2014_09_07_woodlawn11z : 無料・フリー素材/写真
2014_09_07_woodlawn11z / dsearls
| ライセンス | クリエイティブ・コモンズ 表示 2.1 |
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| 説明 | The six-grave, twelve-body Knoebel plot in Woodlawn Cemetery is full of mysteries, with three headstones and a monument (that tall stone in the middle) that don't all agree with what the cemetery says the graves contain, plus one exhumation, also unexplained (at least to me, so far).The description that follows combines what I see carved in granite with what Woodlawn provided in print. We'll visit the mysteries after that. Here goes...First, behind the main (KNOEBEL) monument are three graves. Left to right, they are—1 Lillian W. (Lillie) Raichle, 1876-3/3/1958, 81 yearsLillian W. Raichle, 1902-1907, 5 yearsHerman Raichle, 1877-19332Sarah Bladen, 1864 to 1926, 61 years3Henry Veir, 8 yearsRita P. Knoebel, 81 years, 2/15/92All three have headstones. The Veir stone only marks Henry. The cemetery record calls Henry "VIex."In front of the monument are three more graves, left to right, all without stones of their own. Those are:4John E. Knoebel, 78 years 9/4/50John E. Knoebel, 84 years, 12/25/2000Regina Knoebel, 80 years, 1/6/1960, exhumed on 10/7/70 and reburied in Fairview Cemetery in New Jersey5John E. Knoebel, 61 years6Louis F. Knoebel, 50 years, 11/11/2013Anastasia Knoebel, 60 yearsNote that grave 4 is a bit sunken. This is the one from which Regina (née Englert) Knoebel (Aunt Gene) was removed in 1970. Regina was married to one of the John E. ("Johnny") Knoebel planted in 1950 in grave 4. Her son, the third John E. Knoebel, was planted in the same grave thirty years later. Or so it appears to me.The bigger mystery is what's going on with Marianna Knoebel. She's featured on the monument in the middle ("Born Aug 15, 1833, Died Oct. 8, 1904") and was the wife of the eldest John E. Knoebel ("Born June 24, 1825, Died Aug 19, 1890"), whose dates square with the 61 years recorded by the cemetery. But she isn't mentioned by the same record. My guess is that she and her husband both occupy grave 5, in front of the monument. If so, this raises the number of occupants to 13.Back to Aunt Gene.A story I recall about her, almost certainly apocryphal but still interesting, is that she once climbed a spire of rock in New Jersey's Palisades carved her initials, "RE," near the top, and these were later visible from the George Washington Bridge, because it was built right next to the spire. (On the south side.) Lending credence to this story is an absent fear of heights that runs in my father's family (Pop's mom was Gene's younger sister Ethel). Pop also grew up on the Palisades and was a cable rigger working on the Bridge itself. (Here he is.) And I do at least recall Aunt Gene as the most alpha (being the eldest) of the four Englert sisters, and kind of a tough cookie; so it kinda seemed in character that she might do such a thing. But ... I have no idea. I've been by there many times since then, and the whole face of the Palisades is now so overrun with greenery that it's hard to tell if a spire is even there. I do recall that there was once a spire, though. |
| 撮影日 | 2014-09-07 19:00:27 |
| 撮影者 | dsearls , Santa Barbara, USA |
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| カメラ | Canon EOS 5D , Canon |
| 露出 | 0.017 sec (1/60) |
| 開放F値 | f/5.6 |
| 焦点距離 | 45 mm |