tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-61745002480073360792024-03-13T09:53:30.112-04:00GravestonedAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08519895209103937190noreply@blogger.comBlogger534125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6174500248007336079.post-74708768281434578652013-05-01T06:00:00.000-04:002013-05-01T06:00:17.458-04:00Wednesday’s child: Lawson girls<a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-JrJt7E-ExO8/UYBeNIaK0PI/AAAAAAAAEaI/wYqhcqn4nnI/s1600/Lawson+Children.jpg" imageanchor="1" ><img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-JrJt7E-ExO8/UYBeNIaK0PI/AAAAAAAAEaI/wYqhcqn4nnI/s320/Lawson+Children.jpg" width=400/></a><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><center>LAWSON<br />
<br />
LUCY<br />
DIED<br />
[July 20?] 1848<br />
Aged<br />
9 mo’s<br />
<br />
JANE,<br />
DIED<br />
July 17, 1848<br />
Aged<br />
2Y 6m.<br />
<br />
ELIZABETH<br />
DIED<br />
Sep. 23, 1844<br />
Aged 1 Y. 8m.<br />
<br />
MARY J.<br />
DIED<br />
July 8, 18[34?]</center></span></span><br />
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<hr size="1"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><i>Pioneer Cemetery, Franklin County, Ohio</i><br />
</span></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08519895209103937190noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6174500248007336079.post-4144556800146916152013-04-27T20:09:00.000-04:002013-04-27T20:10:19.699-04:00Frailty of human life<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><i>In the name of God Amen. I Hiram Andress of the County of Delaware in the State of Ohio being of sound and composed mind, but admonished of the frailty of human life am resolved to arrange my earthly concerns and dispose of the substance which the Lord hath committed to my trust, do therefore make this my last will & testament.</i><br />
<br />
On March 17, 1845, <b>Hiram Andress</b> wrote his last will and testament, directing that his estate be divided between his beloved wife Polly and his two daughters, Eliza and Lucy.<br />
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He died a few months later and was buried at Oller Cemetery. On his marker, an angel stands beneath a garland of flowers, holding an open book.</span></span><br />
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<a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-J1JdrkO3Gtg/UXxmgEYV7gI/AAAAAAAAEZo/rXr10Hsgk6A/s1600/HiramAndress.jpg" imageanchor="1" ><img border="0" width=340 src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-J1JdrkO3Gtg/UXxmgEYV7gI/AAAAAAAAEZo/rXr10Hsgk6A/s320/HiramAndress.jpg" /></a><br />
<a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-7ePsQTjaFqA/UXxoZe6iGlI/AAAAAAAAEZ4/KoPwn2uhPSA/s1600/AndressAngel.jpg" imageanchor="1" ><img border="0" width=340 src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-7ePsQTjaFqA/UXxoZe6iGlI/AAAAAAAAEZ4/KoPwn2uhPSA/s320/AndressAngel.jpg" /></a><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><i>Oller Cemetery, Delaware County, Ohio</i><br />
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</span></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08519895209103937190noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6174500248007336079.post-21523846507414467572012-07-28T09:58:00.003-04:002012-07-28T09:58:34.912-04:00Faith, hope, and charity<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-mUsolJpVWxU/UBPpeOcnijI/AAAAAAAAEV4/EeSoy6xHByg/s1600/FaithHopeCharity.jpg" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" height="465" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-mUsolJpVWxU/UBPpeOcnijI/AAAAAAAAEV4/EeSoy6xHByg/s640/FaithHopeCharity.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Faith, hope, and charity are sculpted in human form on the Adams monument at Spring Grove Cemetery. <br />
<br />
Look closely: two of the personifications hold their common symbols: a cross (faith) and an anchor (hope). </span></span><br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-hQA_Sdvu9j8/UBPuvqGzirI/AAAAAAAAEXc/lL8hQ17aX4k/s1600/FaithHopeCharity%2Bclose.jpg" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" height="347" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-hQA_Sdvu9j8/UBPuvqGzirI/AAAAAAAAEXc/lL8hQ17aX4k/s400/FaithHopeCharity%2Bclose.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><i>Spring Grove Cemetery, Hamilton County, Ohio</i></span></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08519895209103937190noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6174500248007336079.post-31850457040860215572012-07-27T06:35:00.000-04:002012-07-27T06:35:00.568-04:00Lunacy<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Twenty years separate their deaths, but they rest side by side forever. <b>Caroline C. C. Caldwell</b> (d. 1882) is buried next to her infant daughter, Isabella Caldwell (<a href="http://gravestoned.blogspot.com/2012/07/little-belle.html" target="_new">yesterday’s post</a>) in Spring Grove Cemetery.</span></span><br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-3G2b362mtAk/UBG9HsA3X7I/AAAAAAAAETs/Br7Bxn78RzA/s1600/CarolineLittleBelle.jpg" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" height="297" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-3G2b362mtAk/UBG9HsA3X7I/AAAAAAAAETs/Br7Bxn78RzA/s400/CarolineLittleBelle.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br />
<center><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">IN MEMORY OF<br />
CAROLINE C. C. CALDWELL<br />
WIFE OF<br />
ANTHONY CALDWELL<br />
DIED JUNE 29, 1882<br />
IN HER 56 YEAR.</span></span></center><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br />
The cemetery burial records show that Caroline was a resident of Cincinnati’s Longview Asylum when she died. The disease that caused her death? Lunacy.</span></span><br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-GlO_nhhNA3c/UBG92gISo3I/AAAAAAAAET4/T4VB3PgRcxU/s1600/Screen%2BShot%2B2012-07-26%2Bat%2B5.59.19%2BPM.png" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" height="271" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-GlO_nhhNA3c/UBG92gISo3I/AAAAAAAAET4/T4VB3PgRcxU/s400/Screen%2BShot%2B2012-07-26%2Bat%2B5.59.19%2BPM.png" width="400" /></a></div><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">The Federal Census records for Cincinnati in 1870 and 1880 show Anthony and Caroline Caldwell living in the same household. In 1880—two years before Caroline’s death—there is an entry next to Anthony’s name in column 15. You know that column:</span></span><br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><i>Is the person [on the day of the Enumerator’s visit] sick or temporarily disabled, so as to be unable to attend to ordinary business or duties? If so, what is the sickness or disability?</i></span></span></blockquote><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-iOiVYZ21ARA/UBG9HCHXWmI/AAAAAAAAETU/97rUdh7_b48/s1600/Screen%2BShot%2B2012-07-26%2Bat%2B5.52.29%2BPM.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="97" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-iOiVYZ21ARA/UBG9HCHXWmI/AAAAAAAAETU/97rUdh7_b48/s400/Screen%2BShot%2B2012-07-26%2Bat%2B5.52.29%2BPM.png" width="189" /></a></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">What do you think? I think the entry is meant to read “Nervous Disease of Head,” and it was intended for the line below: Caroline.<br />
