Wednesday’s child: Jimmie Penn

The white marble marker at the grave of Jimmie S. Penn (d. 1885) has been carefully restored (as have others in Dublin Cemetery), its sleeping lamb now white as new.

The lamb represents purity, innocence, gentleness. It is perhaps the most popular symbol found on 19th-century children’s graves.

JIMMIE S.
son of
J.P. & A.E. Penn
died
Mar. 11, 1885.
Aged 2M. & 5D.

Budded on earth to
Bloom in heaven.

Dublin Cemetery, Franklin County, Ohio