As my data base grows I find that some parts of my research were getting buried under the heap.  In order to relegate these very important bits and pieces of the puzzles I find it necessary to break the pages up a bit and create separate pages for each section.  This section presents many of the notes that I have gleaned from documents and archives in my search for Central New York's Tombstone Carvers.  I have many more notes to add, and am always finding new information, and will add material as the opportunity arises.

Arnold, Erastus (Dansville, Livingston County)
--1850 Census, Industry Schedule, Village of Dansville, Livingston County.
    Erastus Arnold, marble manufactory, $300.00 capital invested, used $600.00 marble, $100.00 quarry stone, hand power, 2 1/2 males employed, $75.00 monthly wages, made $1850 marble grave stones $200.00 quarry grave stones.

Benjamin, John W., Stillwell M., and Weasley (Cortland, Cortland Co.)
--1855 Census, Population Schedule, Dist. 1, Town of Cortlandville, Cortland County.
    Stillwell Benjamine, age 28, native of Greene County, 10 years residence, Stone Cutter (Dwell. 170, Fam. 176, family members listed).  Orson W. Doud is also listed in this same dwelling and family as a Stone Dealer.
--1860 Census, Population Schedule, Town of Cortlandville, Cortland County.
    Stillwell M. Benjamin, age 32, Marble Manufacturer, with $10,000 in real estate owned, and native of New York (Dwell. 756).  John O'Connor is listed with the Stillwells as a 23 year old Marble Hand, and native of Scotland.  Weasley Benjamin is listed in the same census as a 26 year old Grave Stone Cutter and native of New York (Dwell. 829).
--1870 Census, Schedule of Industry, Town of Cortlandville, Cortland County.
    Benjamin Brothers, Marble Works, $10,000 personal and real estate, operates by hand power, employs 9 men, paying $3,600.00 per year in total wages, uses 1,680 sets of marble valued at $3,833.00, 358 sets of freestone valued at $687.00, 1425 sets of limestone valued at $780.00, 5 tons of coal, and made 300 headstones and monuments valued at 14,850.00.
--Childs' Gazetteer of Cortland County for 1869
    Benjamin Brothers, Cortland Village PO, (Stillwell M. Benjamin and John W. Benjamin), manufacturers and dealers in headstones and monuments, etc..
--1863 map of Cortland County, Cortland City inset.
    (Benjamin Brothers) on Main Street, between Mrs. Woodward and H. Woodruff, opposite Merrick Street: is a "Marble Shop" with an advertisement for Benjamin Brothers, dealers in all kinds of foreign and American marble for headstones.  The 1876 Atlas shows a marble shop at the same spot and lists in the Business Directory "Benjamin Bros. Dealers in freestone, American and Italian marble monuments, and Scotch and American granite, tombs, headstones, tabletops, wash-bowls, etc."  Location = Main Street, Date of Settlement = 1860, Nativity = New York.

Booth, Asaph (Canandaigua, Ontario Co.) (not Asahel) (what did he do?)
--Ontario County Clerk's Office, Deeds.
    Asaph Booth purchased about 90 acres of Lot 53 West Bloomfield, Ontario County, from David Thompson on November 22, 1819 (Ontario County Deed 34:424).  Other Deeds not checked.
 
Booth, Enos (Canandaigua, Ontario Co.) (is this the carver?)
--Ontario County Clerk's Office, Deeds.
    Enos Booth purchased 1/2 acre in the town of Bristol, Ontario County, from Ira Wilder on June 10, 1813, with privileges of water from an aqueduct and privileges to dam a creek (Ontario County Deed 20:38).  Other Deeds not checked.

Case, Edwin D., & Brother (Cazenovia, Madison Co.)
--1855 Census, Population Schedule, Town of Nelson, Madison County, 2nd Enumeration District.
    Dwelling 38, Family 38, Palmer Bennett household - Boarder = Edwin D. Case, age 37, resident 10 years, Stone Cutter.
    Dwelling 41, Family 41, Granly Case household - Son = Byron Case, age 24, resident 12 years, Stone Cutter.
--1860 Census, Industry Schedule, Town of Cazenovia, Madison County.
    Edwin D. Case & Brother, marble manufactory, $400.00 capitol invested, 500 feet of raw materials used, marble, valued at $300.00, 2 male employees earn an average of $60.00 per month making tombstones, annual product valued at $1,200.00.

