Ensign Luke Hovey
May 3, 1676 – Oct 3, 1751
Buried at Mount Vernon
Transcription
Here lies buried the body of Insin Luke Hovey who departed this life October 1751 in the 76th year of his age.
- Surveyed On
- April 8, 2023
- Stone Type
- sandstone
- Tympanum
- skull
- Border
- A two-line border of varying widths forms the outer boundary. The tablet section possesses its own two-line border. Illustrated panels are found to the left and right of the tablet section. Above them, in the upper corners are eight-section pinwheel flowers which along with the two panels depict flowers, their leaves and stems. They appear to be mirror imaged.
- Remark
- The tympanum has two design elements; an oval rudimentary skull with round eye sockets, triangular nasal cavity, simplified mouth/teeth and wings splayed out in two layers from either side of the skull.
- Physical Status
- straight cracked
- Intelligibility
- readable
- Biological Contaminants
- medium incursion
- Cleaning Type
- wiped
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