Posts Tagged ‘union’
Thomas wordless Wednesday
Posted in Dead Men Do Tell Tales, tagged cleveland, highland park cemetery, occupation, ohio, organized labor, tombstone tales, union, wordless wednesday on May 30, 2012| Leave a Comment »
A Grave Concern: Traces of other graveyard rabbits
Posted in Dead Men Do Tell Tales, tagged 7th ohio volunteer infantry, 7th ovi, cause of death, civil war, cleveland, cleveland history, harvard grove cemetery, history, ohio, soldier, tombstone tales, union, veteran, woodland cemetery on November 18, 2011| Leave a Comment »
I don’t often encounter anyone else at all when I am visiting smaller cemeteries to explore and photograph – large cemeteries that encourage tourist traffic are different. Sometimes there will be mourners visiting a particular gravestone or family plot, but most of the time I find myself completely alone. Occasionally, though, I will see evidence that someone else has been here before, motivated as I am to preserve the past and the memory of the dead.
An unknown person took the time to create this sign, marking Morrison J. Cannell as a Civil War soldier. Private Cannell had only been in the 7th Ohio Volunteer Infantry for five months and one week when he died at Newburg, Ohio, according to A History of Cuyahoga County, Ohio. If the information on this site is accurate, he was 20 at the time he enlisted and was part of Company A, the Cleveland Zoave Light Guards, which would have put him under the command of William Creighton and Orrin Crane, the two highest ranking Clevelanders to die in the Civil War (buried side by side at Woodland Cemetery). That he was in Company A is verified by the placement of his name on the 7th OVI monument in Woodland Cemetery(possibly misspelled). There are no notations in the records I have seen that reference his death as resulting from a particular battle, and the personal site dedicated to the history of the 7th OVI attributes it to disease.
Cleveland Typographical Union
Posted in Dead Men Do Tell Tales, tagged cleveland, death benefits, international typographical union, national typographical union, occupation, ohio, printer, typographical, union, woodland cemetery on September 22, 2010| Leave a Comment »
The National Typographical Union was a labor union for the printing industry, founded in 1852, later becoming the International Typographical Union. The Cleveland local was recognized in 1860 and as such became the oldest trade union in Cleveland. As evidenced by this memorial marker, mortuary benefits were available to members. The union merged with the Communication Workers Association in 1985, bringing its existence under the Typographical Union name to an end.
-
Archives
-
Join 147 other subscribers
March 2023 S M T W T F S 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 Categories
- angel ashtabula babies blogroll buffalo calvary cemetery carlisle cause of death celtic crosses cenotaph cenotaphs chestnut grove cemetery chicago child children cincinnati civil war clergy cleveland cleveland history cross Crosses dayton donegal donegal abbey dublin east cleveland east cleveland township cemetery epitaphs erie street cemetery euclid euclid cemetery flowers forest lawn cemetery gettysburg ghost stories grave art harrisburg harrisburg cemetery haunted haunting history hudson illinois ireland kirtland lakeview cemetery lake view cemetery links names new york occupation ohio old carlisle cemetery old carlisle graveyard oxford pennsylvania porcelain portrait portrait revolutionary war sculpture soldier spring grove cemetery st. patrick's cathedral statues strongsville strongsville cemetery symbolism tombstone tales unsolved veteran woodland cemetery wordless wednesday world war ii wwii
-
A Grave Concern by Ashley D. Smith is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License.
A Grave Concern 