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| Date: | 03 1945 |
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| Description: | The cemetery for the war dead on Guam. The body of a fighting man who died of wounds received during the battle for Iwo Jima is being lowered into the eart... |
| Date: | 08 19 1973 |
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| Description: | The Bishop WIlliam O'Connor Memorial Chapel at Resurrection Cemetery, which is a pyramid-shaped building with a spire on top and a cross at the point. |
| Date: | 05 30 1931 |
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| Description: | A group of people pose around the casket containing the body of Chief Simon Onanguisse Kahquados at Peninsula State Park during a reburial ceremony. |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | French Cemetery. The Stone tombs are the graves of Joseph Rolette and his daughter, Elisabeth. |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | French Cemetery. The Stone tombs are the graves of Joseph Rolette and his daughter, Elisabeth. |
| Date: | 09 25 1960 |
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| Description: | A cemetery for pets near Highway 58. Each burial plot is marked with a small wooden cross. Additionally, several plots have accompanying makeshift tombston... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | The tomb of the Robinson family, a large burial vault. |
| Date: | 1921 |
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| Description: | Rows of tombstones at the cemetery. The gravestone of Myrtle Schmelz is legible. |
| Date: | 02 05 1978 |
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| Description: | "Armand Quick, one of Theresa's most famous sons, died in late January and is buried in the family plot at the Catholic Cemetery. Quick was famous for his ... |
| Date: | 02 16 1978 |
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| Description: | "Rev. Herbert Lemke and Charles Koepsell, Mayville, lead the mourners to the grave site." |
| Date: | 02 16 1978 |
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| Description: | "Zion Cemetery. Herb Sellnow is laid to rest a short distance from the farm where he spent most of his life." |
| Date: | 1939 |
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| Description: | Digging for bodies in a mass grave near Lemberg, Poland, where German civilians were killed by the Poles during the Nazi invasion. American journalist Alvi... |
| Date: | 1973 |
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| Description: | Map shows sections, trails, roads, and locations of ancient burial grounds, hills, groves, and settlers. Printed in brown ink. |
| Date: | 07 13 1943 |
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| Description: | Private Bill Gantenbein of LaCrosse, Wisconsin, inspects the marker for Vicksburg, their beloved mongrel mascot. Pvt. Gantenbein passed his helmet on payda... |
| Date: | 07 13 1918 |
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| Description: | Boxed bones from graves found on University Hill (later Bascom Hill). Two men, seen from the waist down, are standing behind the boxes containing the remai... |
| Date: | 07 13 1918 |
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| Description: | View of the excavation of two graves located on University Hill (now Bascom Hill). Main Hall (now Bascom Hall) can be seen in the background. |
| Date: | 09 04 1922 |
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| Description: | Skeletal remains of either William Nelson or Samuel Warren, one of two men buried on Bascom Hill. The grave was located about five feet north of that of th... |
| Date: | 09 04 1922 |
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| Description: | Skeletal remains of William Nelson or Samuel Warren, one of two men buried in the first cemetery in Madison located on what is now Bascom Hill. |
| Date: | 09 04 1922 |
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| Description: | Grave marker for Samuel Warren of Middlesex, England, who was killed by lightning in June of 1838 at the age of 26. Warren was buried in what was the first... |
| Date: | 08 1918 |
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| Description: | Workers at the site of two graves discovered on Bascom Hill in front of Main Hall (now Bascom Hall). One man sprays water from a hose. The disturbed soil o... |
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