Cemetery Folk Art Pieces – Made with Love
Hand Crafted Metal Angels Glowing Cross If you wander through the newer sections of some Midwestern cemeteries, you may see a few wire or metal pieces; sculptured and shaped, positioned…
Grave Markers Ordered From Catalogs
Hand Carved Stone Marker Mass Manufactured Stone <!-- /* Font Definitions */ /* Style Definitions */ @ -Grave markers are the oldest form of funerary art. They have been used…
History of Coffins & Caskets
Old Coffin The word coffin comes from the Old French cofin and from the Latin cophinus, which translates into basket. The word was first used in the English language in…
Cemeteries Worth the Visit – Waldheim Jewish Cemetery, Chicago
Map of Cemeteries Waldheim Jewish Cemetery Waldheim Jewish Cemetery began in 1870 in Forest Park, Illinois, a Chicago suburb. The cemetery is actually made up of over 250 different cemeteries…
Those Amazing Tree Stones
If you’ve been a taphophile for a while, you have probably developed a special fondness for certain gravestones, those that just seem to draw you to them. My current favorites…
Skeletons in the Family Closet
Sunset Tonight at 8 o’clock will mark the 125th anniversary of the evening my great – great – great - great grandfather, Peter Burkhart killed his wife of 43…