This handsome ‘open book’ monument in bronze records facts about the family of John and Sarah Myers in Pine Grove Cemetery in Berwick, Pennsylvania (figure 1).
JOHN GEORGE MYERS
HUSBAND
BORN
NEW ALBANY, PA., AUG. 31, 1853
DIED
NESCOPECK, PA., OCT. 14, 1930
SECOND SON
PETER MYERS
& ELLEN AMANDA MOSIER
DANIEL MYERS JOHN MOSIER
NATUS NEE
SUSANNA PAYNE ELIZABETH BEARY
EDUCATOR • FARMER
PUBLIC SERVANT
A CULTIVATED PERSONALITY
SARAH ALICE MYERS
WIFE
BORN
NESCOPECK, PA., JAN. 4, 1854
DIED
SCIPIO CENTER, N.Y., OCT. 30, 1933
ELDEST DAUGHTER
JOHN WELTZ SEELY
& MARGARET HESS RABER
JACOB SEELY MICHAEL RABER
NATUS NEE
LEAH STUMPF KUHN SARAH HESS
HOUSEWIFE & MOTHER
A BLITHE SPIRIT
If you, like me, have difficulty working out the convention for listing relatives on his monument, it may stem from the odd decision to mix Latin and French. SO:
J. G. Myers was born to P. Myers and E. A. Mosier. The male parent was born (natus) as second son to D. Myers and S. Payne, the female parent (née) to J. Mosier and E. Beary. Analogously, S. A. Myers was born as eldest daughter to J. W. Seely and M. H. Raber. The male parent was born to J. Seely and L. S. Kuhn and the female parent to M. Raber and S. Hess.
