Merrill Wisconsin has an odd history. It was founded very early for our part of the world..late 1840's. But it was basically just a logging camp at the time. It did not turn into much of a community until the 1880's. Still, plenty old for it to have the Tree Shaped Tombstones from the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Earlier this year I was up there for a hockey tournament. And I did find a couple. Both oddball specimens.
This thing is just plain ugly. Drab color, which the drab winter day does not help. Minimal structural features. The surface texture is not the ridges made to look like tree bark. I'm not sure what they were going for here.
I think this is some kind of low grade marble.
It really just has a bunch of poorly defined leaves and vines on it.
The next example is of a form I've seen many times. The stump with two branches. It usually is for a married couple, but only the man's name is on this one. It also has a metal plaque. This is more common in the southern US from what I've seen. Odd ball up here.
Nice copper oxide leaching out from below the metal. A reminder that archaeology is not far off, and that my eye must be tuned to this color spectrum.
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