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Memories of Carlisle's Old graveyard by Sarah Woods Parkinson ... containing a list of the inscriptions on all stones in the enclosure in 1898, and describing a walk through a part of the graveyard ; published by Mary Kirtley Lamberton
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Parkinson, Sarah Woods.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Carlisle, Pennsylvania. Old graveyard.
- Carlisle, Pennsylvania.
- Epitaphs--Pennsylvania--Carlisle.
- Epitaphs.
- American literature--Pennsylvania--Carlisle.
- American literature.
- Carlisle, Pennsylvania--Biography.
- Physical Description:
- 259 p. : ill., ports., facsims. ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- [Carlisle, PA : Printed by the Sentinel, 1930]
- Notes:
- Blank pages "For record of inscriptions of stones erected since 1898" (247-250).
- "In the copying from these tombstones, with but a few exceptions, the entire epitaph was taken."
- "Drippings from the Carlisle well ... selected at random from a shelf of local writings. They are by people buried in the graveyard, or concerning people buried there": p. 203-245.
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