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Curtis Wordless Wednesday
Posted in Dead Men Do Tell Tales, tagged cleveland, epitaphs, lake view cemetery, ohio, wordless wednesday on September 25, 2013| Leave a Comment »
Curtis Wordless Wednesday
Posted in Dead Men Do Tell Tales, tagged cleveland, epitaphs, lake view cemetery, occupation, ohio, tombstone tales, wordless wednesday on September 18, 2013| Leave a Comment »
An eternal guard
Posted in Cemetery Sculpture, Statues, tagged cleveland, grave art, lake view cemetery, lion, ohio, sculpture, statue, statues on September 16, 2013| Leave a Comment »
The Bridegroom
Posted in Dead Men Do Tell Tales, tagged cleveland, epitaphs, lake view cemetery, ohio, statue on September 15, 2013| Leave a Comment »
I can’t find an exact source for the epitaph for Julia Crawford, but Christ is frequently characterized as the bridegroom and a Christian or the church as his bride.
Immortalized Affection – Wordless Wednesday
Posted in Dead Men Do Tell Tales, tagged cleveland, epitaphs, grave art, lake view cemetery, lamb, ohio, symbolism on September 11, 2013| 1 Comment »
Make them to be numbered with thy saints
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged cleveland, epitaphs, lake view cemetery, ohio on September 10, 2013| Leave a Comment »
The epitaph on this stone is from the Te Deum, a hymn that remains in use in the modern Catholic church as well as some of the Protestant sects. It dates to approximately the 4th century.
Now I need all of you to be honest with me. How many of you clicked on the link because it sounds like a line from The Boondock Saints?
Grace Fiske
Posted in Uncategorized on September 9, 2013| 2 Comments »
Grace Maud Fiske was a second grade teacher at the Lakeview School in Collinwood, Ohio, when the famous fire occurred on March 4, 1908. Following her valiant attempts to save her charges, Fiske was pulled from the school, two children’s bodies still wrapped her skirts in an attempt to protect them, but she died at Glenville Hospital. The teacher was just 26 years old and lived at home with her parents on Orville Avenue in Cleveland.
Neil, Henry. Complete Story of the Collinwood School Disaster and How Such Horrors Can Be Prevented. Cleveland: The N.G. Hamilton Publishing Company.
Owen, Frederick A.”The Collinwood School Fire,” The Instructor, Vol. 17., May 1908.
In death not divided
Posted in Dead Men Do Tell Tales, tagged bible, cleveland, epitaphs, lake view cemetery, ohio on September 3, 2013| 1 Comment »
I’ve seen the sentiment “in death not divided” before, but I’d not previously given it a lot of thought. Tonight, trying to restart the blog, I searched the phrase and discovered that it’s biblical. In 2 Samuel 1:23, David’s funeral song for his father-in-law Saul and brother-in-law Jonathan says “Saul and Jonathan were lovely and pleasant in their lives, and in their death they were not divided…”
A modern pilgrim?
Posted in Cemetery Sculpture, Symbolism, tagged cleveland, cross, lake view cemetery, occupation, ohio, pilgrimage, roman cross, scallop shell, sculpture, st. james, way of st. james on September 2, 2013| Leave a Comment »
The shell on this tombstone in Lake View Cemetery intrigues me. A shell like this, specifically a scallop shell, is the pilgrimage symbol for Santiago de Compostela in Spain, where there is a shrine to the apostle St. James the Greater. The shrine holds bones that are reputed to be those of the saint, also the patron saint of Spain, and has been a pilgrimage site for Christians since the 9th century. Medieval pilgrims would wear a shell as a symbol of their journey, and such scallop shells are still available today. Did Irvin make this journey and treasure it in such a way that a representation of it was to be on his grave marker?
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