Tryphena and Delight

Those living in Northern Ohio in the 1830s came from out east. They were a waspish lot, many with an English, and or Calvinist [many books like the term 'Puritan'] background. Their naming practices had some distinctivity. Some were given names of virtues, emotions, and other good abstract [though often peculiar] concepts. Faith, Hope and Charity are such names that have survived, and some had existed before. Most did not (Temperance, Resolved, Elected). I wonder if 'Ridiculous' was one? Some early, extreme, Puritan names were several word phrases (Search-the-Scriptures). Others were obscure biblical names, now only used in crossword puzzles. Anything but the Catholic names of the saints (Catharine, Anne, Mary, Joseph, John, James, Veronica, Raphael ... [Vladimir, Anastasia, Zita--well, if they were really non-English]). Here in Erie County's Birmingham was six year old Tryphena Starr †1836. Tryphena was a friend of St. Paul who he sends greetings to in one of his letters (Romans xvi. 12.). Not knowing that, there could not be another one in the cemetery... But a few feet away, there is the mostly illegible stone for another Tryphena.

at Lake View Cleveland

Some years ago a mountebank, huckster preacher came out with a book about a prayer for wealth. It used a passage from the 1 Chronicles iv. 10 (Paralipomenon) mentioning Jabez (Jabes). A Jabez Stoneman *1832 was a Liverpudlian that came to Cleveland. Jabez Stone is a character in 'The Devil and Daniel Webster' that cuts a deal with the Devil. There are several Todds in Vermilion's Maple Grove Cemetery. The corner of Mason and Cemetery roads is where they were buried. This one was a 'Delight', she died in 1857. That would have been in her 89th year (if i read the stone correctly).