Case & York (Cazenovia, Madison Co.)
--1860 Census, Industry Schedule, Town of Cazenovia.
    Case & York, marble factory, $500.00 capitol invested, 600 feet of raw materials used, marble, valued at $375.00, 2 male employees earn an average of $70.00 per month making tombstones, annual product valued at $1,500.00.
 
Courtney, Ed. H. (Canandaigua, Ontario Co.)
--1860 Census, Population Schedules, Town of Canandaigua, Ontario County.
    Ed. H. Courtney, age 25, a native of England, Marble Cutter, residing in the household of H.F. Sterling a Master Stone Engraver (Dwell. 589, Fam. 582)

Donovan, William T. (Cazenovia, Madison Co.)
 --1937 Madison County Rural Index, page 12.
    Wm. T. Donovan, Inc.; Fine Memorials of American and Imported Granite; Granite and Marble; Rock of Ages; Barnard W. Freeborn, President, 23 Fenner Street., Cazenovia, N.Y.; Phone 191-M

Doud, Orson W. and Samuel (Cortlandville, Cortland Co.)
--1855 Census, Population Schedule, Dist. 1, Town of Cortlandville.
    Orson W. and Samuel Doud listed with Stillwell Benjamin and family (Dwell. 170, Fam. 176) Orson W. Doud, age 29, native of Cayuga County, 3 years resident, Stone Dealer (family members also listed).
--1860 Census, Population Schedule, Town of Cortlandville.
    Samuel Doud, McGrawville Post Office, a 59 year old Marble Manufacturer, native of New York (Dwell. 520).

Douglass, Charles (Virgil, Cortland Co.)
--1870 Census, Population Schedule, Town of Virgil, Cortland County.
    Charles Douglass, listed with the Nathan Schultz family near Virgil Center (Dwell. 402, Fam. 368), age 22, native of New York, Stone Cutter (family also listed).

Frederick, John D. (Cortland, Cortland Co.)
--Childs' 1869 Gazetteer of Cortland County
    John D. Frederick, of Cortland Village, stone cutter.

Gee, George (Virgil, Cortland Co.)
--1855 Census, Population Schedule, Dist. 1, Town of Virgil, Cortland County.
    George Gee, age 39, resident 30 years, as a Marble Engraver (Dwell. 80, Fam. 82, family members also listed).

Hubbard, Roswell & Norman (Sherburne, Chenago Co.)
--Chenango County Clerk's Office
    It is not known if these men were brothers or father and son.  It seems that Roswell moved to Greene about 1826, to Oxford by 1834, back to Sherburne by 1833.  He also owned a large lot in McDonough, Chenango County.  Apparently Norman Hubbard remained in Sherburne as there is no other record of him other than the 1819 purchase and 1833 sale of the Sherburne lot.  Where Norman went from there is not known, but Roswell and his wife gave their residency as Rushford, Allegheny County, in 1835.
     Roswell & Norman Hubbard purchased a small lot on the turnpike in Sherburne from William W. Mathur for $350.00 on April 8, 1819 (Chen. Co. Deed SS:39).  Roswell and his wife Chloe Ann sold the same lot John A. Hawley on September 25, 1826.  At this time they were residents of Greene, Chenango County (Chen. Co. Deed II:156).  A few weeks later, on April 22, 1826, Roswell purchased 62 acres on the Chenango River from David and Sally Mead (Chen. Co. Deed II:181).  On February 23, 1832 Roswell and his wife quit claim to 3 acres on the turnpike and river in Greene to Orson Root (no record was found for the purchase of this parcel) (Chen. Co. Deed SS:511).  Apparently Norman stayed in Sherburne as on February 23, 1833 he and his wife Minerva Hubbard, with Roswell and Chloe Ann Hubbard sold the Sherburne lot, purchased in 1819, to William Cook for $500.00 (Chen. Co. Deed SS:502).  On March 22, 1834 Roswell his wife and Chloe Ann Hubbard sold 62 acres in Greene, along the river, to Alexander Greene on March 22, 1834 (Chen. Co. Deed VV:92) and on the same day purchased 100 aces of Lot 8 in McDonough, Chenango County, from Alexander Day on March 22, 1834 (Chem. Co. Deed VV:55).  Roswell and his wife sold the 100 acres in McDonough to James A. Glover on September 23, 1835.  At this time the Hubbards gave their place of residence as Rushford, Allegheny County (Chen. Co. Deed 58:270).