<br />
Without commenting on Caroline Caldwell’s specific condition, which is unknown to me, I share these sentences from the abstract of “<a href="http://minds.wisconsin.edu/handle/1793/6687" target="_new">Lunacy in the 19th Century: Women’s Admission to Asylums in United States of America</a>,” by Katherine Pouba and Ashely Tianen (2006):<br />
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<i>Between the years of 1850-1900, women were placed in mental institutions for behaving in ways that male society did not agree with. Women during this time period had minimal rights, even concerning their own mental health. Research concluded that many women were admitted for reasons that could be questionable. Since the 19th century, many of the symptoms women experience according to admittance records would not make a woman eligible for admittance to a mental asylum today. Women with symptoms were later diagnosed insane by reasons such as religious excitement, epilepsy, and suppressed menustruation. </i><br />
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May you rest in peace, Caroline.</span></span><br />
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<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-zAfiyYgLWs4/UBHGloFNIkI/AAAAAAAAEU4/d0PHjzEJEMg/s1600/LongviewStateHospital.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="253" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-zAfiyYgLWs4/UBHGloFNIkI/AAAAAAAAEU4/d0PHjzEJEMg/s400/LongviewStateHospital.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: right;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: xx-small;"><i>Longview Asylum</i></span></td></tr>
</tbody></table><div style="text-align: right;"><br />
</div><hr color="lightgray" size="1" /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><i>Spring Grove Cemetery, Hamilton County, Ohio</i></span></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08519895209103937190noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6174500248007336079.post-15607932915985974182012-07-26T06:21:00.000-04:002012-07-26T06:21:00.647-04:00Little Belle<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">It is easy to be overwhelmed by the large, impressive monuments and the park-like setting of Spring Grove Cemetery, but it pays to keep your eyes open for the smaller gems.<br />
<br />
The gravestone that marks the burial site of <b>Isabella Caldwell</b> (b. 1861, d. 1862) may be small, but it touches the heart: “Little Belle.”</span></span><br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-iujD9BvKAAI/UBBucb2vhmI/AAAAAAAAESI/-Tr4Pt5fCtY/s1600/LittleBelle.jpg" imageanchor="1" ><img border="0" height="593" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-iujD9BvKAAI/UBBucb2vhmI/AAAAAAAAESI/-Tr4Pt5fCtY/s640/LittleBelle.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br />
<center>LITTLE<br />
BELLE.<br />
<br />
ISABELLA B.<br />
DAUGHTER OF<br />
A. & C.C. CALDWELL,<br />
DIED AUG. 29, 1862,<br />
AGED [1 YS. 7] MS. & 12 DS.<br />
</center><br />
The cemetery’s records show Belle’s date of birth and suggests that her death was caused by “congestion of the brain.”<br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-zLGZc3A0Dqo/UBBwVCqesMI/AAAAAAAAESU/jWlgW-oF8TI/s1600/Screen%2BShot%2B2012-07-25%2Bat%2B6.04.34%2BPM.png" imageanchor="1" ><img border="0" height="273" width="400" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-zLGZc3A0Dqo/UBBwVCqesMI/AAAAAAAAESU/jWlgW-oF8TI/s400/Screen%2BShot%2B2012-07-25%2Bat%2B6.04.34%2BPM.png" /></a></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><i>Spring Grove Cemetery, Hamilton County, Ohio</i></span><br />
</span></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08519895209103937190noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6174500248007336079.post-46564413820874900942012-07-25T06:35:00.000-04:002012-07-25T06:35:00.215-04:00Wallace, Wallace, Wallace<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Standing beside the monument to <b>Mary Wallace Perry</b> (b. 1787, d. 1812) and her infant daughter (<a href="http://gravestoned.blogspot.com/2012/07/from-time-to-eternity.html" target="_new">yesterday’s post</a>) are two dark obelisks. The same surname is inscribed on each of the matching obelisks: <i>Wallace</i>.<br />
<br />
The online burial records for Spring Grove reveal the relationships among Perry and the Wallaces. Even before we see the records, we know that the relationships are close. <br />
<br />
This sure looks like a family grouping, doesn’t it?</span></span><br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-8-x--g0qjyg/UA8PmOmgHOI/AAAAAAAAEOE/3oNN_xYNlu8/s1600/Wallace%2Ball.jpg" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" height="400" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-8-x--g0qjyg/UA8PmOmgHOI/AAAAAAAAEOE/3oNN_xYNlu8/s400/Wallace%2Ball.jpg" width="395" /></a></span></span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br />
The obelisk on the right bears the names of <b>Robert Wallace</b> (b. 1734, d. 1828) and <b>Rebecca Wallace</b> (b. 1751, d. 1834), Mary’s parents.<br />
<br />
The obelisk on the left marks the grave of Mary’s older sister, <b>Edith Wallace</b> (b. 1769, d. 1831).<br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-YEMsIBIf_WQ/UA8gxnjR2OI/AAAAAAAAEPk/ilk_pnGZsv0/s1600/Wallace%2Bobelisks.jpg" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" height="489" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-YEMsIBIf_WQ/UA8gxnjR2OI/AAAAAAAAEPk/ilk_pnGZsv0/s640/Wallace%2Bobelisks.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br />
<table width="100%"><tr><td valign="bottom" width="50%"><center>IN<br />
Memory of<br />
EDITH WALLACE,<br />
Who died<br />
April 18th, 1831;<br />
In the 63rd, year of<br />
her age.</center></td><td width="50%"><center>IN<br />
Memory of<br />
ROBERT WALLACE<br />
Who died<br />
Aug. 28th, 1828;<br />
In the 94th, year<br />
of his age.<br />
And<br />
REBECCA WALLACE<br />
Who died<br />
June 19th, 1834;<br />
In the 84th, year of<br />
her age.</center></td></tr></table><br />
All were buried first at Presbyterian Cemetery and moved to Spring Grove in September, 1858.<br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Mlnzk1zNNCs/UA8pGTzACPI/AAAAAAAAEQw/uRf1wRgFOcg/s1600/Screen%2BShot%2B2012-07-24%2Bat%2B7.00.19%2BPM.png" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" height="276" width="400" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Mlnzk1zNNCs/UA8pGTzACPI/AAAAAAAAEQw/uRf1wRgFOcg/s400/Screen%2BShot%2B2012-07-24%2Bat%2B7.00.19%2BPM.png" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-4PbnuT4CCpI/UA8p5wzxl5I/AAAAAAAAEQ8/Sx0KuIhJItA/s1600/Screen%2BShot%2B2012-07-24%2Bat%2B7.03.41%2BPM.png" imageanchor="1" ><img border="0" height="279" width="400" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-4PbnuT4CCpI/UA8p5wzxl5I/AAAAAAAAEQ8/Sx0KuIhJItA/s400/Screen%2BShot%2B2012-07-24%2Bat%2B7.03.41%2BPM.png" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-CZshVeEdaW0/UA8os0MLQMI/AAAAAAAAEQk/INrPUlIpqGE/s1600/Screen%2BShot%2B2012-07-24%2Bat%2B6.57.23%2BPM.png" imageanchor="1" ><img border="0" height="268" width="400" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-CZshVeEdaW0/UA8os0MLQMI/AAAAAAAAEQk/INrPUlIpqGE/s400/Screen%2BShot%2B2012-07-24%2Bat%2B6.57.23%2BPM.png" /></a></div><br />
