{"id":12765,"date":"2016-04-26T14:43:58","date_gmt":"2016-04-26T18:43:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/?p=12765"},"modified":"2016-04-26T14:43:58","modified_gmt":"2016-04-26T18:43:58","slug":"lewisburg-wv-cemeteries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/archives\/12765","title":{"rendered":"Lewisburg WV Cemeteries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I wander through cemeteries when I get a chance. I don&#8217;t quite know why, but they fascinate me, these markers of the dead, often fading quickly into illegibility.<\/p>\n<p>This cemetery was particularly interesting, because Lewisburg is close to the VA border, and so families here might have been far more conflicted about the Civil War than those further north (or west).<\/p>\n<p>I took a lot of pictures of the gravestones, but there were some that interested me the most.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\"  href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/random_michelle\/26662067605\/in\/dateposted-public\/\" title=\"20160424_Lewisburg_Cemetery_004\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm2.staticflickr.com\/1584\/26662067605_76b27e5d38_z.jpg?resize=640%2C427&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" alt=\"20160424_Lewisburg_Cemetery_004\"><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/p>\n<p>This couple died within days of each other.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\"  href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/random_michelle\/26056408034\/in\/dateposted-public\/\" title=\"20160424_Lewisburg_Cemetery_009\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm2.staticflickr.com\/1625\/26056408034_068cee1c00_z.jpg?resize=640%2C512&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"640\" height=\"512\" alt=\"20160424_Lewisburg_Cemetery_009\"><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/p>\n<p>Thomas Creich Sr<br \/>\nBorn in Another Country<br \/>\nIreland<br \/>\nJanuary 1766<br \/>\nDied December 2nd 1847<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\"  href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/random_michelle\/26662046915\/in\/dateposted-public\/\" title=\"20160424_Lewisburg_Cemetery_008\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm2.staticflickr.com\/1585\/26662046915_ce66d8835d_z.jpg?resize=427%2C640&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"427\" height=\"640\" alt=\"20160424_Lewisburg_Cemetery_008\"><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/p>\n<p>Born at Lexington VA<br \/>\nApril 23, 1800<br \/>\nDied at Greenbrier Bridge<br \/>\nWest Va.<br \/>\nApril 22, 1888<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\"  href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/random_michelle\/26389012190\/in\/dateposted-public\/\" title=\"20160424_Lewisburg_Cemetery_026\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm2.staticflickr.com\/1473\/26389012190_b91f17e013_z.jpg?resize=427%2C640&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"427\" height=\"640\" alt=\"20160424_Lewisburg_Cemetery_026\"><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/p>\n<p>These were taken in the &#8220;black&#8221; cemetery, where there were a LOT fewer headstones, but at least the cemetery was maintained.<\/p>\n<p>Charlot Robeson (?)<br \/>\nDied<br \/>\nMay 1, 1899<br \/>\nAged 85 Yrs<br \/>\nAt Rest<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\"  href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/random_michelle\/26635556846\/in\/dateposted-public\/\" title=\"20160424_Lewisburg_Cemetery_039\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm2.staticflickr.com\/1528\/26635556846_2ca4b36b70_z.jpg?resize=427%2C640&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"427\" height=\"640\" alt=\"20160424_Lewisburg_Cemetery_039\"><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\"  href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/random_michelle\/26568829472\/in\/dateposted-public\/\" title=\"20160424_Lewisburg_Cemetery_036\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm2.staticflickr.com\/1497\/26568829472_93b6a0bd39_z.jpg?resize=427%2C640&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"427\" height=\"640\" alt=\"20160424_Lewisburg_Cemetery_036\"><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\"  href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/random_michelle\/26568841362\/in\/dateposted-public\/\" title=\"20160424_Lewisburg_Cemetery_040\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm2.staticflickr.com\/1703\/26568841362_1951333095_z.jpg?resize=640%2C427&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" alt=\"20160424_Lewisburg_Cemetery_040\"><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/p>\n<p>This one made me especially sad.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\"  href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/random_michelle\/26596680851\/in\/dateposted-public\/\" title=\"20160424_Lewisburg_Cemetery_041\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm2.staticflickr.com\/1467\/26596680851_5abe070282_z.jpg?resize=640%2C427&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" alt=\"20160424_Lewisburg_Cemetery_041\"><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/p>\n<p>I took a lot more pictures, some of which I posted at Flickr (which you can see if you click through).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I wander through cemeteries when I get a chance. I don&#8217;t quite know why, but they fascinate me, these markers of the dead, often fading quickly into illegibility. This cemetery was particularly interesting, because Lewisburg is close to the VA border, and so families here might have been far more conflicted about the Civil War [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[22,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photos","category-west-virginia"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pefxA-3jT","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12765","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12765"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12765\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}