Vernon County WI Archives Photo Tombstone.....LePage, Elisabeth Jane 
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Cemetery:           Springville Cemetery
Name:               Elisabeth Jane LePage

Date Of Photograph: May 15, 2004
Photo can be seen at:
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This unusual headstone is shaped like a tree trunk & has the mother's name & 
data on one side , while the reverse side of the trunk has four of her 
children's names & their data.

Elisabeth LePAGE
wife of 
S. LePAGE ( Samuel ,Sr. )
Died
May 3, 1867
aged 
40 y's 2 m's 21 d.

(Reverse side )

Peter LePage
died 
Sept. 7 , 1869
aged 
13 y's 11 m's 4 d's

Rose E. LePage
died
Jan. 25 , 1866
aged
2 m's  9 d's

Martha LePage ( married to Joseph STILES ) 
died
June 5 , 1879
aged 
25 y's 5 m's  21 d's

Rosa J. LePage
died
March 22, 1883 
aged
17 y's  4 m's  6 d's


From what I have learned the unusual tree trunk design is suppose to mean the 
someone was in the Woodcraft of the World fraternity .

This headstone is located near a large cedar tree in the older section of 
Springville Cemetery , Springville , Vernon County , WI.

File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/wi/vernon/photos/tombstones/springville/lepage9453gph.txt

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