22 August 2011

Artfully broken

From Metairie Cemetery in New Orleans, LA:


I'm not even sure how functional this one can be, but it's definitely very lovely and attention-grabbing, a mausoleum made to look like a gothic cathedral fallen into disrepair (me being a WW2 "fan," I tend to think "bombed-out"). Another view from the front:


14 August 2011

Room for Three More

From Saint Mary's Cemetery in Fayetteville, NY:


You'd think at least one name would have been etched in before the stone went up.

05 August 2011

Rock piles

From Mt. Hope Cemetery, Rochester, NY:


From Fairview Cemetery in... Sheldrake? Seneca County, NY, at least.

Vaguely reminiscent of a snowman but with boulders.

01 July 2011

Warnings

From Jamesville Walnut Grove Cemetery:

Death conquers all the sons of man:
Few reach their threescore years and ten. 
Though here and there you one may trace, 
Let none presume twill be their case.

From Liverpool Cemetery, Liverpool, NY: 

A classic (and here's some history on the verse). Also, I am open to suggestions as to what that very first word might be.

[?]er remember as you pass by
As you are now so once was I
As I am now so you must be
Prepare for death and follow me

29 June 2011

A Civil War obelisk

Found in Oakwood Cemetery, Syracuse, NY:



 Capt. Wm. J. Hunt
Died at Chesapeake
Hospital Va.
of wounds rec'd.
before Petersburgh
July 30, 1864.
Ae. 22 y'rs & 4 mo. 


I found a scant amount more of information about him from here: Captain William J. Hunt, Co. D, 117th NYSV. Joined July, 1862 at Utica as 1st Lt., age 21; Captain Dec., 1863; WIA June 28, 1864 at Petersburg, VA; died July 31, 1864 at U.S. General Hospital. The death date differs by a day and the hospitals are identified differently.