Cemeteries GravemarkersCemeteries house the dead, but gravemarkers are fashioned by the living, who record on them not only their pleasures, sorrows, and hopes for an afterlife, but also more than they realize of their history, ethnicity, and culture. Richard Meyer has gathered twelve original essays examining burial grounds through the centuries and across the land to give a broad understanding of the history and cultural values of communities, regions, and American society at large. |
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Portsmouth , and Cambridge ; Biblical names such as Sarah , Hannah , and Adam are outnumbered by names of classical origin : Cynthia , Phillis , Cato , Caesar , and Jupiter . Such names reflect Neo - Classical tastes on the part of ...
Portsmouth , and Cambridge ; Biblical names such as Sarah , Hannah , and Adam are outnumbered by names of classical origin : Cynthia , Phillis , Cato , Caesar , and Jupiter . Such names reflect Neo - Classical tastes on the part of ...
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names all predate 1831 , a cutoff selected somewhat arbitrarily as the approximate end of the frontier period for much of the study area . I have compared this same group of names with modern era ( 1980s ) telephone directories ...
names all predate 1831 , a cutoff selected somewhat arbitrarily as the approximate end of the frontier period for much of the study area . I have compared this same group of names with modern era ( 1980s ) telephone directories ...
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WOMEN Name Wolf Creek White Oak Springs Total 10 Mary Margaret Jane Elizabeth Nancy Sarah Isabel ( la ) Nuañovo 12 9 5 ... Therefore , the male names listed above accounted for more than 63 percent of the total names , while the female ...
WOMEN Name Wolf Creek White Oak Springs Total 10 Mary Margaret Jane Elizabeth Nancy Sarah Isabel ( la ) Nuañovo 12 9 5 ... Therefore , the male names listed above accounted for more than 63 percent of the total names , while the female ...
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Contents
Acknowledgments | 1 |
Victorian Childrens | 11 |
Stone Images of | 31 |
Copyright | |
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| Pealkiri | Cemeteries Gravemarkers |
| Editor | Richard Meyer |
| Edition | illustrated, reprint |
| Publisher | Utah State University Press, 1992 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 24 mär. 2005 |
| ISBN | 0874211603, 9780874211603 |
| Length | 347 pages |
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