Mathilde Lalause Monument, St. Anne Parish Cemetery


Mathild Lalause monument

What a cosmopolitan place the little mining town of Castle Shannon must have been! We very seldom run across an inscription in French around here, but here we have one mixed in with the Italian and Polish and Slovenian tombstones. A translation:

TO OUR
LAMENTED MOTHER
HERE
RESTS
MATHILDE LALAUSE
DEPARTED
FEBRUARY 1, 1915
AT THE AGE OF 62 YEARS


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