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Quabbin Cemetery
Ware, Massachusetts
These photos were taken May 23, 2004. Quabbin Cemetery is a strange
place to be. It sits beside Quabbin reservoir, which was created in 1939
by destroying and flooding the towns of Dana, Enfield, Prescott and Greenwich.
The cemeteries located in the towns were also destroyed, the bodies and stones
removed and transplanted here. But whomever laid the new stones did so in
a most unruly and haphazard way. Stones are facing frontwards and backwards.
Rows of stones lay back to back.
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| One of the statuary monuments |
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Another view of haphazard layout. |
This stone shows a bible, but the predomintaing themes among the old stones
of Quabbin are urns and willows |
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| A row of back to back stones. |
Back to back stones. |
More strange placement. Different stone styles, back to back, with the slate
stones facing the opposite direction. |
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A moss covered monument sits uncomfortably |
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| Emiline's slate stone is very well preserved. |
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| To weep for me my closest friends refrain
With Christ in heaven we all shall meet again
Entombed in silence death has closed my eyes
My chest shall sleep till Jesus bids it rise |
Our tuneful lips forever close
Our circling blood congeals
Our swelling ____ obtain repose
And death his ___reveals |
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Here sleeping in his parent ground
a tender husband, Father lies
Till the arch angels Trump shall sound
When in immortal bloom he'll rise |
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