A rustic mausoleum that combines the form of a Greek temple with the rough-hewn rocky aesthetic of Stonehenge.
The stained-glass window in the rear is a standard item, but a tasteful and well-made one, with a crown and lilies, symbolic of victory and resurrection.
You are qualified to be a mortician if you can sit down with a client named Coffin and make no remark whatsoever on the name.
The Adams obelisk is one of the few monuments signed by the makers, Campbell & Horigan.
The Adams family plot is still surrounded by its circular stone fence. Groundskeepers hate these stone fences, but the South Side Cemetery has been less aggressive about removing them than most other cemeteries.
We have more pictures of the Coffin and Adams obelisks.
Two monuments in the high Victorian romantic style, both decorated with passionflowers. Above, Charles and Sarah Irwin Schwarm (Charles’ death date was never filled in; perhaps he remarried and was buried elsewhere); below, Jacob and Sophia Schuler Schwarm.
