Persepolis in Cleveland

A new monument is ready, and waiting for a day when the owner perishes. This winged lion, with  a bearded man's face stands guard. Such sculptures were found in Persepolis, when Alexander came and conquered.

On either short side of the monument are these three, almost like pall bearers.

 

first snow in the graveyard

All Saints Day, many places in Europe and elsewhere mark the graves of family with flowers; to-day some leaves decorated.

new construction

 

Construction seems to be busy throughout Cleveland, well especially downtown, and University Circle. A big mausoleum is the first burial spots in a large section of Lake View.

The assembly phase is in progress. The delivered pieces are being laid out in order.

Carefully marked out holes, perhaps to go onto a spindle, or rod?

Garfield Memorial Rehab continues

to-day

June 18th, 2011

with handrails August 5th, 2020

To-day, without handrails, and some steps have been replaced, the staircase looks wider. 

Old Logan Cemetery

 

A mediæval white oak sits on the top of the cemetery hill. [see]  The Hocking Canal was going to go through Logan. A cemetery would need to be on high ground. This cemetery began in 1839-49, and burials continued to 1952. A new cemetery was built up on the other side of the street.

Below the oak there is a Lutheran church. Across from the other side of the hill, and on another hill is St. John Catholic.

entrance

Three early stones facing St. John's.

Most of the front of this stone has fallen away, but a remnant of fine carving remains.

Similar story for the stone of Maria Smith, consort of Robert Smith, who departed this life Sept 15 1832(?).  These four fotos are of upright tablet headstones. They are comparatively light, and thin. Before the canals, and especially the railroads came, it was a great chore to transport stone. Shale, slate, and sandstone (brownstone) were easier to quarry, and carve than granite in particular. Many markers were slab, rather than block. Some of the lettering, and design could be light and artful.

Denkmal des verstorbenen
Wilhelm Kley
aus Bielefeld
Er wurde geboren den 13ten January 1805, und starb den 10ten October 1840 in dem Alter von 35 Jahren und 8 Monaten.

memorial of the deceased
Wilhelm Kley
from Bielefeld
He was born January 13, 1805, and died October 10, 1840 at the age of 35 years and 8 months.

more from Columbus' Green Lawn

Queen of the Most Holy Rosary sits in high grass.

Behind on groundskeeping, June 29th the day of this foto, a local teevee station ran a story about complaints.

In the last few years, some notable people interred have been commemorated by signage.

Washington Gladden was a leader in the Social Gospel Movement, something very different than to-day's Evangelicals.

Not often are swinging saloon doors cut for a gravestone.

A wife remembers her husband.

Columbus Confederates

Camp Chase was named after Lincoln's Secretary of the Treasury, and former Ohio governor Salmon Chase. It was on the National Road (Route 40, Broad Street). It was first used to train Ohio volunteers, and as a muster station. It became a prison for civilians thought to be engaging with the secessionist forces, and government; and then captured confederate soldiers. Many of the deaths came from small pox. The Us government bought the remaining two acres to use as the present cemetery.

Jeff Davis Day is remembered on an American government sign?

The stone arch replaced a wooden one in 1902. A bronze confederate stands on top.

WSYX ABC 6  tweeted this foto 22 August 2017. The statue was thrown down, and its head was gone. The hat remained. It is believed this was done in response to Unite the Right "rally" on the campus of the University of Virginia, and the city of Charlottesville, which included a homicide by an Ohio trumpster who drove into a crowd of people.  A varied assortment of Nazis, neo-Confederates, klansmen, white supremacists, and other deplorables, and supporters of Trump, came to protest the removal of confederate statues. In May 2019, the repaired Ohio statue was placed atop the arch again. When i photographed on 29 June of this year, a security guard was walking he inside perimeter.

Official estimate is 2,168 buried in 2,122 spots. The boulder has been there since 1897.

Confederate cannonball from Vicksburg