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I know that I've seen them in my area (southern Connecticut) and I thought I had shots of a couple of them but sorry, I can't find them right now.
But how's this for a tree stump marker...it's a marker for a former tree that had to be taken down in a cemetery:
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Now THAT I have never seen before.
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I have taken several pics and posted them to memorials on Find A Grave.
I love them. I think they are so unique. johnmartine63 , the one you posted here is definitely the most intricate one I've seen.
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I've seen 'tree stump memorials", especially those sponsored by "woodsmen of the world" (a life insurance benefit, it turns out) in Texas, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Delaware, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and the nations capitol for sure, and seems like elsewhere as well in the USA. (I don't usually photo them though, and none handy just now.)
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I just saw one at Holy Sepulchre Cemetary in Omaha. I have a full-sized pic of it at home, but here are two detail shots that I uploaded to Flickr:
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I found one in a Lutheran Cemetery in West Seneca. I mistook it for a tree stump until I went in front of it.
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I have seen several here in Ohio.
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I've seen them in Mississippi and Maryland.
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I have one too!! :
This one was shot in the Wooster Cemetery in Ohio. It was a bad time of day though; I probably could have done more to reduce the shadowing. My best friend and I (shaynay88 - she may have a better pic of it in her gallery) were driving through and brought the car to a halt when we saw this one! Also, it bears her family's name, which made it all the more intriguing to us - not sure if it's a direct relation though.
My original theory on this was that maybe the deceased was the last name-bearing member of that lineage or family's tree, and that the branches had been removed to symbolize the ending of that tree... I might just be over-speculating though!!
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I have seen quite a few in the Calvary Cemetery in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Although I do not have any photographs of them to share. Come to think of it I have seen them in several cemeteries in Wisconsin in general.
Hope this info helps you out. :)
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Thanks all. I still want to know if the design ever made it out of the US? I do not think it did. But it is out ofthe Mis West at least.
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this marker reflects membership in the Woodman World originazation (WoW)
I've seen a couple other in Memory Hill Cemetery
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drivebybiscuits1 edited this topic 15 months ago.
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I have a few photos of them.
I read that they represent head of household, and if there are smaller ones around it, they are the male offspring of the "head of household". It may represent a type of local family tree.
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More information can be found here!
ttp://homepages.rootsweb.com/~hornbeck/cemetery.htm
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In Oregon almost all tree stump monuments are Woodman of the World monuments. WoW is basically an insurance company which for many years provided tombstones to its members. They only made the tree stump variety for a short time before switching to less expensive stones. It appears that virtually each stump stone is unique, which seems impossible, but I've found few to be alike. WoW expert James Davenport concurs. They were presumably carved out of sandstone, but they had to have been fast (and cheap) carvers. A Denver cemetery has an entire cabin, including rope door handle, tools leaning againt the house, animal droppings, and all. All WoW monuments have their distinctive logo on them.
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lots of these in southern california cemeteries.
rsg
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Excellent thread! I've written about this topic in my cemeteries blog here:
Treestones - Cemeteries and Cemetery Symbols
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I have seen many of them in the Northwestern Ohio area. I found this one last month near Antwerp, Ohio.
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This one used to have a picture in it of a young woman, and it's not a woodman of the world, but the story is she found herself unmarried and pregnant and I think hanged herself from a tree... but it's been so long since i've heard the story i'll have to contact some older family and find out more.
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I've seen them in West Virginia. Check out my pics at my new group WV cemeteries.
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We have these all over Southeastern Wisconsin. I don't think I have been to a cemetery where there wasn't a tree stump type of headstone.
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We have them all over NJ.
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I have one up that I took in Montana - I always called it a tree of life, but I guess a tree "stump" is more appropriate.
I'd never seen one before until I was there, but this was very interesting to me because of it's uniqueness.
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More than one in this cemetery and other scattered through out New Orleans. Sculpted concrete, this area is filled with concrete masters that built New Orleans, bridges and roads.
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I have seen several in many cemeteries around Iowa.
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We have some in Cave Hill cemetery in Louisville, KY. I was just up in Milford, OH and the cemetery there has a few as well.
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Wow these are amazing, i've never seen these before here in the UK!!!
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I think it is just an American thing (USA). The first time I saw one in Boulder, Co. I thought it was just the coolest thing ever. I had no idea that this fraternal organization was so common. Now that I am aware of the WOW, I notice them in practically every old cemetery I go to. At this point, I only shoot pictures of markers that are extremely unusual. Here is an example:
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I live in Charlotte, MI. We have 4 or 5 in our local cemetery - that I have found. I have quite a lot of photos of what we have here.
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There's a group here on Flickr for such "Woodman Of The World" and other tree-style grave markers, "Woodmen Of The World (& Tree Grave Markers)". Please contribute your photos of these things there. We'd appreciate it! :-)
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This one seems to have been chopped down!
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Other than Woodmen of the World, they were very popular with German immigrants.
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"The tree is symbolic of life, so the trunk or stump shaped headstones frequently symbolize a life cut down too soon." www.modeldmedia.com/features/eliteeternity.aspx
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