Hunt, A.M. (Albion, Orleans Co.)
--1850 Census, Population Schedule, Town fo Albion, Orleans County.
A.M. Hunt, Marble Sculptor, age 39, NY Native, wife Mary, children Simon, George, & Heman, #1673

Joiner, Asa (Virgil, Cortland Co.)
    See Joiner Notes - need to compile the biography.

Lyon, Reuben (Cortlandville, Cortland Co.)
--1855 Census, Population Schedule, Dist. 2, Town of Cortlandville, Cortland County.
    Reuben Lyon, age 53, native of Chenango County, resident 2 months, Marble Dealer.
--1855 Census, Industry Schedule, Dist. 2, Town of Cortlandville, Cortland County.
    Reuben Lyon, made gravestones, $4,150.00 invested in real estate, $10.00 in tools and machinery, used 10,000 feet of marble, valued at $750.00, to produce 1,000 feet of gravestones valued at $1,500.00, employed 2 men for $30.00 per month.

McGinnis, William (Canandaigua, Ontario Co.)
--1860 Census, Schedule of Industry, Town of Canandaigua, Ontario County.
    William McGinnis, age 40, Stone Mason, with $1,000.00 in real estate and $200.00 in personal property, lives next to Henry F. Sterling.

Moore, Philo Perry (Virgil and Cortlandville, Cortland Co.)
--Message from Sandy Knaack "sknaack@home.com", a great great grandaughter of P.P. Moore, dated August 16, 2000:
    He was b. 9 nov. 1821 in Virgil.  He married 3 May 1857, Chester Twp., Eaton Co., MI to Zilpha Marinda Wheaton.  Philo d. Tues., 19 May 1903 (81yrs.) and is buried in Potterville Cemetery on Vermontville Rd, Charlotte, MI  ... His father, George Washington Moore was b. 26 May 1801, NY. His Grandfather, Zopher Moore died Homer, NY, and buried at Virgil.  Zopher was b. 1773 at Simsbury, CT.  I did not find them from Windham, VT.  The C.G. MOORE name associated with Philo must have been his brother, Charles Grove Moore, b. 1824.  Philo had 5 brothers and 7 sisters!!!

Norton & Loonie (Canandaigua, Ontario Co.)
--1870 Census, Industry Schedule, Canandaigua Village, Ontario County.
    Norton & Loonie, Marble Factory, $12,000 capital invested, hand power, 8 adults employed, $1,500.00 pad wages per year, 12 months in operation, uses marble and stone, used 1500 cubic feet, valued at $8,000.00, made monuments, mantles, etc., worth $21,000.00.

O'Connor, John (Cortlandville, Cortland Co.)
--1860 Census, Population Schedule, Town of Cortlandville, Cortland County.
    John O'Connor, 22 year old Marble Hand and native of Scotland, living with Stillwell M. Benjamin (Dwell. 756, a Marble Manufacturer).
 
Parisou, Joseph, Sr. & Jr (Cazenovia, Madison Co.)
--1880 Town of fenner, Madison County, Population Schedule.
    Joseph Parisou and his son of the same name are listed as stone cutters, ages 60 and 29 respectively.
    It is likely that they were not gravestone cutters as there were several quarries for building stone in the vicinity of Chittenango Falls where they lived.   The stone at this location is Onondaga Limestone which, besides building stone, was used for the bases of tombstones.  Several monuments of obelisk-form, found in Chittenango Falls Cemetery, are made of Onondaga Limestone - one of these is the monument for Joseph Parisou (Sr.) and his wife Harriet who died in 1893 and 1896.  Other Onondaga Limestone monuments in the area are found in Evergreen, Perryville, and the "New" Peterboro cemeteries and date to c.1860s.

Rogers, Amasa (Cortlandville, Cortland Co.)
--1855 Census, Population Schedule, Dist. 1, Town of Cortlandville, Cortland County
    Amasa Rogers, age 38, native of Massachusetts, resident 3 years, Stone Cutter (Dwell. 302, Fam. 310).

Skinner, Amasa (Sherburne, Chenango Co.)
--1850 census, Schedule of Industry, Town of Sherburne.
    Amasa Skinner is listed as having a stone quarry, with $1700.00 value in real and personal estate, employing four hands at $104.00 per month, and made 28,000 feet of flagging stone valued at $1400.00 in the past census year.

