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| John Ball
Dec 10, 1750, Waltham MA. This angelic soul effigy represents the spiritual image of the deceased. It symbolizes the commemoration of the soul's afterlife. |
Seth Sumner
Milton, MA. This stone was carved by Henry Christian Geyer. The cherubs hover above the curved area symbolizing the Earth. The cosmic iconography (sun, stars, moon) represent the transition from the world to the next. |
Lt. John Parker
Chelmsford, MA ,1763. The hourglass with wings is a symbol of the swift passage
of time. |
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| Mary Martin New design!
This stone is a highly dramatic representation of the Puritans' peroccupation with death. The skull and crossbones represent the certainty of death. The winged hourglass represents time's swift passage. From the Mary Martin stone, Marblehead, MA (1747)
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Poor Sally Pond New design!
Stone reads "here lies interr'd the body of Mrs Sally Pond, consort of Capt Eliphalet Pond who Departed this life Jan 1st 1774 aged 31 years. Likewise two of there children, Viz Abigail aged 20 & Sally aged 21 Days. Under this stone confin'd doth lie three subjects of deaths tyrany. The mother who in this close tomb sleeps with the offspring of hew womb whereby we see death's cruelty in cutting of both fruit and tree Yet all his mallice will prove vain for tree and fruit shall spring again." |
John Nutting New design!
from Salem, MA. John Nutting died in 1790 of Influenza. He was 98. He was born in 1692, the same year as the Salem witch trials. Want to see a photo of his stone? The figure depicted is called a soul effigy and depicts man's immortal side. The curtain signals life's final act. |
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| Thomas Poole New design!
reclining skeleton says "yesterday for me and today for thee" from the Thomas Poole stone in Charleston South Carolina (1754)
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Elizabeth Ireland New design!
Poor girl seems to have died of a severe headache or perhaps a massive head wound from that scythe she's carrying. From the Elizabeth Ireland stone in Boston, MA (1738) |
Deacon Samuel Harris New design!
The 'death hed' was the most common image carved on early New England gravestones. It represents mortality and the certainty of death. From the Samuel Harris stone, Boston MA (1767) |
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| Mother Goose
Some of our beloved Mother Goose rhymes were often considered controversial and as early as 1641 there were recorded protests that the "Mother Goose" rhymes were unfit for children's ears. Consider this rhyme from "Songs for the Nursery or Mother Goose's Melodies:" Round about, round about, Maggoty Pye: My Father loves good Ale, And so do I. The epitaph on this t shirt reads "every perfect person owns just two hundred and six bones" |
Harry Houdini
Contrary to popular belief, Houdini did not die by one of his death defying stunts, but from a burst appendix. Oh the humanity! |
King of Terrors
The skull is symbolic of death. Death Follows Life (MortemVitae Sequens) is shown engraved with a serpent swallowing its tail, symbolic of eternity. A portion of the John Cumming, Esq. stone, Concord, Massachhusetts, 1788, over the George Williams stone, Salem, Massachusetts 1797 |
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| Thomas Brigham, Marlborough, MA | Mary Knowles, Eastham, MA | Mary Mitrook, Portsmouth, NH |
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| Ichabod Crane | Bram Stoker Dracula | James Lovett, Portsmouth, NH |
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| Susanna Jayne, Marblehead, MA
The Hooped Snake represents eternity. The skeleton is draped in winding cloth and stands victorious with a wreath of laurel around its head. The sun andmoon depict the renewal of life. The bats symbolize the perils of death and the evils of life while the angels represent goodness. The scythe depicts the passing of time. The stone was cut by Henry Christian Geyer of Boston. |
H.P Lovecraft
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Charles Stuart "I Told You I was Sick"
The humorous epitaph I told you I was sick is carved on the Hermine E. and Thomas P. Connelly stone in the Forest Hill cemetery in East Derry, New Hampshire |
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| Gravedigger's Union Local 13
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Happy Valley Cemetery Pit Crew
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Skeleton Crew
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| Gravediggers Union local 13 logo on front of T. Choose from Happy Valley Cemetery Pit Crew, Skeleton Crew or Stage Crew designs on back. | ||
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| Joseph Mors "Tempus Fugit " | Nathaniel Mather, Salem MA
brother of Cotton Mather, Puritan clergyman, prosecutor of Witches. Cotton's precocious brother Nathaniel enterred Harvard College at the age of 12. |
Rest in Pieces
The Reclining skeleton is from the Thomas Pool stone, 1754. Charleston, South Carolina. The skeletons celebrating Death, The Conqueror from a detail of an 18th century English death announcement (a Broadside.) |
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| John Lee Stranger Stop "Stranger stop and cast an eye, as you are now so once was I; As I am now so you will be Prepare for Death and follow me!" |
E.A Poe "Out of this world, into the next. Quoth the Raven, Nevermore!"
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William Shakespeare Gravestone T. "Good Friend for Jesus sake forbeare, To dig the dust encloased heare! Blese be the man that spares these stones, And crust be he that moves my bones" |
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