Posted in Cemetery Sculpture, Symbolism, tagged county meath, grave art, heart, hill of tara, ireland, sacred heart, sacred heart of jesus christ, sculpture, symbolism on April 18, 2013| 1 Comment »
The symbol on this tombstone is the Sacred Heart of Jesus Christ – a flaming heart within a crown of thorns and topped with a cross. Some representations also include a halo of divine light, blood drops, or a lance wound like the one that Christ received in his side during the crucifixion. There is an associated Roman Catholic devotion.
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged cross, heart, ohio, soldier, strongsville, strongsville cemetery, veteran, world war ii, wwii on September 19, 2012| Leave a Comment »
Posted in Cemetery Sculpture, tagged chester township, chesterland, cleveland, epitaphs, grave art, heart, lakeview cemetery, ohio, sculpture, symbolism, valentine's day, valentines, willoughby, willoughby village cemetery on February 14, 2011| Leave a Comment »
The culmination of my four-day heart scavenger hunt is here, and for Valentine’s Day itself, I decided to post the hearts that seem to specifically be in the cemetery as a reference to romantic love.
Joseph Kahsky and his wife Rose Kahsky have a heart-shaped tombstone in Chester Township Cemetery.
The pink granite tombstones for the Wrights in Willoughby Village Cemetery have hearts, flowers, and love messages engraved on them.
The Birnbaums have a stone at Lake View Cemetery under a double-heart tombstone. (I’m not sure if Mrs. Birnbaum is there yet.) Like my grandparents, their wedding anniversary was Valentine’s Day. I particularly like the etched “Forever Valentines.”
Posted in Cemetery Sculpture, tagged glendalough, grave art, heart, ireland, lakeview cemetery, ohio, sacred heart of christ, sculpture, symbolism on February 13, 2011| Leave a Comment »
The hearts I found on tombstones in Glendalough were representations of the sacred heart of Christ.
I’ve also found a stone in Lake View with the same imagery.
The hearts that actually started this whole quest are simpler from Adams Street Cemetery in Berea.
Lake View
Posted in Cemetery Sculpture, tagged cause of death, child, children, collinwood, collinwood school fire, euclid, euclid cemetery, grave art, heart, lakeview school fire, ohio, sculpture on February 12, 2011| Leave a Comment »
Euclid Cemetery has two nearly identical tombstones that look like two hearts side-by-side. Sadly, these tombstones are for four children (two sets of siblings) who died in the Collinwood School Fire of 1908. Rose Sophie and Erma Marie Buschman were laid to rest on one end of the cemetery, and Lillian Carrie and Emil Otto Rostock sleep at the other.
Posted in Cemeteries, tagged cleveland, columbus, grave art, harvard grove cemetery, heart, hudson, kirtland, kirtland historic north cemetery, markillie and st. mary, ohio, union cemetery on February 11, 2011| Leave a Comment »
In honor of Valentine’s Day, I set myself on a scavenger hunt. I wanted to see how many hearts I could find in cemeteries. I found so many that I’ve split the results of my hunt into 4 different posts between now and Valentine’s Day. The most common thing that I found was simple, single heart-shaped tombstones.
I found heart-shaped tombstones in Harvard Grove Cemetery in Cleveland, Ohio.
This tombstone at Union Cemetery in Columbus, Ohio, is heart-shaped.
I was able to find two heart tombstones from my small collection of photos from Markillie and St. Mary’s Cemeteries in Hudson..
This lichen-covered heart tombstone is in Kirtland Historic North Cemetery.
East Cleveland Township Cemetery has a number of these tombstones.
Hearts may not be the first thing you think about when you hear the word cemetery, but they are certainly there.
Posted in Cemetery Sculpture, Morbid Musings, tagged angel, Angels, babies, bird, child, children, civil war, columbus, column, Crosses, dove, flowers, gar, grave art, hand, hands, heart, history, lamb, masonic symbol, mausoleum, medal of honor, ohio, photograph, sculpture, sundial, tombstone tales, union cemetery, willow, world war i on June 28, 2010| Leave a Comment »
I did this scavenger hunt that was posted to the Association of Graveyard Rabbits, although I didn’t get the post written before the deadline for the carnival itself. I twisted my ankle walking around Union Cemetery doing the carnival and then limped my way around Origins gaming convention for four days.
All scavenger hunt photos were taken this past Wednesday morning at Union Cemetery in Columbus, Ohio. Below I’ve listed the scavenger hunt item and then a photo of the grave marker that fulfilled that requirement.
Cross – The Birk monument culminates in a cross.
Heart – This very worn marker for a baby named Paul is heart-shaped. I can’t even make out his surname.
Fraternal symbol – For the fraternal symbol, we have the marker for Frank P. Walters, a Marine who served in the first World War and has a Masonic symbol on his tombstone.
Monument – This seemed so general that I decided to feature the Gaddis family marker. A metal sundial sits atop the center column.
Flower – A carved flower decorates the top two corners of the Hagans’ stone.
Hand – The gravestone for Amanda Evans includes a single hand holding the stem of a flower.
Angel – The names of the two Cooper children are flanked by praying angels.
Bird – A bird, likely a dove, is carved into baby William Wiedemann’s tombstone.
Tree – A weeping willow grows on the tombstone of John Lisle, whose 1808 burial must have been one of the earliest in the graveyard, which was only founded two years before.
Star – I wandered around looking for a star for while before it dawned on me that the Civil War veterans’ markers contain or are stars, like these two for George Lakin.
Obelisk – This obelisk memorializes the Lakin family.
Four-legged animal – The marker for little Mildred Ferguson, who sadly did not live to see her 2nd birthday, is topped by a lamb – a four-legged animal.
Photo – Dorothy Price Walsh’s tombstone preserves her likeness for us.
Military gravestone – For the military tombstone, I found the memorial for Medal of Honor recipient Joel Parsons, a Civil War veteran.
Mausoleum – Amaranth Abbey is a giant mausoleum.
Posted in Crosses, tagged celtic crosses, Crosses, glendalough, grave art, heart, ireland, thorns on June 4, 2010| Leave a Comment »
This cross at Glendalough captivated me – it was so perfectly Irish as I imagined it.
Carved shamrocks climb the cross, knotwork creates the nimbus, and the entire cross centers on a heart surrounded by thorns, associated with the immaculate heart of Mary.
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A Grave Concern 