Happy death day to Hannah Emmons (Halloween bonus post)

 

Here lyes ye Body of Thomas
Emmons who Died May 24
1731 in ye 29th Year of His Age.

Alfo Here lyes ye Body of
Hannah Emmons Wife to Thos.
Emmons Who Died Octobr. 31
17[29 in ye 21st Year] of her Age

Bit of a bummer for Hannah to have died before her husband only to receive second billing on their gravestone and to be only named once while her husband is named twice in full! However, fantastic handwriting and fierce winged skulls.

Pops of color/colorful equines

 From South Onondaga Cemetery, Syracuse (-area), NY:

From Greenwood Cemetery, New Orleans, LA:

Imagine hand-setting circular text

 A two-fer headstone from Ticonderoga, NY, Streetroad Cemetery: husband and wife who died within a couple months of each other. Their marker is one slab, slightly scored down part of the center to divide the halves. What caught my eye was the circular way the man's name was written on the left, though the rest of the text is linear:

ADAM HOVENDEN
Died
Nov. 11, 1856
AE. 48

MARGARET
Wife of
A. HOVENDEN
DIED
Sept. 18, 1856
AE. 46

Dynamic text

Bold font stylings on headstones that put me in mind of flashy comic book-style text.

From Gibson Chapel Rural Cemetery, Cortland:

Flashy gold letters in a unique font, dramatically slanting across the headstone:

From South Onondaga Cemetery:

Really just the word "died" on this one, which so boldly different from the rest of the text and is really the most prominent word down there.

Bookish 2

More books!

From Liverpool Cemetery, Liverpool, NY:

An obelisk-cum-table for some draped fabric and a pair of books:

From Oakwood Cemetery, Syracuse, NY:

"Until the day break And the shadows flee away."

From Mt. Hope Cemetery, Rochester, NY:

Typography

Usually headstones are carved in some basic, easy-to-read typeface. Maybe it most resembles Helvetica, maybe Times New Romans-- to non-typography geeks, it's pretty bland and consistent. The exceptions I have found...


From Myrtle Hill Cemetery, Syracuse:

From Walnut Grove Cemetery, Syracuse (not to be confused with Jamesville Walnut Grove):

a bit blurry; apologies-- my camera doesn't fare well without flash

From Onondaga Valley Cemetery, Syracuse:

From Mt. Hope Cemetery, Rochester:

Also has a fun epitaph!

And finally, as I had wondered about why I only ever found English-language, Roman alphabet, and Euro-centric names on headstones...

Chinese calligraphy!