Graves of your founders?
 

Does your fraternity/sorority know where all of the founders are buried? Is there some sort of marker at each of the graves mentioning your group?

I mentioned this in your 100 years thread, but we know where they all are and placed special medallions at their graves the year of our centennial during individual ceremonies. I attended the one for Emily Helen Butterfield.

A few Delta Tau Delta from my campus took a picture near a founders grave.

http://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphoto...00204859_n.jpg

As for us, I've gotta look around.

Read this thread about some of the ZTA founders grave markers:

http://www.greekchat.com/gcforums/sh...d.php?t=119793

There were thirty founders of Delta Upsilon which makes locating their whereabouts a bit more problematic; however, a year or two ago Craig Sowell (staff member & historian) wrote a book called "Revealing the Non-Secrets" in which he researched what happened to all of them and, I think, located where all were buried. It is a very impressive piece of work.

Several of the Pi Beta Phi and Kappa Kappa Gamma founders are buried in the cemetary on the north edge of Monmouth. They have bronze markers or medallions identifying them as founders. The Pi Phi founders who are not buried in Monmouth also have markers and I suspect the Kappas do as well.

There are two graves that are marked with markers related to Phi Mu Alpha. The first is the grave of our Founder, first President of Alpha Chapter and first Supreme President, Ossian Everett Mills. Father Mills died on December 26, 1920. This marker at his grave in Thompson, Connecticut, was dedicated on December 28, 1928:

http://da-knight.tripod.com/sitebuil...g.w300h225.jpg


The second is the grave of the second President of Alpha Chapter, first Supreme Historian and Sixth Supreme President, Percy Jewett Burrell. With Mills, Burrell was instrumental in establishing and articulating the values and principles on which the Fraternity is based. Burrell died without any descendants at the age of 87 in 1964. In 1998, history-minded Sinfonians learned that he had been buried in an unmarked grave in Watertown, Massachusetts. They worked for several years with city officials and with family members toward placing a monument at his grave, and raised money for that monument through donations from Sinfonians across the country. On October 2, 2004, this marker was dedicated at his grave (these pictures are from the dedication ceremony):

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http://da-knight.tripod.com/sitebuil...g.w300h400.jpg

The inscription at the bottom can't be completely seen. It reads: "He has not truly lived who has not lived for others, in sympathy and harmony with his fellows." It comes from Burrell's 1908 President's Message to the Fraternity.

I believe all of the Alpha founders' graves are located and some sort of marker is placed there. I'm having a hard time finding photos, but will try later.

For Alpha Phi Omega...
 

I should have probably included in the initial post the situation for Alpha Phi Omega. Five of the Fourteen founders have been located, two are actually in the same cemetery. The primary founder's grave does mention Alpha Phi Omega, the other four do not, as far as I can find out.

I really wish we would do something for all of our founders (Alpha Phi).
I think what ZTA did was really amazing.
I'm also sad that we dont even know where some of our founders are buried!

Some of the Pi Beta Phi and Kappa Kappa Gamma founders are buried in the Monmouth Cemetery. Inez Smith Soule is buried there and her grave is marked as a founder of Pi Phi.

Anna Elizabeth Willits and Minnie Moore Stewart are also buried there. I don't know if they have a special Kappa marker or not.

There may be others. I haven't looked for them.

Theta Phi Alpha's Founders
 

I know for sure that TPA knows where three of our founders are buried--we went to the cemetery in Ann Arbor, Michigan, where Katrina Caughey Ward, Camilla Ryan Sutherland, and May C. Ryan are buried and put white roses at their graves this past July at our Centennial Convention. It was SO moving and powerful! :)

I believe there was talk of Otilia Leuchtweis O'Hara being buried in New York state, but I am not sure about that.

Aside from the flowers we put, though, there was no mention of Theta Phi Alpha. :(

I believe SigEp knows where all 12 Founders' graves are located. I think I would have to read through some old issues of the Journal or the LRB to figure out where.

Phi Mu
 

One of our founder's is buried in Jacksonville, FL and another is in Macon, GA.

I have visited the Macon site and she is buried with a myriad of family members <3. Both of these gravs have huge quatrefoil headstones. I'm not certain where the last one is buried because I'm pretty sure she moved away from the area, but I'm almost certain she has the same.

I hunted around a bit for KD's founders and I found pictures for Sarah Turner White and Mary Sparks Hendricks. Mary has a crest medallion on her stone, but Sarah doesn't.

Sarah Turner White
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg...585695&df=all&

Mary Sommerville Sparks Hendricks
https://secure.findagrave.com/cgi-bi...&RAid=27036970

I also found this:

Julia Tyler Gardiner Wilson is apparently buried at the University of Virginia Cemetery, but I couldn't find a picture.
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg...&GRid=83307459

More about the cemetery here:
http://uvamagazine.org/features/article/set_in_stone/

I couldn't find a grave for Lenora Ashmore Blackiston.

Phi Mu Graves
 

Here are the graves of our three founders:

Mary Elizabeth Myrick Daniel has a quatrefoil-shaped gravestone in Oakgrove Cemetery (Americus, GA):
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg...GRid=19618139&

Mary Ann Dupont Lines also has a quatrefoil-shaped gravestone in Evergreen Cemetery (Jacksonville, FL):
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg...&GRid=8482709&

Martha Bibb Hardaway Redding also has a marking of a quatrefoil-shaped gravestone at Riverside Cemetery (Macon, GA):
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg...&GRid=8482751&

Really? Quatrefoil-shaped graves?! I hope the grave diggers were paid extra, 'cause that would be one hell of a hole to dig.



Sorry. I couldn't resist. :p

Haha, I see. Thanks for pointing that out. Yes, it would be terribly hard to dig quatrefoil-shaped graves. Anyone who can do that deserves a raise! ;)

Yes, Chi Omega knows where all 5 Founders are buried and each one has "Founder of Chi Omega" on the stone, if it was possible to do so.

Founder, Jean Vincenheller Dengler is buried in Arlington Cemetery and the military did not allow her stone to include this designation.

Now it seems like they do. I remember being at Arlington and one fella's grave had the Kappa Alpha Psi letters on his stone

I only found one of Sigma Kappa's five founders on a quick google for headstones. Here is Mary Low Carver's gravesite (on the left, top and bottom):
http://img42.imageshack.us/img42/155...arvergrave.jpg

Flowers were placed at the grave of Frances E. Haven Moss, in honor of Founders Day 2013 and the centennial of Omicron Chapter at the University of Illinois. Frances is also considered a founder of Omicron chapter (her husband was a professor at Illinois).

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