Early Pioneer Gravestones of Pope County, Illinois, by Michael J. McNerney and Herb Meyer, 1994, American kestrel Books.
"Ghostly," is how the authors describe small distinctive, human-like silhouette shaped tombstones, found in Pope County, Illinois. These objects of pioneer folk art represent the lives of early settlers and their families.
This is a detective story. The authors have tracked down available information and put together family histories of the people represented by these simple stone markers. This is an important work, showing a folk art, carried to southern Illinois by pioneers moving west through the Upland South. They settled in an isolated area of then wilderness and left behind these curious monuments. This work is a look at the technology, lifestyles and family trees of some of our earliest settlers.
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