Posts Tagged ‘children’
Brigham Wordless Wednesday
Posted in Dead Men Do Tell Tales, tagged child, children, donegal, donegal abbey, ireland, wordless wednesday on May 22, 2013| Leave a Comment »
Charlie
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged child, children, cleveland, names, ohio, woodland cemetery on December 11, 2012| Leave a Comment »
As a follow-up to yesterday’s post, I wanted to post a photo of the new tombstone that was recently erected for Pauline Cushman and Charles Dickinson’s eldest child, their son, Charlie. With his father’s death and mother’s career as a spy and then lecturer, Charlie was living with extended family when he passed away at the age of 6. He rests in Woodland Cemetery next to his father.
Another Collinwood victim
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged cause of death, child, children, cleveland, cleveland history, collinwood school fire, lakeview school fire, ohio, woodland cemetery on December 9, 2012| 1 Comment »
Gretchen Dorn was 10 years old when she perished in the Collinwood School Fire. Her stone shows signs of severe weathering, and I don’t know that I would have recognized it for what it was if I didn’t already know that she was buried in Woodland Cemetery not far from the Swanson children who died in the same tragedy. Gretchen is one of the children that we have a surviving photograph of, which is uploaded to her Find A Grave entry.
Baptismal font
Posted in Graveless memorials, tagged babies, buffalo, cenotaph, cenotaphs, child, children, new york, trinity church on November 18, 2012| 1 Comment »
Nearly everything in Trinity Church had a memorial plaque or inscription on it. Unsurprisingly, the baptismal font is dedicated to a little girl who died young. I wonder what it felt like for the parents of Mary Rochester to watch babies be baptized in the font with their daughter’s name on it.
We only know she came and went
Posted in Dead Men Do Tell Tales, tagged baby, buffalo, child, children, epitaphs, forest lawn cemetery, new york, tombstone tales on July 10, 2012| Leave a Comment »
Our Angel Baby
Posted in Cemetery Sculpture, Statues, tagged angel, baby, buffalo, child, children, forest lawn cemetery, grave art, new york, sculpture, statues on June 18, 2012| Leave a Comment »
Evelyn’s Prayer
Posted in Angels, Cemetery Sculpture, tagged child, children, epitaphs, fostoria, fountain cemetery, grave art, ohio, sculpture, statues, symbolism on May 22, 2012| Leave a Comment »
A boy and his dog
Posted in Cemetery Sculpture, Statues, tagged animal, cause of death, child, children, dayton, dog, drowning, grave art, grave offerings, ohio, sculpture, statues, symbolism, tombstone tales, woodland cemetery on May 6, 2012| Leave a Comment »
The most visited graves at Woodland Cemetery in Dayton, Ohio, are, not surprisingly, those of the brave early aviators Orville and Wilbur Wright. The Wrights are world-famous for their accomplishments, and countless people travel to see their final resting places. But if you ask the Woodland Cemetery staff to name the most visited grave of a person who was not famous in life, they will point you to the famous statue of a boy and a dog that marks the grave of little Johnny Morehouse. In 1860 (so the legend says), five year old Johnny, a cobbler’s son, was playing when he fell into the canal. He drowned, and when he was buried, his faithful dog refused to leave the graveside. The dog stands forever immortalized in stone, guarding over a peacefully sleeping little boy, a paw extended to shield him from harm.
The statue is hard to photograph for all of the trinkets left over and around it. Most are children’s toys or books, things that Johnny left behind all too soon over 150 years ago.
Broken bud
Posted in Cemetery Sculpture, Symbolism, tagged broken, broken stem, bud, child, children on April 9, 2012| Leave a Comment »
Buds with broken stems are usually found on children’s graves, symbolizing a young life cut short.
Died on the same day
Posted in Dead Men Do Tell Tales, tagged child, children, hudson, ohio, old hudson township burying ground, tombstone tales on February 24, 2012| Leave a Comment »
I can’t make out the names on this stone, but what I can read is heartbreaking. What I can make out is this:
9 months
they died
Sept. 6, 18?
Children of Ga? & Emily Sanford
So there are at least two siblings buried under this stone who died on the same day.
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