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Adventures of Ponyboy: Tombstone Tourist

Adventures of Ponyboy: Tombstone Tourist

By Jonella

Adventures of Ponyboy: Tombstone Tourist explores cemeteries and graveyards to find the final resting place of the famous, the infamous, and the lost to history. Some are intensely personal, found with planning and hours or days of driving. Others are stumbled upon while headed further down the road.
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Episode 3: George Prance

Adventures of Ponyboy: Tombstone TouristMar 25, 2023

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Episode 3: George Prance

Episode 3: George Prance

This week Jonella’s talking about Medal of Honor Recipient George Prance. SOURCES Find A Grave: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/12826784/george-prance Congressional Medal of Honor Society: https://www.cmohs.org/recipients/george-prance Medal of Honor Day: https://www.cmohs.org/medal/medal-of-honor-day-information Dennis Evanosky (historian): https://evanosky.info/ Suicide & Crisis Lifeline: https://988lifeline.org/ Veterans Crisis Line Information: https://www.veteranscrisisline.net/ Smithsonian Magazine: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/ptsd-civil-wars-hidden-legacy-180953652/ History of PTSD: https://www.ptsd.va.gov/understand/what/history_ptsd.asp Inquest Clip: https://img.fold3.com/img/reference/IMAGE/318479540?width=310&height=169 Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Prance Image of a Parrott Rifle: https://media.gettyimages.com/photos/three-100-pounder-parrot-rifles-one-of-the-breaching-batteries-fort-picture-id103917282 ADDITIONAL SOURCES: Ancestry.com Find A Grave Newspapers.com ObitsArchive.com SHOW INFORMATION 🎙🛣🚐🎧 Tombstone Tourist is self-produced out of a van on the road. 👩🏻‍💻 Cemetery Stories Submissions: jonella@AdventuresOfPonyboy.com 📸 Tag me in your cemetery adventures on IG: #TombstoneTouristPodcast 🌠 All the nonsense that is me on IG: @AdventuresOfPonyboy 🤩 Support this Podcast and gain access to the virtual cemetery: patreon.com/AdventuresOfPonyboy 🪦 Plan your visit to Mountain View Cemetery: https://www.mountainviewcemetery.org/ 👻 Graveyard Etiquette: http://adventuresofponyboy.com/graveyard-etiquette 🏔 This episode was recorded on the ancestral land of the Cowlitz, Nisqually, and Squaxin. To learn about the land you live on, visit Our Native Land. https://native-land.ca 🌟 This episode is sponsored by Anchor, the easiest way to make a podcast: https://anchor.fm/ SHOW DESCRIPTION Jonella is a full time vanlifer visiting roadside memorials and cemeteries. Some of the graves belong to the famous that might otherwise be difficult to find. The roadside memorials are often driven past at speeds were they are barely noticed. Jonella will give you a little bit of information about who these folks were and amplify the voices of family and friends who tend these monuments. She’s a practicing road witch so you’re going to get a healthy dose of astrology, divination, and magick. Oh, and there will be occasional focuses on Medal of Honor recipients, the paranormal, and true crime. Basically, she’s a big old freak. Join her if this sounds like it’s up your alley.
Mar 25, 202349:13
Episode 2: Pioneer Park

Episode 2: Pioneer Park

This week Jonella’s talking about Pioneer Park also known Calvary Cemetery and the horrible thing done to the folks buried there and their families by the City of San Diego and the Catholic Church.

SOURCES

Websites:

The San Diego History Center https://sandiegohistory.org/collection/photographs/ac024/

The History of Calvary Cemetery https://freepages.rootsweb.com/~clement/genealogy/Calvary/Ack.htm

Locations:

Guy B Woodward Museum: https://www.facebook.com/GuyBWoodwardMuseum/

Lemon Grove Parsonage Museum: https://www.lghistorical.org/museum/

Articles/Posts:

Exploring San Diego County and Beyond By Lens https://www.exploresandiego.net/pioneer-park.html

San Diego Reader, August 29, 2018 https://www.sandiegoreader.com/news/2018/aug/29/unassuming-cemetery-mission-hills/

Voice of San Diego, November 24, 2010 https://voiceofsandiego.org/2010/11/24/fact-check-the-bodies-beneath-a-san-diego-park/

Books:

Abandoned San Diego by Jessica D Johnson

Additional Sources:

Ancestry.com

Find A Grave

Newspapers.com

ObitsArchive.com

SHOW INFORMATION

🎙🛣🚐🎧 Tombstone Tourist is self-produced out of a van on the road.

