Fairview Lawn Cemetery, Halifax, Nova Scotia ~ September 2025

When the Titanic sank on April 15, 1912, around 1500 people died. 150 of them are buried in Halifax, Nova Scotia. We took a quick tour through the cemetery back in 2025.

This cemetery is best known as the final resting place of 121 victims from the Titanic. When the Titanic sank, ships were sent out from Halifax to recover bodies. Hundreds were recovered and many were buried at sea. About 200 bodies were brought back to Halifax where families claimed some of them. The rest were buried in Halifax. Fairview Lawn Cemetery has the aforementioned 121 burials, Mt Olivet Cemetery has 19 graves, and Baron de Hirsch Cemetery holds 10.

Each body received a number when it was recovered and many of the graves remain unnamed/unknown.

The unknown child was later identified.

The Titanic ship owner provided the small granite gravestones for each victim. If the families wanted a larger stone, it was their expense. Here are some of the larger stones with their sometimes elaborate epitaphs.

Alma Paulson was lost with four of her children.

Arthur McCrae has a large stone with a Celtic Cross.

Crew Member

Crew member, ..."How Englishmen Should Die"

Informative Signage

This is a very moving place to visit, and Halifax continues to care for the final resting places of these lost souls from April 15, 1912.

Ionia County Infirmary Cemetery ~ Riverside Drive, Ionia MI

We came across this place quite by accident and it's a sad little spot. People living, and dying, in the once existing Poor House were buried here. The wooden crosses that were allegedly placed at each grave are long gone. No known cemetery plat exists and specific gravesites are not noted. Burials took place from 1907 to 1934 (but the first date on the plaque is 1908).

Sometime in the 1980s a ten ton boulder was brought in and a plaque was installed that lists 55 names of people known to be buried here. The names were retrieved from the Poor House Record Book in the State Archives in Lansing, Michigan, and the plaque lists the names by year of death.

One of the 55 was a still born baby 😞

The DNR was gifted the property by the Ionia County Board and now maintains the site. Information on the lives of these souls that ended up in a Poor House, however, is lost to time.