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Lunette - Jonathan Loomis #2 LbNA #37626

Owner:Adoptable
Plant date:Jan 16, 2008
Location:
City:Westchester
County:New London
State:Connecticut
Boxes:1
Planted by:Nomad Indian Saint
Found by: mamooshatoots (now Stamper)
Last found:Jan 6, 2022
Status:FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF
Last edited:Jan 16, 2008
Have you ever marveled at the 18 and early 19th century headstones of our ancestors? The colonial burying grounds of New England represent some of the most wondrous carvings and are treasure troves of information and beauty of many kinds. The stones are the “persisting symbols of an art form that is largely indigenous, that reached a high level of abstract complexity and beauty that died away in an amazingly short period of time.”

The term lunette is referred to as the top central area of the stone, the area containing the cherub. Jonathan Loomis stones are of large size with faces that are rather crude resemblances to those carved by Obadiah Wheeler. Loomis stones are in a sense hybrid stones in that the wings beside the face consist of a series of curls exactly like those used by Gershom Bartlett. A few stones of this style are dated after his death and are the work of his son John. Probably any stone of this general type with snow-flake designs and peculiar wisps of hair above the cherub were the work of his son. Let me take you to an “early-style stone” carved by Jonathan Loomis.

Westchester Burying Grounds, Westchester, CT

From the tree in the center of the cemetery, take a reading of 210 degrees and walk 25 paces. Due to extreme lichen, the name is barely readable, but it is on the right side of a brownstone erected in the memory of Mr. Solomon Loomis who died in 1796. Facing the stone, look ahead and walk past Adam’s “cubes” to a brownstone monument “draped in a cloth with tassels”. Check the left side of the base.