Epitaph extravaganza

100th post, right here.

From Liverpool Cemetery, Liverpool, NY:

Loves last token

From South Onondaga Cemetery, Syracuse, NY area:

 Arthur S. 1885-1908

A precious one from
us has gone
The voice beloved
is stilled
A place is vacant
in our home
which never can
be filled.

Of life the tiresom [sic] journey's past.
We drop into the tomb at last:
Great Inn; where all our sorrows cease
And kings & peasants rest in peace.

Afflictions so
Long time I bore
Physicians were in vain
Till God was pleas'd
To give me ease,
And free me from
my pain.








From Oakland Cemetery, Atlanta, GA:

Annie Lowry Porter
Born Feb. 13, 1873; Died Nov. 15, 1874


Fannie Lowry Porter
Born Nov. 5, 1877; Died May 11, 1879

They were little sunbeams
That shone upon our way;
And cheered us but a moment
Ere they passed away.

Samuel Davis Haslett McDaniel

May 15, 1896

Sept. 14, 1983

A lover of people. A fighter to the end. God be with him til we meet again.

From Mt. Hope Cemetery, Rochester, NY:

 


George W. Aldridge
Born December 28, 1856
Died while serving the United States
as Collector of the Port of New York
June 13, 1922






On the reverse:
An expression of sorrow and farewell
to a great leader and a true friend

From Rome Cemetery, Rome, NY:

 

Detail:
"Even for the dead I will not bind
My soul to grief, death cannot long divide,
For is it not as if the rose that climbed
My garden wall had bloomed the other side?"

Another mishmash

From Oakland Cemetery in Atlanta, GA:

A funky and lovely mausoleum using three or four kinds/colors of stone topped off with a pyramid.

Oops, one more

I noticed after I posted yesterday that there was one more urn-centric monument from Oakland Cemetery that I could have posted, so here it is today.

Of note:

• Greek style of the urn
• Dr. James Reese McKeldin, Ph.D. (seems a little redundant to me to state both Dr. and Ph.D. titles-- I wonder in what? He was obviously proud of it.)
• Bessie McKeldin Clark somehow died in Mexico

Hard-Urned

So, my month of constant updates has concluded, more or less successfully (yay!). Back to your irregularly scheduled (but hopefully frequent) programming.

From Oakland Cemetery, Atlanta:

Three large metal-cast and green-patina'd urns. Piled with cloth:

A pair in front of a Gothic-styled mausoleum:

And sitting elegantly under a portico, bookended by benches.

Some scale for the last one:

Handsy

More hands on gravestones...

From Liverpool Cemetery, Liverpool, NY:

...holding flowers...

This one was also neat because the inscription is in German, as you can see more fully on that of two of Katharina Kissel's relations:

From Walnut Grove Cemetery, Syracuse:

...holding a book...

From Oakland Cemetery, Atlanta:

...grabbing the link of a chain and symbolically snuffing someone's life...

From Chappell Hill Masonic Cemetery, Chappell Hill:

...and clasping another well-sculpted hand.

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Hand of God

Little children

From Oakland Cemetery, Atlanta:

A child's headstone, of a little child/cherub curled up in a seashell:

Epitaph: Fell asleep Aug't 10th 1869. Aged 9 mon's & 1 day.


From Mt. Hope Cemetery, Rochester:

A small obelisk structure for "Our Willie," who is "Over in the summer land." the epitaph notes. The top is a neat little statue/column affair, but to me the most noteworthy part of this headstone is that chubby, creepy little hand.

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Little shoes

Sadness

From Oakland Cemetery in Atlanta:

Another sad stone woman:

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Sad Stone Ladies

Bookish 1

Books are not an uncommon motif, usually suggestive of the Bible, but as a bookworm it's fun seeing them nonetheless.

From South Onondaga Cemetery:

An upright Book of Life. This one is so neat in its simplicity-- it's basically just a normal, modern, upright headstone, but the small extra touches to create the spine and pages make it really different.

From Mt. Hope Cemetery, Rochester:

A couple's names written across the pages of a large open book:

From Oakland Cemetery, Atlanta:

Not quite a book, but name-dropping a historic author, the simple grave of Gone With the Wind author Margaret Mitchell:

Faces

Unlike all the statues I have seen and posted, these are limited only to heads, each presumably modeled after the deceased's own.

From Oakland Cemetery, Atlanta:

A nice obelisk, somewhat set apart by some dense plant growth...

And the face, "In memory of my wife":

And the top half of the obelisk:

From Mt. Hope Cemetery in Rochester:

James Douglas Reid
1819-1901
Born Edinburgh
Died New York
-
A pioneer of the telegraph and its first superintendent
Friend and associate of Morse
A kindly gentleman of beautiful character and stainless life
-
This monument was erected 1914 by telegraphers in appreciation and loving memory of his unselfish helpfulness.






From Oakwood Cemetery, Syracuse:

Lewis H. Redfield: Printer

The rest of his epitaph:

A worn and battered form,

Gone to be re-cast,

More beautiful and perfect.

Sit back

From Oakland Cemetery, Atlanta, GA:

An otherwise uninteresting mausoleum made nifty by the statue of a dapper gentleman, lightly holding a top hat, no less, perched over the entrance.

Vigilance

From Oakland Cemetery in Atlanta:

Gargoyles on a lovely, Gothicy mausoleum!

The whole front view:

 

Side view including rear windows:

The Big Sleep

From Oakland Cemetery, Atlanta, GA:

Four graves headed by giant pillows/cushions.

"Walk like an..."

This post covers a couple of monuments with Egyptian motifs I have come across.

From Oakland Cemetery, Atlanta, GA:

A dramatic arch...

And from Oakwood Cemetery, Syracuse, NY:

A more subtle mausoleum...

Detail:

Sadly, there's also a lovely example in Buffalo's Forest Lawn Cemetery, but my visit there was not very long, and I'm unlikely to be in that end of the state again anytime soon, if ever. Check out other people's photos of the Gilbert Memorial Sphinx here or here.

More landscapes

Some more pictures of cemetery landscapes without any particular focus on the headstones.

From (the gorgeous) Oakland Cemetery in Atlanta, GA:

From Mt. Hope Cemetery, Rochester, NY:

From St. Mary's Catholic Cemetery:

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Overview