Stanton, Sidney (Cazenovia, Madison Co.)
--Republican Monitor (Cazenovia, NY) 7/__/1832:
     Sidney Stanton is opening a shop for stone cutting on the Cherry Valley Turnpike, at the east end of the bridge.

Sterling, Henry F. (Sr.), Henry F. (Jr.), Stephen L. (Virgil, Cortland Co. and Canandaigua, Ontario Co.)
--1835 Census, Town of Virgil, Cortland County.
    Henry Sterling is listed near Franks Corners, and not far from Caleb Whiting, Horace Joiner, William Joiner, and John Joiner.
--1840 Census, Town of Virgil, Cortland County.
    Henry Sterling is listed near Franks Corners, near John Joiner Jr. and Horace Joiner.
--1855 Census, Dist. 1, Town of Virgil, (Dwell. 61, Fam. 63) lists:
    Henry F. Starling 34  Cortland Co. 27 Marble Engraver,
    Lowis T.  29 wife Wayne Co. 3,
    Hellin F. 9 child Wayne Co. 3,
    Mary A. 7 child Cortland Co. 3
    Willie H. 3 child Broome Co. 2mo
    Henry 71 father Rhode Island 36 Farmer
    Eliphalet 62 mother Rhode Island 36
--Bruce Stewart of Canandaigua, NY, personal communication)
    Tells me that he is related to Henry Sterling who moved from Virgil, Cortland County, to Canandaigua, Ontario County, about 1860.  He says that Henry Sterling is listed on the 1860 census as being a native of Rhode Island but that he may be from Scotland.  Henry had 13 children some of whom were stone cutters, masons, and brick layers; these trades were also carried on by later generations.  Stephen Sterling, son of Henry F. Sterling, had a monument shop in Canandaigua and had a residence on Mason Street in that city.  Sterlings are said to have built the walls at Sonnenburg Gardens, and the entrance and chapel at Woodlawn Cemetery.
--1850 Census, Population Schedule, (village of) Canandaigua, Ontario County.
    Philip W. Sterling, age 28, Marble Worker, real estate valued at $1000.00, native of New York, wife, Ann A. Sterling, is age 23 and also a native of New York (Dwell. 408, Fam. 408).
--1855 Census, Elect. Dist. 2 Town of Canandaigua, Ontario County.
    S.L. Sterling, living in S.S. Mallory's Hotel (Dwell. 9) age 28, a native of Cortland County, 3 years a resident, Stone Cutter.
--1860 Census, Population Schedule, Town of Canandaigua, Ontario County.
    Stephen L. Sterling, Dwell. 804, Fam. 801, on Chapin Street, age 32, Marble Dealer, with $2,500.00 in real estate, $500.00 in personal estate, and a native of New York, wife, Mary J., age 25, children Alfred P., age 2, and Carrie E., age 6 months.  Also in the household are Stephen's father Henry Sterling, age 76 and a native of Rhode Island, and Cynthia Root, age 16 (who is she?).  Next door to the Sterlings is the family of William McGinnis, age 40, Stone Mason, with $1,000.00 in real estate and $200.00 in personal property.
--1860 Census, Schedule of Industry, Town of Canandaigua, Ontario County.
    Henry F. Sterling (Jr.), Dwell. 589, Fam. 582, 39 years old, Master Stone Engraver, $1800.00 in real estate, $1000.00 in personal estate, native of New York.  His wife is Lois T. Sterling, age 34, and his children are Helen F., age 14, Mary A., age 12, and Willie H., age 8.  With them in their household are Mary A. Noble, age 19, Isaac L. Turner, age 32, and Agent, and Ed. H. Courtney, age 25, a Marble Cutter.
--Ontario County Clerk's Office, Deeds.
    Henry F. Sterling purchased a lot of .34 acres on the east side of Main Street Canandaigua, third lot south of Clark Street (as laid out by J. Chipman in 1841), from Samuel H. Andrews on June 3, 1857 (Ontario County Deed 112:424, map in back of Deed Liber 70).
--Miscellaneous.
I was able to find the burial spot and two monuments of several Sterlings in the West Avenue Cemetery, northeast part.
On the first monument:
    Henry Sterling, died January 18, 1861, age 78 years.
    Stephen L. Sterling, died May 26, 1902, age 74 years 11 months.
    Mary J. Sterling, wife of S.L. Sterling, died April 23, 1891, age 57 years.
On the second monument:
    H.F. Sterling, born December 25, 1820, died October 23, 1896.
    Lois T. Noble Sterling, wife of Henry F. Sterling, born September 29, 1825, died July 20, 1863.
    (Mary J. Sterling would have been born in 1834, the same year that Mary J. Whiting, daughter of Palmer J. Whiting of Virgil, was born).

