Born during the second year of the American Revolutionary War to the distinguished Dr. John Condit, later a Congressman and US Senator from New Jersey, and his first wife, the former Abigail Halsey, young Caleb Condit lost his mother in early childhood. He, too, was short-lived, and died at the age of 20 in 1797.
His marble gravestone, along with those of his mother(d.1784) and half-brother John Smith Condit (d.1800), is unusual in that it was imported from Connecticut at a time when the work of highly skilled stonecutters in the immediate area was widely available. The medium of choice for these craftsmen was locally quarried brown sandstone, however, and Caleb's family evidently preferred marble, a trend that arose in the Federal Era and continued into the Victorian. Unfortunately, marble quickly erodes, and all three of these Condit gravestones had become illegible by the early 29th Century.
His marble gravestone, along with those of his mother(d.1784) and half-brother John Smith Condit (d.1800), is unusual in that it was imported from Connecticut at a time when the work of highly skilled stonecutters in the immediate area was widely available. The medium of choice for these craftsmen was locally quarried brown sandstone, however, and Caleb's family evidently preferred marble, a trend that arose in the Federal Era and continued into the Victorian. Unfortunately, marble quickly erodes, and all three of these Condit gravestones had become illegible by the early 29th Century.
Born during the second year of the American Revolutionary War to the distinguished Dr. John Condit, later a Congressman and US Senator from New Jersey, and his first wife, the former Abigail Halsey, young Caleb Condit lost his mother in early childhood. He, too, was short-lived, and died at the age of 20 in 1797.
His marble gravestone, along with those of his mother(d.1784) and half-brother John Smith Condit (d.1800), is unusual in that it was imported from Connecticut at a time when the work of highly skilled stonecutters in the immediate area was widely available. The medium of choice for these craftsmen was locally quarried brown sandstone, however, and Caleb's family evidently preferred marble, a trend that arose in the Federal Era and continued into the Victorian. Unfortunately, marble quickly erodes, and all three of these Condit gravestones had become illegible by the early 29th Century.
His marble gravestone, along with those of his mother(d.1784) and half-brother John Smith Condit (d.1800), is unusual in that it was imported from Connecticut at a time when the work of highly skilled stonecutters in the immediate area was widely available. The medium of choice for these craftsmen was locally quarried brown sandstone, however, and Caleb's family evidently preferred marble, a trend that arose in the Federal Era and continued into the Victorian. Unfortunately, marble quickly erodes, and all three of these Condit gravestones had become illegible by the early 29th Century.
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