114 RECORDS. Jan., 1915. 



O death thou h-st conquer., me 



By thy dart I'm slain 



But blessed Christ has conquer d . thee 



And I shall rise again. 



The weeping willow and funereal urn 

 (the latter with or without a flaming top), 

 began to appear in the beginning of the 

 nineteenth century. The willow was often 

 conventionalized, but was in some cases quite 

 elaborately rendered. The urn, originally 

 intended to contain the ashes of cremated 

 bodies, dates back to ancient Roman times. 



On the preceding page, fig. 23, we give 

 an illustration of a rather ornate stone from 

 Barre, Mass, bearing date of 1835, with wil- 

 low and urn and side urns, all with flames. 



Among the interesting epitaphs which 

 we have gathered we have space only for 

 one found on a double stone at Osterville, 

 dated 1807. There were two arching heads 

 and each bore a rising sun. The stone ev- 

 idently marked the graves of twins one of 

 whom lived six days, the other six months. 



