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 Dead Men Do Tell Tales, tagged ohio, oxford, oxford cemetery, wordless wednesday on October 26, 2016| Leave a Comment »
Posted in Morbid Musings, tagged cincinnati, harrisburg, harrisburg cemetery, mechanicsburg, names, ohio, pennsylvania, silver spring meeting house, silver spring presbyterian church, spring grove cemetery on October 23, 2016| Leave a Comment »
When a tombstone includes someone’s real name, it can be revealing. I particularly like when the individual is named for someone famous.
In Cincinnati’s Spring Grove Cemetery, you can find the grave of Thomas Jefferson Henderson.
Florence Nightingale Houck lies in Harrisburg Cemetery.
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Ulysses S. Grant Fisher is buried in Silver Spring Presbyterian Churchyard.
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 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 beachwood, chester township, chester township cemetery, cincinnati, names, ohio, spring grove cemetery, warrensville east cemetery on October 9, 2016| Leave a Comment »
My cemetery alphabet game continues.
The Dusenburys are in Chester Township Cemetery.
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The Eidam monument is in Warrensville East Cemetery.
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The Fitch family is buried in Spring Grove Cemetery in Cincinnati, Ohio.
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 kirtland, kirtland historic north cemetery, ohio, soldier, world war i on October 6, 2016| Leave a Comment »
I tried to find out more information about PFC McClintock, but almost everything you can find online for the 83rd Division is about their World War II service. The one consistent piece of information I discovered was that most of the soldiers were from Ohio. Perhaps in a few years when more resources go online, I’ll be able to learn more about this soldier.
Posted in Dead Men Do Tell Tales, tagged ohio, williston cemetery, wordless wednesday on October 5, 2016| Leave a Comment »
Posted in Dead Men Do Tell Tales, tagged cleveland, epitaphs, lake view cemetery, ohio, wordless wednesday on September 25, 2013| Leave a Comment »
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A Grave Concern 