Posts Tagged ‘cenotaph’
Boyd Wordless Wednesday
Posted in Cemetery Sculpture, Dead Men Do Tell Tales, Statues, tagged cause of death, cenotaph, dublin, epitaph, grave art, ireland, occupation, poem, st. patrick's cathedral, statue, statues on April 17, 2013 | Leave a Comment »
Cross on the battlefield
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged cenotaph, cenotaphs, civil war, cross, gettysburg, gettysburg national military park, grave art, pennsylvania, sculpture on December 17, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
There aren’t a lot of crosses in Gettysburg National Military Park. The 142nd Pennsylvania has this rough-hewn, rugged cross.
So, do you send out forwarding address cards?
Posted in Cemetery mysteries, tagged cenotaph, cenotaphs, cleveland, east cleveland, east cleveland township, east cleveland township cemetery, names, woodland cemetery on December 7, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
So, in East Cleveland Cemetery, I’ve already posted photos of this obelisk.
I started out trying to find out if this obelisk in Woodland Cemetery was for descendants of the original family in East Cleveland.
Then I realized that the names and death years matched on one panel. It appears that at some point, the Edwards’ descendants erected a monument for them in Woodland Cemetery, and possibly moved the remains from East Cleveland. Then they continued adding other family members to the new monument and buried them in the family plot at Woodland Cemetery.
Doyle Wordless Wednesday
Posted in Dead Men Do Tell Tales, tagged buffalo, cenotaph, cenotaphs, new york, occupation, trinity church, wordless wednesday on November 21, 2012 | 1 Comment »
Baptismal font
Posted in Graveless memorials, tagged babies, buffalo, cenotaph, cenotaphs, child, children, new york, trinity church on November 18, 2012 | 1 Comment »
Nearly everything in Trinity Church had a memorial plaque or inscription on it. Unsurprisingly, the baptismal font is dedicated to a little girl who died young. I wonder what it felt like for the parents of Mary Rochester to watch babies be baptized in the font with their daughter’s name on it.
Cenotaphs
Posted in Dead Men Do Tell Tales, tagged cenotaph, cenotaphs, clergy, cleveland, lakeview cemetery on November 9, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
These cenotaphs are both in the same small section of Lake View Cemetery. There’s something sweet and sad about the desire to erect a monument to a family member who is buried in another cemetery.
John Burns
Posted in Somewhere other than a cemetery, tagged battle of gettysburg, cenotaph, civil war, gettysburg, pennsylvania, sculpture, soldier, statue, tombstone tales, veteran on July 2, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
John Burns was a 67 year old veteran of the War of 1812 and the Mexican-American War when the Civil War broke out. Burns tried to volunteer as a soldier once again but was turned down due to his age. He returned to his hometown of Gettysburg and became constable. When the Civil War appeared on his doorstep, he picked up his flintlock musket and went out to join the fray. Lt. Col. Thomas Chamberlin of the 150th Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteers, recorded in his diary being approached by Burns and asked if he could join the regiment and fight. Colonel Wister of the 150th granted his permission and sent the elderly man into the woods by McPherson Farm, where he fought next to the famous Iron Brigade. He was wounded and captured but soon released. Burns became a national hero, even meeting President Abraham Lincoln when he visited in November to dedicate the National Cemetery. He passed away in 1872. The statue to him on the battlefield was dedicated on July 1, 1903, the 40th anniversary of his deeds in the battle.
John Burns, The Battle of Gettysburg: The American Civil War.
John Burns: Citizen Soldier at the Battle of Gettysburg. Civil War Sources.
John Burns of Gettysburg – Some Rare Trivia. Civil War Talk.
To the Loyal Women
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged battle of gettysburg, cenotaph, civil war, gettysburg, gettysburg national military park, pennsylvania, women's history, women's studies on June 30, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
This is something a little different – this plaque is inside the Pennsylvania state monument at Gettysburg. I am not aware that there is anything else like this on the battlefield proper (but I’ve been wrong before). What it made me think about was that here is a plaque with no names, just dedicated to the loyal women of the commonwealth, and yet it probably contains more information than most of their tombstones did.
Though I walk…
Posted in Morbid Musings, tagged cenotaph, epitaphs, lakewood, lakewood historical society, ohio on February 25, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil.
Despite how famous of a biblical quote this is, this is the only time I have ever found it on a tombstone.
A Grave Concern: Raffensperger Wordless Wednesday
Posted in Dead Men Do Tell Tales, tagged cenotaph, cleveland, lakeview cemetery, ohio, wordless wednesday on December 21, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
