{"id":1425,"date":"2013-11-03T19:48:14","date_gmt":"2013-11-04T01:48:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/sightseer\/?p=1425"},"modified":"2013-11-03T19:49:36","modified_gmt":"2013-11-04T01:49:36","slug":"old-city-cemetery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/sightseer\/?p=1425","title":{"rendered":"Old City Cemetery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gravegarden.org\/\">Old City Cemetery<\/a>\u00a0(Lynchburg, Virginia)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Shonagh\u00a0<\/strong>recommends this site: &#8220;If anyone is heading toward Lynchburg, Virginia, there is a great cemetery to visit. It has a huge civil war section, not to mention one German soldier from World War Two. Also right in the cemetery are two small museums. One is a pest house and medical musuem from the Civil War. It is really interesting to see how medicine advanced. then then other is simply a museum chronicling how people were buried in the 19th Century. There are two great things in this museum: a horse-drawn hearse all clad in black. It is open. We have a picture of my mom laying in the back. The second is a wicker casket. That fascinated me, seeing as that anything left outside for a day in Lynchburg instantly rots. I am guessing that wicker caskets weren&#8217;t popular. Anyway, it is one of the best cemeteries I have ever been to.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>William13\u00a0<\/strong>has additional information to offer: &#8220;I had the opportunity to visit the Old City Cemetery in Lynchburg, Virginia. A beautifully maintained cemetery dating from the golden age, it boasts a sizable contigent of Confederate dead, a renowned collection of rose bushes as well as a pond and &#8216;scattering&#8217; garden for the ashes of the cremated. But most exciting was the &#8216;Pest House&#8217; where the poor sufferers of smallpox were treated during the great smallpox epidemic of 1862 &#8211; 1864. One could almost hear the desperate groans of the blighted souls as the doctor and nurses coated their rotting flesh with various balms and unguents.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Old City Cemetery\u00a0(Lynchburg, Virginia) Shonagh\u00a0recommends this site: &#8220;If anyone is heading toward Lynchburg, Virginia, there is a great cemetery to visit. It has a huge civil war section, not to mention one German soldier from World War Two. Also right &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/sightseer\/?p=1425\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[121],"tags":[54,118,84,86],"class_list":["post-1425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-virginia","tag-cemetery","tag-funeral","tag-medicine","tag-military"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/sightseer\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1425","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/sightseer\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/sightseer\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/sightseer\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/sightseer\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1425"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/sightseer\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1425\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1426,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/sightseer\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1425\/revisions\/1426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/sightseer\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/sightseer\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/sightseer\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}