Inscription:

 

BARBARA
TOCHTER VON (Daughter of)
MATHIAS
UND
CAROLINE
SIMON,
GEBOREN AM (Born on)
8TEN APRIL 1857,
GESTORBEN AM (Died on)

15TEN SEPT. 1875
IM
SCHOOSSE DEUTSCHER (German Lap)
ERDE SCHLAEFT SIE IN (Sleeps in Earth)

SANFTER RUHE, (Gentle Calm)

NICHT WEIT VOM ORT, WO (Not far from the place where)

EINSTMALS IHRE WIEGE (Your crib)

STAND: (Was)

BLUMEN SCHMUECKEN (Flowers Adorn)

JETZT IHR GRAB, DAS (Now your grave)

ALLZU FRUEHE, (Too early)

BLUMEN DIE SIE ALS KIND (Flowers by you as a child)

ZU LIEBES KRAENZEN WAND. (To dear wreaths wound)

 
 


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Marker missing from cemetery as of December 2005.

Inscription from "Cemeteries of Indianola,
Texas", by Leonard J. McCown.

The Simon monument has four sides and is made of
pewter. This is side no. 3 which faces south.
Side no. 4 has no inscription. - McCown