Unusual graves.

[bevbee]

If that was the case though, TB was a massive killer for many years and this is the first time I've ever seen this on a grave (and I go around a lot of cemeteries!) 

Wouldn't it be a common thing to see if it was because of TB?

Bev.

[acceber]

I found this one by accident in Dyrham churchyard, Gloucestershire last week, it is the grave of my GGGG Granfather's first wife and no relation to me. I would not usually have taken a picture but the text on this gravestone was so unusual and very touching that I thought I would take a picture.

It is also remarkable that is has survived in such good condition for 192 years!

The text reads:
In memory of Dinah, wife of Thomas Sparrow, daughter of Will & Betty Brown of this parish, whose life (like the grass of the field in full bloom by the sythe of the husbandman) was cut off by that hopeless disease Consumption, in this 20th year of her age & 2nd of her marriage Sept 28th 1815.

acceber

[bitty_matriarch]

The "possible" grave of my gt gt gt grandparents, George & Bridget RUSSELL:



also here:

http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~cawthorn/Church&Chapel/baptist_upwell.html

[bevbee]

Hi acceber, that's so beautiful and so sad, thank you for posting it.

bitty-matriarch, I hope you find the registers and are able to find out for certain that this is your ggg grandparents - its so frustrating not to be able to confirm something like that.

Bev. 

[mikehicks]

They did that to the Wesleyan Cemetery in Cheetham Hill and removed the remains of about a dozen of my ancestors.

[Jean McGurn]

NOT TO BE OPENED written on the side of a grave.

 Maybe the family didn't want any body snatchers to disturb the grave.

 Then of course it may be that someone didn't want the body exhumed for any reason. Now theres a mystery. worthy of a crime writer's plot.

Jean

[kerryb]

Does anyone know the significance of the graves like in the second photo above by Bitty?  The ones that are covered from the head to foot in bricks rather than a grass mound.

Recently in Westerham churchyard in Kent I noticed a lot of graves like that and I'd not seen any before.  Was it just a trend or something more?

Kerry

[welshjo]

Our local church has a Murder Stone in the graveyard.

I found the story and a photo on-line

http://welshmark.motime.com/?from=38

Also I know of a churchyard in Llanrhidian in the Gower where there is a stone written in rhyme about a man and his family dating to about 1646.

[uk2003]

Came across this heart shape, cut into the grave lid in the grounds of Knowle Parish Church, Warwickshire yesterday.

Nothing special about the wordings on the heart, but must have been a very loving couple.