
A beautiful mourner pauses for reflection before she lays a wreath on the grave. Generations of Steinmeyers have been buried in this plot, the first in 1878 and the most recent in 1999.

A beautiful mourner pauses for reflection before she lays a wreath on the grave. Generations of Steinmeyers have been buried in this plot, the first in 1878 and the most recent in 1999.
The eroded inscription is clear enough to read that Mr. Tanner died in 1851, and we have seen similar exuberantly spiky Gothic monuments from about that time. Mr. Tanner married a Patterson, and Pattersons make up most of the residents in the family plot.
This Gothic shaft no longer bears any legible inscriptions except the name McKee in a shield halfway up the shaft and, added later, the name Dravo on the base. For genealogical purposes it is a disappointment, but as a picturesque accessory in the landscape it is probably even more delightful in its worn state than it was when it was new. It was probably put up in the 1870s; the plot owner was one Samuel McKee.