Who has spied another Wallace in the photos? There is a white obelisk behind the dark ones. The name on that one is <b>David C. Wallace</b> (b. 1784, d. 1861). His burial record reveals him to be the son of Robert and Rebecca. <br />
<br />
Is he the <i>D. C. Wallace</i> who arranged the burial of Robert, Rebecca, Mary, and (probably) Edith in Spring Grove? <br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-_zxElRqzvQw/UA8q2En6p4I/AAAAAAAAERI/BC0NSTKW720/s1600/Screen%2BShot%2B2012-07-24%2Bat%2B7.07.06%2BPM.png" imageanchor="1" ><img border="0" height="269" width="400" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-_zxElRqzvQw/UA8q2En6p4I/AAAAAAAAERI/BC0NSTKW720/s400/Screen%2BShot%2B2012-07-24%2Bat%2B7.07.06%2BPM.png" /></a></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><i>Spring Grove Cemetery, Hamilton County, Ohio</i></span><br />
</span></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08519895209103937190noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6174500248007336079.post-43708029218029195682012-07-24T06:35:00.000-04:002012-07-24T06:35:00.815-04:00“Removed from time to Eternity”<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">How often have you read the gravestone of a young wife and wondered whether she died in childbirth?<br />
<br />
<b>Mary Wallace Perry</b> (b. 1787, d. 1812) and her infant daughter died together and are buried together. <br />
<br />
The monument inscriptions tell the story.</span></span><br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"></span></span><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-QSNmEB2f208/UA3P_Dntl1I/AAAAAAAAELw/Ujkj_V-ugY4/s1600/MaryWallacePerry%2Bfull.jpg" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" height="640" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-QSNmEB2f208/UA3P_Dntl1I/AAAAAAAAELw/Ujkj_V-ugY4/s640/MaryWallacePerry%2Bfull.jpg" width="393" /></a></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br />
<table><tbody>
<tr><td width="26%"></td><td><center>TO<br />
the memory of<br />
Mary Wallace Perry<br />
& her infant daughter,<br />
who were removed from<br />
time to Eternity<br />
August 22<sup>nd</sup> 1812,<br />
the former in the 26<sup>th</sup><br />
year of her age,<br />
the latter, in the<br />
moment of<br />
birth.</center><br />
If an assemblage of<br />
those amiable & endear-<br />
ing qualities that render<br />
a female the ornament<br />
of her sex, could have<br />
warded off the arrows<br />
of death She had not<br />
died.<br />
<br />
This stone is erected<br />
by the pious affections<br />
of the surviving hus-<br />
band and parent,<br />
SAMUEL PERRY.</td><td width="26%"></td></tr>
</tbody></table></span></span><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-57h4BLdpdes/UA3Vcm9NSeI/AAAAAAAAENE/w79Byi0uiW8/s1600/MaryWallacePerry%2Bfront.jpg" imageanchor="1" ><img border="0" height="310" width="191" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-57h4BLdpdes/UA3Vcm9NSeI/AAAAAAAAENE/w79Byi0uiW8/s400/MaryWallacePerry%2Bfront.jpg" /></a> <a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-wosjobM4mFg/UA3VbCOZNhI/AAAAAAAAEM4/eL0DuuH4fIo/s1600/MaryWallacePerry%2Bsurvivor_pt.jpg" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" height="310" width="192" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-wosjobM4mFg/UA3VbCOZNhI/AAAAAAAAEM4/eL0DuuH4fIo/s400/MaryWallacePerry%2Bsurvivor_pt.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-sB88TBXkueI/UA3R2f6IKkI/AAAAAAAAEL8/R5Bt4fbOokQ/s1600/MaryWallacePerry%2Bextra_pt.jpg" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" height="577" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-sB88TBXkueI/UA3R2f6IKkI/AAAAAAAAEL8/R5Bt4fbOokQ/s640/MaryWallacePerry%2Bextra_pt.jpg" width="393" /></a></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><i>Spring Grove Cemetery, Hamilton County, Ohio</i><br />
</span></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08519895209103937190noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6174500248007336079.post-77381602664820949152012-07-23T06:37:00.000-04:002012-07-23T06:37:00.148-04:00An obvious exception<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-DVtNC5KF-qI/T0jxNlIj5VI/AAAAAAAACb0/XogiJBuKKbM/s1600/JamesBaker%2Bstanding.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-DVtNC5KF-qI/T0jxNlIj5VI/AAAAAAAACb0/XogiJBuKKbM/s320/JamesBaker%2Bstanding.jpg" /></a></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">In February I posted a <a href="http://gravestoned.blogspot.com/2012/02/photo-tip-avoid.html" target="_new">photography tip on avoiding “converging verticals”</a> in gravestone photographs. You know the look: when rectangular gravestones end up looking like trapezoids in your photos.<br />
<br />
The joke is on me because <i>some gravestones are meant to be trapezoidal.</i><br />
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<center>THOMAS<br />
<br />
IVA S.<br />
1911 — 1970<br />
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ARVIN M.<br />
1908 — 1993</center><br />
But see the reflection in the stone? The gravestone may already be in the shape of a trapezoid, but the photographer (that would be me) is crouching down to get the photo anyhow—without tilting the camera.<br />
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Good tip.<br />
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<hr color="lightgray" size="1" /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><i>Oller Cemetery, Delaware County, Ohio</i></span></span></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08519895209103937190noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6174500248007336079.post-30649315224557737072012-07-22T09:28:00.004-04:002012-07-22T13:46:20.448-04:00Wings<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">While I was snapping photographs in Oller Cemetery yesterday afternoon, not really noticing how quiet it was in the country graveyard alongside the Scioto River, I heard the sound of flapping wings overhead. <br />
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Not <i>flap-flap-flap</i>; more like <i><b>FLAP-FLAP</b></i>.<br />
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Big wings.<br />
<br />
When I looked up, I saw something that I had never seen: a bald eagle. First I noticed his white tail; then, when he turned to circle the cemetery again, his “bald” head.<br />
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That’s when I broke my Rule of Cemetery Stillness and shouted out to my husband, a dozen rows away. <br />
<br />
“Roy! Eagle!”<br />
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We watched as the eagle made several lazy circles around the cemetery before disappearing behind the trees.<br />
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I turned my attention back to the modern monument, a vaulted obelisk, that I was photographing. The Williams monument at the back of Oller Cemetery is forever “the eagle monument” in my mind.</span></span><br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-07FOzSYvn6w/UAv9A303xJI/AAAAAAAAEIo/2nLQ6sVF5xE/s1600/Williams.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-07FOzSYvn6w/UAv9A303xJI/AAAAAAAAEIo/2nLQ6sVF5xE/s320/Williams.jpg" width="188" /></a></div><center><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">WILLIAMS<br />
