Category: Cemeteries
Rose
Grave Marker with Rose Decoration, Needmore Cemetery, Brown County, Indiana
I spent most of the day (stuck at home, waiting for my car to be fixed) transcribing headstones. I got about 70 done. Out of 400. Talk about tedious!
Hollow
Hollow in Persimmon Tree, Needmore Cemetery, Brown County, Indiana
Other Things Not to Do
Grave Marker, Melker Hawley, 1851 — 1924
Please, if you’re trying to spruce up great-great-grandpa’s grave, do not stick a metal pipe right smack in front of it. I know you think it’ll be a great place to stuff some plastic flowers, but it gets in the way when someone is trying to photograph the headstone. Or, you know, when they just want to look at it. An unobstructed view would be nice.
Under the Persimmon Tree
Grave Marker and Persimmon Tree, Needmore Cemetery, Brown County, Indiana
This was not a picturesque little cemetery, so I didn’t take many wide-angle shots. This little spot under the persimmon tree was kind of nice, though.
Richard E. Poling
Grave Marker with Hand Pointing to Heaven Decoration, Needmore Cemetery, Brown County, Indiana
Richard E. Son of E. _ & _ E. _ Poling Died Feb. 17, 1878 Aged [18 ys 9 ms 20 ds]
Richard was the son of Enoch and Eunice Poling.
What Not to Do
Needmore Cemetery, Brown County, Indiana
If you want your loved one’s headstone to be completely devoured by foliage, then by all means, plant a yucca plant right next to it.
Hellenea Clark and Pamellia Barlow
Source: Lilly Library, Frank M. Hohenberger Photograph Collection – “Graves of Wm. Couper’s wives, Aug. 29, 1910, 10:30 a.m. She was/but words are wanting to say what/Think what a wife should be/and she was that/.”
I’m starting a fun project at work, adding metadata to a collection of old photographs by Frank M. Hohenberger. The bulk of the photos were taken in this area, so they’re of local historical interest. I couldn’t resist searching for cemeteries and graves, and when I did, this one jumped out at me. The “title” comes directly from Hohenberger’s journals, so we have only him to blame for the fact that William Couper‘s wives were only significant for the fact that they were married to him. They apparently did not merit their own names. And look at how young they were when they died! Hellenea was 28 and Pamellia just 23.
Angel
Evergreen Cemetery, Mantorville, Dodge County, Minnesota
Outhouse
Evergreen Cemetery, Mantorville, Dodge County, Minnesota
I’m always amused when I see an outhouse in a cemetery, so when I do, I have to photograph it. This one had a row of headstones lined up in front of it, like an audience.
red paper boat 