The Art and Architecture of Death
A huge and opulent Ionic mausoleum crowned by a cupola on which stands a figure of Hope shaking her fist at heaven. At least that is how it has always looked to old Pa Pitt. The Schreiners must have had quite a lot of money, but they have left few other obvious historical traces of themselves.
This monument is eroding into illegibility, but as of now it is still possible to read the inscription if we catch it in a certain light:
FRED. W. HARTUNG.
DIED JAN. 111, 1903.
AGED 27 YRS.
AT REST.
A tasteful Doric monument with a big blank canvas for inscriptions that was never used; instead, George and Caroline Lang have their inscriptions on their own individual resting places. The monument looks as though it may be newer than the graves themselves.