Sometimes you encounter "local styles" of Tree Shaped Tombstones. This offers clues as to their creation since I assume local companies ordered partially crafted specimens and then customized them. In the general vicinity of Beaver Dam Wisconsin I keep running into a variant that I have not seen elsewhere. The first one I saw was in a rural cemetery down that way...
It is a substantial monument with a general motif of "stack of logs" type. But bigger than most and with placards on all four sides. As we dodged rain showers I caught a brief glimpse of a similar one but did not have time to stop for a photo.
Here's another from a small cemetery just east of Beaver Dam on the road to Horicon.
Minor differences but I'd say the work of the same artisan.
The best clue I have so far came from another small town in the area, Fox Lake Wisconsin. There I found this:
Like all examples I have found to date this one does not bear the mark of its creator, but right next door on a more conventional Tree Shaped Tombstone I found this:
This is the mark of Turner, Miller and Blumenthal a monument firm later known as the Beaver Dam Marble Works. As they appear to be the main company doing business in this area I assume they also made the impressive monuments shown above.
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