European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - March 8, 1968, Darmstadt, Hesse By Ann Honig Nana staff writer who says a Gravestone has to be Dull Ann Parker and Avon Neal a husband wife team studying Early new England Gravestone sculpture As Primi Tive Art became so intrigued with the epitaphs they began to collect them. It soon became Clear that these epitaphs provided clues to a neglected historical chapter and a corroborative supplement to the tally Book of accidents and ailments which carried off our ancestors they reported in the Ciba journal. The unique american Art form of Stone slab burial carving they found told them a lot about our american Heri Tage. Many epitaphs were simple like several gone Home inscriptions with a White Marble Finger pointing heaven wards. Many reported curious ills or accidents like the one which accusingly said killed by an unskilled or re moved by a dysentery or simply he died of a Bellyache or of a sometimes the Stone artist waxed poetic Here lies the body of Susan Lowde who burst while drinking a Scull to powder culled from this world to her heavenly rest she should have waited till it Effer vested. 1798.or this one on a 1795 Marlboro n.h., Stone by boiling Ryder she was slain whilst less than six of Aget Lvon her exquisite racking pain re moved her from the . In Halifax or. John funnel killed by a Treen seventeen Hundred & seventy Marcy hallo s death in 1719, immortalized this Way Here lies one who life thuds Cut asunder she was Streke dead by a Dap of Thunder. There were Hunting accidents or. Natlis Parks who on 21st of March 1794 being out a Hunting & concealed Ina ditch was casually shot by or. Luther rink. There was foul murder done in those Days too. Thus near Pelham mass., a White Marble slab for Darren Gibbs notes he died of arsenic poisoning in 1860 at the age of 36. The Stone erected by his brother reads think my friends when this you see How my wife has done for me she in some oysters did prepare some Poison for my lot and fare then of the same i did partake and nature yielded to its fat before she my wife became Mary Felton was her name. The neals reported that Mary s rela Tives stoutly maintaining her innocence removed the damning Stone several times. But each time it was recovered and replaced. At least one Gravestone issues a warn ing. The Marker for Stephen Owen in Conway mass., reads Reader if your Friend breathes to frequently however mild the other symptoms rest not easy under the fallacious idea that it i nothing but a cold. Irony too. This epitaph is for Stetson of Harvard mass., who died at 68 in 1820. Killed by a falling tree nearly 30 years he was master of vessel and left that employment at the age of 48 for the less hazardous one of cultivating his farm Man is never secure from the arrestor death. Perhaps the strangest of them All How Ever is this epitaph for a Young Man sacred to the memory of Amas Brainard jr., son of Lieut. Amasa & mrs. Jedidah Brainard who re Civ a mortal wound on his head by the falling of a weight fro the Bell on sunday be 22nd of Al 1798 As he was about to enter tire Church to attend a divine worship who departed i life april 27th in be 20th year of his age. Fridy March 8, 1968 the stars and stripes Page 11