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J. WESLEY<br />
OCTOBER 1, 1930<br />
MAY 21, 2008<br />
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PATRICIA EILEEN<br />
(DeNUNE)<br />
NOVEMBER 26, 1930<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><i>Oller Cemetery, Delaware County, Ohio</i></span><br />
</span></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08519895209103937190noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6174500248007336079.post-55202858790851648622012-07-21T11:25:00.000-04:002012-07-21T11:25:31.733-04:00Buried in Cincinnati?<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">The tiny detail—the carved tack attaching the “page” to the small boulder—attracted me to this small black marker at the grave of <b>Timothy Coop</b> (b. 1817, d. 1887).</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><center>IN LOVING MEMORY<br />
OF<br />
TIMOTHY COOP,<br />
OF SOUTHPORT ENGLAND.<br />
WHO DIED AT<br />
WICHITA KANSAS,<br />
MAY 15, 1887.<br />
IN HIS 70 YEAR.</center><br />
There is a short biography of Timothy Coop in <i>The Temperance Movement and Its Workers, Vol. III</i> by P. T. Winskill (1892):<br />
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<i>Timothy Coop, J.P., of Southport, is a name known far and wide as that of one of those men who, from a humble position, have risen to positions of honour, trust, and usefulness. He was born at West Houghton, near Bolton, in 1817, his father being a silk weaver. At an early age Timothy was bound apprentice to the tailoring business, and after completing his apprenticeship he removed from Bolton to Wigan, where he commenced business in a small way as a retail clothier. ... [T]he business developed so rapidly as to necessitate the erection of a magnificent pile of buildings, seen for a considerable distance, and known as the wholesale manufactory and warehouses of Messrs. T. Coop & Co., Wigan.<br />
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He was a staunch personal abstainer, and always a warm friend of the cause. During the later years of his life he indulged in his taste for travel, and while visiting the United States was stricken with malarial fever at Wichita, Kansas.</i><br />
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All of which introduces a bit of a mystery about this grave. Timothy Coop lived in England, he died in Kansas. <b>Why is he buried in Cincinnati?</b><br />
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If I were a detective, I might start by investigating the relationship of Coop to W. S. Dickinson, who, according to Spring Grove burial records, bought the Coop burial plot.<br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-D_4CObWH2JA/UArIPZK4bmI/AAAAAAAAEGo/mOCDtegQLpg/s1600/Screen%2BShot%2B2012-07-21%2Bat%2B10.18.16%2BAM.png" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" height="265" width="400" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-D_4CObWH2JA/UArIPZK4bmI/AAAAAAAAEGo/mOCDtegQLpg/s400/Screen%2BShot%2B2012-07-21%2Bat%2B10.18.16%2BAM.png" /></a></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><i>Spring Grove Cemetery, Hamilton County, Ohio</i></span><br />
</span></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08519895209103937190noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6174500248007336079.post-34546489965453652102012-07-20T06:35:00.000-04:002012-07-20T06:35:00.080-04:00Busted!<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">If you have not seen many busts during your graveyard wanderings, then you have not visited Spring Grove Cemetery in Cincinnati. During my visit, which was much too short, I easily saw twice as many busts as I show here.<br />
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Imagine what I might find when I return with more time to explore!</span></span><br />
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<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-SXVjEDBM3jQ/UASbA9XkepI/AAAAAAAAD9w/2Yavm2Pvsd4/s1600/BDirr.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-SXVjEDBM3jQ/UASbA9XkepI/AAAAAAAAD9w/2Yavm2Pvsd4/s320/BDirr.jpg" width="300" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-small;"><i>Barney Dirr (d. 1885)</i></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-jJy_6nS6cXo/UASbFsTiDKI/AAAAAAAAD-I/Q_BWLUomETc/s1600/JKauffman.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-jJy_6nS6cXo/UASbFsTiDKI/AAAAAAAAD-I/Q_BWLUomETc/s320/JKauffman.jpg" width="300" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-small;">John Kauffman (d. 1886)</span></i></td></tr>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-O5lT54MHmXs/UASbCeeiT6I/AAAAAAAAD94/izk68knhKv0/s1600/CCBreuer.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-O5lT54MHmXs/UASbCeeiT6I/AAAAAAAAD94/izk68knhKv0/s320/CCBreuer.jpg" width="300" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-small;">Charles C. Breuer (d. 1908)</span></i></td></tr>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-NmOaOIgxUxU/UAXaRtpeQAI/AAAAAAAAD_U/P2VJQCzL0AI/s1600/girl%2Bbust.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-NmOaOIgxUxU/UAXaRtpeQAI/AAAAAAAAD_U/P2VJQCzL0AI/s400/girl%2Bbust.jpg" width="300" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-small;"><i>Maria Theresia Rheinboldt (d. 1858)</i></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-_0Kbv-evkPA/UAi_NFHSMgI/AAAAAAAAEEk/f4tbPBzrq2k/s1600/bust.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-_0Kbv-evkPA/UAi_NFHSMgI/AAAAAAAAEEk/f4tbPBzrq2k/s400/bust.jpg" width="300" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Johann Ulrich Windisch (d. 1879)</i></td></tr>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-nHpODgqSzaQ/UASbEg5o82I/AAAAAAAAD-A/BHDiGAlstBs/s1600/Hassaurek.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-nHpODgqSzaQ/UASbEg5o82I/AAAAAAAAD-A/BHDiGAlstBs/s320/Hassaurek.jpg" width="300" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Frederick Haussaurek (d. 1885)</span></i></td></tr>
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08519895209103937190noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6174500248007336079.post-33855572881290982802012-07-19T06:35:00.000-04:002012-07-19T06:35:00.067-04:00Burial records<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-S2Qo95MesDI/UAX1Ka6hfVI/AAAAAAAAEDo/k0Wlu5vRHNw/s1600/Hanna%2Bclose.jpg" imageanchor="1" ><img border="0" height="162" width="400" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-S2Qo95MesDI/UAX1Ka6hfVI/AAAAAAAAEDo/k0Wlu5vRHNw/s400/Hanna%2Bclose.jpg" /></a></div><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Did you notice that the date inscribed on the front of the <a href="http://gravestoned.blogspot.com/2012/07/sarcophagus.html" target="_new">Hanna sarcophagus</a> is <i>1895</i>? Did you wonder why? I did.<br />
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So I took advantage of the online burial records on <a href="http://www.blogger.com/www.springgrove.org" target="_new">www.springgrove.org</a> to check the death dates of the Hanna sons. <br />
