A difficult image to view. A German woman is overcome with grief at the sight of the bodies of 800 slave workers – 17 May 1945. They were buried in mass graves by German citizens under the direction of Allied Forces.
Tuesday, August 24, 2010
Thursday, August 19, 2010
The Children of Mountainville
Before its name was changed to Alpine, the community surrounded by Alp-like peaks in Utah County, Utah was called Mountainville.
Local sculptor and artist, Dennis Smith, remembers the children who populated that frontier settlement in a casting dedicated to them on the top of the Alpine Cemetery among the graves of many pioneer children and early settlers.
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Friday, August 13, 2010
Sunday, August 1, 2010
Drill, Glue and Strap that Tombstone
Old soft stone tombstones suffer greatly from freeze / thaw cycles over the decades. Add brain dead teenage boys to the mix and the markers are doomed.
The only hope to salvage the stones is through glue and in cases like the one below, metal straps to hold the pieces together.
A week in jail resolves the teenage boy affliction in most towns.
Monday, July 26, 2010
Tombstone - Urn Carving Detail
A close photo of the urn carving detail on the top of the tombstone of my great granduncle Atwood Drew in the Burial Hill Cemetery, Plymouth, Massachusetts.
Friday, July 16, 2010
Margaret Murdock and her Daughters
Margaret Molen Murdock died in Lehi, Utah on 29 Jan 1864. Her daughters, Margaret and Lurany died within a few years of her death. All are buried together in the Lehi City Cemetery.
Their marker was broken off over time and was repaired by setting the broken stone in a concrete form.
Information update from John Lisle: Margaret was married to Orrice Clapp Murdock, a descendant of the Robert Murdock and Hannah Stedman family of Newton, Massachusetts. His father was John Murdock, b. 1792. John arrived from Nauvoo in SLC in 1847."
Friday, July 9, 2010
Drew Tombstone – Oak Grove Cemetery
David and Anna Burgess Drew family tombstone in the Oak Grove Cemetery, Plymouth, Massachusetts. Six of their eight children, a son-in-law and David’s 2nd wife, Caroline Tribble are buried in the family burial plot.
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