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Re: Inscriptions, epitaphs, statues

Posted: 19 Oct 2012 7:29PM GMT
Classification: Query
I agree. I have seen them as well and it is very creepy! I think the first one I saw was when we lived in Chicago about 6 years ago of a little boy that died early 1920's. in a typical little sailor outfit of the time. Don't know if it was original or a memorial the family had done recently.

Re: Inscriptions, epitaphs, statues

Posted: 3 Feb 2013 7:17PM GMT
Classification: Query
During the moonshine era in TN, my husband's grandfather was a magistrate and apparently also served as law enforcement. Two men got into a moonshine-related dispute and one shot the other and killed him. His grandfather told how he went to the man's home -- unarmed --and sat down with the family to explain that he was going to have to take the man to the county seat for arrest. He obligingly went with him. After a long stretch in the "pen" the man returned to the community and finished out his life there. To apparently show he held no ill-will against anyone, on his tombstone are these words which I have always chuckled at, since they seem so out of place: "Best wishes to every body"

Re: Inscriptions, epitaphs, statues

Posted: 13 Jun 2014 6:22PM GMT
Classification: Query
The churchyard at Tregaron, Cardiganshire, Wales, UK has the most memorable stone I've seen. It is a simple slate stone with the inscription "The left leg and part of the thigh of Henry Hughes Cooper was cut off & interr'd here June the 18th 1759" along with an outline of a leg with the thigh ending in a jagged line. Cooper later emigrated to the USA where he (or, rather, the rest of him) was buried.

Re: Inscriptions, epitaphs, statues

Posted: 18 Jul 2014 2:11PM GMT
Classification: Query
In the bottom right-hand corner... the words "Heaven may"... H, diagonal up right to E, down to A, diagonal up right to V, down to E, etc. Let's solve this bugger!!!

Re: Inscriptions, epitaphs, statues

Posted: 18 Jul 2014 2:47PM GMT
Classification: Query
Row 1 & 2, Column 9, reading backwards... "& 15 Days. 2 Better Wives"
Row 5-4, Column 8, reading up then diag to left... "Bean"
Row 7, Column 3, reading down... "Susanna"
Row 10-11, Column 6, diag right up, down... "Henrietta"
Row 14-15, Column 2, reading right diag down>up>down>right diag up... "from"

Re: Inscriptions, epitaphs, statues

Posted: 18 Jul 2014 6:30PM GMT
Classification: Query
Starting w/ Row 10, Column 6 (H), moving up and down diagonally to the right... "Henrietta". Then move to Row 5, Column 5 (W), up to (H), over to (O), up to (D), jump diagonal below the W (I), left to (E), diag right down to (D), left to (27) diag right down to (T), left to (H), diag right down to (S), left to (E), diag right down to (P), left to (1... NOT AN I), down to 8 (NOT B), right to 6, right to 5, continuing right... A-G-E-D 23, up Y-E-A-R-S, 2-M-O, continuing left N-T-H-S & 17 D-A, down to Y-S-&-S-U-S-A-N-N-A...

"who died 27th Sep 1865, aged 23 years, 2 months & 17 days, & Susannah"


Row 9, Column 2 (T), left to (H), diag right down to (E), left to (Y), continuing...

"They were gifts from God and both are now in Heaven."

Re: Inscriptions, epitaphs, statues

Posted: 18 Jul 2014 6:51PM GMT
Classification: Query
Edited: 18 Jul 2014 7:05PM GMT
Got it!!

Starting Row 7, Column 7 (I), working down, right, up, left in spiral pattern...

In memoriam, Henrietta, 1st wife of S. Bean, MD, who died 27th Sep 1865, aged 23 years, 2 months & 17 days, & Susanna, his 2nd wife, who died 27th April 1867, aged 26 years, 10 months & 15 days. 2 better wives 1 man never had. They were gifts from God and both are now in Heaven. May God help me, S.B., to meet them there.

Re: Inscriptions, epitaphs, statues

Posted: 19 Jul 2014 1:29AM GMT
Classification: Query
Good Job Rachel, you've got a lot more patience than I have.
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