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 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 cincinnati, ohio, place of death, spring grove cemetery, unsolved on January 19, 2013| 2 Comments »
So help me out here. I’ve been trying to figure out the name of the farm where this young man died. I think it’s a capitalized proper noun. If it helps to know, this photograph is from Spring Grove Cemetery in Cincinnati, and the year of death is 1822, so the location would have existed in the early days of Cincinnati or the outlying areas.
Posted in Cemetery Sculpture, tagged cincinnati, ohio, sculpture, spring grove cemetery, table tomb, tomb types on January 18, 2013| Leave a Comment »
Sometimes I treat my trips to cemeteries like a giant scavenger hunt. I’m always seeking the rare and the unique, and one of the things that shows up on that list for me are table tombs. I’ve only found them in three cemeteries so far. A table tomb is…a table made of stone – a flat stone supported by legs or pillars.
I’ve featured this one before, but I’m not sure that I commented on the fact that it was a table tomb.
Posted in Cemetery Sculpture, tagged calvary cemetery, chicago, cincinnati, harrisburg, harrisburg cemetery, illinois, ohio, pennsylvania, sarcophagus, sarcophagus tomb, spring grove cemetery, tomb types on January 17, 2013| Leave a Comment »
I haven’t posted photos of sarcophagi in a while. Sarcophagus tombs in most modern cemeteries just look like they hold a body. The actual person is usually interred below or next to the monument.
Posted in Cemetery Sculpture, Symbolism, tagged cincinnati, epitaphs, grave art, kirtland, kirtland historic north cemetery, ohio, sculpture, spring grove cemetery, star on December 22, 2012| Leave a Comment »
I find a lot of little five-pointed stars on cemetery monuments. Based on a little bit of research, five-pointed stars often are supposed to symbolize Christ, specifically the five wounds of Christ from the crucifixion.
Posted in Angels, Cemetery Sculpture, tagged angel, Angels, cincinnati, grave art, ohio, sculpture, spring grove cemetery, star, statues, symbolism on December 18, 2012| 1 Comment »
Other cemetery bloggers I read have noted the presence of five-pointed stars protruding from the foreheads of angel statues in cemeteries. I haven’t found as many as others have found, but these two examples are in Spring Grove Cemetery.
Posted in Cemetery mysteries, Cemetery Sculpture, Statues, tagged cincinnati, grave art, ohio, sculpture, spring grove cemetery, statues, unsolved on July 20, 2012| Leave a Comment »
I don’t know any more about this monument than what is engraved on the stone. Davis Lawler erected it in memory of his parents – why a Sphinx made an appropriate monument to them, I don’t know. But then, that’s kind of appropriate, isn’t it?
Posted in Cemetery Sculpture, tagged cincinnati, grave art, ohio, sarcophagus, sarcophagus tomb, sculpture, spring grove cemetery, tomb types on July 19, 2012| Leave a Comment »
It’s been a while since I posted photos of sarcophagus tombs. Sarcophagus tombs are those that look like a coffin or similar container for holding a body but do not. The deceased are generally interred in the nearby ground.
Posted in Morbid Musings, tagged cincinnati, grave art, ohio, oxidation, sculpture, spring grove cemetery, statues, verdigris on July 16, 2012| 1 Comment »
If you walk around enough cemeteries, you’ll notice that many statues and monuments have metal that has taken on a distinctive blue-green hue, just like the Statue of Liberty. If you’re like me, you learned about why this happens in some middle school science class and then promptly forgot. So if you already know this answer, you can skip the rest of this paragraph and just look at the pretty pictures. But for those of you who pushed out this science knowledge to have more room to remember the names of all the Muppets and the entire script of The Princess Bride, stay with me. The metal monuments and statues and plaques that go green because the alloys they are made of contain copper. When copper is exposed to water, it oxidizes and forms a layer that actually protects the metal underneath from degrading further. The patina and color are called verdigris.
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A Grave Concern 