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Description: Caption on reverse reads: "Stanley Monument in Woodland Cemetery, Dayton, Ohio. To Levi Stanley, king of the Stanley stribe [tribe] of Gypsies. If used for reproduction please use credit line as below. Photograph by Sam R. Kremer Dayton, Ohio" Levi Stanley (died December 3, 1908) and Matilda Joles Stanley (died January 15, 1878), who were accorded the honorific titles of King and Queen of the Gypsies, are buried in the Woodland Cemetery in Dayton, on the Stanley family plot. The monument has an angel at the top, and a Masonic emblem is visible midway down the column. More than 25,000 people, nomads from all across the world, gathered at the cemetery in 1878, to mourn the death of Queen Matilda. Woodland Cemetery is unusual, in that it contains 3 Gypsy Kings and 2 Queens, making it one of the few places considered hallowed ground by Gypsy tribes. Woodland Cemetery is located at 1502 West Central Avenue in Dayton. Designed by John Witten Van Cleve, it was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1998. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B09F10_040_1
Subjects: Monuments--Ohio; Gypsies; Cemeteries--Ohio--Montgomery County; Woodland Cemetery and Arboretum (Dayton, Ohio)
Places: Dayton (Ohio); Montgomery County (Ohio)