Funny how things work out some times. When the robotics team was over at the State Tournament in Sheboygan recently I looked at the map and saw that a cemetery was next door to the venue. Hey, I need an occasional breath of fresh air and a few moments of quiet, so out the back door I went to get a few "Tree Shaped Tombstone" pictures.
Above is a nice "Tree and Book" specimen. Anchors are rather common on all such memorials, maybe Sheboygan has a few extras, being a lake port and all. In front of this was a slightly odd one...
Death dates in the 1860's, too darn early for this style of marker. (The one back behind it has a person buried in 1911). Probably a replacement for something that did not endure. Note the little subsidiary marker with MUTTER on it behind and to the right. Lots of German in use here. Gest. means Gestorben, or "died".
An interesting arrangement of the stacked logs. A "rugged cross" style generally indicates a Catholic cemetery.
There were a couple of the dramatic multi section "trees". And then there was this:
I can't quite puzzle out what is happening here. The obvious base for the monument is the random looking collection of flat slabs to the right of it. But what is that thing to the left?
It is tempting to consider this the base, but the imprint on it is circular, where there should be projections from the roots. You don't see segments joined together with spacers in between. If it is a new base waiting to be used in some rebuild program then what was its previous use? And for that matter, where are the other two segments of the tree? Somebody will have to put this puzzle, and perhaps this tombstone, together some day.
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