Persons Buried In The Hillcrest Cemetery

This volume invites readers to get up close and personal with one of the most respected and beloved writers of the last four decades. Carolyn J. Sharp has transcribed numerous table conversations between Walter Brueggemann and his colleagues and former students, in addition to several of his addresses and sermons from both academic and congregational settings. The result is the essential Brueggemann: readers will learn about his views on scholarship, faith, and the church; get insights into his "contagious charisma," grace, and charity; and appreciate the candid reflections on the fears, uncertainties, and difficulties he faced over the course of his career. Anyone interested in Brueggemann's work and thoughts will be gifted with thought-provoking, inspirational reading from within these pages.

In 1853 settlers came to McNeil Island in the Puget Sound in Washington State. They farmed the land and set up a town. In 1875 a farmer sold his land to the Federal Government for a Territorial Prison in 1891 Washington Territory became Washington State and the Territorial Prison became a US Penitentiary. By 1938 the Federal Government owned the rest of the island. The prison started a cemetery around 1879. It was next to the first building built as a Penitentiary, By 1904 the another building was needed. The best place was were the Cemetery was, so the bodies were disinterred and moved to the current prisoner cemetery on the island along with other prisoner from 1904 to 1972 . The settlers also started a cemetery in 1904. In 1937 and 1938 the Federal Government made arrangements with the families of the people buried there to be disinterred and moved to a cemetery of the families choosing. This book tells us were the settlers are now buried and who the prisoners are in the McNeil Island Cemetery also name Hillcrest Cemetery. The island is not open at he public to visit. This US Penitentiary is known as the forgotten US Penitentiary. because no one famous were there. I hope this book will help families find their missing relative and let them be remembered so we can learn from their stories.

Stories Beneath the Stones tells the history of Canton, Texas by revealing the fascinating lives of those buried in its City Cemetery, 1850 - 2015.

A Newsman Remembered is not just the story of the life of Ralph Burdette Jordan (RBJ or Jock) who was a remarkable newspaperman/motion picture publicist/war correspondent. It is also a glimpse into an era of American social and political history that is now, unfortunately, largely forgotten if not discarded. The compelling personalities with whom he engaged Aimee Semple McPherson, William Randolph Hearst, Louis B. Mayer, General Douglas MacArthur are but fading memories which this book briefly restores. The first half of the 20th century began as an era of optimism that encompassed a belief that working hard along with seizing the main chance would produce social, professional and financial success. Ralph Jordan certainly exuded that optimism in everything that he encountered in his short life. Along with his contemporaries, moving into the great (largely ill-defined) middle class was his overarching goal. Within this goal, family life was an important ingredient for him - marriage in his day was still a partnership with clearly defined marital roles and expectations. Ralph and Marys marriage reflected that domestic configuration. Religious faith if not always observed to the letter also formed an important part of their family life. It could not be otherwise for them and those other largely third-generation descendants of Mormon pioneers (and their non-Mormon contemporaries) with whom they associated. These so-called Mormon second- and third-generation diasporans were willing even eager to leave behind them the remoteness of what was then described as Zion, to seek more promising futures elsewhere, retaining as best they could their unique heritage. Thus, Ralph Jordans story is indeed a life and times story worth telling!