William W. Moore who departed this life May 26th, 1816, aged 50 years. He left a wife and three children to lament the loss of a tender and affectionate husband & father and much regretted by his acquaintances
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A tender and affectionate husband and father
Posted in Dead Men Do Tell Tales, tagged epitaphs, mechanicsburg, pennsylvania, silver spring meeting house, silver spring presbyterian church, tombstone tales on February 2, 2014| Leave a Comment »
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 »
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?
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…”
We who have believed…
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged bible, bible verses, cleveland, epitaphs, lake view cemetery, ohio on June 16, 2013| Leave a Comment »
Boyd Wordless Wednesday
Posted in Dead Men Do Tell Tales, tagged cause of death, dublin, epitaphs, ireland, occupation, poetry, st. patrick's cathedral on June 12, 2013| 1 Comment »
Graham Wordless Wednesday
Posted in Dead Men Do Tell Tales, tagged cause of death, donegal, donegal abbey, epitaphs, ireland, wordless wednesday on May 29, 2013| Leave a Comment »
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