Old Cemetery Stones in B&W

[brewmaster15]

I always liked Black and white Film, and its ability to capture texture, shadows, and atmosphere. In film days you had to chose.. do I shoot black and white or do I shoot color. One of the benefits of Digital images you can have the best of both worlds.. one image can easily be processed in many ways. I have been playing with Black and White post processing and visiting some old Cemeteries in my are seemed like the perfect opportunity. What do you think?

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[brewmaster15]

I think these two pieces go together..

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[brewmaster15]

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A few bits of old iron..

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The Stones from this era where really something! sadly, not all are still readable. Limestone and Sandstone was easy to carve, but not enduring.


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[nc0gnet0]

4th wife......am I reading that correctly?

-Rick

[brewmaster15]

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al

[Debow]

I love old cemeteries, they have so much history and makes you think about life back then. Adding B&W helps tell a story that might be overlooked if it were in color.

[brewmaster15]

4th wife......am I reading that correctly?

-Rick

yep... The stones back then often gave alot of details like that. There are stones that tell how they died.. "in such and civil war prison" small pox, servant of.. Interesting names as well.

al

[SMB2]

Nice. I might add a little sepia to the B&W to give it that old time look.

[nc0gnet0]

yep... The stones back then often gave alot of details like that. There are stones that tell how they died.. "in such and civil war prison" small pox, servant of.. Interesting names as well.

al

Love the photo's, but I am still wondering what happened to the first three........

[DJW]

John Camp married a total of 5 times. His first wife, Damaris Strong, died at age 35 after having 8 children.

He was married to his second wife, Sarah Merwin, for one year. She died shortly after a child was born.

His third wife, Jerusha Parmelee, lasted 3 years. One child.

Abigail Field was the 4th wife. One child.

Then he married Hannah Parmelee. No children. She died at age 73.

John Camp lived to be 84 years old and died in 1795. He needed a wife to help with all those kids he had -- 8 sons and 3 daughters.

[brewmaster15]

John Camp married a total of 5 times. His first wife, Damaris Strong, died at age 35 after having 8 children.

He was married to his second wife, Sarah Merwin, for one year. She died shortly after a child was born.

His third wife, Jerusha Parmelee, lasted 3 years. One child.

Abigail Field was the 4th wife. One child.

Then he married Hannah Parmelee. No children. She died at age 73.

John Camp lived to be 84 years old and died in 1795. He needed a wife to help with all those kids he had -- 8 sons and 3 daughters.

Dan, where did you find this information? Those names are all common ones in the grave yards I took the pics at.

Al

[DJW]

I like doing genealogy research, its a way to learn the history of ordinary people. There is an online family tree that includes Capt. Camp and his descendants.

We have an old country cemetery here, where I have spent some time looking at the graves. Some of the graves tell part of a story. Like the family where 5 children died within two years. It was probably an epidemic of diphtheria. Here in California the oldest graves in the cemetery date from just after the gold rush, but some of the birth dates are from the 1700's.

Nice collection of pictures. If the stones have colorful moss growing on them, color pics would be interesting too.

[nc0gnet0]

Are the other wives buried nearby, and the Capt himself?

[nc0gnet0]

I was wondering what the face at the top of a lot of the headstones symbolized, I found this:

" A sun symbolizes the soul rising to heaven. "

http://www.graveaddiction.com/symbol.html

Curious that some have straight faces, a few the mouth is curved upwards, and a lot in is curved downwards.

[brewmaster15]

I like doing genealogy research, its a way to learn the history of ordinary people. There is an online family tree that includes Capt. Camp and his descendants.

We have an old country cemetery here, where I have spent some time looking at the graves. Some of the graves tell part of a story. Like the family where 5 children died within two years. It was probably an epidemic of diphtheria. Here in California the oldest graves in the cemetery date from just after the gold rush, but some of the birth dates are from the 1700's.

Nice collection of pictures. If the stones have colorful moss growing on them, color pics would be interesting too.

I can post those as well. The color ones are interesting also.

[brewmaster15]

Are the other wives buried nearby, and the Capt himself?

