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Princeton Cemetery

I Told You I Was Sick

Caricata il 30 Ago, 2007
da DenisGobo
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I Told You I Was Sick
Princeton cemetery

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DenisGobo

11 mesi, 3 settimane ago:

William H. Hahn, JR. buried in his large family plot, is known for the epitaph on his flat headstone sayingm "I told you I was sick". Though to be in failing health, he ordered the inscription shortly before his death

Thomas Hawk

11 mesi, 3 settimane ago:

Haha, this guy had a great sense of humor. Gotta love that.

DenisGobo

11 mesi, 3 settimane ago:

Princeton cemetery is very interesting. They give you a map with the locations of 55 famous people. However Presidents are on a separate part. There are 11 US Presidents buried here and I managed to skipp all of them ;-(

At least I got pics of Kurt Gödel and John von Neumann's graves ;-0

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aroundtheworld75

11 mesi, 2 settimane ago:

Denis, first of all, great picture! That's an epitaph that has been used by more than one person for sure, but your picture pre-dates the one I took in Placerville, California by 8 years.

Unfortunately, though, I'm afraid you got your information mixed up about Princeton Cemetery. There is only one US President (Grover Cleveland) buried in Princeton Cemetery. There is also a Vice-President, Aaron Burr (served under Thomas Jefferson), buried there. I suspect that the 11 presidents you heard about are former presidents of Princeton University, for there are indeed a number of them buried on the south end of the cemetery (including Declaration of Independence signer John Witherspoon and notable preacher Jonathan Edwards). Princeton's most famous leader, US President Woodrow Wilson, spent his retirement in Washington, D.C., and thus was buried there instead of back in Princeton.

My familiarity with presidential burial sites comes from the fact that, between December 1999 and March 2004, I visited the gravesite of every deceased US President. And I will say one thing for sure...if there were 11 presidents buried in one location, my quest would have been completed a whole lot sooner! :-)

I have posted a set of pictures of all of the US Presidents' gravesites here on Zooomr, so feel free to check that out if you're interested. And I have a much more-extensive collection of photos at my own website, The Cemetery Project (click on "Category" and "United States Presidents" to see all the pictures I took....and yes, I know I haven't updated the site forever :-).

By the way, there are three locations where 2 US Presidents are buried at the same cemetery. Presidents John Adams and John Quincy Adams are buried in the crypt beneath the United First Parish Church in Quincy, Massachusetts. Presidents James Monroe and John Tyler are buried near each other at Hollywood Cemetery in Richmond, Virginia. And Presidents William Howard Taft and John F. Kennedy are both buried in Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Virginia.

And further proving that I have no life and my head is stuffed with completely useless information, I can share that Crown Hill Cemetery in Indianapolis, Indiana, is the burial site of one US president (Benjamin Harrison) and 3 US Vice Presidents (Charles Fairbanks, Thomas Hendricks, and Thomas Marshall).

I will spare you any further trivia, but I will probably add some to my picture set here, and my website has enough random gravesite trivia to guarantee victory if there's ever a "Famous Burial Sites" category on Jeopardy!

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DB25

11 mesi, 3 settimane ago:

where exactly in Princeton? I live the town over, but have never ventured to the cemetery

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DenisGobo

11 mesi, 3 settimane ago:

Right behind the new library/parking garage

Here is the complete address. the entrance is also here
29 greenview avenue
Princeton NJ 09542-3316

kristopher

11 mesi, 3 settimane ago:

Denis, you can geotag this!

DenisGobo

11 mesi, 3 settimane ago:

I know but whenever I do that it will break in IE

Take this picture for example

http://www.zooomr.com/photos/denisgobo/2935334/

I can't open this in IE but I can in FF

So yes I can add it but then a lot of people won't be able to see the pic (until it is fixed or they all switch to FireFox)

DenisGobo

11 mesi, 3 settimane ago:

Here is the Google map location for those who need/want it

Google Location

Nicolas

11 mesi, 3 settimane ago:

Thanks Denis for thinking about us, the people using the most used browser!! :)

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SDeyecandy

11 mesi, 3 settimane ago:

I think this is a copy... I saw the following in Key West's Cemetary last year:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/matthowell/1221378278/in/set-72157601636690319/

Another one that I liked was "I'm just resting my eyes" (also in Key West):

http://www.flickr.com/photos/matthowell/1221376848/in/set-72157601636690319/

phej

11 mesi, 3 settimane ago:

I doubt someone in Princeton, NJ copied someone in Key West when they both died a year apart.

Different people can have the same idea.

PrattOSU

11 mesi, 3 settimane ago:

Check out the Top 10 Funniest Epitaphs ever... and you can even add your own if you've seen a better one:

http://www.listafterlist.com/ListAfterListcomListsAbout/tabid/57/ListID/8301/Default.aspx

baroogz

3 mesi, 1 settimana ago:

this guy must have lived a great life..
made a lot of people happy..

janetteemccrary

1 mese, 1 settimana ago:

OMG lol this is awesome! I'm going to put this on my headstone, too!


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