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:
22 August 2011
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.
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.
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.
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