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I am thinking that <i>1895</i> represents the date the monument was set in place and that it corresponds to the death of the Hanna sons who died in 1895: Thomas (died May 25, 1895) and Ellison (died November 17, 1895). Their brother Charles died in 1894.</span></span><br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-2NWiuQ8lzYE/UAXz0cUa9XI/AAAAAAAAEDM/W4HJi77xRTI/s1600/Screen+Shot+2012-07-17+at+7.21.10+PM.png" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" height="268" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-2NWiuQ8lzYE/UAXz0cUa9XI/AAAAAAAAEDM/W4HJi77xRTI/s400/Screen+Shot+2012-07-17+at+7.21.10+PM.png" width="400" /></a></div><br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-xxvz7etB3ko/UANxwt9lR4I/AAAAAAAAD6I/a9f_7oMRCt0/s1600/Hanna.jpg" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" height="310" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-xxvz7etB3ko/UANxwt9lR4I/AAAAAAAAD6I/a9f_7oMRCt0/s400/Hanna.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><i>Spring Grove Cemetery, Hamilton County, Ohio</i></span></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08519895209103937190noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6174500248007336079.post-69683770942728813412012-07-18T06:35:00.000-04:002012-07-18T06:35:00.780-04:00A sleeping child<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">There is a life-size statue of a sleeping child, flower in hand, on the W. E. Alcorn monument at Spring Grove Cemetery.<br />
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The front of the monument is inscribed with the name <b>Ann Maria Alcorn</b> (d. 1863), who is identified as the wife of W. E. Alcorn.<br />
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I knew before I looked that there would be more names on this one—children’s names.<br />
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<center>ANN MARIA,<br />
WIFE OF W.E. ALCORN,<br />
DIED APR. 1, 1863,<br />
AGED 34 Y’S. 1 M’O. & 14 D’S.</center><br />
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The side of the monument shows the children’s names, daughters of Ann and W. E. Alcorn, <b>Margaret M. Alcorn</b> (b. 1855, d. 1860) and <b>Emma Alcorn</b> (b. 1858, d. 1860).<br />
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According to the Spring Grove burial records (available online at springgrove.org), Margaret and Emma died of scarlet fever, Emma with measles as well.<br />
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<center>MARGARET M.<br />
DIED MAR. 2, 1860,<br />
AGED 4 Y’S. 7 M’S. 12 D’S.<br />
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EMMA.<br />
DIED MAY 1, 1860,<br />
AGED 2 Y’S. 2 M’S. 8 D’S.</center><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-fB_TZzlmvOM/UAXiu-TzTsI/AAAAAAAAEAc/i8eBTlbh7lg/s1600/Alcorn%2Bchildren.jpg" imageanchor="1" ><img border="0" height="335" width="400" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-fB_TZzlmvOM/UAXiu-TzTsI/AAAAAAAAEAc/i8eBTlbh7lg/s400/Alcorn%2Bchildren.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-L7zjJ3bD3-s/UAXumc-QucI/AAAAAAAAECU/r2VbPiDwxyM/s1600/Alcorn%2Bchild.jpg" imageanchor="1" ><img border="0" height="253" width="400" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-L7zjJ3bD3-s/UAXumc-QucI/AAAAAAAAECU/r2VbPiDwxyM/s400/Alcorn%2Bchild.jpg" /></a></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><i>Spring Grove Cemetery, Hamilton County, Ohio</i></span><br />
</span></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08519895209103937190noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6174500248007336079.post-58063411995111445212012-07-17T06:30:00.000-04:002012-07-17T06:49:46.739-04:00Sarcophagus<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><blockquote><i><b>sar·coph·a·gus</b> a stone coffin (usually bearing sculpture or inscriptions)</i></blockquote></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">The monument that marks the Hanna family plot looks like a sarcophagus, but is it? Or is it another gravestone symbol, one that is looks like a sarcophagus to symbolize mortality and death?</span></span><br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-xxvz7etB3ko/UANxwt9lR4I/AAAAAAAAD6I/a9f_7oMRCt0/s1600/Hanna.jpg" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" height="310" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-xxvz7etB3ko/UANxwt9lR4I/AAAAAAAAD6I/a9f_7oMRCt0/s400/Hanna.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br />
There are two individual markers, set flush with the ground, in front of the monument: <b>Henry Hanna</b> (b. 1812, d. 1905) and <b>Mary Jane Hanna</b> (d. 1909). <br />
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Henry Hanna was a prominent and respected Cincinnati businessman. According to <i>Cincinnati, the Queen City, 1788-1912, Volume 4</i>, published in 1912 by S.J. Clarke Publishing Company,<br />
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<i>Charitable work received his earnest financial assistance, and as his mean increased, he made liberal donation where aid was needed nor manifested the least spirit of ostentation in thus relieving the needs of his fellowmen.<br />
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Mr. Hanna was united in marriage to Miss Mary Jane Ellison. They became the parents of four children, but the three sons, Charles, Ellison and Thomas, are all now deceased. ... The three sons all died within a period of three years.</i><br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-7dj5q8JMD84/UANwX9iqYxI/AAAAAAAAD58/Ll0A9dwGEyk/s1600/Perpetual.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-7dj5q8JMD84/UANwX9iqYxI/AAAAAAAAD58/Ll0A9dwGEyk/s200/Perpetual.jpg" width="80" /></a></div>Confession: I failed to get nice photos of the individual markers because I was distracted by the “perpetual care” marker set in the ground. You don’t find these in the small, rural graveyards I normally visit.<br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-enCqdBVb29o/UASNw0urv5I/AAAAAAAAD80/jAOMpNpKNqE/s1600/Hanna%2Bclose.jpg" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" height="162" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-enCqdBVb29o/UASNw0urv5I/AAAAAAAAD80/jAOMpNpKNqE/s400/Hanna%2Bclose.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><i>Spring Grove Cemetery, Hamilton County, Ohio</i></span></span></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08519895209103937190noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6174500248007336079.post-88803043837855104182012-07-16T06:32:00.000-04:002012-07-16T07:37:41.534-04:00“I am prepared to die”<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-mjL3a1_foxs/UANCBBawxvI/AAAAAAAAD3k/Qhp4LVNWhEU/s1600/JohnMcLean.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="180" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-mjL3a1_foxs/UANCBBawxvI/AAAAAAAAD3k/Qhp4LVNWhEU/s200/JohnMcLean.jpeg" width="146" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: right;"><span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; line-height: 19px; text-align: -webkit-auto;"><i><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: xx-small;">Justice John McLean</span></i></span></td></tr>
</tbody></table><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">A handsome obelisk—not too tall!—marks the grave of <b>John McLean</b> (b. 1785, d. 1861), a lawyer and politician who served in the United States Congress, as U.S. Postmaster General, and as a justice on the Ohio and U.S. Supreme Courts. <br />
