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Anneliese Rayburn (née Pfingst) was born in 1919 to Alfred and Frieda Pfingst in Minden, Westphalia, Germany. She was the eldest of three children, including a sister fifteen months younger […]
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In the coming months, the Frederick Douglass family plot at Mount Hope Cemetery will have two new headstones—one for his wife, Anna Murray Douglass, and one for his ten-year old […]
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2021 is the third and final year of a project to repair all the gravestones in areas contiguous to the Susan B. Anthony gravesite. This year’s work is focused on […]
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Ludwig Litten was born in Jastrow, Poland on June 2, 1898. He received his medical degree in Munich in 1922 and did further training in obstetrics and gynecology in Berlin. […]
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William (Bill) Konar was the youngest of four children born to a family living in the city of Radom, Poland, about 70 miles south of Warsaw. His father died when […]
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On March 15th the Holocaust Committee of the Friends of Mount Hope was invited by Tony Filer to attend his presentation at the Monroe Community College Holocaust, Genocide and Human […]
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Anna Murray Douglass and Daughter Annie Douglass to be Honored with Memorials at Mount Hope Cemetery
Below is a link to the 2/22/22 press release announcing plans to add two gravestones to the Frederick Douglass family plot to mark the graves of Anna Murray Douglass and […]
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One of our winter projects…installing tree tags. 2022 is the third year that the FOMH have ordered tree tags, which include QR codes, that will guide visitors to our PlantsMap […]
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We have a wide range of restoration activities at Mount Hope Cemetery. We welcome Scouts who would like to volunteer with their troop as well as scouts who would be […]
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“We didn’t check the boxes as often this year as we did in past years, so the numbers are more approximate. There were 5 successful bluebird broods nesting in our […]
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