Posted in Uncategorized, tagged donegal, donegal abbey, ireland on November 22, 2016| Leave a Comment »
These photos continue my post from yesterday about the abbey and cemetery on Donegal Bay. The photos I’ve selected for today show a lot more of the abbey ruins.
As I mentioned in yesterday’s post, the graves date much later than the abbey, so a lot of the memorials are actually within the footprint of the old buildings.
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged cenotaph, dublin, epitaph, ireland, occupation, st. patrick's cathedral, wordless wednesday on November 9, 2016| Leave a Comment »
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged cenotaph, dublin, ireland, occupation, st. patrick's cathedral on November 5, 2016| Leave a Comment »
Charles Villiers Stanford was a composer, conductor, and teacher of music. He spent his childhood in Dublin enjoying many opportunities to hear concerts and performances with his parents, both amateur musicians. He attended Cambridge University before studying under composers in Leipzig and Germany. Stanford composed music of his own and taught at the Royal College of Music in London.
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged dublin, ireland, soldier, st. patrick's cathedral, wordless wednesday, world war i on November 2, 2016| Leave a Comment »
Posted in Cemeteries, Uncategorized, tagged antietam, civil war, maryland, mumma cemetery, sharpsburg on October 15, 2016| Leave a Comment »
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In the middle of the Antietam National Battlefield, you come upon a cemetery.
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In 1862, Samuel and Elizabeth Mumma resided on 150 acres of this land, including the cemetery, with their ten children. By the time of the battle, the cemetery had existed for more than 60 years. Prior to the Mummas, the Orndorff family owned this farm, and Major Christian Orndorff was interred in the cemetery in 1797. The Mummas acquired the property in 1811.
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As troops approached Sharpsburg, the Mumma family fled their farm and took shelter at a nearby church. When they returned after the battle, they discovered that Confederates had burned their farmhouse to prevent it from being used by Union sharpshooters.
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In the 1870s, the family deeded the land to allow burials of other community members, particularly congregants from nearby Dunker Church – itself constructed on land donated by the family prior to the war.
Posted in Dead Men Do Tell Tales, Uncategorized, tagged cause of death, civil war on October 12, 2016| Leave a Comment »
Posted in Cemetery Sculpture, Symbolism, Uncategorized, tagged harrisburg, harrisburg cemetery, pennsylvania, sculpture, weeping willow, willow on October 4, 2016| Leave a Comment »
Harrisburg Cemetery has a lot of lovely old funerary art, and willow trees are a personal favorite of mine.
I’m guessing based on proximity to another monument that the surname on this one is Haehlen as well. It’s a slightly different style of willow than I’ve posted in the past.
Posted in Cemetery Sculpture, Uncategorized, tagged mechanicsburg, pennsylvania, sculpture, silver spring meeting house, silver spring presbyterian church, zinker on October 3, 2016| Leave a Comment »
On a trip to south central Pennsylvania to visit my family, I noticed that there were zinkers in the Silver Spring Presbyterian churchyard. As fascinated as I am with this type of monument, I had never noticed this well-preserved pair of monuments before.
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Posted in Uncategorized on November 23, 2014| 1 Comment »
Sorry I’ve fallen away from the blog. I am coming back, but thanks to a change in Flickr’s terms of service, I need to edit pretty much every link I’ve ever posted to my photos. It’s going to take a while, but once that’s done, I’ll try to start posting again.
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged famous graves, feminism, feminist, mount hope cemetery, new york, occupation, rochester, suffrage, suffragist on October 5, 2013| Leave a Comment »
Henry Rogers Selden was a lawyer, judge and politician, serving in such positions as Lieutenant Governor of New York. But the reason I photographed his grave marker is that Selden defended Susan B. Anthony in 1873. Anthony and a number of her fellow suffragists decided to test the constitutionality of denying women the right to vote, and Anthony presented her research and arguments to Selden. He found them compelling and told her that he thought she had a right to vote. She voted in the national election of 1872 and was arrested for illegal voting. Selden defended her during the case pro bono, and was extremely disappointed at her conviction.
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A Grave Concern 