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Tombstone Resources

9/27/2009

Discover the meanings of symbols used on tombstones with the resources listed below.

Web Sites

The Association for Gravestone Studies
www.gravestonestudies.org

Cemetery Symbolism: A Wary Glossary
www.alsirat.com/symbols/symbols1.html

Cemetery Symbols
castlescribe.hispeed.com/fam/cemeterysymbols.html

Cemetery Symbols Found in Forest Lawn Cemetery, Buffalo, NY
ah.bfn.org/a/forestl/symbols

From Beyond the Grave: Cemetery Symbols
www.prairieghosts.com/grave_symbols.html

Glossary of Symbols and Terms for Studying Cemeteries
www.history.org/history/teaching/glossary2.cfm

Glossary of Victorian Cemetery Symbolism
www.vintageviews.org/vv-tl/pages/Cem_Symbolism.htm

Saving Graves
www.savinggraves.com

Tombstone Art and Symbols
www.tales.ndirect.co.uk/A_ZINDEX.HTML

Books

Early American Gravestone Art in Photographs by Francis Y. Duval (Dover Publications, out of print)

Graven Images: New England Stonecarving and Its Symbols, 1650-1815 by Allan L. Ludwig (Wesleyan University Press, $34.95)

Gravestones of Early New England, and the Men Who Made Them, 1653-1800 by Harriette Merrifield Forbes (Pyne Press, out of print)

Soul in the Stone: Cemetery Art from America's Heartland by John Gary Brown (University Press of Kansas, $39.95)

Stories in Stone: A Field Guide to Cemetery Symbolism and Iconography by Douglas Keister (Gibbs Smith, Publisher, $24.95)

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