I like the one CG found, very skilled workmanship it looks like to me. I like mrclose's even more !
I too cemetery crawl and found one in ST. Andrews NS that topped them all.
Seems this cemetery had quite a few stones with no bodies in the ground, they were for men lost at sea. All so many under the age of 20, very sad.
The one that fascinated me was for a ships captain that died in the early 1800's. I do wish I had taken a picture of the stone or did a rubbing but I was not expecting such a thing.
Sort of a Here lies a Man that will never see Heaven. Mean and spite full, a work of the devil. Never loved in life and in death all cheered at his passing.
In Kittery Maine there is a very old cemetery where two or 3 men were buried with their hunting dogs, their stones give tribute to the love they had for their dogs, and just a name of their wife.
In Portsmouth NH. in the Catholic cemetery is a large stone where the deceased railed against I believe Nixon and the war.
Then one day walking my dog in another big cemetery in Portsmouth I came across a large stone with the names and ages of 5 little kids that all died on the same day in the 1970's, Christmas Eve.
I went to work and asked around if anyone remembered what happened. One woman knew, her brother was a fireman at that time. The parents had left the kids asleep in their beds to go next door to wrap their presents, not 50 feet away and a short in the wiring to the lights on the tree started a fire. The smoke got to the kids, she told me her brother after carrying out some of the small body's was never the same.
Oh the story's the stones could tell of love, hate and grief and we just walk on by with no idea.
