A heavily shrouded obelisk from about 1880, the drapery rendered in a chunky and abstract fashion. Old Pa Pitt sometimes wonders whether there is a certain amount of giggling at the undertaker’s whenever a customer named Coffin comes in.
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Coffin Obelisk, South Side Cemetery
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Daniel Berg Obelisk, South Side Cemetery
A simple and tasteful marble obelisk from 1877, made more attractive by the gradual erosion of the stone. In spite of the erosion, the inscription is still very clear.
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Batsch-Stapf-Angloch Shaft, South Side Cemetery
An attractive marble shaft that reminds old Pa Pitt of the rook from a chess game. It was put up in about 1877 to mark the plot of an intertwined set of German families. Fridolin Batsch, who died in 1877 at the age of 31, is almost certainly the same woman who came into the United States from Wurtemberg, Germany, in 1866, at the age of 21. Since she came steerage, the family must have done well in the next decade to afford this monument.
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Adams Obelisk, South Side Cemetery
Dated 1887, this splendid Victorian obelisk stands guard over a circular family plot. The combination of Egyptian form and Gothic details sounds as if it ought to be an architectural train wreck, but it works well—perhaps because the form of an obelisk, with its upward thrust and its terminal point, is very much in sympathy with Gothic principles.
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Horning Mausoleum, South Side Cemetery
OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA A rustic mausoleum that has, as usual, lost its bronze door; but this one has not been bricked up yet. You may, if you please, walk right in and say hello to the Hornings. You will, we trust, excuse them if they do not return the greeting.
