Riverside Cemetery: crypts

This place had crypts, man! Crypts! Desecrated crypts, but still. Crypts. There were three of them and they were all completely different from each other, which made it look a little strange, but whatever. Crypts.

This is actually the upper portion of the back of the first one:
You could kinda peer down inside, but it was dark. Really, really dark. Also empty.

Part of the marker that's visible in the first photo:
The crypt of H.F. & Mary Jones. As mentioned above, they are no longer in residence. I actually don't know where they got moved off to.

And the front:
Remember the Alamo! Er, no wait. Anyway, it had 2 very thoroughly broken padlocks on it, plus a huge metal plate drilled on to it to keep the doors closed. Yeah, this one had been smacked around pretty hard. Why'd you screw with a place where, yanno, THE DEAD ARE BURIED, I kinda don't really know. Unless perhaps you were dropped on your head as a child. Multiple times. Until you were five or so.

Next in line was the Evans crypt:
This one is in the hillside and has no information on it other than the family name. It's also empty inside, as you shall see in a moment.

But first, the gate!
It was cool, okay? Gosh.

Above:
Almost looks like something out of a movie set, except it's all real and stuff (actually, with this "font", I'm thinking it's a Woodsman of the World burial plot).

And as promised, the inside:
This was taken through the gate, with the flash on, obviously. Those are the original doors down there, all good and broken. And clearly, nobody home. Whoever was here was also moved thanks to vandalism, but as with the Jones family, I don't know where they were hauled off to.

And the last one, which apparently still gets visitors:
This one was in much better condition and appears to be kept up. It also appeared that the person who was buried here... is still buried here. Was quite large for just one person though.

Over the entryway:
Sandstone: never a good choice for grave markers or lettering on the outside of tombs. This shall be further illustrated in a later post.

And so in case you're wondering just who's here:
It's this guy, apparently.

And so that's all for now. I have a ton of other photos, plus all the photos from Littleton, plus probably another billion photos on top of that which I've forgotten about. One of these days they'll make it up here... hopefully. :P

Riverside Cemetery: McNeil plot

There were all kinds of over-the-top markers and the like in this cemetery, but this one was all sorts of fascinating. I should have taken more pictures of it because the level of detail was really cool, plus the thing had to have been insanely expensive (like so many of the markers here).

McNeil family plot:

Pretty sure this was just a 'ma & pa' grave, and the carving on the front was of 'ma'. I would have sworn I took pictures of the writing on either side of the carving, but I don't appear to have any. Maybe my camera is haunted.

Does this scream "cemetery" or what?

Actually, if it had been screaming, I might have been too.

This is what was on the other side:

Where can I find me some granite like this?! Holy schist! Or something like that.

I will guide thee with mine eye...

I'll do it, just you wait and see.

Dear children we will meet again...

And shake hands, I guess.

Some parting words from Ma:

There weren't, IIRC, any parting words from Pa, though.

So there was that. And a hell of a lot more similar to it. This place was far more interesting than the Littleton Cemetery, which is why I'm putting these up before the rest of those. I mean, the only thing interesting there was that silly old cannibal, and c'mon, outrageous markers and names and statuary just blow that right out of the water.

Riverside Cemetery

May 5, 2013 - Riverside Cemetery - oldest cemetery in Denver

This place was just... bizarre. So bizarre I muddled my way through my phone-interwebs connection just to get to Facebook so I could tell all 2 people who read my posts! But I made that post from my phone! That's almost more exciting than the cemetery was!

(you guys, my phone is like, a dinosaur, or something)

Anyway.

There's a lot to see in this cemetery. So much, in fact, that it's going to require at least one more trip in order to really see everything. We got there kinda late and the place closes at 5:00 (the dead need sleep, or something) so there wasn't any real way to take it all in because it's terribly overwhelming. Mostly because it's so WEIRD.

However, it was not this:


Failing
I'm not making fun of the dead (okay, I sort of am), but really, "Failing" is a pretty terrible name. Unless it belongs to someone else, in which case it's kind of hilarious.

Fate, see me tempt it.

(one thing that IS failing? Photobucket. Holy fuckity fuck, have I mentioned how much I hate Photofuckit?)

So Jesus was hanging around:


Jesus. Hanging around.
He maybe could have gone with the statuary post I'm going to make, but I guess he'll do fine here. This wasn't actually a grave marker, just a statue chilling in the middle of the cemetery. Some of the actual statuary markers were outrageous. And I have photogenic proof (that you might have to wait on because I'm slow like that)!

Then there was this:


"Tread softly stranger, this is ground which no rude footstep should impress. With tender pity gaze around , let sadness all thy soul possess"
Someone was mighty emo. Or something.

I guess I'll let these three stand on their own. I have two other posts I want to slap up here real quick tonight. Also, yeah, all of these pictures (from this and subsequent posts) were taken in MAY of this year. No, there are no leaves on the trees. Yes, it looks like the middle of fucking January. Someone just kill me and get it over with. I even know where you could bury me.