Stanley Zaksesks died in 1920 when he was eleven or twelve years old. Perhaps his father worked in the construction business; this monument appears to have been cast in concrete. The name and date are painted.
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Stanley Zaksesks Cross, St. Anne Parish Cemetery
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J. Abate Cross, St. Anne Parish Cemetery
A fairly large cross for a seventeen-year-old whose family perhaps could not afford a professional monument. Note the one attempt at decoration: a small sun pattern (or something) at the top.
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Hipp and Gerold Cross, St. Anne Parish Cemetery
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).
HIPP
REV.
CHARLES HIPP
RECTOR OF ST. ANN’S
CHURCH 1907–1918
BORN OCT. 9, 1887
ORDAINED
MAY S6, 1899
DIED NOV. 7, 1918GEROLD
REV.
JOSEPH V. GEROLD
RECTOR OF ST. ANN’S
CHURCH 1918–1929
BORN AUG. 19, 1876
ORDAINED
JULY 4, 1901
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Amrhein Crucifix, St. Peter’s Cemetery (Arlington)
Two of these mass-produced iron crucifixes from the 1880s can be found in St. Peter’s Cemetery [Correction: After another walk through the cemetery, we have found at least four]. Their weakness as monuments is that the individualized letters fall off, though “Hier ruhet” is molded in the metal and perfectly legible. Fortunately there are other Amrheins buried in the same plot with legible stone monuments, so we can be confident that the letters AMR—I- represent AMRHEIN. The first name (-ACK-B) is probably Jackob. The birth and death dates are also illegible, though we can make out the decade of death as 188-.
The epitaph is perfectly legible, because it is cut in a stone base:
Ruhe sanft in deiner Gruft
bis dich Jesus wieder ruft.Rest softly in your grave
till Jesus calls you again.
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Laub Cross, Smithfield East End Cemetery
A cross of lilies, making a fine symbol of Jesus’ redemptive death (the cross) and resurrection (the lilies). It was probably put up about 1918, when Hermann Laub was buried in this plot.
