![Maria Boertzler monument](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/86/Boertzler_%28Maria%29_tombstone%2C_First_Congregational_Church_of_Etna_Cemetery%2C_2023-08-27%2C_01.jpg/400px-Boertzler_%28Maria%29_tombstone%2C_First_Congregational_Church_of_Etna_Cemetery%2C_2023-08-27%2C_01.jpg)
A beautiful work by a German craftsman. Father Pitt is not an expert in German, but the inscription seems to be in Franconian:
Hier ruht
die Gattin von
JOH. H. BOERTZLER
gb. Maria Wunderlin
Gebor. 1 Marz 1829
Gest. 28 August 1875
Ein freues Weib und
eine wahre Mutter
warst Du und das sagt
Alles! Alles!
Anyone with a better knowledge of German dialects is invited to submit a better translation, but here is old Pa Pitt’s attempt:
Here lies
the wife of
Johann H. Boertzler
Born March 1, 1829
Died August 28, 1875
A joyful wife and
a true mother
were you, and so says
everybody! Everybody!
![See the transcribed inscription above](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/68/Boertzler_%28Maria%29_tombstone%2C_First_Congregational_Church_of_Etna_Cemetery%2C_2023-08-27%2C_02.jpg/400px-Boertzler_%28Maria%29_tombstone%2C_First_Congregational_Church_of_Etna_Cemetery%2C_2023-08-27%2C_02.jpg)