Sweet; Eber, Eli, and Galusha (Virgil, Cortland Co.)
--Deeds
    Eber Sweet was "in possession" of a parcel on State Street just west of Washington Street in 1855 (Deed 26:99).  This lot is shown as having a marble shop on the map of 1863 but no deed is found to show that Sweet owned it.  Eber Sweet did purchase several parcels on the east side of South Street where he had a marble shop.  Edmund H. Sweet purchased the lot on the southeast corner of State and South streets with Elisha Winslow in 1844 (Deed 9:359b) and sold his share to Winslow in 1845 (Deed 9:360).  Several lots to the south of this were later owned by Eber Sweet with two lots being purchased in 1865 and another purchased in 1871 (Deeds 48:106, 50:8, and 53:348).  One of these lots, purchased by Eber Sweet of Samuel Seamans on November 6, 1865, and apparently located just south of the intersection of State and South Streets, had a south bound which passed through "the center of the building occupied by (Eber Sweet) as a marble shop" (Deed 48:106).  It is not clear which half of the building (or if it was the whole) that contained the marble shop.  Sweet had purchased the other portion building and the surrounding property from Nathaniel R. Lock a week earlier, on September 29, 1865, so he did own all of the building which had his shop.  How long he had been at this location os not evident.
--Historic Maps.
    Historic maps show marble shop in Virgil Center, Lot 24, on 1863 map, on S. Crain lot, southwest corner of State and Washington streets (now the site of the house of Philip Timmerman at #1205).  Sylvester Crain is given in the legend as an undertaker and carriage maker.  The 1876 map also has S. Crain but not a marble shop.
--1850 Census, Population Schedule, Town of Virgil, Cortland County.
    Eber Sweet, Dwell. 984, 23 year old stone cutter and New York native.  His father, Eber Sweet, is listed in the Town of Lapeer (Dwell. 1251) as a 53 year old shoe maker and native to New York.
--1855 Census, Population Schedule, Dist. 1, Town of Virgil, Cortland County.
    Eber Sweet, age 29, a native of Cortland County, as a Marble Dealer (in Virgil Corners, Dwell. 324, Fam. 338).  Also Eli Sweet, age 24, a native of Cortland County, Marble Engraver (Dwell. 305, Fam. 311).
--1855 Census, Schedule of Industry, Dist. 1, Town of Virgil, Cortland County.
    Eber Sweet, Marble Shop, $200.00 in real estate, $30.00 in tools, used 2,000 feet of marble, worth $750.00, to produce 2,000 feet of grave stones, valued at $2,550.00, employed 1 1/2 men at $26.00 per month.
--1860 Census, Population Schedule, Town of Virgil, Cortland County.
    Eber Sweet, age 31 years, Stone Cutter.
--1870 Census, Population Schedule, Town of Virgil, Cortland County.
    Eber Sweet, age 43, native of New York, Marble Cutter, real estate valued at $3,000.00, personal property at $500.00 (Dwell. 418, Fam. 385, family listed also).  Also, Galusha Sweet, listed with the Harry Williams family (Dwell. 430, Fam. 398), age 22, native of New York, Marble Cutter.
--Virgil Rural Cemetery.
    Eber Sweet (Sr.), died October 18, 1858, age 59 years 4 months 18 days.
    Esther Sweet, wife (1) of Eber Sweet (Sr.), died November 16, 1831, age 43 years 9 months 14 days.
    John H. Sweet, (son of Eber Sweet Sr.), died at Folly Island, SC, November 6, 1863, age 19 years 10 months 12 days, Co. B., 89th Reg., NYSV.

Turner, Isaac L. (Canandaigua, Ontario Co.) (Agent)
--1860 Census, Population Schedule, Town of Canandaigua, Ontario County.
Isaac L. Turner, age 32, as an Agent, in the household of H.F. Sterling, a Master Stone Engraver (Dwell. 589, Fam. 582).

