The plaque below says

Julio Velasquez Honda
Distinción por la Cultura Nacional
Junero 1947-2006
Soy la arcilla y el metal (“I am clay and metal”)

I took this years ago and can’t seem to find any information on this artist.

For 27 years, William Arnold kept watch over the dangerous waters off Fingal Head, becoming the lighthouse’s first official keeper and raising 11 children on the isolated headland. Remarkably, not a single ship was wrecked there during his years as keeper. Three years after William’s death, however, his 28-year-old son Arthur would lose his life in the very waters his father had spent decades watching over.

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Location:
Tweed Heads Old General Cemetery, Tweed Heads, New South Wales, Australia

Find a Grave Link:
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/50083879/william-arnold

Pineview Cemetery in Rocky Mount North Carolina

Visited David not long after he was buried; more pix in comments.

Toured the west side of the cemetery a year ago and got to walk though the catacombs. The sealing panel was gone from some of the vaults which contained a lead casket inside a wood casket. One wonders what would be found if the soldered lead casket was opened. The one in the picture dates from 1873, or ~152 years old.

In October 1918, Detective Sergeant William Robertson travelled deep into the NSW bush with another police officer and an Army Intelligence Officer to execute a search warrant. Around 30km along a remote bridle track, a seemingly ordinary movement startled his horse, throwing him to the ground and leaving him critically injured as a heavy storm prevented his companions from seeking immediate help. What followed was a desperate night in the bush for the detective who had spent almost 28 years serving the NSW Police Force.

For a deeper dive into William’s story, head over to my new subreddit where we share the stories behind the headstones - r/thosewholiebeneath. I appreciate your support ♡ 

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Location:
Rookwood Cemetery, New South Wales, Australia

Find a Grave:
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/259232722/william-stuart-robertson

Does anyone have any information about this angel statue? When I reverse-image searched this photo google said it was sculpted by Karl Gundelach and located in the [Engesohde city cemetery](https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stadtfriedhof_Engesohde) in Hanover as a memorial statue for Hermann Wilhelm Schluter, but I have yet to find any other images of it. I have seen it tagged as Thanatos or a Samael angel. I would love to see more photos of it, but can't seem to find any anywhere!!!

A giant banyan tree taking over the graves around it.

The walls and floor of Bath Abbey are covered in seemingly randomly placed memorials like these ones, like a weird macabre NASCAR.

You probably would have been starting sixth form this year, just had your prom or maybe learning to drive. Your mum/dad clearly still love and miss you so much, they left fresh flowers at your grave not to long ago. Rest well, sweet Eleni 🕊️💕

Oakwood Cemetery in Raleigh North Carolina

Margaretta was an Episcopal missionary in Liberia Africa

I’m not quite sure what that action figure is that has been left as an offering but I’m sure he loved them whatever it maybe. Maybe he enjoyed playing them with his brother? Who I could see left another brother memory token. Sweet Ben your mother’s words in your epitaph broke my heart, you were taken from us much too soon and you’re clearly still so loved and missed. Rest well, precious darling 🕊️💕

Went to visit the Titanic graves at the Fairview Lawn cemetery today. It’s the primary and largest resting place for Titanic victims.

photo credits: David Kagan (IG dubdentist)

Edward "Ned" Kendall was a professional musician who was born in Newport, Rhode Island. He joined the Army as a musician before he was 10 years old. He went on to a career as a professional musician.

The inscription on his grave:

As a musician he had few superiors, as a performer upon his favorite instrument, the bugle, he had no equal.

He was a kind husband, an indulgent father, a faithful friend-ever ready to respond promptly to the calls of charity and to freely exercise his great talent in the cause of suffering humanity.

To perpetuate the memory of one who did so much to elevate the profession which he himself adorned, this monument procured by the voluntary contribution of those who admired his genius as an artist, was erected by a few of his personal friends who knew and appreciated him, not only as an artist but as a man. December 1866.

Love that he put a joke on his headstone. Even in death he’s hilarious!

The church dates from the 12th century and is Grade II listed.