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Tag: Bluff City Cemetery

• Illinois Cemeteries Tombstone Art and Epitaphs Tombstone Tourist

  Ditto Marks in a Cemetery

  I’m familiar with ditto marks in documents: But in a cemetery? I have to admit, this was a first for me..

  September 13, 2016
• Genealogy Genealogy Tips Tombstone Tourist

  Not Buried Here

  I come across something unique in nearly every cemetery I visit. Cenotaphs (monuments erected in honor of a person buried elsewhere) exist in many graveyards. The cenotaph above was particularly interesting to me because of the wonderful genealogical clues it offers. A family historian may have stumbled upon this memorial, as I…

  August 18, 2016
• Tombstone Tourist

  An Unending Love

  A monument to love stands in a shady section of Bluff City Cemetery in Elgin Illinois.   The large surname stone reads: Ours is an unending love, Higher than heights above, Deeper than depths beneath, Lasting ever, e’en in death.

  October 20, 2015