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badgeguy 08-30-2012 11:56 PM

Graves of people connected to Greek Letter Societies
 
Ok, I have been looking at a website called www.findagrave.com. This site is really cool and a great genealogical site.

One of the really cool things I found though, were those gravesite of people who were in a fraternity or sorority or possibly founders of such groups.

Here is an image of one of those sites, James R. Walker was an early member of the Kappa Sigma fraternity at Hampden Sydney College in VA.

http://image2.findagrave.com/photos2...4462231258.jpg

Does anyone else know of any tombstones or graves that have fraternity or sorority markings?

badgeguy 08-30-2012 11:58 PM

Here is another one, William Conlin Levere who was an SAE

http://image2.findagrave.com/photos/...1065504886.jpg

badgeguy 08-31-2012 12:01 AM

One of the founders of Sigma Chi, Isaac Jordan

http://image2.findagrave.com/photos/...7323744038.jpg

badgeguy 08-31-2012 12:07 AM

Samuel Clark, the first Sigma Chi to pass away, in 1856, this one is literary right down the street from where I live.

http://image1.findagrave.com/photos/...8745407818.jpg

badgeguy 08-31-2012 12:10 AM

One last one is from Stephen Alonzo Jackson, who was a Kappa Sigma,

http://image2.findagrave.com/photos2...4491542033.jpg

MysticCat 08-31-2012 08:59 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by badgeguy (Post 2173980)
Does anyone else know of any tombstones or graves that have fraternity or sorority markings?

A recent thread on graves of founders.

And one on ZTA's founders specifically.

KillarneyRose 09-07-2012 10:54 AM

http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b3...e/untitled.jpg

This is the grave of Dr. Guy Potter Benton, a Phi Delta Theta who helped Delta Zeta's founders in composing our Ritual.

NutBrnHair 09-07-2012 12:12 PM

"Sis Doc"
 
http://i829.photobucket.com/albums/z...7968320634.jpg

During the Chi Omega Centennial in 1995, Chi Omega added the words, "Member of Kappa Sigma" to Dr. Richardson's stone on the reverse side.

NutBrnHair 09-07-2012 12:14 PM

Jobelle Holcombe, Founder of Chi Omega
 
http://i829.photobucket.com/albums/z...7258633464.jpg
Miss Jobelle's gravesite is in the same cemetery in Fayetteville, AR as Dr. Richardson's (pictured above).

NutBrnHair 09-07-2012 12:19 PM

Alice Cary Simonds Smith, Founder of Chi Omega
 
http://i829.photobucket.com/albums/z...9286560096.jpg
Allie shares a grave in Congressional Cemetery in Washington, D.C. with her sister. They both died quite young.

NutBrnHair 09-07-2012 12:23 PM

Jean Vincenheller Dengler, Founder of Chi Omega
 
http://i829.photobucket.com/albums/z...0964453045.jpg
Buried in Arlington National Cemetery alongside her military husband, the restrictions at Arlington prohibited the inclusion on the marker that Jean was a Founder of Chi Omega.

NutBrnHair 09-07-2012 12:27 PM

Christina "Ina" May Boles Morton, Founder of Chi Omega
 
http://i829.photobucket.com/albums/z...0964484261.jpg
Ina May, the last of the Founders to die, is buried in Dardanelle, Arkansas.

Gusteau 09-07-2012 12:29 PM

One of our founder's grave bears the letters of Delta Chi and Delta Tau Delta, of which he was also a member.

http://deltachi.org/images/history/f...etlan_more.jpg

NutBrnHair 07-15-2013 05:30 PM

Phi Mu Founder
 
http://i829.photobucket.com/albums/z...ps01f64827.jpg
http://i829.photobucket.com/albums/z...ps1b9c0a51.jpg

Kevin 07-15-2013 06:22 PM

http://www.semosigmanu.com/images/pi...kinsGrave5.jpg
Alpha, 1.

http://www.semosigmanu.com/images/pi...rlesGrave4.jpghttp://image2.findagrave.com/photos2...3565075842.jpg
Alpha, 2.

http://image2.findagrave.com/photos2...9170882683.jpg

Alpha, 3.


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