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Angel Carrying Baby - Thorvaldsen Day

About the Site

December 31, 2021February 18, 2022Kim Jacobson Comment
This site is about all of the artistic and interesting finds in cemeteries. Elaborate marble sculptures, detailed cast-iron gates and fences, unusual tombstones --More
Old Live Oaks Cemetery

Cemetery Fences and Gates and Their Makers

December 28, 2021February 18, 2022Kim Jacobson 1
The best examples of charming “Lacy Iron” in the cemetery are the elaborate gates and fences surrounding family lots. The makers are readily --More
Skull and Cross Bones

Early New England Gravestone Symbols

June 6, 2022June 6, 2022Kim Jacobson Comment
One of the earliest tombstone symbols in the United States is the Death’s Head. Also known as the “winged skull,” it pertains to --More
Quarles, Sheafe, King's Chapel Burying Ground, Skeleton

Emblems and Hieroglyphicks

June 3, 2022June 18, 2022Kim Jacobson Comment
When I first saw Mehtabel Sheafe’s gravestone in King’s Chapel Burying Ground in Boston, Massachusetts I thought it was a mama skeleton with --More
Bible, Book, Hand, Greensboro Cemetery

Parables in Bas Relief

May 26, 2022Kim Jacobson Comment
While religious iconography is fairly common in the cemetery, tombstones with a bas relief depiction of a Bible story are somewhat unusual. The --More
Shell Baby

Shell Babies AKA “Babies on the Half-Shell”

May 20, 2022May 20, 2022Kim Jacobson Comment
Shell babies were popular in the early 1900s as they could easily be ordered from catalogs. They emerged in the United States as --More
Muldoon, Carver, Old Live Oak

Marble Carvers–M. Muldoon & Co.

May 20, 2022May 20, 2022Kim Jacobson Comment
Col. Michael Macdonald Muldoon (1836-1911), was the founder of “Union Marble Works, M. Muldoon & Co.,” of Louisville, Kentucky. Born in County Cavan, --More
Tree Stone, treestone, tree-stump tombstone

Victorian Rustic

April 30, 2022April 30, 2022Kim Jacobson Comment
Treestones were a product of the Victorian Rustic era and were popular funerary monuments from the 1880s until the early 1930s. Together with --More
Table Tomb, Laurel Grove, Angel

Tomb Types

April 19, 2022May 28, 2022Kim Jacobson Comment
Sarcophagus The sarcophagus looks like it could contain a body, but it is rare that it actually does. The Scipio style sarcophagus is --More
Gothic, Spring Grove Cemetery, Mausoleum

Gone Goth

April 7, 2022April 20, 2022Kim Jacobson Comment
Gothic Influences in the Cemetery Gothic Revival architecture was most popular from about 1840 through the 1870s in the United States. Launched in --More
Cradle Grave, Magnolia Cemetery

Children’s Graves

April 2, 2022June 21, 2022Kim Jacobson Comment
Children are memorialized with a variety of symbols, with cherubs or baby angels being among the most common. The little lamb conveys innocence, --More
Nancy Luce, Chiecken Lady

Beads and Bangles, Pebbles and Pennies

March 19, 2022March 24, 2022Kim Jacobson Comment
Many people pay tribute to a deceased person by placing memorabilia on their grave as a symbol of respect and support. The most --More

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    • Marble Carver–Jarvis Turner, Esq., Mobile Marble Works
    • Marble Carver–Matthew J. Lawler
    • Marble Carver–McDonald, March and Co.
    • Marble Carver–Nix & Co.
    • Marble Carver–R & C Miller
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  • Shell Babies AKA “Babies on the Half-Shell”
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October 18, 2021December 31, 2021Kim Jacobson Comment
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Top Ten Cemeteries

October 19, 2021February 18, 2022Kim Jacobson Comment
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Angel Carrying Baby - Thorvaldsen Day

About the Site

December 31, 2021February 18, 2022Kim Jacobson Comment
This site is about all of the artistic and interesting finds in cemeteries. Elaborate marble sculptures, detailed cast-iron gates and fences, unusual tombstones --More
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