Born c.1680, Benjamin Ogden died at age 49. His gravestone was cut by an unidentified craftsman known as the "Old Elizabethtown Soul Carver I", active in the 1720-30's, and whose work is distinguished by highly detailed mortality imagery and the unusual use of skull-with-cross-bones soul effigies. Mr. Ogden's brown sandstone stele reflects the Puritanical emphasis on the brevity and frailty of life on earth, and the eternal reward which awaits the Elect. CLICK ON GRAVESTONE PHOTO by Nikita Barlow, for fuller explanation of symbolism.
Born c.1680, Benjamin Ogden died at age 49. His gravestone was cut by an unidentified craftsman known as the "Old Elizabethtown Soul Carver I", active in the 1720-30's, and whose work is distinguished by highly detailed mortality imagery and the unusual use of skull-with-cross-bones soul effigies. Mr. Ogden's brown sandstone stele reflects the Puritanical emphasis on the brevity and frailty of life on earth, and the eternal reward which awaits the Elect. CLICK ON GRAVESTONE PHOTO by Nikita Barlow, for fuller explanation of symbolism.
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