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Interesting carvings
More Carvings: Stone Angels/Winged Death's Heads

Although there are many, many interesting carvings in New England, some just seem to stand out...


George & Fred Morrill - ca. 1836 - 1856, Salisbury Point Cemetery, Amesbury Massachusetts


Daniel & Anna Webster
- ca. 1846 - 1868, Salisbury Point Cemetery, Amesbury Massachusetts


Colby Family - ca. 1846 - 1860, Salisbury Point Cemetery, Amesbury Massachusetts


Capt. Benjamin Osgood - 1848, Salisbury Point Cemetery, Amesbury Massachusetts


Elizabeth Titcomb and Elizabeth Dummer - 1781 & 1779, Old Hill Burying Ground, Newburyport Massachusetts


Tabitha Bragdon - 1742, South Side Cemetery, York Maine


Charles Currier - 1849, Salisbury Point Cemetery, Amesbury Massachusetts


Cyrus Albert Hills - 185?, Union Cemetery, Amesbury Massachusetts


Catherine P. Foss - 1849, Union Cemetery, Amesbury Massachusetts


Sarah Thurston - 1789, Center Cemetery, North Hampton New Hampshire


Mehetabel Brown - 1800, Melcher/Hawes Cemetery, Hampton Falls New Hampshire


Katharine Bartlet - 1761, Pentucket Cemetery, Haverhill Massachusetts


Elizabeth Greenleaf - 1712, First Parish Burying Ground, Newbury Massachusetts


William Ilsley - 1736, First Parish Burying Ground, Newbury Massachusetts


Thomas Roberts - 1732, St. Paul's Episcopal Cemetery, Newburyport Massachusetts


Daniel & William Pecker - 1726, Pentucket Cemetery, Haverhill Massachusetts


Nathaniel Peaslee - 1730, Pentucket Cemetery, Haverhill Massachusetts


Abigail Holgate - 1736, Pentucket Cemetery, Haverhill Massachusetts


Mary Manning - 1773, Pleasant Street Cemetery, Portsmouth New Hampshire


Samuel Wallies - 1737, Old Burying Ground, Ipswich Massachusetts


Samuel Burnham - 1782, Old Burying Ground, Ipswich Massachusetts


Elisabeth Warner - 1787, Old Burying Ground, Ipswich Massachusetts


Major General Michael Farley - 1789, Old Burying Ground, Ipswich Massachusetts


Rev. Levi Frisbie - 1806, Old Burying Ground, Ipswich Massachusetts


Cazneau Bayley - 1808, North Cemetery, Portsmouth New Hampshire


James Jeffry - 1755, Old Burying Point, Salem Massachusetts


Huldah Tilton - 1793, Old Hill Burying Ground, Newburyport Massachusetts


Dolly Picket - 1795, Old Hill Burying Ground, Newburyport, Massachusetts


John Challis - 1743 , Union Cemetery, Amesbury, Massachusetts


Sarah Buswell - 1708, Colonial Burial Ground, Salisbury, Massachusetts


Sargent Samuel Gill - 1709, Colonial Burial Ground, Salisbury, Massachusetts


Caleb Wild - 1817, Union Cemetery, Amesbury, Massachusetts


William & Ellianor Hollingworth - 1689, Old Burying Point, Salem, Massachusetts


Timothy Lindall - 1698, Old Burying Point, Salem, Massachusetts


Anna Perkins - 1762, Old Burying Hill, Newburyport, Massachusetts


Joseph Little - 1740, Old Burying Hill, Newburyport, Massachusetts


Ruthe Lyman - Old Burying Yard, York, Maine (this stone was carved by John Johnson of Connecticut.)


3 Children of Alexander and Sally Storey - 1795, Old Burying Point, Salem, Massachusetts


Mary Spinney - Old North Cemetery, Portsmouth, New Hampshire


John & Mary Crowninshield - 1777 - 1794, Old Burying Point, Salem, Massachusetts


Capt. Thomas and Sarah Staniford - 1778, Old Burying Ground, Ipswich Massachusetts


Hannah Lurvey - 1788, Salisbury Point Cemetery, Amesbury Massachusetts


Abraham Preble - 1714, Old Burying Yard, York Maine

Portrait Stones


James Lindall - 1782, Bradford Burial Ground, Bradford Massachusetts


Joseph Brown Plumer - 1786, Newbury Neck Cemetery, Newbury Massachusetts


Samuel Knight - 1777, St. Paul's Episcopal Cemetery, Newburyport Massachusetts


Rev. Nathan Holt - 1792, Old South Cemetery, Peabody Massachusetts


John Herbert - 1779, Old Hill Burying Ground, Newburyport Massachusetts


Abigail Frost - 1742, Old Burial Ground, New Castle New Hampshire


Sarah & dau. Sarah McKean (note the baby under her arm) - 1776, Old Burying Ground, Ipswich Massachusetts


Mary Nasson - 1774, Old Burying Yard, York, Maine


Rev. Nathaniel Rogers - 1775, Old Burying Ground, Ipswich Massachusetts


Abigail Stevens - 1810, Salisbury Point Cemetery, Amesbury Massachusetts


Jane Coombs - 1783, Old Hill Burying Ground, Newburyport Massachusetts


Benjamin Greenleaf - 1780, Old Hill Burying Ground, Newburyport Massachusetts


Josiah Peele - 1784, Old Burying Point, Salem, Massachusetts


Elizabeth Stoodley - 1757, North Cemetery, Portsmouth, New Hampshire


Mary Folsom - 1784, North Cemetery, Portsmouth, New Hampshire

 

     


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