pirate headstone in cemetary, photos added.

[cbroyles]

My brother took us to this old cementary at this old church that dates back to the 1750's , there's four tombstones there has no names engraved but three has skull and crossbones and the fourth just crossbones. nobody has any information on the headstones. i was wondering has anybody seen anything like these before. makes you wonder if treasure is buried there. X marks the spot.
The cementary is in NC the church name is THYAFIRA CHURCH.

 

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[SeaninNH]

I hope someone can speak up about these. They are really neat.

Where are these located? Where in the world?

 

[Felinepeachy]

I think he said NC

 

[Jeep]

Three executed pirates are buried there:

http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~ncrowan/thyatira.txt

 

[Felinepeachy]

From what I've been reading the scull and cross bones on headstones doesn't have anything to do with pirates.
Is it possible that the grave contains the remains of a Freemason, and the Fremasons used this symbol to denote a Master Mason?

http://spearoflonginus.ark11.net/Article03.pdf

 

[cbroyles]

It's in rowan county NC close to Salisbury. thats where my brother lives.

 

[Felinepeachy]

Three executed pirates are buried there:

http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~ncrowan/thyatira.txt

It says, "according to legend"

 

[Jeep]

Three executed pirates are buried there:

http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~ncrowan/thyatira.txt

It says, "according to legend"

Legends all we got at tnet when it comes to treasure

 

[Felinepeachy]

LOL Jeep, that's pretty much the truth, isn't it .

 

[cbroyles]

Thanks jeep. when i was up there i talked to a lady that works there and she told nobody knows about them. It's a real nice grave yard. theres one head stone thats engraved F.N.LUCKY that was actual name.lol

 

[Jeep]

I bookmarked this page because when I am in SC this coming year, I may make a side trip and check the historical society.

If I lived there I would be there in the morning cause this is the type of stuff that trips my trigger

Just have to know, and between Church, Historical and County records the truth is there.

 

[Red James Cash]

Theres lots of headstones in mascistchusetts,i mean massachusetts with skull and crossbones on them. It was a headstone design phase the colonials went through. No pirates invovled

 

[cbroyles]

Hey jeep if you found out anything about the headstones let me know, i was going to do some research on them but my time was limited when i was there, and now i'm working 6 days aweek. travel around salisbury theres alot of history there, colonial history and civil war history. there was even a civil war prison there too which is privite own now.

 

[mcb66]

Yep, it was fad in the early colonial times. I saw tons of them in Scotland from the 18th century.

 

[savant365]

https://www.gravestonestudies.org/pdf/symbols 18th.pdf

I found this pdf. link that says it just means death, mortality or finality. Personally I wonder if maybe it was a warning that the bodies buried there had some sort of disease like small pox or the plague.

HH Charlie

 

[rocksolid]

From what I've been reading the scull and cross bones on headstones doesn't have anything to do with pirates.
Is it possible that the grave contains the remains of a Freemason, and the Fremasons used this symbol to denote a Master Mason?

I have often wondered how people like the author of that article know so much about Masons but are not Masons.

 

[N.J.THer]

We have some in my church's graveyard...just a design used in the 1700s.

NJ

 

[cbroyles]

thats some great information. i guess i need to research about them.

 

[jeff of pa]

According to Habenstein and Lamers “The History of Funeral Directing”, 1962:201), the imminent millennialism sensed by the Puritans and their contempt for moral existence led to the skull and crossbones being the most persistent tombstone symbol of early New England days


http://mod1953.wordpress.com/category/graveyards/

 

[ivan salis]

might be unknown persons that died thus no name * skull and crossed bones -meant "death" thats why it was used as a symbol on deadly mixture and poison bottles so folks that could not read would know it had dangerous contents