† Bones of Contention †

Monday, November 7, 2011

Union war dead and relatives

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Inscribed monuments tell us stuff, but not everything. The War for Union/ War for Southern Secession sent corpses to the majority of then ...
Sunday, November 6, 2011

Remembered

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So Rachel died, and was buried in the highway that leadeth to Ephrata, that is Bethlehem. And J acob erected a pillar over her sepulchre: t...
Saturday, November 5, 2011

See that my grave is kept clean

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Blind Lemon Jefferson was a blues guitarist born in East Texas of sharecroppers. He was taken north to Chicago when 1925 turned in 1926. He ...
Friday, November 4, 2011

Tryphena and Delight

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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 l...
Thursday, November 3, 2011

Big Zinkers

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Now to continue our lessons in graveyard sociology. We saw at Monroe Street Cleveland, that, some zinkers were bought by the poor . Now in r...
Wednesday, November 2, 2011

All Souls

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In the western Church, to-day is All Souls. If one thinks about it, it is a day of eternal democracy. There is an equality in death. In Cath...
Monday, October 31, 2011

Cemetery news on Hallowe'en

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a family plot, Maple Grove Cemetery, Vermilion, Ohio To-day, is the commercialised day of Hallowe'en. I was not going to post to-day, b...
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