Rick unfortunately theres many stones you cant read. They are eroded away ...so those wives may be there too. I saw no cases were multiple wives were buried together. Maybe some were buried in other cemeteries with their parents family or maybe there stones were removed and a simple marker left? Any ideas Dan?

[brewmaster15]

I was wondering what the face at the top of a lot of the headstones symbolized, I found this:

" A sun symbolizes the soul rising to heaven. "

http://www.graveaddiction.com/symbol.html

Curious that some have straight faces, a few the mouth is curved upwards, and a lot in is curved downwards.

The angel headstones were typical of that period. Several carvers work is found in the two cemeteries These pics came from.These are neighboring towns. There is a particular frowning stern look one carver is known for....

http://patch.com/connecticut/durham/learn-about-early-middlefield-in-the-old-north-burying-ground

Its what initially attracted me to these two sites...now I want to find other sites from the same Period and compare them. Luckily CT is rich with History from that period.

Al

[Second Hand Pat]

Al, these images make you think about the past, how people lived and were related to each other plus the meaning of the symbols on the headstones. This is a very cool series of images. :) Makes me want to revisit the grave sites of some of my family; many who are buried in Tampa and those which date back to the 1800s in Ga. Would love to see some of the images in color also.
Pat

[brewmaster15]

The "angel"heads initially started as "death heads " but over time the changed in popularity. I didnt see many "death" heads but there was a few...

Interesting article here...

https://connecticuthistory.org/the-art-of-burying-the-dead-exploring-connecticuts-historic-cemeteries/

May answer were the wives are ...buried with no stone.


Death skull..

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[Jenene]

Al, those stones are really interesting. I have never seen the faces on them like that before. Your black and white was an excellent choice for these. Those are some pretty old ones. They tell so many stories don't they?

My father was a historian at our local cemetery after he retired from Kodak and he would research for people looking into their genealogy. He would get written requests from people all over the country, research their death records and photograph their relatives stones for them. He ended up collaborating with a friend on a book who wrote the text, he took amazing photos and they published a gorgeous historical book on this cemetery. It is still sold on Amazon!

https://www.amazon.com/Mount-Americas-Municipal-Victorian-Cemetery/dp/0964170639/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1488630392&sr=8-2&keywords=Mount+Hope+Cemetery

He used some interesting infrared techniques as well. I could bring it to the meet if you are interested in seeing it.

[brewmaster15]

Al, those stones are really interesting. I have never seen the faces on them like that before. Your black and white was an excellent choice for these. Those are some pretty old ones. They tell so many stories don't they?

My father was a historian at our local cemetery after he retired from Kodak and he would research for people looking into their genealogy. He would get written requests from people all over the country, research their death records and photograph their relatives stones for them. He ended up collaborating with a friend on a book who wrote the text, he took amazing photos and they published a gorgeous historical book on this cemetery. It is still sold on Amazon!

https://www.amazon.com/Mount-Americas-Municipal-Victorian-Cemetery/dp/0964170639/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1488630392&sr=8-2&keywords=Mount+Hope+Cemetery

He used some interesting infrared techniques as well. I could bring it to the meet if you are interested in seeing it.


Jenene,
Thats so cool! Yes please bring it. I would really like to see it! Thats really funny that he used infrared too, A cemetery would be a great place for that technique, something I plan on doing one day as well.


al

[nc0gnet0]

The "angel"heads initially started as "death heads " but over time the changed in popularity. I didnt see many "death" heads but there was a few...

Interesting article here...

https://connecticuthistory.org/the-art-of-burying-the-dead-exploring-connecticuts-historic-cemeteries/

May answer were the wives are ...buried with no stone.


Death skull..

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Death and mortality. A winged skull symbolizes the ascension into heaven.

I guess there has been several books on gravestone art.
https://www.amazon.com/Stories-Stone-Cemetery-Symbolism-Iconography/dp/158685321X

Have you run across any stones with the free mason's symbol?

