Memorial or cemetery
Kurgja farm cemetery
Carl Robert Jakobson, the fiery leader of the Estonian national awakening, bought Kurgja farm in 1874. A year later his first child, Olga, died at three weeks old. He wanted to bury her on his own land, and in October 1875 he laid her in the new family cemetery himself. Official permission came only in 1876. Jakobson was buried here in March 1882. On his birthday that July, people hauled a stone from the Pärnu River onto his grave as the cornerstone for a chapel that was never built. In 1926 sculptor Jaan Koort designed a new layout and monument, completed by Ferdi Sannamees and unveiled on 14 August 1927. Thirteen people rest here, the last buried in 1957.
Open it on the map See the spot on the old maps and as it is today
Eesti keeles
Ärkamisaja juht Carl Robert Jakobson ostis Kurgja talu 1874. aastal. Aasta hiljem suri tema esimene laps Olga, kes elas vaid kolm nädalat. Jakobson soovis matta tütre oma talu maadele ning 1875. aasta oktoobris mattis ta lapse uuele kalmistule ise. Ametlik luba tuli alles 1876. aastal. Jakobson ise maeti siia 1882. aasta märtsis. Tema sünnipäeval juulis veeti rahva ühisjõul hauale Pärnu jõest kivi, mis pidi saama hauakabeli nurgakiviks, kuid kabelit ei ehitatud. 1926. aastal kavandas kujur Jaan Koort kalmistule uue planeeringu ja mälestussamba, töö viis lõpule Ferdi Sannamees ja see avati 14. augustil 1927. Kalmistule on maetud 13 inimest, viimane 1957. aastal.