👩🏻‍💻 Cemetery Stories Submissions: jonella@AdventuresOfPonyboy.com

📸 Tag me in your cemetery adventures on Instagram: #TombstoneTouristPodcast

🤩 Support this Podcast and get lots of extras including visual aids: patreon.com/AdventuresOfPonyboy

🪦 Plan your visit to Pioneer Park: https://hiddensandiego.com/things-to-do/places/pioneer-park

🪦 Plan your visit to Mount Hope: https://www.sandiego.gov/park-and-recreation/general-info/mthope/

👻 Graveyard Etiquette: http://adventuresofponyboy.com/graveyard-etiquette

🏔 This episode was recorded on the native land of the Kumeyaay. To learn about the land you live on, visit Our Native Land. https://native-land.ca

🌟 This episode is sponsored by Anchor, the easiest way to make a podcast: https://anchor.fm/

Feb 09, 202301:01:31
Episode 1: Kate Morgan

Episode 1: Kate Morgan

This week Jonella’s talking about why graveyards are fun and honoring the dead is important, her relationship(?) with Kate Morgan, and teases what’s to come in part two of future episodes.

KATE MORGAN

Date of Birth
23 September 1865
Hamburg, Iowa

Date of Death
29 November 1892
Coronado, CA

Resting Place
Mount Hope Cemetery
San Diego, CA

SOURCES

Podcasts:

And That’s Why We Drink

Episode 299: A Lesson in Filaments & a Future Ghost Prank

Dark Memory

Episode 17 February 2022

Haunted: Ghosts of the Hotel del Coronado in San Diego, CA

Articles/Posts:

J’Aime Rubio's Dreaming Casually: Who Was the Beautiful Stranger?

Heather Munroe: The Hopeless Death of Kate Morgan

Cecilia Rasmussen for The Los Angeles Times: A Historic Ghost Story Wrapped in an Enigma

YouTube:

Sarah Mayes: The Mystery of Kate Morgan and The Haunting of the Hotel Del Coronado

Additional Sources:

Ancestry.com

Find A Grave

Newspapers.com

ObitsArchive.com


SHOW INFORMATION

🎙🛣🚐🎧 Tombstone Tourist is self-produced out of a van on the road.

👩🏻‍💻 Cemetery Stories Submissions: jonella@AdventuresOfPonyboy.com

📸 Tag me in your cemetery adventures on Instagram: #TombstoneTouristPodcast

🌠 Follow along on my insta-adventures: @AdventuresOfPonyboy

🤩 Support this Podcast and get lots of extras including visual aids to help you find Kate Morgan’s grave: patreon.com/AdventuresOfPonyboy

🪦 Plan your visit to Mount Hope: https://www.sandiego.gov/park-and-recreation/general-info/mthope/

👻 Graveyard Etiquette: http://adventuresofponyboy.com/graveyard-etiquette

🏔 This episode was recorded on the native land of the Kumeyaay. To learn about the land you live on, visit Our Native Land. https://native-land.ca

🌟 This episode is sponsored by Anchor, the easiest way to make a podcast: https://anchor.fm/

Jan 22, 202301:10:22
Episode 0: Naya Rivera

Episode 0: Naya Rivera

This week on the podcast, Jonella travels to Burbank, CA, and visits Forest Lawn Hollywood Hills looking for Naya Rivera’s burial place in the Sanctuary of Enduring Protection.

🍍You can follow along on the website, looking at the photos as she walks you there, step by step. http://adventuresofponyboy.com/confessional/2021/3/19/tombstone-tourist-naya-rivera

🪦 Plan your visit to Forest Lawn Hollywood Hills. https://forestlawn.com/parks/hollywood-hills/

🪦 Before you go, review your graveyard etiquette. http://adventuresofponyboy.com/graveyard-etiquette

🪦 Be sure to tag Adventures of Ponyboy and use #TombstoneTourist if you post about your visit on Instagram. https://www.instagram.com/adventuresofponyboy/

🌠 If you’re unfamiliar with Naya Rivera, you can check out her Instagram. https://www.instagram.com/nayarivera/

🎙 Support the podcast and get extras and insights from Jonella on Patreon. https://www.patreon.com/AdventuresOfPonyboy?fan_landing=true

☕️ Keep Jonella caffeinated while she’s working on the podcast. https://ko-fi.com/adventuresofponyboy

🏔 This episode was recorded on the native land of the Kumeyaay. To learn about the land you live on, visit Our Native Land. https://native-land.ca

May 18, 202119:19