[brewmaster15]

Most of the color pics are a bit plain, They don't really convey the age of these two cemeteries but here are a few...

https://c1.staticflickr.com/4/3668/32428617153_167681e180_b.jpg (https://flic.kr/p/RpB95R)IMGP5807 (https://flic.kr/p/RpB95R) by Al Sabetta (https://www.flickr.com/photos/130140749@N05/), on Flickr


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I do however like the Iron Bits alot in color. They have great color and texture. I plan on going back there and just spending a hour on them...

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[brewmaster15]

Have you run across any stones with the free mason's symbol? Yes I have. Not from the revolutionary war era but late 1800
s to early 1900s...

https://c1.staticflickr.com/1/747/33087266592_fcbaef72f1_b.jpg (https://flic.kr/p/SpNTBE)IMGP6994 (https://flic.kr/p/SpNTBE) by Al Sabetta (https://www.flickr.com/photos/130140749@N05/), on Flickr

Whats really interesting about this is the history. You see something and don't know what the symbol is... or words mean and you start searching and it just takes you on a journey. For instance I came a across a symbol on one stone in Northford. Only stone here I saw it on...


https://c1.staticflickr.com/3/2895/33087268812_df6ab2cc94_b.jpg (https://flic.kr/p/SpNUgW)IMGP6992 (https://flic.kr/p/SpNUgW) by Al Sabetta (https://www.flickr.com/photos/130140749@N05/), on Flickr

The stone was late 1800's. Same family I think of the Free Mason stone . When I first saw it I thought it was a weird looking liberty bell of some sort.. got home and did some searching and find out a ton about its history...Its actually a tree stump.. WOODMAN OF THE WORLD. That lead me to look up some other things but basically it started as a group by a man named Joseph Cullen Root. "originally founded the first group, Modern Woodmen of America (MWA), because he wanted to create a fraternal benefit society that would "bind in one association the Jew and the Gentile, the Catholic and the Protestant, the agnostic and the atheist."

A very interesting read here...
http://agraveinterest.blogspot.com/2011/06/woodmen-of-world-and-tree-stone-grave.html I have not seen these Tree markers here they seem to be more of a western -southern thing.. But I will definitely keep and eye out now.

al

[nc0gnet0]

Very cool, what I think would be a great find is a tombstone with a free mason's symbol after the revolutionary war, circa 1785-1830.

[brewmaster15]

Very cool, what I think would be a great find is a tombstone with a free mason's symbol after the revolutionary war, circa 1785-1830.

I will keep my eye out!

[Jack L]

i liked the b&w, but then when i saw a couple of them in color, i liked them better. no all just 2 of them
the 3rd with the yellow lichen (i guess)
the 5th with the skull

[DJW]

I think the faces on the top of the stones began as death's heads and over time as the church became less severe the skulls relaxed and became simple faces.

Here is an article on it:
https://cemeterytravel.com/2012/10/23/the-evolution-of-the-deaths-head/

In the 17th century the puritans in New England wouldn't allow graves to be decorated at all. One of my ancestors had the unfortunate distinction of being hung for witchcraft near Salem in 1692. As you can see, the gravestone is pretty basic.

107721

[brewmaster15]

I think the faces on the top of the stones began as death's heads and over time as the church became less severe the skulls relaxed and became simple faces.

Here is an article on it:
https://cemeterytravel.com/2012/10/23/the-evolution-of-the-deaths-head/

In the 17th century the puritans in New England wouldn't allow graves to be decorated at all. One of my ancestors had the unfortunate distinction of being hung for witchcraft near Salem in 1692. As you can see, the gravestone is pretty basic.

107721

Wow! Now that is an "unfortunate Distinction!" but very interesting none-the-less!

[Jack L]

Basic because of her accusation of witchcraft?

[Disgirl]

Fascinating photos Al! I prefer B&W for these.such good details, shadows, etc. Really enjoyed seeing all these.
Barb

[DJW]

Basic because of her accusation of witchcraft?

I just looked into it and discovered that the gravestone isn't the original. I thought it was the original from its lettering style and simplicity... but it is believed that her body was buried in an unmarked grave at the execution site. The stone was made later as part of a memorial.