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Re: IHS on tombstone.
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Ann Avery Hunter <[log in to unmask]>
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Tue, 10 Jul 2001 20:45:33 -0400
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Beth Bond wrote:
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> Hi,
>   Can someone tell me what the letters IHS on a tombstone mean? Was it some
> sort of an organization? In this case it is on a monument type stone.

From a Web site called "The City of the Silent"
http://www.alsirat.com/silence/index.html

in hoc salus (I.H.S.) - There is safety in this.

Ann
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Ann Avery Hunter
Richmond, Virginia
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