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Seonaidh 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @[email protected] · 2024-07-16 · 09:51 UTC

Clach-uaigh na chànain fhèin.
Cladh Losgaintir, Eilean na Hearadh

A rare gravestone in Gaelic, the mother tongue of the deceased.

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Fairhaven Person @[email protected] · 2023-10-31 · 12:22 UTC

A Tombstone Tuesday offering. This is the tombstone of Lt. Jonathan Delano who settled in Fairhaven, MA (then Dartmouth) in the 1600s. He was the son of Philippe de Lanoy, who arrived in Plymouth in 1621 on the Fortune, and cousin of John Cooke, a passenger on the Mayflower. Delano was an ancestor of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, who frequently visited his grandfather's home in Fairhaven.

Lt. Jonathan Delano died in 1720 in his 73ed year. He was buried in Acushnet Cemetery

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Mark Maguire @[email protected] · 2023-05-16 · 12:52 UTC

Tombstone Tuesday. There is a field I passed by most of my life Maybe 30 or 40 times a year currently, but probably most days when I was a child. From the road I could see some type of Dolmen in the field. I often thought “I should check that out sometime”. On Saturday I finally did. #Tomb #Tombstone #TombstoneTuesday #AncientStone #Ancestors #Dolmen #PortalTomb #Monument #Cromlech #Ballybrack #Dublin #Ireland #Mastodaoine #BCE #photography #foto

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His & Hearse Press @[email protected] · 2023-02-28 · 23:55 UTC

#TombstoneTuesday: Elijah Bond, inventor of the Ouija board

Green Mount Cemetery, Baltimore, Maryland

Born in Maryland in 1847, Elijah Bond was both a lawyer and a Confederate Army soldier. He also invented and patented several things (like a steam boiler), but he is best know for inventing the original Ouija board (patented in 1891).

When he died in 1921, he was buried in an unmarked grave. Many decades later, a paranormal enthusiast and Ouija board collector named Robert Murch spent 15 years searching for the lost inventor. He found the grave!

Through the efforts of many volunteers and donations, a fitting headstone was placed to recognize the achievement of the man below. The front of the monument bears the typical names and dates, but the backside is engraved with a replica of his infamous Ouija board. Goodbye!

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