Posts Tagged ‘veteran’
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 »
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 »
Lynch Wordless Wednesday
Posted in Dead Men Do Tell Tales, tagged cause of death, cleveland, epitaphs, lake view cemetery, ohio, soldier, veteran, wordless wednesday on January 30, 2013 | Leave a Comment »
Emblems of belief
Posted in Cemetery Sculpture, Symbolism, tagged cross, Crosses, department of veterans affairs, government marker, lake view cemetery, star of david, symbolism, veteran on January 28, 2013 | 1 Comment »
In a tiny little veterans section of Lake View Cemetery, I found a more diverse selection of the emblems of belief available for government headstones for veterans. All the available emblems are listed here.
The most common one that I see is described simply as a Christian Cross.
Sgt. Eddie Fields’ stone has the symbol for the United Methodist Church.
The Roberts selected the emblem for the Unitarian Church/Unitarian Universalist Association.
The emblem for the United Church of Christ tops Sgt. Yancey’s stone.
Cpl. Mack Crosby has the Episcopal Cross.
The Didios’ stone has a symbol designated as representing “Christian Church.”
The Nesbitts have a Star of David, representative of Judaism.
Our beloved son, brother, and uncle
Posted in Dead Men Do Tell Tales, tagged allen, buckeyes, football, grave art, navy, occupation, ohio, ohio state university, osu, sculpture, symbolism, veteran, vietnam, williston cemetery on December 31, 2012 | 1 Comment »
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There’s so much to learn about Dale Nelson’s life from his tombstone: his parents’ names, that his and his 3 siblings’ names all started with D, and that he served in Vietnam as a Navy operations specialist. He was also an Ohio State University fan, if not an alumnus. I can’t tell from my photos if that football helmet is supposed to be colored to represent a particular team or just a general enjoyment of football.
Artificer
Posted in Dead Men Do Tell Tales, tagged artificer, cleveland, occupation, ohio, soldier, spanish american war, veteran, woodland cemetery on December 28, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Melvin Larimer’s stone identifies him as having been an artificer in the Spanish-American War. I might have seen other stones with the designation before, but I hadn’t noticed. On Fort Sumter’s website, I found “artificer” in their FAQ section. Paraphrasing, an artificer would have been an enlisted artillery man with a specialized skill that allowed him to supervise or organize that kind of work.
Our immigrant past
Posted in Dead Men Do Tell Tales, tagged civil war, cleveland, cross, Crosses, history, immigrant, immigrants, occupation, ohio, soldier, star, stars, symbolism, veteran, woodland cemetery on December 23, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Sacred to the memory of Alexander Doull, Colonel of Artillery in the Army of the Potomac, previously lieutenant in the Royal British Artillery
The inscription on Colonel Doull’s tombstone reminds us of a fact about the United States Civil War that be forgotten – the important role that immigrants played in the armies. About 25% of the Union army was estimated to be foreign-born immigrants. With the rate of immigration in the 19th century, we also have to assume that there was a significant slice of the United States-born soldiers who had parents or grandparents who were immigrants.
A short service
Posted in Dead Men Do Tell Tales, tagged cause of death, civil war, cleveland, history, ohio, place of death, soldier, veteran, woodland cemetery on December 21, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Samuel Pickands joined the 1st Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Artillery, on February 1, 1862. By the end of March, he was dead, most likely of disease. According to the Ohio Roster Commission’s Offical Roster of soldiers, Pickands died on March 25 in Parkersburg, West Virginia. The tombstone identifies his place of death as Virginia rather than West Virginia. As West Virginia did not enter the Union until June 20, 1863, Pickand and his family would have known the state where he died as Virginia. Even if they were aware of the movement for West Virginia to become its own state, the convention to create a state constitution did not present a document for ratification until mid-February, and the ratification occurred at least a month after Pickands’ death.
McGillicuddy Wordless Wednesday
Posted in Dead Men Do Tell Tales, tagged civil war, cleveland, epitaphs, ohio, soldier, veteran, woodland cemetery on December 19, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
My wife, the spy
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged cause of death, civil war, cleveland, history, musician, occupation, ohio, soldier, spy, veteran, woodland cemetery on December 10, 2012 | 2 Comments »
You’ve probably never heard of this particular Charles Dickinson, but it’s likely that you are familiar with his wife. In 1853, Dickinson was a musician in a traveling variety show, and he married one of the actresses, born Harriet Wood, but known to history as Pauline Cushman. Dickinson and his bride eventually returned to his hometown of Cleveland, Ohio, where he found work as a music teacher. The couple lived with Dickinson’s parents and had two children, Charlie and Ida. At the end of 1861, Dickinson enlisted as a musician and marched off to the Civil War. In less than a year, he was discharged home in extremely poor health. He expired almost exactly a year after his enlistment. Cushman left her children with her husband’s family and resumed her acting career. Not long after, the opportunity presented itself to become a spy for the Union Army. Once she was discovered to be a spy and narrowly escaped execution, Cushman continued to travel the lecture circuit talking about her exploits. She was not present when either of her children by Dickinson died. The rift between Cushman and her first husband’s family, who resented what they considered her abandonment of her maternal duties, never healed.
