Graves of people connected to Greek Letter Societies

[badgeguy]

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?

[badgeguy]

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

[badgeguy]

One of the founders of Sigma Chi, Isaac Jordan

[badgeguy]

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

[badgeguy]

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

[MysticCat]

Originally Posted by badgeguy

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]

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

[NutBrnHair]

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]

Miss Jobelle's gravesite is in the same cemetery in Fayetteville, AR as Dr. Richardson's (pictured above).

[NutBrnHair]

Allie shares a grave in Congressional Cemetery in Washington, D.C. with her sister. They both died quite young.

[carnation]

Originally Posted by NutBrnHair

Miss Jobelle's gravesite is in the same cemetery in Fayetteville, AR as Dr. Richardson's (pictured above).

Nut, isn't Miss Holcomb buried in Springdale? That looks like the cemetery there.

[Gusteau]

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

[NutBrnHair]

[badgeguy]

Originally Posted by NutBrnHair

Question: I see Mizpah at the bottom of the headstones....isn't that a Jewish word? (Sorry if I'm wrong, I was just curious if it was becuase I am wondering if Phi Mu had Jewish connections?)
I'm reading a book called Going Greek about the formations of the Jewish fraternities and sororities.

BG

[MysticCat]

Originally Posted by badgeguy

Question: I see Mizpah at the bottom of the headstones....isn't that a Jewish word? (Sorry if I'm wrong, I was just curious if it was becuase I am wondering if Phi Mu had Jewish connections?)
I'm reading a book called Going Greek about the formations of the Jewish fraternities and sororities.

BG

It is a Hebrew (and Biblical) word, though I wonder if you are thinking of mitzvah.

Mizpah. And:

"Laban said, 'This heap [of stones] is a witness between you and me this day.' Therefore it was named Galeed, and Mizpah, for he said, 'May the Lord watch between you and me when we are absent one from the other.'"

Genesis 31:48-49. This is referred to as the Covenant of Mizpah.