ERECTED
In Memory of
Alexander Bell
Who Departed this Life
January 1834 in the
82nd year of his
age
This stone is a substantial work of folk art, and it is interesting to speculate how far that art might have gone if it had not been snuffed out by the arrival of industrial monument companies.
SACRED
to the memory of
CONROD CLINE,
who died August 8th 1837,
in the 28th year of his age.
Although the rest of the stone is damaged, the quotation is easily recognized as Revelation 14:13:
Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord from henceforth: Yea, saith the Spirit, that they may rest from their labours; and their works do follow them.
It looks as though the family of G. Aten could not afford to have a tombstone made by a local craftsman. But this improvised marker has lasted better than most of the professionally made stones in the cemetery, and now that it has passed the two-century mark we may pronounce it an unqualified success.
A simple and inexpensive zinc monument that has lasted much better than many of the more expensive stone monuments around it.
JANE
EATON
BORN
JULY 4,1832,
DIED
MAY 2, 1914
This was one of the last generation of zinc monuments: in three years, production would end as all the zinc was diverted to the war effort, and the industry never resumed after the First World War, although interchangeable zinc plates continued to be available for new inscriptions for some years afterward.
This monument has a zinc footstone to go with it.
A moderately Art Deco interpretation of Gothic. In his brief visit, Father Pitt was not able to find any dated Armstrong headstones nearby, but the style would probably date this monument to the 1920s or 1930s.
