his cemetery

'C' is for cemetery

Akron Rural Cemetery began in 1839. Pharmacist, Dr. Jedediah Commins' son, Augustus, died in 1837.  Akron's burial ground was subject to flood. He kept the corpse in a cask of alcohol. In 1838, Commins went to Boston to see Mount Auburn Cemetery, which was the nation's first 'rural cemetery'. 'Cemetery' was a recent term for burial grounds and graveyards. It becames the model for American public parks and monuments.  He was impressed, other people in Akron were in favor of a new cemetery. Commins wrote a charter which the state legislature approved. Akron Rural Cemetery Association (later Glendale Cemetery) was the third chartered cemetery in the country.

The first of many mausoleums in the cemetery was his family's, built in 1860. Commins died in 1867.

Benjamin F. Weary

There is a beautiful War Chapel built in 1875-6 in Akron's Glendale Cemetery for those that died from Akron and nearby. This is for the Union dead.

There are several windows from Scotland. Some colors are faded. There are symbols, portraits, and script. This is an incredibly poignant and sad story. The story is that like a novel, or a movie; something similar to All's Quiet on the Western Front. Two brothers-in-law are memorialised. One, Virgil J. Robinson, died at the confederate prison camp at Andersonville. Andersonville was a hideous destination where men wasted away from starvation. The other soldier, Benjamin F. Weary, was the first volunteer from Akron. Robert E. Lee surrendered on the 9th of April 1865, at Appomattox Court House Virginia, to Ulysses S. Grant. Later that day, Weary was shot dead.

I spoke to a friend about what i read that day on that window. He said, "that's war".  I said, "No, that is murder".

remembering Ness

Eliot Ness, prohibition agent agent in Chicago, safety director in Cleveland has his ashes interred in Cleveland's Lake View Cemetery. Some people leave mementos.

Someone left a card of police dog Clancy and his handler, and a police patch from New York City.

no go

There is Tiffany mosaics, and stained glass inside. I saw this and took a picture. Within a minute or two, a woman sees it too, and says, she has to take a picture. Recently, i have seen groups of people huddled looking at their phones, at Parma metropark, St. Mary Elyria, and elsewhere. I had not seen them since last year, the fad came back. The funny thing is they printed the sign with the diacritical mark, this would have been rare two generations ago.

Dog gargoyle

A dog gargoyle on President Garfield's monument, Lake View Cemetery, Cleveland Ohio.

A Jew who trusted Jesus

 

On the reverse side of a recent stone in Lake View Cemetery Cleveland.

time progression of a statue

  October 2nd 2011

April 4th 2017

May 14th 2017