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pegelli ![]() Admin Group ![]() Dyxum Administrator Joined: 02 June 2007 Country: Belgium Location: Schilde Status: Offline Posts: 38898 |
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Nice photo's of this important custom!
Here in Belgium people pay tribute to their passed family members and loved ones on Nov 1, "All Saints Day" which is a public holiday. Everybody knows that this originally happened on Nov 2 "All Souls Day", but since that is not a public holiday the visiting/cleaning/decorating graves shifted to a day earlier. |
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True, true. What I meant however is that massive visiting of graveyards is not as common. Actually, as Pieter wrote: the "stress" is moved towards All Saints Day as it is bank holiday in PL as well. This year it was a bit "relaxed" because a lot of people made a long weekend and started visiting cemeteries on Saturday. Usually it's really crowded there. The only day where there are more alive than dead in the cemetery ![]() |
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It felt a bit strange to find this grave in Arlington National Cemetery.
![]() This is the non-segregated 'Section 27' of Arlington cemetery. Section 27 is where the oldest graves are (dating from the time of the Civil War). There is very little recorded about this Robert Janes. It would seem that 'Citizen' and 'Civilian' were used as euphemisms for freed slaves. This brings the less than entirely comfortable possibility that Robert took his surname from a slave-owner. However I did find a reference to an abolitionist from Conneticut who was active in the 1850s with the surname Janes, who might have been Robert's namesake. I was pleased to be able to visit and pay my respects. |
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I found rudimentary information, if this person were a slave he would have been a child slave, presumably he would have been "freed" as a teenager, unless his particular location did not obey the law
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/49236594/robert-janes Section 27 is eye-opening reading. |
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Candlelights for graves (Grablichter) - vending machine (seen at the cemetery of Melk, Austria)
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