Category: Row D

Max Simon (Mark Symonds) – Plot D37

Not much is visible at all on this monument. The only part of the text I can pull of this stone is tentatively a June date. According to the database put together by Dr. Kool (date unknown), he was 16 years 3 months old at death. His birth date is listed not listed, though the year would have been approximately between late March and early April of 1871.

Max Simon – Plot D37. Image by Melanie Heizer. February 2017.

Max Simon – Plot D37. Photogrammetry. Image by Melanie Heizer. February 2017.

Max Simon – Plot D37. Photogrammetry. Image by Melanie Heizer. February 2017.

Max Simon – Plot D37. Photogrammetry. Image by Melanie Heizer. February 2017.

Max Simon – Plot D37. Base of monument kerbing. “Simon”. Image by Melanie Heizer. February 2017.

Born: San Francisco, approximately 1871.

Died:  Vancouver BC, June 6th, 1888. Aged 17.

Historical Records: 

  1. The BC death index lists his death is as an accidental drowning.
  2. Ancestry.ca lists Max Simon as having been born in 1872, New York New York, and being 16 years and 3 months at death. The obituary confirming this has not been found, therefor this cannot be confirmed.

Monument: Marble, unreadable. Placed face up, possibly for preservation.

Notes: His parents are listed as parents are listed as Bernard I. Simon and Franny (nee Davis) Simon. Siblings are listed as Jacob, Louis, Harry, Isaac, Robert, William, Abe and Max D. Simon, Esther RAPHAEL and Amelia SIMON SANDLER. Max is also listed under the name Mark Symonds.

Wolf(f) Casp(e)(a)r – Plot D10

Wolff Caspar (or as we originally knew him as, Wolfe Casper) was one of the first individuals I researched and photographed with this project. Working along side two of my classmates, this burial was one of our first attempts at reflectance transformation imaging. My interest in this stone came from the differences in spelling between what was written on the monument, and what we had on file in the cemetery record. Coupled with being unable to find records under the assumed spelling, Wolff Caspar’s grave was an educational experience in research techniques and archives.

פ’נ

תנצכה

In memory

Of

WOLF CASPER

Died

Oct 29 1907

Aged 86 Years

Wolf Casper RTI – Plot D10. Image by Zoë Denault, Melanie Heizer and Kim Kuffner. June 2015.

Wolf Casper – Plot D10. Photogrammetry. Image by Melanie Heizer. February 2017.

Wolf Casper – Plot D10. Photogrammetry. Image by Melanie Heizer. February 2017.

Wolf Casper – Plot D10. RTI. Image by Zoë Denault, Melanie Heizer and Kim Kuffner. June 2015.

Born: Germany (or Poland),  August 17th, 1821.

Died: Age 86, October 29th, 1907.

Historical Records:

  1. In the 1901 Canadian census, Wolf Casper is listed as ‘Wolff Casper’. He is German, with German as his first language. He is listed as single, a tailor by trade, and as being Lutheran.
  2. Using FamilySearch led to a short notice of death in the Victoria Times newspaper from October 1907, stating that Wolff Caspar had died at 89 years and that a funeral service would occur the following day.

Monument: Marble monument, weathered, pollution deposits and broken into three sections from falling over. Placed face up. Surface normals of RTI from 2015 are abnormal. Photogrammetry performed in 2017.

Notes: The spelling of both ‘Wolf’ and ‘Casper’ varies through the historical records. The most results were found using the spelling ‘Wolff Caspar’ in the RBCM Genealogical archives, Family Search, JewishGen, and the Victoria Archives Death Registry.

Henry (Herman?) Morris

*Hebrew unkonwn*

HENRY (HERMAN?) MORRIS

——– ——- ——– ——-

           Aged 42 Years          

Died

——— 1887 5647

This project is now in progress! In the meantime, here are some examples of how the angle and distance of the wireless flash can change the lighting of the stone monument during the photographic process.

Henry Morris D39

Henry Morris D39

Henry Morris D39

Henry Morris D39

Henry Morris D39

Henry Morris D39

Henry Morris D39

Henry Morris D39