There are places for our dead.

Places of peace and not dread.

Sites of simple or elaborate stones that memorialize our lost one's bones welcome to stones and bones oh oh welcome to Stars and Ghosts.

Oh, oh.

Lakeview Cemetery is located in Cleveland, Ohio, and is affectionately known as Cleveland's Outdoor Museum.

And that is for good reason, because there are thousands of beautiful

trees, flowers, memorials, monuments, and even a dam. During the Gilded Age, this was the cemetery

to the elite. Burials continue today for anyone. Behind the iron gates lie the remains of many

well-known people, including a former president.

And one memorial is dedicated to those lost in a tragic and deadly school fire. As is the case with

many of the early garden cemeteries, businessmen took the reins in creating a place to memorialize

the dead. In 1868, Cleveland,

these men were Henry B. Payne, Jepthe Wade, and Joseph Perkins. The other cemetery in the city,

Woodland Cemetery, had become overcrowded and didn't meet the finer tastes of the elite in the city.

The three men invited other businessmen to join a nonprofit they formed named Lakeview Cemetery Association.

There were 30 members in all representing banks, railroads, Western Union, and steel.

These men had been inspired by Mount Auburn Cemetery, and they gave their patch of land the name Lakeview

to represent the beauty they hoped to encapsulate,

and to make it clear that the cemetery was non-sectarian,

and also because of the view of Lake Erie one has when facing to the north.

Hence, Lakeview.

The spot they chose had previously been known as Smith Run, and Euclid

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