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Not familiar with McLean? Paul Finkelman of Albany Law School writes, “Few Justices have worked so hard, for such a long period of time, and had so little impact on the Court.”<br />
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Also inscribed on the obelisk are the names of McLean’s first wife, <b>Rebecca E. McLean</b> (b. 1786, d. 1841), and her (their?) granddaughter, <b>Rebecca A. Richards</b>.</span></span><br />
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<center><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">JOHN M<sup><u>c</u></sup>LEAN.<br />
ASSOCIATE JUSTICE<br />
SUPREME COURT OF<br />
THE UNITED STATES<br />
BORN MARCH 11, 1785,<br />
DIED APRIL 4, 1861.<br />
<br />
IN<br />
memory of<br />
REBECCA E. M<sup><u>c</u></sup>LEAN,<br />
wife of<br />
JUDGE M<sup><u>c</u></sup>LEAN,<br />
She was born 11<sup>th</sup> March 1786,<br />
and died 5<sup>th</sup> December 1841.<br />
<br />
IN<br />
memory of<br />
REBECCA A. RICHARDS,<br />
Grand daughter of<br />
Mrs. M<sup><u>c</u></sup>LEAN.</span></span></center><br />
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Instead of an epitaph, Mrs. McLean’s inscription includes her last words:</span></span><br />
<blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><i>“I have endeavored to make my calling and dev–<br />
otion sure, and through the assisting grace<br />
of God, I have accomplished it. I am <br />
prepared to die. My way is bright. I<br />
have no fear.”</i></span></span></blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">A FindAGrave contributor writes on Mrs. McLean’s memorial page, “She was originally interred at Methodist Cemetery (Catherine St. in Cincinnati). She was re-interred at Spring Grove Cemetery 8/20/1861.”<br />
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Several family members are buried in unmarked graves nearby.</span></span><br />
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<hr color="lightgray" size="1" /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><i>Spring Grove Cemetery, Hamilton County, Ohio</i></span></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08519895209103937190noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6174500248007336079.post-52924939321637592272012-07-15T19:02:00.000-04:002012-07-17T18:45:14.935-04:00Grieving friend<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-jVsHLdsFrAE/UANLE25RT3I/AAAAAAAAD4w/WNqSQBQRm-A/s1600/Grieving%2Bfriend.jpg" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" height="237" width="400" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-jVsHLdsFrAE/UANLE25RT3I/AAAAAAAAD4w/WNqSQBQRm-A/s400/Grieving%2Bfriend.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-A3jhSQN82M8/UANLrkWE7xI/AAAAAAAAD48/qkDbddxBeCk/s1600/friend%2B2.jpg" imageanchor="1" ><img border="0" height="217" width="400" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-A3jhSQN82M8/UANLrkWE7xI/AAAAAAAAD48/qkDbddxBeCk/s400/friend%2B2.jpg" /></a></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><i>Spring Grove Cemetery, Hamilton County, Ohio</i></span></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08519895209103937190noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6174500248007336079.post-47071469460918676722012-07-15T11:25:00.003-04:002012-07-15T11:25:43.446-04:00Groff pyramid<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-fgGA3srw3YY/UALg0w2WS_I/AAAAAAAADy0/g5QY4iLrBKA/s1600/Groff.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear:left; float:left;margin-right:1em; margin-bottom:1em"><img border="0" height="400" width="344" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-fgGA3srw3YY/UALg0w2WS_I/AAAAAAAADy0/g5QY4iLrBKA/s400/Groff.jpg" /></a></div><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br />
In its March, 2006 e-newsletter, the Association of Gravestone Studies quotes Phillip J. Nuxhall, Historian and Tour Coordinator for the Heritage Foundation of Spring Grove Cemetery & Arboretum:<br />
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“Professor William Groff and his daughter, Florence Groff, were both archeologists. Florence requested that her father and brother’s bodies be brought back from Athens, Greece (where they all died) and that her mother be brought back from Cairo, Egypt to be buried under a 425 square foot pyramid but Spring Grove directors denied the request. In 1952, at White Plains, New York, a compromise with the relatives was reached contesting the will which authorized the Public Administrator to spend $10,000 of Miss Groff’s $40,000 estate for the pyramid and to bring the rest of the family members’ bodies back to Spring Grove. The pyramid was finally erected in 1957 at a cost of $7,000 by Beck and Beck Inc. of Barre, Vermont for Goodall Monument Works, Inc. The names on the pyramid are in English, Greek, and Egyptian. The pyramid is about ¼ of the originally planned size.”</span></span><br />
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<center><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia;">FLORENCE GROFF<br />
BORN CINCINNATI, OHIO<br />
DIED MARCH 21, 1948<br />
HASTINGS ON HUDSON, N. Y.<br />
<br />
WILLIAM N. GROFF<br />
BORN MAY 4, 1857, CINCINNATI, OHIO<br />
DIED DEC. 4, 1901, ATHENS, GREECE<br />
ASIATIC SOC. — EGYPTIAN INSTITUTE<br />
<br />
WILLIAM T. GROFF, M. D.<br />
BORN DEC. 19, 1843, PHILADELPHIA, PA.<br />
DIED JULY 9, 1900, ATHENS, GREECE<br />
<br />
SARAH E. TALBOT GROFF<br />
BORN CINCINNATI, OHIO<br />
DIED MAR. 24, 1900, GHIZEH, EGYPT<br />
</span></center><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br />
<hr color="lightgray" size="1" /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><i>Spring Grove Cemetery, Hamilton County, Ohio</i></span><br />
</span></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08519895209103937190noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6174500248007336079.post-57699166166130888462012-07-14T21:24:00.003-04:002012-07-14T21:24:36.681-04:00Faith, Hope, and Charity<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Stop number 19 on the self-guided walking tour through Spring Grove Cemetery, “America’s second largest and most beautiful cemetery and arboretum,” is the <b>Robinson Mausoleum</b>, built in 1874.<br />
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<i>John Robinson started the country’s first traveling circus in 1824 when he took three wagons, five horses, and a tent across the Allegheny mountains. He eventually sold shares to the Ringling Brothers. He was the son of a Scotch soldier who fought in the American Revolution and he ran away to join a circus when he was young and became a bareback rider. ... The miniturized cruciform structure of blue limestone edged with marble is ornamented with allegorical statuary of FAITH, HOPE, and CHARITY and topped by the Angel Gabriel ready to blow the horn to herald the Resurrection.</i> (<a href="http://www.springgrove.org/" target=_new">www.springgrove.org</a>)</span></span><br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-rlyblQlO4gM/UAIVPESiCUI/AAAAAAAADss/nLVuM24PSK8/s1600/FaithHopeCharity.jpg" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" height="386" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-rlyblQlO4gM/UAIVPESiCUI/AAAAAAAADss/nLVuM24PSK8/s400/FaithHopeCharity.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><i>Spring Grove Cemetery, Hamilton County, Ohio</i></span><br />
