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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.
Does anyone else know of any tombstones or graves that have fraternity or sorority markings?
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Here is another one, William Conlin Levere who was an SAE
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One of the founders of Sigma Chi, Isaac Jordan
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Samuel Clark, the first Sigma Chi to pass away, in 1856, this one is literary right down the street from where I live.
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One last one is from Stephen Alonzo Jackson, who was a Kappa Sigma,
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08-31-2012, 08:59 AM
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Does anyone else know of any tombstones or graves that have fraternity or sorority markings?
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A recent thread on graves of founders.
And one on ZTA's founders specifically.
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09-07-2012, 10:54 AM
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This is the grave of Dr. Guy Potter Benton, a Phi Delta Theta who helped Delta Zeta's founders in composing our Ritual.
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09-07-2012, 12:12 PM
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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.
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09-07-2012, 12:14 PM
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Jobelle Holcombe, Founder of Chi Omega
Miss Jobelle's gravesite is in the same cemetery in Fayetteville, AR as Dr. Richardson's (pictured above).
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Alice Cary Simonds Smith, Founder of Chi Omega
Allie shares a grave in Congressional Cemetery in Washington, D.C. with her sister. They both died quite young.
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09-07-2012, 12:23 PM
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Jean Vincenheller Dengler, Founder of Chi Omega
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.
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Christina "Ina" May Boles Morton, Founder of Chi Omega
Ina May, the last of the Founders to die, is buried in Dardanelle, Arkansas.
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One of our founder's grave bears the letters of Delta Chi and Delta Tau Delta, of which he was also a member.
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