Findadeath Update: Mystery Corpse

Before my friend The Godfather of Graving, Roger Sinclair passed away, he gave me a few things.  One was this little booklet of pictures of a funeral and a corpse.  Now I don't remember who it was.  

I'm pretty sure it was a criminal.

Anyone?

 

Findadeath: Stoney the Elephant - The Gentle Giant

Findadeath friend Kerry Randal- Ospital sends today's Death Hag Sticker

Stoney

June 17, 1973  - August 26, 1995

He is buried at the Craig Road Pet Cemetery in Las Vegas.

Stoney was a performing elephant at the Luxor Hotel in Las Vegas.  

He was injured during a rehearsal and did not get proper care.   He died an agonizing year later.

The story is summarized in this Youtube video.  It's so sad.

According to legend, Stoney has been seen roaming around the cemetery, grazing on the grass.

I hope so.

RIP Stoney

My Inbox Today: Nick Adams' Grave

Scott,

Attached is a picture of Nick Adams' grave site that I thought you might find interesting.  Is shows his head stone, next to that of his parents.  We took a ride to the cemetery [in Pennsylvania]  where he is buried after finding your web site earlier this morning. Please feel free to publish the picture on your site.

                                                                          Thanks,

Tim 

Very Festive, indeed.  Thanks, Tim!

The Outcast Dead

A prostitute and pauper cemetery in London SE1

This is the Cross Bones graveyard on Redcross Way: a medieval burial ground, briefly a fairground, eventually turned into a Transport for London storage yard, and now a shrine to the ‘outcast dead’. Some 15,000 people — mostly paupers and prostitutes — are interred here. Their lives as individuals are long forgotten, but collectively they are remembered.

Via Londonist