A neatly cut tombstone for a young woman who died at the age of 22; the top is damaged, but the inscription is perfect. One wonders whether “McKracking” was the true original spelling of her name, or the stonecutter’s best guess for an illiterate client.
A monument to two young children who died in the 1880s; it is leaning at what looks like a dangerous angle, but so far has remained standing.
Annie Graham’s daughter Ruth died in 1908 at only a few days old; Annie herself lingered for two and a half months, then died herself. The bereaved husband and father erected this monument with its statue of mother and baby. When he died eighteen years later, he was buried here, too, suggesting that he never remarried.
The spelling “Elenor” is unusual; but in the early 1800s, a rural Western Pennsylvanian might well have spelled her name several different ways, or not at all. The stonecutter has made some very elegant letters.
Revolutionary War veteran James Horner’s descendants gave him a new granite monument in 1917; probably the old slate gravestone was already nearly illegible.
