St. Paul’s Lutheran Church Cemetery, rural Indiana.

ROBERT

SON OF

 & E. BURRES

BORN

FEB. 19, 1836

DIED

JUNE 25, 1865.

HE WAS IN CO. D. 80 REG. IND. VOL.

THEN CONQUER WE MUST

FOR OUR CAUSE IT IS JUST

AND THIS BE OUR MOTTO

IN GOD WE TRUST.

This broken rounded-top white marble gravestone commemorating the grave of a Civil War soldier displays a soldier, though, weathered and difficult to discern, and a patriotic and reverential epitaph recognizing the solemn sacrifice for the ultimate cause of freedom.