Page 02, Column 05 of Niles Daily Times, published in Niles, Ohio on Thursday, February 11th, 1937
Monument Erected To Memory of Leg
MENOMONEE, Wis. (U.P.) - In the weeds and thicket of an unkept corner of St. Paul's cemetery near here lies a glistening white monument to the memory of a leg.
The story of the tombstone and the leg "decently buried" there is told by John Loew, a retired farmer.
About 1860, when Loew was a boy, George Krauder, a neighbor, suffered an ankle injury. A malignant tumor developed, and Krauder was forced to have the leg amputated.
Krauder gave his dismembered leg a fitting Burial and marked the grave with a marble slab 18 x 10 inches inscribed - "Leg - George Krauder"
Page 02, Column 05 of Niles Daily Times, published in Niles, Ohio on Thursday, February 11th, 1937
Monument Erected To Memory of Leg
MENOMONEE, Wis. (U.P.) - In the weeds and thicket of an unkept corner of St. Paul's cemetery near here lies a glistening white monument to the memory of a leg.
The story of the tombstone and the leg "decently buried" there is told by John Loew, a retired farmer.
About 1860, when Loew was a boy, George Krauder, a neighbor, suffered an ankle injury. A malignant tumor developed, and Krauder was forced to have the leg amputated.
Krauder gave his dismembered leg a fitting Burial and marked the grave with a marble slab 18 x 10 inches inscribed - "Leg - George Krauder"
Inscription
Leg - George Krauder
Gravesite Details
Grave marked with a marble slab 18 x 10 inches inscribed - "Leg - George Krauder"
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