Tag: McMurray (Martha)

  • Martha McMurray Monument, Bethany Cemetery

    DIED
    Sept. 18, 1856
    In the 56th Yr.
    of her age
    MARTHA
    Wife of
    JOSEPH McMURRAY

    The influence of printing on grave markers in the 1850s is especially obvious in this one, which, in its broad variety of lettering styles—a different one for each line—looks very much like a printed poster from the same era. Father Pitt cannot quite read the epitaph.