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As per usual, I was searching for something to do with Dad on his most recent visit and Bam! a Living Social deal for the Lincoln Cottage at Solider Home hit my email. Very cool museum which I'll talk about in a later post. But the museum wasn't going to take more than a couple of hours so what else was there to do in the general vicinity? To the internet!
With some judicious searching (gotta love
googlemaps.com) I found St. Paul's Episcopal Church and the Rock Creek Cemetery in Rock Creek parish right next door to Solider Home. Now there wasn't much on the
St. Paul's website about the cemetary but wikipedia has some interesting info on the statuary so I was sold!
Rock Creek Cemetery is the only surviving colonial cemetery in what is now Washington, DC. In 1719, Colonel John Bradford of Maryland, donated the 100 acres or a glebe of land in support of a church and burial ground. In 1840, an Act of Congress, made the cemetery a public burial place. Sections have been reserved for local Russian Orthodox and Latvian churches. In 1977, the cemetery was added to the U.S. National Register of Historic Places.
Of the statuary in the cemetery, the Saint-Guaden's statue,
The Mystery of the Hereafter and The Peace of God that Passeth Underneath or
Grief as it is more commonly known is probably the most famous. Even though Dad and I drove/walked most of the grounds we could not find it. In fact, we apparently missed most of the famous statues. Go figure. Perhaps next time. I could tell Dad was a little worried about how much fun I was having taking pictures in a cemetery so we called it a day.
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