We spent last weekend at an event in Saline, Michigan, and on the way back, we stopped at some rural Ohio cemeteries. We stumbled by accident over the Beth Shalom Cemetery in Oregon, Ohio. Anyone who’s been following this blog for any length of time knows of my fondness for memorials that include a portrait of the deceased, and my not-so-infrequent rants abut the destruction of porcelain portraits. Beth Shalom Cemetery has a large number of portraits, and I only noticed two empty spaces where portraits should have been but were missing. So over the next few weeks, I am happy to report that you will be seeing a lot more portraits on here. (And some new cemeteries in general.)
A Grave Concern 
AMAZING pictures…Particularly interesting – the Mother – Mary Simon one. Those are great to have on stones – nice to remember these were real people…
Interesting! I just got a book through interlibrary loan called Forgotten Faces by Ronald Horne — it’s all about these porcelain portraits. I’m looking forward to seeing your upcoming posts. 🙂
I’m going to have to look for that one. Thanks!