Tag: Stumps

  • William H. Martz Stump, South Side Cemetery

    In a different section of the cemetery, William H. Martz ended up under exactly the same stump as Annie R. Smith.

  • Annie R. Smith Stump, South Side Cemetery

    A somewhat cartoonish stump from late in the popularity of the rustic genre. The base gives us callas, ferns, and ivy that continues up the stump.

  • Homann Stump, South Side Cemetery

    A large rustic stump with an open book that bears the names of Charles, Otto, and Julie Homann. There is room for many more names in the book, and the section of peeled-away bark on the stump  was never used. Two small rustic headstones mark individual graves; Otto died in 1902, and the inscription on the other headstone is not easily legible.

  • Vidal Stump, Mount Lebanon Cemetery

    A small rustic stump with a scroll and a tiny lamb for two young children who died within days of each other, probably of the same disease.

  • Gilmore-Donaldson Stump, Melrose Cemetery

    A typical rustic stump, and not the most artistic one Father Pitt has seen. The “Gilmore” inscription appears to be the original one, with “Donaldson” added later. The idea of bark peeled away to reveal the family name is clever, but some effort should have been put into making the peeled-away bark match the shape of the section from which it is supposed to have been peeled away.

    This stump stands in the middle of the Donaldson family plot, which is marked by four small rustic stumps at the corners—something old Pa Pitt has never seen before.