The graveyard by the schoolhouse

Only two stones, one headstone and one footstone, stand on their own in Hamilton Cemetery.

This tiny, inactive graveyard in rural Union County, Ohio is easy to miss—unless you are aware that it is next door to an old, brick one-room schoolhouse: Lenox School.

The single standing headstone marks the grave of Livonia Shaw (d. 1843). Her gravestone is mostly unadorned. In fact, except for a small pinwheel design, there is a large blank area where one would expect a willow or other such decorative art.

In memory of
LIVONIA wife of
W^m SHAW
who died Aug 9,
1843. Aged 3[0?]
years, & 3 mo.
Hamilton Cemetery (aka Lenox School Cemetery), Union County, Ohio