family plots

Cordoned off in iron chains, and hollow tassels. Clink, clink, to keep something away?

After the years these stone stanchions are persuaded by gravity. At one time, these were connected too.

Knight of Pythias

The emblem in the center is a crest of the fraternal secret society, the Knights of Pythias. They are modeled, like so many, after the Freemasons.  The F.C. B. stands for "Friendship, Charity, Benevolence".

seeing faces

from a certain angle and distance, a laughing face appears, like a comedy mask

how this happen?

Brookmere is a smallish cemetery in an antebellum residential neighborhood of Cleveland Ohio. It is slightly more than three miles south by southwest of Public Square (exact down town). It is bordered by houses on small lots, and is on level ground on top of a quickly dropping valley of the Metropark that surrounds the Zoo. It is near a main road, but tucked away to be not seen. Along one fence are several yards filed with plastic children playground toys.

Indians had been here, and then Yankees from New York, and New England, and then a lot of Germans. People do not realise that German ancestry had been (perhaps still is) the most common one in the United States; but between the Kaiser and the Fuehrer, this has been quiet.

If you look carefully, you can see, that the main inscripted section of this monument has been inserted upside down. I have never rubbed an etching of a stone before, this one and one in Cleveland's Woodland Cemetery, i would like too. There is enough script beyond the Lebensdaten, that may be interesting, if it is decipherable. The dates that i could read were all XIXth century. 

I am not the first one to post a foto of this stone. The same stuff is interesting to most people who would be interested, and not just this. Any photographer that is interested in graveyard fotos, and walked this cemetery, would have taken at least one shot of this monument. Any urban fotographer strolling with camera in some other venue, would be attracted to certain "hey, look at this thing". On Cleveland's Public Square, there will be a foto of Tom Johnson, another of Moses Cleaveland, one of Old Stone Church, and probably some shot of the War for the Union monument. I take for this journal page, and a few others. Many of the subjects have been shot with better cameras, and posted on the internets by people before me. I have been discouraged to post some fotos, because i have seen the subjects already posted by others.

fallen

some live little

Familie Melber

“That the state of war between the United States and the Imperial German Government, which has thus been thrust upon the United States, is hereby formally declared” — 6 April 1917.

Ich habe einen guten Kampf gekaempfet, ich habe den Lauf vollendet, ich habe Glauben gehalten. 2 Timotheus 4:7

I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith. II Timothy iv.7

Christus ist mein Leben. Und Sterben ist mein Gewinn. Philipper 1:21

For to me, to live is Christ; and to die is gain. Philippians i.21

 Was ich tue, das weisst du jetzt nicht; du wirst's aber hernach erfahren. Johannes 13:7