Graves of your founders?

[pshsx1]

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.

[BabyPiNK_FL]

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.

[KDCat]

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.

[als463]

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&

[MysticCat]

Originally Posted by als463

Mary Elizabeth Myrick Daniel has a quatrefoil-shaped grave in Oakgrove Cemetery (Americus, GA) . . . .
Mary Ann Dupont Lines also has a quatrefoil-shaped grave in Evergreen Cemetery (Jacksonville, FL) . . . .
Martha Bibb Hardaway Redding also has a marking of a quatrefoil-shaped grave at Riverside Cemetery (Macon, GA) . . . .

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.

[als463]

Originally Posted by MysticCat

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.

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!

[NutBrnHair]

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.