Posts Tagged ‘lake view cemetery’
We who have believed…
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged bible, bible verses, cleveland, epitaphs, lake view cemetery, ohio on June 16, 2013 | Leave a Comment »
Lewis Wordless Wednesday
Posted in Dead Men Do Tell Tales, tagged cause of death, cleveland, lake view cemetery, occupation, ohio, soldier, tombstone tales, veteran, wordless wednesday, world war i, wwi on February 20, 2013 | 1 Comment »
Joy
Posted in Cemetery Sculpture, tagged cleveland, grave art, lake view cemetery, ohio, porcelain portrait, portrait on February 19, 2013 | 1 Comment »
Anyone who’s been following along here for a length of time will know that porcelain portraits are on my list of “coolest things to have on a headstone.” Most porcelain portraits are clearly drawn from posed, often professional portraits, but every once in a while, a family chooses a photo that you can’t help but smile back at.
I will always take care of you
Posted in Cemetery Sculpture, tagged cleveland, epitaphs, grave art, lake view cemetery, ohio, sculpture on February 18, 2013 | 1 Comment »
Presented by his comrades of the First Pursuit Group
Posted in Dead Men Do Tell Tales, tagged cause of death, cleveland, lake view cemetery, occupation, ohio, pilot, us history, world war i, wwi on February 17, 2013 | 1 Comment »
Captain Burt E. Skeel died while representing the Army Air Service in the International Air Race at Wilbur Wright Field in Dayton, Ohio. He crashed in front of spectators when the wings came off his plane. A native of East Cleveland, Ohio, Skeel had served in World War I, starting in the infantry and then transferring to the Air Service, where he remained as a pilot after the war.
Maurer Maurer.
Aviation in the U.S. Army, 1919-1939.
Peter Vischer, “When Men Race with Death to Make the Air Safe.” Popular Science. January 1925.
Lions and tigers and bears, oh my! Well, just one lion.
Posted in Cemetery Sculpture, Statues, tagged cleveland, grave art, lake view cemetery, ohio, sculpture, statue on February 14, 2013 | Leave a Comment »
This monument was put in sometime very recently, because it was not erected yet the last time I visited Lake View Cemetery, but it was there when I traveled there Martin Luther King, Jr., weekend.
Wilson Wordless Wednesday
Posted in Dead Men Do Tell Tales, tagged cleveland, history, lake view cemetery, marine, ohio, okinawa, veteran, wordless wednesday, world war ii, wwii on February 13, 2013 | Leave a Comment »
Hail Mary
Posted in Cemetery Sculpture, Symbolism, tagged cleveland, grave art, lake view cemetery, ohio, rosary, sculpture, symbolism on February 12, 2013 | 1 Comment »
In my other life, I am a member of the Society for Creative Anachronism (SCA), and one of my particular areas of interest is prayer beads. The rosary wasn’t standardized until the 1560s, but there were various forms of prayer beads used in Christian Europe for the previous few hundred years, and the rosary became the best known one and most associated with Roman Catholicism.
In memory of Karen Laurel Ball…
Posted in Dead Men Do Tell Tales, tagged celtic crosses, cleveland, cross, Crosses, epitaphs, lake view cemetery, ohio, tombstone tales on February 11, 2013 | 1 Comment »
Gordon Wordless Wednesday
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged cleveland, epitaphs, flowers, grave art, lake view cemetery, ohio, sculpture, star of david, symbolism on February 6, 2013 | Leave a Comment »
