Unedited Inscriptions Cedar Grove Cemetery Patchogue Suffolk County New York

Author : Edward Doubleday Harris
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781333660130
Total Pages : 118 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (61 download)

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Download or read book Ancient Long Island Epitaphs written by Edward Doubleday Harris and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-09-19 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Ancient Long Island Epitaphs: From the Towns of Southold, Shelter Island and Easthampton, New York It has been impossible in these pages to accurately represent the styles of lettering in use during the period covered by the epitaphs. No attempt has been made to indicate the logotypes or composite letters which were common on the older stones, and which are, in some cases, of much interest arch-geologically. The arrangement in lines as found upon the stones has been generally observed, while the use of capitals, italics, and of superior letters has been always carefully followed. Worthy of special notice are a few stones in the old ground of Southold Village, lying horizontally, about six feet in length, portions of whose inscriptions form a border at the edges of the four sides, an extremely unusual feature in this country (see pp. 7, 8 and But two examples of the use of coat armor on original stones occur in any of the grounds under present consideration; both in Shelter Island, and upon the tombs of the Sylvesters and Deerings. Innumerable family burying grounds were scattered over Long Island, the larger portion of which were on the farms of the early settlers, and in many cases at considerable distances from the villages. Some of these grounds have been for many years unused, some have been ploughed over, and the stones either buried or removed to the nearest public cemetery. In God's acre a fair chance would seem to exist for the protection of a grave stone, but the family burial place, overrun with cattle, and subjected to the yearly encroachments of the plough, offers scant hope for the long preser vation of its contents. The frugal farmer finds the flat stone a convenient cover for a trench or for a wall c0ping. Only lately the Beales were scouring eastern Long Island for their ancestor's head-stone, taken from its place on the farm to be built into a chimney, and later to be used as a door step. And not long since, a search for the death date of another Long Islander traced into Dutchess county, resulted in its discovery on his grave stone which had long made a part of the flagged walk to his granddaughter's door. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.