Tombstone Abbreviations
and Symbols
This is a cemetery...
Lives are commemorated, Deaths are recorded,
Families are reunited,
Memories are made tangible and Love is undisguised.
This is a cemetery...
Communities accord respect, Families bestow reverence, Historians seek information and Our Heritage
is thereby enriched.
Testimonies of devotion, pride and warmth are
carved in stone to pay warm tribute to accomplishments and to the life, not the death, of a loved one.
The cemetery is homeland for memorials that are a
sustaining source of comfort to the living.
A cemetery is a history of a people, a perpetual record of yesterday and a sanctuary of peace and quiet today.
A cemetery exists because every life is worth
loving and remembering -- always.
“ Show me your cemeteries, and I will tell you what kind of people you have.”
Ben Franklin
“Ring around the rosie, a pocket full of posies, ashes ashes we all fall down.” Everyone remembers this childhood rhyme, but do you know where it came from and what it means?
This rhyme originates from Europe during the 17th century in 1665. The Black Plague was claiming many people. The rosie is the red rash, the first sign of the plague, the pocket full of posies were herbs or flowers that people carried with them to cover up the smell of sickness and death. “Ashes ashes we all fall down" was the allusion to death
“ Paths of
glory lead but to the grave.”
Gray
Patterson Ambulance Going to Wreck “Merry Widow”
Postcard mailed 1911
