Saratoga Monument and Prospect Cemetery
Apr. 29th, 2015 09:40 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)

I tried to go to Saratoga National Historic Park today, but they were burning the grasslands, so I ended up at the Saratoga Monument instead, and the surrounding cemeteries.

It was really lovely and peaceful.

This story intrigued me; Google yields a picture of him, and the information that he died only 10 days after marrying his childhood sweetheart.

I've never seen a carving like this, with bells (as well as possibly a Masonic compass?). Click through to Flickr for the full inscription, as best I could get it without taking multiple pics.