Sunday, March 10, 2013

Glenwood and Olivewood Cemeteries

On Friday we went to go to some of the oldest cemeteries in Houston. One was real fancy and well kept. The other not so much.
We saw some pretty old graves at Glenwood. Now this is the fancy one where wealthy people in Houston are buried. Anyways so some of the graves we saw were over 150 years old! The graves were in really great condition for being that old to. They also had some interesting statues there to. Some were old tombs. Others just regular statues.
At Olivewood however the condition of it was poor. Some of the stones were in the woods and covered with trees and bushes. I even saw one grave that appeared to be carved by a knife. The oldest grave I saw there was from 1846. The whole place looked like a haunted cemetery but I'm sure it's not. One epitaphs that I found cool was this: "In my fathers house are many mansions"













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