Wow is right! This is all very strange: the little hand pointing at INDIANS, the oddly modern font of INDIANS, and the chilling little poem at the bottom (hard to make out, but worth the squinting). What really gets me, though, is "age unknown". Couldn't they make a rough estimate so we know whether he/she was a child, teen or adult? What an amazing find.
OMG. The random capitalization, the inflammatory language, the "smiley" (I guess the engraver didn't have a rightward-pointing fist die stamp)- it's the first Usenet/BB/chatroom kook-troll post!
Oh, please. Cleveland didn't even have a baseball team in 1789! And once they got one, being good enough to "massacre" someone was not too common a thing....
Tomb wrecks are real tombstones that make us laugh. No photoshop work is done here (except to cover the names of the victims). We know death can be a touchy subject, and no disrespect is intended. We view this as the lighter side of the other side. While we welcome your photo submissions, we absolutely do not condone trespassing or damaging grave markers. Don't wreck a potential wreck! :o)
There's a headstone in my town from the 1800 that boasts about the buried man being an Indian killer.
ReplyDeleteWow is right! This is all very strange: the little hand pointing at INDIANS, the oddly modern font of INDIANS, and the chilling little poem at the bottom (hard to make out, but worth the squinting). What really gets me, though, is "age unknown". Couldn't they make a rough estimate so we know whether he/she was a child, teen or adult? What an amazing find.
ReplyDeleteThat's a freakin' creepy poem, and famous, I guess. I googled it and there are all kinds of variations on it.
ReplyDeleteRemember man as you pass by
As you are now so once was I
As I am now you too must be
Prepare for death and follow me
OMG. The random capitalization, the inflammatory language, the "smiley" (I guess the engraver didn't have a rightward-pointing fist die stamp)-
ReplyDeleteit's the first Usenet/BB/chatroom kook-troll post!
Oh, please. Cleveland didn't even have a baseball team in 1789! And once they got one, being good enough to "massacre" someone was not too common a thing....
ReplyDeleteDave Barry had an ancestor who was a monument cutter...who knew.
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