Today my mom and sister are coming to visit! I’m pretty excited. I wish it were warm enough to go graveyarding, though. My sister Siarna, mom, and I especially like to go to 18th and 19th century cemeteries (there are many in Connecticut) and check out the bizarre things people carved into the headstones back then, haha. Examples:
Chauncey L. Root, 1845
“His death was occasioned by falling from a factory in Ware, Mass. of which he was Master Builder”
Gilead Cemetery, Gilead/Hebron CT
…that sucks. heh
“Captain Abijah Rowlee, who left his native land for the defense of his country and died at Shormm si Vermont (?) Sept. 18 1776 Aged 76 Years”
“By foreign hands his dying eyes were closed.
By foreign hands his decent limbs composed.
By foreign hands his humble grave adorned.
By strangers honored and by strangers mourned.”
1810
Gilead Cemetery, Gilead/Hebron CT
So yeah, these are pretty cool :) I don’t have any pictures from the oldest cemetery we went to… it was a cemetery in Lebanon CT and some of the graves were from the 1600s.
Oh, here’s a couple from Donaghadee, County Down, Northern Ireland:
This one is from 1660, probably one of the oldest we’ve seen.
This one is just kinda cool:
“Her death was not only peaceful,
BUT TRIUMPHANT!!!”
Yes, I would like that on my headstone please.