From Swamp Church Lancaster Co, Pennsylvania. Epitaphs were likely done in paint. Only the imagery remains. #tombstone #graveyard #cemetery

Elisabeth Fischer, age 11, died in 1777. In a #graveyard with so many angels, hers has shoulders in the shape of a heart. #tombstone #angel #cemetery

Susanna Hehn, age 3, died 1779. Known only due to an original plot map. #gravestone #tombstone #graveyard

Pennsylvania German angels are usually softer, more childlike. This feels as if the carver knew Elisabeth Ruth whose 1771 stone note 18 years of marriage, 7 children and dead at age 37. #tombstone #graveyard #cemetery #graveart

Known locally as the 6 dot carver, this shop used red sandstone primarily between 1780-1805 in SE Pennsylvania’s Berks, Lancaster and Lebanon Counties
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A tasteful replacement stone to an original lost to a car accident. #taphophile #tombstone #historiccemetery

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In a forgotten small family burial ground, began on the edge of the wilderness on Pennsylvania during the French & Indian War, the family cared enough over the years to replace old fieldstones with carved marble. www.findagrave.com/memorial/808...

Mason Jacob Hirneisen is known for a rope like trim on his stones but also some anthropomorphic elements that are a little creepy by today’s standards. Oh, and I don’t know that we would pay for a tombstone with errors these days, corrected or not.

While not remarkable in design, a moment to remember 1st gen American b 1735 who went on the have: 16 children, 138 grandchildren 91 great grandchildren (per her epitaph), outlive her husband by 29 yrs and die at 81 in 1816. Her stone survived urban development and move of locale now in concrete 😣

Examples of a carver several of us in SE Pennsylvania are calling the “raised dot” or “6 dot” carver. Active late 1770s to early 1800s in 3 counties.

Pennsylvania German angels of the late 18th century
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A three year old child memorialized with a cherub/angel cutting off a fruiting branch
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Image of a cherub/angel cutting a fruiting branch, red sandstone, age 3 when he died. #cemeteryart #taphophile #tombstone