Posted in Dead Men Do Tell Tales, tagged consort, euclid, first presbyterian church cemetery, language, mechanicsburg, ohio, pennsylvania, silver spring meeting house, silver spring presbyterian church on October 22, 2016| Leave a Comment »
I’ve always been a big fan of language and enjoyed learning about how it develops. If you followed this blog in its first incarnation, you know that I’m particularly fascinated by some of the archaic words and phrases you can find on tombstones.
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One of my favorite examples of old language is the use of “consort” in place of “wife” when the wife predeceased the husband.
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Posted in Morbid Musings, tagged east cleveland, epitaphs, first presbyterian church cemetery, links, nelaview cemetery, ohio on September 24, 2012| 4 Comments »
Far from affliction toil and care
The happy soul is fled
The breathless day shall slumber here
Among the silent dead
When I started looking up information on this epitaph, I discovered this website, Last Words. There was an entire page of “last words,” by which they meant epitaphs.
Posted in Morbid Musings, tagged east cleveland, first presbyterian church cemetery, nelaview cemetery, ohio on September 23, 2012| 3 Comments »
With heavenly weapons I have faught
The battles of the Lord.
Finished my course and keep the faith
And wait the sure reward.
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 Dead Men Do Tell Tales, tagged cleveland, east cleveland, epitaphs, first presbyterian church cemetery, nelaview cemetery, ohio on October 26, 2011| 3 Comments »
Posted in Dead Men Do Tell Tales, tagged cleveland, east cleveland, epitaphs, first presbyterian church cemetery, nelaview cemetery, ohio, wordless wednesday on October 19, 2011| Leave a Comment »
Posted in Morbid Musings, tagged cleveland, east cleveland, epitaph, first presbyterian church cemetery, hymn, nelaview cemetery, ohio, poem on October 13, 2011| Leave a Comment »
The epitaph for Parys Plumb is taken from a 1734 poem by Isaac Watts entitled “A Funeral Ode at the Interment of the Body, Supposed to Be Sung by Mourners.” Watts’ words were set to music by George Handel to become a hymn known as “Unveil Thy Bosom, Faithful Tomb.” The entire hymn and music can be found here.
So Jesus slept; God’s dying sone
Passed through the grave, & blest the bed:
Rest heir blessed saint, till from his throne
The morning break and pierce the shade
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged cleveland, east cleveland, first presbyterian church cemetery, grave art, nelaview cemetery, ohio, sculpture, symbolism, urn, willow on October 9, 2011| Leave a Comment »
The weeping willow is one of my favorite funerary symbols, and the cemetery at the former First Presbyterian Church in East Cleveland is full of them. As I said when we looked at this symbol before, the tree has an association not only with grief, but with immortality in many cultures.
Most of the art with willow trees in this churchyard also features urns. Urns of course can be used to hold ashes, as the Greeks used them, but they also came to be associated with memorializing the deceased even in a 19th century American culture that rarely practiced cremation.
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A Grave Concern 