In the oddly named town of Quasqueton Iowa a minor clue to the age of something. Benches and planters in the style of tree shaped tombstones are not common. Oh, once in a while you encounter a batch of them, often finding them the worse from the elements, but they never seemed to catch on. Here is a nicely kept up bench and planter.
Interestingly the bench has a name on it.
Of course the point of a bench is that people might come and sit on it, remembering the Departed for a while. Said Departed has a commonplace stone right up front.
I'd say this places the bench circa 1915. Planters seem to have a wider range of age but again, I'd say 1910 plus. Considering the labor involved in the carving of such things, did the approach of WWI influence the departure of this style in favor of more mundane markers?
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