</span></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08519895209103937190noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6174500248007336079.post-8078025733897329402012-07-13T09:56:00.000-04:002012-07-13T09:56:06.470-04:00“Esteemed a highly worthy man”<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Wednesday’s post, “<a href="http://gravestoned.blogspot.com/2012/07/ferson-from-new-hampshire.html" target="_new">Ferson from New Hampshire</a>,” included this biographical snippet from <i>History of New Boston, New Hampshire</i> by Elliott Colby Cogswell (Boston: 1864):<br />
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<i>James Ferson, son of Dea. James Ferson, was born in Chester May 29, 1744, O. S., and married Mary McNeill, daughter of James McNeill. ... Some of the children went to Ohio, and their father, who was 74 years old, followed them, and died there, being esteemed a highly worthy man.</i><br />
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<b>James Ferson</b> (b. 1744, d. 1821) and <b>Mary (McNeill) Ferson</b> (d. 1834) are buried under a beautiful sandstone marker carved with matching willows and a simple urn.</span></span><br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"></span></span><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-mITgOXeE-NA/UAAkkthiytI/AAAAAAAADrY/1SKWLjrsUDk/s1600/JamesFerson%2Bfull.jpg" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" height="607" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-mITgOXeE-NA/UAAkkthiytI/AAAAAAAADrY/1SKWLjrsUDk/s640/JamesFerson%2Bfull.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br />
<center>JAMES FERSON<br />
<i>Formerly from New Boston N. H.</i><br />
died Jan. 2,<br />
1821:<br />
in the 77 year of his age.<br />
<i>Expressing a full assurance<br />
of hope in Christ.</i><br />
<br />
MARY FERSON<br />
his wife<br />
died April 29, <br />
1834:<br />
in the 79 year of her age.</center><blockquote><blockquote><blockquote><i>They had both been members of the<br />
Presbyterian church, for more<br />
than half a century.<br />
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Blessed are the dead,<br />
who die in the Lord.</i></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-TCQZzDfEfzw/UAAloeevrkI/AAAAAAAADrk/lSn3uDJDA5s/s1600/JamesFerson%2Binscription.jpg" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" height="356" width="400" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-TCQZzDfEfzw/UAAloeevrkI/AAAAAAAADrk/lSn3uDJDA5s/s400/JamesFerson%2Binscription.jpg" /></a></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><i>Africa Cemetery, Delaware County, Ohio</i></span><br />
</span></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08519895209103937190noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6174500248007336079.post-8754875074159440912012-07-11T06:30:00.000-04:002012-07-11T06:30:03.205-04:00Ferson from New Hampshire<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">The tablet marker at the graves of <b>Paul Ferson</b> (d. 1847) and <b>Sarah Ferson</b> (d. 1826) is a simple sandstone tablet that tilts to the right.<br />
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No willows, no urns, no angels. <br />
<br />
Ah, but we have <i>information</i>. </span></span><br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"></span></span><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Hks84dRTScU/T_yxcUt7xSI/AAAAAAAADqM/pYOFUCGhvOQ/s1600/Ferson%2Bfull.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Hks84dRTScU/T_yxcUt7xSI/AAAAAAAADqM/pYOFUCGhvOQ/s400/Ferson%2Bfull.jpg" width="272" /></a></div><br />
<center><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">PAUL FERSON<br />
AND<br />
SARAH<br />
<br />
His consort, emigrated<br />
from New Boston N.H.<br />
to Ohio in 1817. She died<br />
Aug. 6, 1829, aged 41 yrs.<br />
<br />
<i>She departed in peace firmly relying<br />
on the merits of Christ.</i><br />
<br />
He died Jan. 20, 1847. Æ.<br />
61 y’rs.<br />
<br />
<i>He was an elder in the Presbyterian Church<br />
of Berlin. His christian life adorned the relig[ion]<br />
of his Saviour.</i></span></span></center><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-EcfvRqZFXeQ/T_yxiNgifwI/AAAAAAAADqY/GBT34qu9vZw/s1600/Ferson%2Bepitaph.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-EcfvRqZFXeQ/T_yxiNgifwI/AAAAAAAADqY/GBT34qu9vZw/s400/Ferson%2Bepitaph.jpg" width="335" /></a></div><br />
The gravestone hint led me to <i>History of New Boston, New Hampshire</i> by Elliott Colby Cogswell (Boston: 1864), which includes a short Ferson biography:<br />
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<i>James Ferson, son of Dea. James Ferson, was born in Chester May 29, 1744, O. S., and married Mary McNeill, daughter of James McNeill. ... Their children were William, Jennet, James, Paul, Sally, Samuel, Daniel, and John. ... Some of the children went to Ohio, and their father, who was 74 years old, followed them, and died there, being esteemed a highly worthy man.</i><br />
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<hr size="1" color="lightgray"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><i>Africa Cemetery, Delaware County, Ohio</i></span><br />
</span></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08519895209103937190noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6174500248007336079.post-8030901182653632592012-07-10T06:30:00.000-04:002012-07-10T06:30:01.567-04:00One morning in an afternoon cemetery<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-pHGH7i8kHQM/T_tdfwjYjHI/AAAAAAAADo0/UE2SxVpULSs/s1600/MP900382723.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="100" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-pHGH7i8kHQM/T_tdfwjYjHI/AAAAAAAADo0/UE2SxVpULSs/s200/MP900382723.JPG" width="71" /></a></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Sometimes my timing is off. </span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia;"><span class="Apple-stylespan" style="font-size: medium;">Sometimes I visit a “morning cemetery” in the afternoon; sometimes, an “afternoon cemetery” in the morning.<br />
<br />
Huh?</span></span><br />
<br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia;"><span class="Apple-stylespan" style="font-size: medium;">In some cemeteries, most gravestones face east so that the morning sun lights the inscriptions. That is a “morning cemetery.”<br />
<br />
Most often I visit “afternoon cemeteries.” In other words, cemeteries in which most gravestones face west, the inscriptions lit by the afternoon sun.<br />
<br />
(Here in Ohio, even summer sun hits east-facing and west-facing gravestones at an angle. Let’s not get too far into the weeds.)<br />
<br />
Why do I care about this? Simple: Because a photograph of an inscription is usually easier to read when the inscription is not in the shade—including the shade of the gravestone itself. <br />
<br />
For example, take a look at the first photo below. I took this photo in an “afternoon cemetery,” even though I arrived a bit too early to get a good, bright photograph. The inscription is legible, but it is still in shadow.<br />
<br />
