Gravestone Project

Have any pics of gravestones / memorials that include a cause of death—from extraordinary accidents to chronic illness? We’re putting together a gallery as part of a digital exhibit to launch later this summer. DM us if you’d like to contribute! 🪦

@2019Ifaw @last_of_england This one really is incredible!

@last_of_england @TheGravestoneP Topsham Cemetery, Devon.

'My child-bed was my death-bed: thanks I gave To God that gave a child, and so I died... My good-report they can record that knewe mee A maide, a wife, a mother: then death slewe mee.' Elizabeth Grant, 1608. Benefield, Northants. #MementoMoriMonday

@robinjazz @Horatioforever This is incredible! Might we have your permission to use this in our digital exhibit? If so, can we credit you by name? Or with your twitter handle?

Have any pics of gravestones / memorials that include a cause of death—from extraordinary accidents to chronic illness? We’re putting together a gallery as part of a digital exhibit to launch later this summer. DM us if you’d like to contribute! 🪦

@2019Ifaw @last_of_england One of the things we're really hoping to do is to build exhibits for gravestoneproject.com that account for other forms of memorialization--to try to account for those (the majority) who didn't have access to memorialization in stone.

@last_of_england @TheGravestoneP Absolutely.

@TubunMuzuru @Horatioforever Thank you so much for tagging us! Might we have your permission to use this photo in our digital exhibit? If so, can we credit you by your twitter handle? Or name?

@TheGravestoneP @Horatioforever North Beaver Creek Lutheran Cemetery Ettrick, Trempealeau County, Wisconsin, USA

@last_of_england @2019Ifaw Oh goodness!!!! I've been hoping to find someone from this flickr group! I wasn't sure how to contact people. I'm going to DM you.

@2019Ifaw @TheGravestoneP I've photographed hundreds of memorials with the cause of death on them over the years, 250-odd of the best ones are here: flickr.com/photos/norfolk… but very few of them record a death in childbirth.

@last_of_england This is so beautiful--and gutting. Might you grant us permission to include it in a digital exhibit we're pulling together on gravestoneproject.com? If so, can we credit you by name? Thanks for considering. This is such a powerful memorial and we'd love to include it.

@2019Ifaw This is amazing! It's really fantastic and I'd love to figure out a way to work it in. I will likely include a handful of more general / vague descriptions of the moment of death, and this might work well with those.

Tagging @TheGravestoneP as I like the unusual (albeit unspecific) way his death is described. "Sickness & Death shook hands & vowd to kill This noble Knight & had (at last) their will ..."

#MementoMoriMonday. Late but worth the wait. Great trip today to Grade I St Margaret's Church, Lewknor, #Oxfordshire. Loved the touching C17 alabaster tomb of Sir T. Fleetwood & wife. "Sickness & Death shook hands & vowd to kill This noble Knight & had (at last) their will ..."

@NuitsdeY @Portaspeciosa @PosyHill1 @liz_pain @HullMinster oh goodness! What a beautiful statue, and what a terrible thing for that family to have suffered. Might we use these images, too?

A small unnamed boy apparently asleep lies under the watchful care of two angels at Ledbury. Sculptors Thomas and Mary Thorneycroft.

This heartbreaking panel is at Wormington church, #Gloucestershire, depicting Anne Savage, who died in childbirth in 1605. A perfect room depicted, how all must've hoped it would be... #MementoMoriMonday

@StroudStory Oh my goodness. This is amazing. Might you give us permission to use your photographs in an upcoming digital exhibit on gravestoneproject.com? If so, can we credit you by name?

@PosyHill1 Thank you for this!!! The cherubs are very evocative.

Another sudden death @TheGravestoneP

#MementoMoriMonday Monument to Daniel Peploe Peploe who “died suddenly at Florence 1887” flanked by a pair of England supporters. Weobley.

@britpulp Thanks so much!! Exhibit should go up in August (hopefully)!!!

@TheGravestoneP No problem - glad to be able to share it. Name is fine. Good luck with the exhibit, it looks like it will be fascinating!

@CreateHistorian @2019Ifaw Thanks again, so very much!!!

@TheGravestoneP @2019Ifaw You're very welcome! Please do feel free to use them, and my Twitter handle is fine for credit! Good luck with the exhibit!

RT-ing for @TheGravestoneP and their online project. Do you "Have any pics of gravestones / memorials that include a cause of death—from extraordinary accidents to chronic illness? We’re putting together a gallery as part of a digital exhibit to launch later this summer."

@RWLDproject Oh gosh, I'm perpetually behind. Going through my tens of thousands of personal graveyard photos at present. 🤯

@TheGravestoneP Also - you're on our list for some more suggestions tomorrow... promise!

@victoriansleuth @RachelPollitt Wonderful! I can pull the image from twitter if that's okay! Do you want me to credit your name, twitter handle, or both? And I'll try to link to your article about the stone / murder!

An interesting #gravestone in our churchyard. A loving tribute to a Mother and Wife. Ann you sounded delightful. "She bare 25 children in 11yrs 7mths 24dys." "She was kind and benevolent a cheerful companion." "A kind and indulgent parent." @Touchstones

@victoriansleuth @RachelPollitt P.S. I'm hoping we'll be able to link to articles about some stones, in which case we'd love to include your photograph and link to your website. This is such a singular stone!!

@victoriansleuth @RachelPollitt This is amazing! We're putting together a digital exhibit on stones that mention a cause of death. I'd love to use this in some way if you'd grant us permission.

@RWLDproject @CreateHistorian @2019Ifaw @RailwaysArchive Thank you for this link!!

@CreateHistorian @2019Ifaw @TheGravestoneP Thanks for tagging us in - more here from the ever-useful @RailwaysArchive: railwaysarchive.co.uk/eventsummary.p…

@NuitsdeY @PosyHill1 @ChurchMonuments @heritagepilgrim @2019Ifaw @HullMinster These are both wonderful. Thank you so much! We'd love to use them in the digital exhibit. How can we credit you for the photos? By your twitter handle or your name? Thanks again!!!