. Branch of Geographic Names and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 908 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Commercial Directory of the Western States

Download or read book Commercial Directory of the Western States written by and published by . This book was released on 1868 with total page 1144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Illinois Geographic Names

Download or read book Illinois Geographic Names written by Geological Survey (U.S.). Branch of Geographic Names and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Telling the Stories

Download or read book Telling the Stories written by Ronald Bruce Thomson and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Spiritual Traveler   Chicago and Illinois

Download or read book The Spiritual Traveler Chicago and Illinois written by Marilyn Joyce Segal Chiat and published by Paulist Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here is a distinctively different guidebook that explores spiritual sites and peaceful places from all faith traditions in Chicago and Illinois, including buildings, cemeteries, battlefields, and landscapes, both natural and manmade.

Book Spiritual Traveler Chicago and Illinois

Download or read book Spiritual Traveler Chicago and Illinois written by Marilyn Joyce Segal Chiat and published by Paulist Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Classic Country Estates of Lake Forest

Download or read book Classic Country Estates of Lake Forest written by Kim Coventry and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2003 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On Lake Michigan's North Shore, an extraordinary group of cosmopolitan and wealthy clients commissioned havens from the city's bustle during the Gilded Age.

Book The Rural Cemetery Movement

Download or read book The Rural Cemetery Movement written by Jeffrey Smith and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2017-10-23 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Mount Auburn opened as the first “rural” cemetery in the United States in 1831, it represented a new way for Americans to think about burial sites. It broke with conventional notions about graveyards as places to bury and commemorate the dead. Rather, the founders of Mount Auburn and the spate of similar cemeteries that followed over the next three decades before the Civil War created institutions that they envisioned being used by the living in new ways. Cemeteries became places for leisure, communing with nature, and creating a version of collective memory. In fact, these cemeteries reflected changing values and attitudes of Americans spanning much of the nineteenth century. In the process, they became paradoxical: they were “rural” yet urban, natural yet designed, artistic yet industrial, commemorating the dead yet used by the living. The Rural Cemetery Movement: Places of Paradox in Nineteenth-Century America breaks new ground in the history of cemeteries in the nineteenth century. This book examines these “rural” cemeteries modeled after Mount Auburn that were founded between the 1830s and 1850s. As such, it provides a new way of thinking about these spaces and new paradigm for seeing and visiting them. While they fulfilled the sacred function of burial, they were first and foremost businesses. The landscape and design, regulation of gravestones, appearance, and rhetoric furthered their role as a business that provided necessary services in cities that went well beyond merely burying bodies. They provided urban green spaces and respites from urban life, established institutions where people could craft their roles in collective memory, and served as prototypes for both urban planning and city parks. These cemeteries grew and thrived in the second half of the nineteenth century; for most, the majority of their burials came before 1910. This expansion of cemeteries coincided with profound urban growth in the United States. Unlike their predecessors, founders of these burial grounds intended them to be used in many ways that reflected their views and values about nature, life and death, and relationships. Emphasis on worldly accomplishments increased with industrialization and growth in the United States, which was reflected in changing ways people commemorated their dead during the period under this study. Thus, these cemeteries are a prism through which to understand the values, attitudes, and culture of urban America from mid-century through the Progressive Era.

Book Laws Passed by the Legislative Council and the House of Representatives of Illinois Territory at Their    Session Held at Kashashia

Download or read book Laws Passed by the Legislative Council and the House of Representatives of Illinois Territory at Their Session Held at Kashashia written by Illinois and published by . This book was released on 1857 with total page 1956 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: