Author: Miss Cellania / Source: Neatorama
We’ve seen some really strange gravestones and epitaphs here at Neatorama. People can get really creative in memorializing the dearly departed, so much so that many large cemeteries, parishes, and churches in ages past would appoint a censor to make sure that grave markers were proper.
The objections could be really nitpicky, like disallowing an image of sports equipment on gravestones, but they mainly tried to avoid blasphemy and libel in epitaphs. This roundup of such cases appeared in 1905.A young engineer in a Norristown mill was killed by the explosion of a boiler, and the family of this young man, believing that the mill owners had…
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