[I]N MEMORY OF
[R]OBERT McCULLOUGH,
who departed t[his li]fe
Jan 26th 18—
aged 40 years.
The whole front has flaked off this tombstone, but most of the inscription remains legible. The stone is obviously carved by the same hand that made the stone for Margaret nearby; we presume they were husband and wife who both died young, but the stones themselves do not indicate the relationship.
IN MEMORY OFF
MARGARET McCULLOUGH
who departed this life
April 11th 1836,
in the 33d year of her
age.
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.
in Memory of
William Gordon
Who Departed this life
April the 26th, 1812, in the 67
year of his age.
Our old friend the Master of the Curly G is instantly identifiable here. He does not have an opportunity to show off his distinctive lower-case G (the only example is covered in lichens), but his other peculiarities are instantly apparent: the sunburst, his habit of beginning the inscription with a lower-case letter, the distinctive lower-case a, the exaggerated curl of the 2, the swooping tail of the 7, and a number of other quirks you may discover for yourself by comparing his work here with his tombstones in the Robinson Run and Union cemeteries.
If you enlarge the picture, you can see that this craftsman actually incised rules in the stone to guide his lettering. He seems to have goofed a bit and missed leaving a blank half-line after the name of the deceased, but at least his lettering is mostly straight.
