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Scudder Wordless Wednesday
Posted in Dead Men Do Tell Tales, tagged epitaphs, hudson, markillie and st. mary, occupation, ohio, place of death, tombstone tales, worldless wednesday on April 25, 2012| Leave a Comment »
Random statuary
Posted in Cemetery Sculpture, Statues, tagged grave art, hudson, markillie and st. mary, ohio, sculpture, statues, unsolved on April 20, 2012| Leave a Comment »
This statue sits in part of Markillie and St. Mary Cemeteries in Hudson, Ohio. It’s rather small – no more than a few feet high. (I wish I had photographed something else next to it for scale. It is also extremely unclear what family plot it is supposed to go with.
Doolittle Wordless Wednesday
Posted in Dead Men Do Tell Tales, tagged clergy, epitaphs, hudson, occupation, ohio, old hudson township burying ground on April 18, 2012| Leave a Comment »
Wright Wordless Wednesday
Posted in Dead Men Do Tell Tales, tagged epitaphs, grave art, hudson, occupation, ohio, old hudson township burying ground, sculpture, wordless wednesday on March 14, 2012| Leave a Comment »
Martha Egerton Wright
wife of Asher Wright,
Missionary among the Seneca
daughter of Asa and Emily Egerton
and adopted daughter of Rufus…?
More unusual names
Posted in Morbid Musings, tagged carlisle, hudson, markillie and st. mary, names, ohio, old carlisle cemetery, old carlisle graveyard on March 11, 2012| Leave a Comment »
In the Old Carlisle Graveyard lies Ademna Hamilton, who died when she was 14 months all. I couldn’t find a meaning or even any other women with the same name.
In Markillie and St. Mary Cemeteries, you can find the grave of Elzina. Elzina may be a variant of the Arabic name Alzena or of the name Elizabeth, and seems to be most common in the United States for women born in the 19th century.
Permelia is another 19th century name that is no longer seen much anymore.
Not lost
Posted in Dead Men Do Tell Tales, tagged epitaphs, hudson, markillie and st. mary, ohio on March 8, 2012| 1 Comment »
Not lost, blest thought,
But gone before,
Where we shall meet
To part no more.
Sentiments like the one on Mary Kellogg Ellsworth’s tombstone are common in cemeteries of the 19th and early 20th centuries. The epitaph emphasizes a belief in a shared afterlife where the surviving family and friends will be reunited with the dead. It conveys a message of hope: do not despair, she is not lost, just temporarily gone ahead.
Baldwin Wordless Wednesday
Posted in Dead Men Do Tell Tales, tagged children of the american revolution, hudson, ohio, olde hudson township burying ground, western reserve, wordless wednesday on March 7, 2012| Leave a Comment »
Missionary to India
Posted in Dead Men Do Tell Tales, tagged hudson, markillie and st. mary, missionary, occupation, ohio, tombstone tales on March 6, 2012| Leave a Comment »
Sarah Ann Chamberlain, who seems to have gone by the name of Anna, married into a missionary family, the Scudders. Her husband Joseph was a 3rd generation missionary to India, and so she went to India, too. The records are a little hard to follow because the name Joseph was so common in the family, being the name of her husband’s grandfather and an uncle, but what I have found indicates that Sarah Ann was living in India and doing things like taking care of orphan girls for at least part of her married life.
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.
Be ye also ready
Posted in Dead Men Do Tell Tales, tagged epitaphs, hudson, ohio, olde hudson township burying ground on February 23, 2012| Leave a Comment »
Dr. Gideon Case died May 15th, 1822 in the 44th year of his age.
Be ye also ready for in such an hour as ye think not the Son of man cometh.
It’s hard to provide an exact citation for Dr. Case’s epitaph. Versions of the phrase appear in translations of the Biblical Gospels of Matthew and Luke, and those words then spun off into hymns, sermons, and religious tracts. Whatever the route by which epitaph came to Dr. Case’s tombstone, it is a reminder to the passerby that it is important to attend to the care of his soul today, since there may not be a later time to do so.
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