Watson, Joseph (Homer, Cortland Co.)
--1870 Census, Schedule of Industry, Town of Homer, Cortland County.
    Joseph Watson, monuments and headstones, $4,000.00 personal and real estate, employs 4 men and 1 child, paying $1,200.00 per year in total wages, active all year, uses $1,100.00 in marble, made 10 monuments valued at $2,300, and 7 headstones valued at $550.00.

Whiting, Caleb Jr. (Virgil, Cortland Co.)
--Nathaniel Bouton's 1878 Festal Gathering of the Present Inhabitants of the Town of Virgil, Cortland County, N.Y. (:41-42).
    "There was a beginning made in the business of stone-cutting and preparing grave stones, many years since, by Caleb Whiting, Jr., which increased very much with the years that passed, and many hands were employed and sales made far and wide, and though commencing with common quarry stone, it soon became an extensive manufactory of marble.  This business has passed through several hands, and for a few of the last years the superintendency has devolved upon Charles Williams, and many exquisitely wrought grave stones and monuments have been carried from his shop to Dryden, and to other places, and many have been set up in our own neat cemetery.  Mr. Williams has recently moved to Dryden, where he is employed in the same calling."

Williams, Charles (Virgil, Cortland Co. and Dryden, Tompkins Co.)
--Nathan Bouton's 1878 Festal Gathering ... (:42).
    Bouton notes that the gravestone carving business begun in Virgil by Caleb Whiting Jr. has passed through several hands and was eventually operated by Charles Williams.  Mr. Williams had recently moved to Dryden where he continued his work.
--Childs' Gazetteer of Cortland County for 1869.
    Charles D. Williams, Virgil PO, dealer in marble and gravestones.
 

Made an attempt to examine records at the Ontario County Surrogate's Office for several stones in the Canandaigua Pioneer Cemetery but had no luck.  Only Othniel Taylor, William Jacob, and Nathaniel Sanburn had wills.  Taylor's papers consisted of an inventory and bureaucratic forms while I never saw Jacob's or Sanburn's papers as I ran out of time.

I checked Box 1 of the probate records in the Tioga County Surrogate's Office.  Of some fifty packets examined only four had any note of burial expenses.  Several references were found to tombstone carvers or supliers; those being in the files of Robert Watkins which named J. Fleming as paid for a "(panel?) for grave," of Jonathan Catlin which named Albert A. Baker as paid for tombstones, and of Moses Grimes which named Mr. Osbone as paid for grave stones.

    Robert Watkins (died c. 1831)
        2/21/1831 Paid bill of funeral expenses cloth & trimming 1.75
        and for coffin 5.00
        3/26/1831 Paid bill of digging grave (H. Sisson?) 2.00
        8/1831 Paid bill of J. Flemming for __anel for grave 5.00

    William Payne (died c. 1841)
        Paid O. Carpenter for making coffin 2.50
        Paid 2 toom stones 15.00

    Jonathan Catlin (died c. 1847)
        11/17/1847 Paid David Taylor for digging grave 1.00
        11/16/1847 Paid J.B. Ogden for coffin 6.00
        2/21/1848 Paid Albert A. Baker for tombstones 7.50
        7/3/1848 Paid John Cortright for setting tombstones .25

    Moses Grimes (died August 26, 1845)
        6/5/1847 Paid Mr. Osbone for Grave Stones 5.95
 
Niagara County Surrogate's Office
    Ezekiel Hill, died 1828, File H-3
    Expenses of Abraham Witmer against Hill estate:
        For Services rendered E. Hill By me and my Family during his last Sickness at my house 24.00
        For Coffin and digging Grave 7.50
        For his Grave Clothes 2.64

Madison County Surrogate's Office
    Nathan Cole, died 1828, File 531
        "Received of Polly Cole, twenty dollars in full for one set of grave stones / A. Palmer / Lenox, February 3, 1830"
        (It does not appear that Palmer was a carver although he may have been an agent for one.  Cole is buried with his daughter in a small private cemetery in Lincoln.  His stone is made of marble but I must return to check its design.  Apparently this was Asher H. Palmer who was a trustee of the Cranson Cemetery which is a neighborhood cemetery near Cole's burial place.  Cole was the second pastor of the Fenner Baptist Church.)