Compare it to the second photograph of a similar gravestone in a (different) cemetery. Sunlight is falling on the inscription. Much better!</span></span><br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia;"><span class="Apple-stylespan" style="font-size: medium;"></span></span><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-RxiFEC7YyMk/T_tfcSLHItI/AAAAAAAADpA/RXXKs74-lcM/s1600/JohnMooney%2Bshady.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-RxiFEC7YyMk/T_tfcSLHItI/AAAAAAAADpA/RXXKs74-lcM/s400/JohnMooney%2Bshady.jpg" width="299" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia;"><span class="Apple-stylespan" style="font-size: medium;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-djBQJ6MSMVg/T_tfkj7dwLI/AAAAAAAADpM/gVVAMcIg3MQ/s1600/Afternoon.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="405" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-djBQJ6MSMVg/T_tfkj7dwLI/AAAAAAAADpM/gVVAMcIg3MQ/s640/Afternoon.jpg" width="299" /></a></span></span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia;"><span class="Apple-stylespan" style="font-size: medium;"><br />
Of course it is not always possible to time a graveyard visit <i>just right</i>, and it is never possible to control the cloud cover. Now and then a bit of digital brightening after the fact can save a shady photo.<br />
<br />
And what about those large cemeteries with gravestones facing every which way? In that case, my best advice is to arrive early and spend the day!</span></span><br />
<br />
<hr color="lightgray" size="1" /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia;"><span class="Apple-stylespan" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><i>John Mooney, Pleasant Hill Cemetery, Union County, Ohio<br />
Rachel E. Rice, Dublin Cemetery, Franklin County, Ohio</i></span><br />
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</span></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08519895209103937190noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6174500248007336079.post-50043962649076761482012-07-09T06:30:00.000-04:002012-07-09T06:30:04.662-04:00“O Mother”<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">The epitaph on the gravestone for <b>Ellenora Herriott</b> (d. 1870) is a simple expression of the grief of a family that lost its mother.</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><i>O Mother how hard it is to<br />
live with out you.</i></span></span><br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"></span></span><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-OMw4YZIN6PY/T_oIrwx2EFI/AAAAAAAADnc/4Ocrsk963Dg/s1600/Herriott.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-OMw4YZIN6PY/T_oIrwx2EFI/AAAAAAAADnc/4Ocrsk963Dg/s400/Herriott.jpg" width="295" /></a></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br />
<center>ELLENNORA,<br />
Wife of<br />
E. C. HERRIOTT<br />
died<br />
Oct. 14, 1870<br />
Aged 41 Yrs. 24 ds.<br />
</center><br />
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The 1870 US Federal Census for Jerome Township in Union County, Ohio shows that Ebenezer and Ellennora had seven children. (The census was taken in June, just months before Ellennora’s death.)<br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Bv96B3-O6RI/T_oLPljHYYI/AAAAAAAADn0/drSh8OrzgVo/s1600/Herriott%2Bchildren.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear:left; float:left;margin-right:1em; margin-bottom:1em"><img border="0" height="130" width="400" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Bv96B3-O6RI/T_oLPljHYYI/AAAAAAAADn0/drSh8OrzgVo/s400/Herriott%2Bchildren.jpg" /></a></div><br />
Ebenezer died in 1872. <a href="http://www.genealogybug.net/union_cems/pleasant_hill/h6300003.jpg" target="_new">He is buried next to his wife</a>.<br />
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<hr size="1" color="lightgray"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><i>Pleasant Hill Cemetery, Union County, Ohio</i></span></span></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08519895209103937190noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6174500248007336079.post-57917290173835658112012-07-08T20:03:00.000-04:002012-07-08T20:03:04.726-04:00Keeping cool<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-3caMEOOZh8I/T_nWKcP0mWI/AAAAAAAADmc/W1U0gLsCbr8/s1600/BathinBeauties.jpg" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" height="640" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-3caMEOOZh8I/T_nWKcP0mWI/AAAAAAAADmc/W1U0gLsCbr8/s640/BathinBeauties.jpg" width="384" /></a><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Two sisters enjoy a visit to the swimmin’ hole: Ruth Ann Mayer Strack (b. 1924, d. 2011) and Jane Wilson Mayer O’Neal (b. 1926, d. 1993), whom I know as Aunt Ruthie and Mother.</span></span></div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08519895209103937190noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6174500248007336079.post-27855770857079684952012-07-08T08:27:00.001-04:002012-07-08T08:59:29.994-04:00Kemper<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-xi_qy7STMjI/T_l7TsHowsI/AAAAAAAADlc/YI4WsVWV4ag/s1600/Old%2Baddresses.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-xi_qy7STMjI/T_l7TsHowsI/AAAAAAAADlc/YI4WsVWV4ag/s400/Old%2Baddresses.jpg" width="257" /></a></div><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Granddaddy’s 1950s address book—a small, lined memo book with yellowed pages—is chock full of names. <br />
<br />
Aunts, uncles, cousins. Each name another family tree hint.<br />
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Bonus: Learning that his brother, John Kemper O’Neal, went by “Kemper,” at least within the family.<br />
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By the way, I know that zip codes were not around until the 60s, but look closely at the zips in this image: They are added in black ink, clearly some time after the original entry in blue. That, and one page in the book has a date: March 9, 1958.</span></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08519895209103937190noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6174500248007336079.post-60696504172920737172012-07-06T08:43:00.003-04:002012-07-06T08:43:58.619-04:00Simple<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">The plain tablet marker at the grave of <b>John Morrison Norris</b> (d. 1850) displays an epitaph that matches the simple style of the gravestone, one that does not dress its sentiment in metaphor or symbolism.<br />
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<i>How short and fleeting is our life.</i></span></span><br />
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<center><span style="font-variant: small-caps;">John Morrison</span><br />
Son of E. &<br />
Nancy Norris<br />
died June 6,<br />
1850.<br />
Aged 10 yrs.<br />
& 2 mo.</center><blockquote><blockquote><blockquote><i>How short and fleeting is<br />
our life, And how<br />
uncertain is the time<br />
When death will come and<br />
end the strife, And waft<br />
us to another clime.</i></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><hr size="1" color="lightgray"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><i>Pleasant Hill Cemetery, Union County, Ohio</i></span><br />
</span></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08519895209103937190noreply@blogger.com0