Posted in Morbid Musings, tagged cleveland, lake view cemetery, names, ohio on October 10, 2016| Leave a Comment »
Anyone who has read my blog knows that I am fascinated by names.
I’ve not encountered the name Wreathel before, and it seems to be obscure enough that even the baby name sites don’t invent an origin for it. A few women with this name popped up in my search, but not many. Maybe I’ll find more later.
Kazimiera is the feminine version of the Slavic name Kazimierz (usually Anglicized Casimir).
Posted in Morbid Musings, tagged cleveland, dayton, grave art, initials, lake view cemetery, ohio, strongsville, strongsville cemetery, woodland cemetery on October 7, 2016| Leave a Comment »
I’ve decided to play a game with myself. I’m going to search my photo archives for tombstones with large capital letters and find the entire alphabet.
Posted in Dead Men Do Tell Tales, tagged cleveland, epitaphs, lake view cemetery, ohio, wordless wednesday on September 25, 2013| Leave a Comment »
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 »
Posted in Cemetery Sculpture, Statues, tagged cleveland, grave art, lake view cemetery, lion, ohio, sculpture, statue, statues on September 16, 2013| Leave a Comment »
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.
Posted in Dead Men Do Tell Tales, tagged cleveland, epitaphs, grave art, lake view cemetery, lamb, ohio, symbolism on September 11, 2013| 1 Comment »
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?
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…”
Posted in Cemetery Sculpture, Symbolism, tagged cleveland, cross, lake view cemetery, occupation, ohio, pilgrimage, roman cross, scallop shell, sculpture, st. james, way of st. james on September 2, 2013| Leave a Comment »
The shell on this tombstone in Lake View Cemetery intrigues me. A shell like this, specifically a scallop shell, is the pilgrimage symbol for Santiago de Compostela in Spain, where there is a shrine to the apostle St. James the Greater. The shrine holds bones that are reputed to be those of the saint, also the patron saint of Spain, and has been a pilgrimage site for Christians since the 9th century. Medieval pilgrims would wear a shell as a symbol of their journey, and such scallop shells are still available today. Did Irvin make this journey and treasure it in such a way that a representation of it was to be on his grave marker?
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A Grave Concern 