Tombstone Tuesday - Simplicity

I love wandering through cemeteries, and the older, the better. We don't get too many really old stones here in the Midwest, but I do look for them. I am always drawn to the oldest part of a cemetery. No offense to those with large, amazingly carved markers, but I'll take a simple elegant stone any day.

As an example, this is the marker of Catherine Donohoe. I love it.

ERECTED

in the memory of

CATHERINE DONOHOE

who died

July 28, 1859

Aged 75 years

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by her Daughter Catherine

photographed at Mount Carmel Cemetery, Morris, Grundy, Illinois

© 2013 Sally Knudsen