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A sexton is an officer of a church, congregation, or synagogue charged with the maintenance of its buildings and/or an associated graveyard.In smaller places of worship, this office is often combined with that of verger. [1]
Ye Antientist Burial Ground: "In this ancient cemetery, the graves are irregularly disposed, crowding upon each other without avenues or spaces between families, and most of the head stones are either rude in form and material, or quaint and grotesque in the workmanship and inscription."
The frame of a sextant is in the shape of a sector which is approximately 1 ⁄ 6 of a circle (60°), [2] hence its name (sextāns, sextantis is the Latin word for "one sixth"). "). Both smaller and larger instruments are (or were) in use: the octant, quintant (or pentant) and the (doubly reflecting) quadrant [3] span sectors of approximately 1 ⁄ 8 of a circle (45°), 1 ⁄ 5 of a circle (72 ...
The United States National Cemetery System is a system of 164 military cemeteries in the United States and its territories. The authority to create military burial places came during the American Civil War , in an act passed by the U.S. Congress on July 17, 1862. [ 1 ]
The unmarked grave of the actor Llewellyn Cadwaladr in Brookwood Cemetery in the UK An unmarked grave is one that lacks a marker, headstone , or nameplate indicating that a body is buried there. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] However, in cultures that mark burial sites , the phrase unmarked grave has taken on a metaphorical meaning.
Dedicatory Remarks, by the President of the United States Dirge, sung by Choir selected for the occasion Benediction, by Reverend H.L. Baugher, D.D. Lincoln took but a few minutes [24] for the "Address delivered at the dedication of the cemetery at Gettysburg" [25] (Boston reporter Charles Hale "took down the slow-spoken words of the President ...
Death's head carved by John Homer, Granary Burying Ground, Boston, Massachusetts Funerary art in Puritan New England encompasses graveyard headstones carved between c. 1640 and the late 18th century by the Puritans, founders of the first American colonies, and their descendants.
Nigel Llewellyn's The state of play: Reflections on the state of research into church monuments discusses the difficulties in providing a full and contextualised history of English tomb art. [103] Writing in 2023, the art historian Joan Holladay noted that the literature on tomb art had "exploded" in the previous quarter century.