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Joseph McMurray Tombstone, Bethany Cemetery

JOSEPH
McMURRAY
D i e d
Sept. 16, 1839
Aged 46 years
10 mo. & 11 day

An early example of the “poster style,” with each line in a different style of lettering.

Father PittAuthor Father Pitt Posted on 08 October 2015 Category Bethany Cemetery Tags McMurray Poster Style

Martha McMurray Monument, Bethany Cemetery

DIED
Sept. 18, 1856
In the 56th Yr.
of her age
MARTHA
Wife of
JOSEPH McMURRAY

The influence of printing on grave markers in the 1850s is especially obvious in this one, which, in its broad variety of lettering styles—a different one for each line—looks very much like a printed poster from the same era. Father Pitt cannot quite read the epitaph.

Father PittAuthor Father Pitt Posted on 09 September 2015 Category Bethany Cemetery Tags McMurray Poster Style

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