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    Default Old Cemetery Stones in B&W

    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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    I think these two pieces go together..

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

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    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.

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    Quote Originally Posted by nc0gnet0 View Post
    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.

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    Nice. I might add a little sepia to the B&W to give it that old time look.
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    Quote Originally Posted by brewmaster15 View Post
    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.

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

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    Quote Originally Posted by DJW View Post
    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.

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    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.

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    Are the other wives buried nearby, and the Capt himself?
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    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.
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    Quote Originally Posted by DJW View Post
    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.
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