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.
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Henry Pomerene, Sr., Tombstone, North Zion Lutheran Church Cemetery
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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 obeyCome, children, to my tomb and see
My name engraved here.
Remember, you must come to me.
Be like your mother dear.
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Joseph McMurray Tombstone, Bethany Cemetery
JOSEPH
McMURRAY
D i e d
Sept. 16, 1839
Aged 46 years
10 mo. & 11 dayAn early example of the “poster style,” with each line in a different style of lettering.
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Robert and Abigail Hopper Monuments, Bethany Cemetery
A pair of matched urn-topped ,marble monuments—matched, but not quite. It looks as though Robert’s heirs could not get exactly the same design when he died three and a half years after his wife. The epitaphs were clearly inscribed by different artists. (The tree in the background had just fallen the night before Father Pitt visited, fortunately doing no damage to the monuments.)
The epitaph:
Dearest Mother, thou hast left us,
And thy loss we deeply feel;
But ’tis God that hast [sic] bereft us.
He can all our sorrows heal.
The epitaph:
It is not death to die,
To leave this weary road,
And midst the brotherhood on high
To be at home with God.
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James McKnight Tombstone, St. Clair Cemetery
In memory of
JAMES McKNIGHT
Who departed this life
August 22, 1844
In the 51 Year
of his ageThis eroded tombstone in the mid-nineteenth-century poster style is almost illegible most of the day; but if you catch it just as the sun is hitting at its most oblique angle, you can just about read the inscription.
