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.
A romantic marble monument to one of the powerful Negley family.
DANL. NEGLEY
BORN
APRIL 10th 1802
DIED
DEC. 4th 1867
In a different light the eroded inscription on the open book might be more legible, but many of the letters have disappeared.
A small and simple rustic Romanesque mausoleum that still bears its decades of accumulated industrial blackness.
