Since this is a Catholic cemetery, the obelisk has a cross on it; we seldom find an obelisk in a Catholic cemetery without this explicit depaganization.
Category: Smaller Graveyards
Churchyards and family burying-grounds often hold hidden treasures, especially gravestones of early settlers, placed in the days when stonecutting was a local craft.
Elizabeth Flowers Monument, North Zion Lutheran Church Cemetery
A particularly well-preserved monument in the romantic style of the 1860s, with two poetic epitaphs.
She was a mother good and kind
While she with us did stay
Life is short to all mankind
God’s call we must obey
Come, children, to my tomb and see
My name engraved here.
Remember, you must come to me.
Be like your mother dear.
Henry Pomerene, Sr., Tombstone, North Zion Lutheran Church Cemetery
In Memory of
HENRY POMERENE SR.
Born
Jan.(?) 22, 1789
Died
March 17(?), 1855
A restrained example of the middle-1800s poster style, with fewer than the usual riot of lettering styles. Father Pitt was not able to read the epitaph.
Margareta Linhart Tombstone, North Zion Lutheran Church Cemetery
MARGARETA
daughter of
SAMUEL & SARAH
LINHART
died Dec. 10, 1845
Aged 1 Year
5. Mos. 10 Ds.
A good example of what Father Pitt calls the “poster style” that became popular in the 1840s and 1850s: a plain rectangle on which the inscription is engraved in a wide variety of lettering styles, like an advertising poster of the same era.
John Nicholas Neeb Monument, Voegtly Cemetery
A broken column, representing a life cut off before its time: Mr. Neeb died at not quite 42. “He died yet lives,” says the inscription around the monogram on the column.
