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Denison University
Tuesday, June 22 at 3:00pm
Grave Addiction A bed shaped monument at Woodland Cemetery in Des Moines, IA. There are three pillows - one for each of the children buried there.
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Thieves have made off with 10 bronze gates from inside a historic mausoleum in Ohio, just as volunteers were readying the site for two Halloween-themed fund-raisers.
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I just visited Mount Pleasant Cemetery in Vinton County, Ohio earlier this week. As you can see in the background, the leaves have started to change. I love fall.
This gravestone looks similar to ones carved by John Strickler around Fairfield County, Ohio. However, it was carved by Harrison Johnston. He was an appre...ntice of John Strickler, and you can find gravestones carved by Johnston around Hocking and Vinton counties.
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A statue of Thanatos, the Greek personification of Death, at Green Mount Cemetery in Montpelier, Vermont. The statue is part of a large monument.
Some know the statue as "Black Agnes." It's supposedly cursed, and you can read about it on the site: http://www.graveaddiction.com/greenmtvt.
Gotta love legends start...ed about unique/unusual cemetery monuments :)
Grave Addiction From the Lowell Cemetery in Lowell, Massachusetts (Middlesex County).
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The most well known gravestone at the Sabina Cemetery in Sabina, Ohio (Clinton County) is that of "Eugene the Mummy." Who is Eugene? I first found out about him from reading Ohio Oddities by Neil Zurcher. On June 6, 1929 the body of a 50-60 year old African-American man was found outside the town of Sabina. The man had... no identification on him, just a piece of paper with an address in Cincinnati. Law officers visited the address, but all they found was a vacant lot. No one they talked to recognized the man. They decided to call the unidentified man Eugene, named after the person they questioned who lived closest to the vacant lot.
That left the town with an unidentified dead body. Not knowing what else to do, the police contacted the Littleton Funeral home to have the body embalmed. Months went by, and there were still no leads on the case. The Sabina police decided to place the body on display in a small building near the funeral home. They were hoping that someone would pass through the town and recognize the body. Sounds a little creepy, doesn't it?!
Eugene was left in the little brick building for THIRTY-FIVE years! He became quite a celebrity - it is estimated that 1.3 million visitors came to see him!! Eugene also did some traveling - high school and college kids would sometimes take him to other towns and put him on park benches. One time a fraternity at The Ohio State University "kidnapped" him and took him back to Columbus! The funeral home would always get a call from the police to come and pick him up.
Due to all of the pranks, and the fact that no one recognized him in thirty-five years, the funeral home decided it was time to lay Eugene to rest. He was buried at the Sabina Cemetery in 1964.
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Gravestone of Martin V.B. Miller at the Little Sandusky Cemetery in Little Sandusky, Ohio (Wyandot County).
Not only does this one have the epitaph "Thrown from a horse" under the name, but there is a carving of him being thrown off! I bet this one was REALLY spectacular before the marble started to weather.
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Thanks to a few of my friends, we found the answer: Ladies Auxiliary to the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen
Green River Cemetery in Greenfield, MA.
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The AGS holds an annual conference the fourth week in June. This conference, held in a different location each year, features lectures, demonstrations, exhibits, conservation and documentation workshops, classroom sessions, slide presentations, and guided cemetery tours.
The 2010 conference will be June 22-27, 2010 at D...enison University in Granville, Ohio. For more information about AGS Conferences, please visit the official website: http://www.gravestonestudies.org/confere
It's still early, so more information will be posted as it is available. The registration form should be available sometime in December 2009. I'm the 2010 conference chair, so please feel free to contact me with any questions or suggestions (speakers, workshop ideas, etc).
Also, please consider joining the AGS - it truly is a fantastic organization for anyone interested in gravestones. I have brochures if you are interested.
Join us for the 2010 AGS Conference!
Time:3:00PM Tuesday, June 22nd
Location:Denison University
Grave Addiction A friend at work likes to write parody songs - kinda like Weird Al. Usually he writes them about stuff at the office, but he thought it would be fun to write a gravestone related song. He just needs a specific topic and/or song to use. Any suggestions?
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Gravestone of John McClellan at the Old Baptist Cemetery in Cedarville, Ohio (Greene County).
The choice of the symbol is interesting, given the cause of death.
Grave Addiction is slowly getting caught up on e-mail!
Grave Addiction Beth will be giving a presentation on gravestone symbolism for the Carroll Area Historical Society. The carvings featured will be ones found around Bloom and Greenfield townships in Fairfield County, Ohio.
Time:6:30PM Monday, October 5th
Location:Carroll Area Historical Society (at the First Baptist Church)
