This shaft or fancy obelisk has lost its top, which is lying on the ground between two Oliver tombstones. The rustic letters spelling out “Oliver” were probably rather tasteless in their time; the passing years have given them character.
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Oliver Monument, Chartiers Cemetery
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James Cullen Monument, Chartiers Cemetery
A small monument, but elaborate for its size, giving us an impression of good taste and quietly enjoyed wealth.
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Moses Chess Monument, Chartiers Cemetery
This imposing monument is notable for its particularly fine uncial inscription at the top. Moses Chess has a separate headstone that gives 1895 as his date of death.
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Civil War Section, Chartiers Cemetery
The Chartiers Cemetery has a grand Civil War monument, and at the base of it the graves of dozens of Civil War soldiers are neatly regimented.
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Sterrett Monuments, Chartiers Cemetery
Robert and Rachel Sterrett have two monuments—a tall shaft and an elaborate double headstone in marble. Perhaps the plot was intended for the Sterretts and all their descendants, who would gradually grow a flourishing crop of elaborate marble headstones; but it did not happen that way.
