Tombstone

Joe Cannon

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Jan 17, 1997, 3:00:00 AM1/17/97

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Hi. My cousin in Slovinky sent me a picture of my great grandmother's
brother's grave. On it is printed:

Juraj Repasky
* 8. X. 1877 + 31. X. 1948
ODPOCIVAJTE V POKOJI

It also has a photo of him on it (which I think is a great idea).

I know he was born 10/8/1877 so I take the * to mean birth, 8 is the
day, X is the month, 1877 the year, the cross means death etc.
Is the X the Roman numeral 10 (so Sept would be IX) or is it some other
system? Does anyone know what ODPOCIVAJTE V POKOJI means?

Thanks

Joecan
joe...@symix.com

Norma Rudinsky

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Jan 17, 1997, 3:00:00 AM1/17/97

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It means Rest in Peace, just as on English and American gravestones.

Norma Rudinsky

Paul Paulochik

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Jan 17, 1997, 3:00:00 AM1/17/97

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It was posted before as a warning to anyone looking thru old church
records on the LDS films. "VIII", Latin for "8", Latin also uses
"oct-", therefore "VIII" meant "October", not "August". Similarly,
"IX" was November, "X" was December.

Now, whether or not this practice extends to tombstones I have no
idea - luckily, church records only used it for about a decade (at
least in the ones I've seen). I guess the only way to be sure is to
look at other tombstones to see if they use numbers other than those
three - like II, VI, etc etc

JGi...@aol.com

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Jan 17, 1997, 3:00:00 AM1/17/97

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The X does mean October. I receive many letters from family in Slovakia
and they alway put the date on top using the format: date.month.year using
roman numberals for the month. The month numbers are the same as our month
numbers: Jan I; Aug VIII; and Dec XII.

GEORGE KOSCS

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Jan 17, 1997, 3:00:00 AM1/17/97

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It means "Rest in Peace".George in Bayonne.

Kopanic, Michael J. Jr., Ph.D.

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Jan 17, 1997, 3:00:00 AM1/17/97

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Dear Paul,

You would translate that tombstone as "That you rest in peace."

Michael Kopanic

e-mail kop...@mtaloy.edu

Frank Robert Plichta

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Jan 20, 1997, 3:00:00 AM1/20/97

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Don't forget that old habits are hard to break. Originally under the Julian
calendar, September was the seventh month. It was frequently abbreviated
7ber or 7bis or VIIber but in any form, the old designation of the seventh
month in the Julian calendar. October was 8ber, November was 9ber and
December was 10ber or Xber. Don't assume that X means the 10th month in the
Gregorian calendar.
The best way to insure that you are translating it to the correct month is
to look at the previous records and count back each month. I have found the
Julian references used on eastern Slovakian birth, death and marriage
records from 1750 up until the late 1800's.

Frank

At 02:10 1/17/97 +0000, you wrote:
> My cousin in Slovinky sent me a picture of my great grandmother's
>brother's grave. On it is printed:
>
>Juraj Repasky
>* 8. X. 1877 + 31. X. 1948
>ODPOCIVAJTE V POKOJI
>

>I know he was born 10/8/1877 so I take the * to mean birth, 8 is the
>day, X is the month, 1877 the year, the cross means death etc.
>Is the X the Roman numeral 10 (so Sept would be IX) or is it some other
>system?

>Joecan
Frank Robert Plichta

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