Category: Smaller Graveyards

  • Illegible Monument with Photographs, St. Anne Parish Cemetery

    Illegible monument with photographs

    This husband and wife spent more money than average on this monument; it is a large variation of the cross-topped round-shouldered monument popular with Slavic and Italian immigrants, with the addition of a crucifix in relief on the cross. But the inscription has eroded so badly that Father Pitt has not been able to read it. They are buried next to a woman named Anna Scmicz, whose stone is inscribed in Polish, and sometimes old Pa Pitt thinks he can make out the same name on this stone, but he is not sure.

    Anna Szmicz

    The photographs, however, are still instantly recognizable, though one is damaged. It is possible that Anna Scmicz is the woman in the photograph, since this monument appears to have only one name on it, in which case this is the monument for her husband, whom she outlived and was buried next to some time later.

    Mr. Szmicz
    Mrs. Szmicz
  • Giuseppe Galie Monument, St. Anne Parish Cemetery

    Giuseppe Galie monument

    An unusual Gothic monument with an Italian inscription for a “brave American soldier” in the First World War. Unfortunately the photograph that was originally set in the stone has been lost. Note that the United States government misspelled his name (“Guiseppe” for “Giuseppe”) in his government-issue bronze plaque, below.

    Guiseppe Gale plaque
  • Hipp and Gerold Cross, St. Anne Parish Cemetery

    Hipp and Gerold Cross

    A tall cross with fine carving and a bit of Art Deco flair for two rectors of St. Ann’s (note the spelling; the parish is now called St. Anne).

    Carving
    Inscription

    HIPP

    REV.
    CHARLES HIPP
    RECTOR OF ST. ANN’S
    CHURCH 1907–1918
    BORN OCT. 9, 1887
    ORDAINED
    MAY S6, 1899
    DIED NOV. 7, 1918

    GEROLD

    REV.
    JOSEPH V. GEROLD
    RECTOR OF ST. ANN’S
    CHURCH 1918–1929
    BORN AUG. 19, 1876
    ORDAINED
    JULY 4, 1901
    DIED SEPT. 21, 1929

  • Henry Pomerene, Sr., Tombstone, North Zion Lutheran Church Cemetery

    In Memory of
    HENRY POMERENE SR.
    Born
    Jan.(?) 22, 1789
    Died
    March 17(?), 1855

    A restrained example of the middle-1800s poster style, with fewer than the usual riot of lettering styles. Father Pitt was not able to read the epitaph.

  • Elizabeth Flowers Monument, North Zion Lutheran Church Cemetery

    A particularly well-preserved monument in the romantic style of the 1860s, with two poetic epitaphs.

    She was a mother good and kind
    While she with us did stay
    Life is short to all mankind
    God’s call we must obey

    Come, children, to my tomb and see
    My name engraved here.
    Remember, you must come to me.
    Be like your mother dear.