Home Oak Cemetery and Lakes Community High School

Here's a bird's eye view of Home Oaks Cemetery and Lakes Community High School. I wonder if some students from Lakes would like to do a community service project and map their cemetery online? This would be a great service and they could help solve some family mysteries right in their own backyard!


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A Cemetery at a High School?

Grave Mappers continues to receive information about cemeteries in interesting locations - backyards, highway interchanges, parking lots, and even at a high school!


Lakes Community High School is located in Lake Villa, Illinois. When students look out the windows here, they don't just see a football field. Home Oak Cemetery shares the same corner of the intersection with the high school, and students walk through it everyday to get to school! View a photo and read more about it at Lakes' student newspaper website. Also, in 2005, for his Eagle Scout Service Project, Boy Scout Cameron Bay photographed all of the headstones in this cemetery. You can view his photos here. Another great Eagle Scout Project would be to build on what Cameron has done and create a map of this cemetery on Names in Stone.


We've also found two more cemeteries in parking lots to add to our list:

• Louisville, Kentucky - near a McDonald's and a Hobby Lobby.


• Oviedo, Spain - in the parking lot of the Parque Principado Mall.

Anyone interested in creating online maps for these cemeteries?

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This brings up a good question...


What if you want to map a cemetery on Names in Stone that is in a country other than the United States or Canada?


I contacted a Names in Stone representative and got some interesting information.

When you map a cemetery on the website, you create it on Google Maps. First, you register the name and address of the cemetery and then you are taken to the Google Map to pinpoint the location of the cemetery. As you know, these maps can take you anywhere in the world, and it's no different at Names in Stone. The website will allow you to map a cemetery at any location in the world.

Currently, the Cemetery List on the website only shows cemeteries in the United States and Canada. However, when cemeteries are added at other locations throughout the world, the website will be updated and will show the other countries as well. You can also contact Names in Stone at map@NamesInStone.com to let them know you are creating a map in another country.

Merry Christmas from Grave Mappers!

One Good Reason to Map Cemeteries

Here's a video that speaks for itself - another great reason to get our cemeteries mapped on Names in Stone!

Ike Scatters Caskets - Watch it on YouTube

Abandoned Cemeteries in Hanceville, Alabama

An anonymous reader sent Grave Mappers the coordinates and locations for three abandoned cemeteries in Hanceville, Alabama and another cemetery in Cullman County:

• In someone's yard, next to their house - 34o 03'55.58" N 86o 45'30.65" W elev 541 ft.
• A small patch of trees contains a graveyard between Interstate 65 and Highway 31 in Alabama: 34o 18'49.39" N 86o 54'06.05" W elev 630 ft.
• Another adjacent to an apartment complex in Hanceville Alabama: 34o 04' 08.89" N 86o 46' 18.42" W elev. 555 ft.
• The Boyd Cemetery in Cullman County hidden by a path of trees: 34o 04'27.65" N 860 46' 28.31" W elev 608 ft.

Would this reader or another Alabama Grave Mapper be able to go to these locations and collect gravestone locations and information? It would be great to get these cemeteries mapped and on the Names in Stone website so everyone could access their information!