Posted in Morbid Musings, tagged cleveland, donegal, donegal abbey, erie street cemetery, ireland, ohio, woodland cemetery on November 18, 2016| Leave a Comment »
I’ve written several times before about the association between sleep and death, and these tombstones exemplify another association – not only are the deceased characterized as being in slumber, but they are sleeping safely with their Savior, Jesus Christ. The families of the dead must have taken solace from this perspective on death and what comes after.
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged arch, archway, carlisle, cleveland, erie street cemetery, grave art, ohio, old carlisle cemetery, old carlisle graveyard, pennsylvania, sculpture, strongsville, strongsville cemetery, symbolism on September 8, 2012| Leave a Comment »
Posted in Cemetery Sculpture, tagged cincinnati, cleveland, east cleveland, erie street cemetery, first presbyterian church cemetery, forest lawn cemetery, nelaview cemetery, ohio, sculpture, spring grove cemetery on July 9, 2012| Leave a Comment »
One of my favorite decorative elements on old tombstones are the little rosettes and carvings that appear on the shoulders of the stone.
Posted in Morbid Musings, tagged cleveland, east cleveland, erie street cemetery, nelaview cemetery, ohio on March 30, 2012| 1 Comment »
Can you guess who it is?
At First Presbyterian Church in East Cleveland, Ohio:
At Erie Street Cemetery in Cleveland, Ohio:
Posted in Dead Men Do Tell Tales, Morbid Musings, tagged cleveland, erie street cemetery, ohio, place of death, tombstone tales on March 17, 2012| Leave a Comment »
To the memory of Esther
Wife of Smith B. Clampitt
Formerly of New Jersey and late of Philadelphia, PA.
who died March 26, 1835
Esther Clampitt was a well-traveled person for her time. Of course, I’ve been to Philadelphia and Cleveland and parts of New Jersey several times, but I live in a world of cars and planes. She lived in a world of horses and shoe leather. The journey from New Jersey to Philadelphia to Cleveland would have been very different in her world of 200 years ago. I do historical re-creation, but I sometimes wonder how well any of us would do with the physicality required of living in earlier times, without the innovations that accomplish a lot of the bodily exertion that peoples before us would have done as a matter of course.
Posted in Morbid Musings, tagged adams street cemetery, berea, carlisle, cleveland, epitaphs, erie street cemetery, euphemisms for death, ohio, old carlisle cemetery, old carlisle graveyard on January 17, 2012| Leave a Comment »
One of the most common euphemisms for death that you find on tombstones is the phrase “departed this life.” I found it on E. L. Crane’s tombstone in Adams Street Cemetery in Berea.
It’s on Louise Keppler’s tombstone on Erie Street Cemetery in Cleveland.
It appears on Mary Ann Matter’s tombstone in Old Carlisle Cemetery in Carlisle, Pennsylvania.
Posted in Morbid Musings, tagged civil war, cleveland, epitaphs, erie street cemetery, ohio, soldier, veteran on January 16, 2012| Leave a Comment »
The epitaph on the stone, “Though lost to sight to memory dear,” is, according to my cursory research, a both a popular epitaph and an enigma. In 1880, a London newspaper published a song with that title and with that line as a refrain, stating the song had originally been published in an earlier magazine in 1703 by one Ruthven Jenkyns. However, the “earlier magazine” did not seem to have ever existed, and the whole story seemed to be an invention.
Posted in Dead Men Do Tell Tales, tagged cleveland, epitaphs, erie street cemetery, ohio on January 14, 2012| Leave a Comment »
As a shock of corn cometh in his season, so are matured souls gathered to the garner of God.
The epitaph for Robert Quiggin is from the Biblical book of Job. It is an epitaph that speaks of a life fulfilled and lived out rather than being cut short (though from our current perspective, 58 hardly seems old) and being ready for death and meeting one’s maker.
Posted in Dead Men Do Tell Tales, tagged cleveland, erie street cemetery, ohio, tombstone tales, wordless wednesday on November 2, 2011| Leave a Comment »
Mary Spencer
Widow of John Spencer
Late of Hartford, Conn.
Died while on a visit to Cleveland
July 26, 1851
Aged ? years
Posted in Dead Men Do Tell Tales, tagged chief thunderwater, cleveland, cleveland history, erie street cemetery, ohio, tombstone tales on September 14, 2011| Leave a Comment »
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A Grave Concern 