Westover Cemetery

I always drive up Westover Road and never knew that there was a fairly decent sized forgotten cemetery near the intersection with Mianus Road... It's very hard to notice so if it weren't for findagrave.com I might not have ever seen it.

I was very disappointed in the condition of this resting ground.. From the first two pictures contributed to the findagrave site I had the impression it was well maintained, but upon visiting all I saw was fallen over headstones, headstones resting on walls, and overgrown prickers (covered with tics by the way)...

I took a picture of a 2 year old boy's gravestone which read "Little Eddie" but the picture never saved somehow.. Need to return again.

Shared Birthdays Via Find A Grave.com

Find a grave is awesome. I did a search for people who shared my birthday, and a few famous people popped up I didn't know about:

Natalee Ann Holloway
We share the same birthday, and same middle name... She was a year younger and sadly taken away... But she's an angel.
Birth: Oct. 21, 1986
Clinton
Hinds County
Mississippi, USA
Death: Presumed
2005

-memorial here -


Lillian Gertrud Asplund
Birth: Oct. 21, 1906
Worcester
Worcester County
Massachusetts, USA
Death: May 6, 2006
Shrewsbury
Worcester County
Massachusetts, USA

RMS Titanic Disaster Survivor. At her death, she was the last American survivor of the sinking of the famed "RMS Titanic".

- memorial here -



Mel "King Malachi" Street

Birth: Oct. 21, 1933
Death: Oct. 21, 1978

Country music singer.

Cause of death: Suicide by self-inflicted gunshot wound

Not good... And on his/my birthday! =[

- memorial here -


Alfred Nobel
Birth: Oct. 21, 1833
Stockholm
Jamtlands Lan, Sweden
Death: Dec. 10, 1896

Inventor. He was the inventor of dynamite, and the founder of the Nobel Prize. As a young man working in his father's munitions factory, he became fascinated with the newly invented substance called nitroglycerin.


- memorial here -



Then there are those who died on my birthday... =[


Shannon Hoon
Birth: Sep. 26, 1967
Lafayette
Tippecanoe County
Indiana, USA
Death: Oct. 21, 1995
New Orleans
Orleans Parish
Louisiana, USA

Musician. Born Richard Shannon Hoon in Lafayette, Indiana, son of Richard and Nel Hoon.
...Formed a band calling themselves Blind Melon

- memorial here -



Harry Griffith Cramer, Jr
Birth: May 24, 1926
Johnstown
Cambria County
Pennsylvania, USA
Death: Oct. 21, 1957, Vietnam

First United States military casualty in Vietnam, Southeast Asia. Name added to Vietnam Memorial in November 1983, one year after it was dedicated.
- memorial here -

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