Tombstone Tuesday-Vacant Chair with Shoes Grave Marker
A pair of child’s shoes on a small vacant chair indicates the site of a child’s grave. One of the shoes is usually on its side.
Greenbriar Cemetery, Van Wert County, Ohio, 1907 Vacant Chari, Infant Son Medaugh. (2018 photo by Karen)
A vacant chair marker is usually found in an older cemetery and may be located near the graves of other family members.
Greenbriar Cemetery, Van Wert County, Ohio, 1922 Vacant Chair, Rex Eugene Medaugh. (2018 photo by Karen)
These two vacant chair markers are located side-by-side in Greenbriar Cemetery, Van Wert County. They identify two sons of J.G. and D.F. Medaugh. One is for an unnamed infant who died in 1907 at the age of 3 days, and the other for Rex Eugene, who died in 1922 at the age of 11 months and 26 days.
Infant son and Rex Eugene Medaugh, row 2, Greenbriar Cemetery, Van Wert County.
Karen
Greetings from the Chattanooga, Ohio, area. Yes, Ohio has its very own Chattanooga, aka Chatt, a small village in west-central Ohio, near the Indiana border. I have been doing family history research for over 20 years and am a Board-Certified genealogist, certified by the Board for Certification of Genealogists®. My main genealogical interests are family research, cemetery research, and historical and genealogical research of the Chatt area, with a focus on two area Lutheran Churches, both named Zion Lutheran, one in Chatt and the other in Schumm, Ohio. Family names I am researching include Miller, Schumm, Brewster, Rueck, Reid, Headington, Huey, Bryan, Whiteman, Schinnerer, Scaer, Breuninger, Bennett, and a few others. I belong to several lineage societies, including the Daughters of the American Revolution, U.S. Daughters of 1812, First Families of Ohio, and First Families of Mercer and Van Wert Counties. I am also a retired dental hygienist and our church organist. I hope you enjoy Karen's Chatt.
