St Paul's Church
National
Historic
Site
The Historic Cemetery
NPS Home   |  Cemetery Home  |  18th c. Stones   |  19th c. Stones  |  Revolutionary War Stones  |  Civil War Stones

19th Century Stone: Willet Ward
Willet Ward (1859-1876) Colonial Protestants held the cross to be a Roman Catholic symbol and as such avoided it. Following the Civil War, a movement in the Episcopal Church, referred to as "Anglo-Catholicism", called for increased ritualism and stressed the continuity of the Church of England with medieval Catholicism. This revival of ceremony and ritual objects was reflected in the use of crosses as funerary symbols.