A prominent granite monument in this German Lutheran cemetery. John and Elizabeth are identified as “Uncle” and “Aunt,” suggesting that they had no children of their own.
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John and Elisabeth Seiferth Monument, St. Paul’s Cemetery, Mount Oliver
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Fall Landscapes in St. Paul’s Cemetery, Mount Oliver
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Louis Knoepp Monument, St. Paul’s Cemetery
A towering pile of eclecticism topped by a curiously amateurish statue, this is by far the grandest monument in this little Lutheran cemetery in Mount Oliver. It marks a family plot that still retains its original stone fencing.
The eyes make this wreath-bearing mourner look as though someone just stuck a pin in her.
Louis Knoepp was just forty years old when he died and left this thing to remember him by.
He rests under this headstone next to his father and mother.
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Louis Knoepp Monument, St. Paul’s Lutheran Cemetery, Mount Oliver
Louis Knoepp died in 1895 at the age of 40, and either he had already made enough of a fortune that this expense seemed appropriate to his heirs, or he came from a family with plenty of money already. The amateurish allegorical wreath-bearing statue on top suggests a client with more money than taste, but if the message to be delivered was that Louis Knoepp was the richest man in the cemetery, then the message has been delivered. Old Pa Pitt suspects that this monument was chosen from a monument dealer’s illustrated catalogue, forcing the monument dealer to come up with a monument he had never actually expected to have to build for anyone.
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Rohrkaste Monument, St. Paul’s Lutheran Cemetery, Mount Oliver
A particularly fine shrouded-urn monument, with the U. S. Steel Tower in the distance.
It appears that the Rohrkastes had six children, all of whom died before their father, though half lived into adulthood.
