Here's a couple of Tree Shaped Tombstones from Marshfield Wisconsin. The town by the way is mostly known for its big Clinic/Hospital. This cemetery is conveniently across the street.
Difficult light conditions on this photo. I can't always choose the time I pass through a distant community.
Occupational monuments are always interesting. Any guesses on this one?
Here's a oddball. It is made of some harder, lighter colored stone. So not the usual limestone but some kind of granite. And it is also a bit of an "occupational" monument. Note the crossed cannon and ammunition?
The gentlemen reposing here was a certain Ernst Schmidt.
Schmidt was born in Dresden and immigrated to the US in 1860. He enlisted in the Union army specifically the 2nd Wisconsin Light Artillery. After serving for just over a year he was transferred to reserve status in September of 1862 due to disability.
Post war he lived variously in Michigan and Wisconsin at one point running a hotel and later a "mercantile" business of some sort. He seems to have taken lasting pride in his military service.
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