THIS MONUMENT
ERECTED BY THE SURVIVORS
TO THEIR DECEASED PARENTS
BROTHERS AND SISTERS
The memory of the just is blessed.
Prov. 10 – 7.
WILLIAM McKEE
DIED IN ABINGDON, V.
MAY 12st 1833.
AGED 50 YEARS
PHEBE ELIZA
WIFE OF
WILLIAM McFEE
DIED IN ABINGDON
JUNE 4th 1825.
AGED 31 YEARS.
DECATUR
THEIR SON
IN ABINGDON, JAN. –
JULIA ANN,
THEIR DAUGHTER DIED IN NEW YORK
APRIL 1826, AGED 13 YEARS
HENRY OGDEN
THEIR SON,
DROWNED NEAR KINGSPORT, TENN
ON THE 25th JULY 1819
AGED 28 YEARS
SARAH CLAIBORNE
WIFE OF
H.O. McKEE,
DIED IN ABINGDON, DEC. 21st 18—
AGED 20 YEARS.
The McKee family graves, in the Sinking Spring Cemetery at Abingdon, Virginia, is marked by a broken column. The broken column symbolizes early death and was a common motif in the 18th and 19th centuries. The wreath at the top of the column symbolizes victory over death. The fluted columns and the bas-relief of the mourning figure wearing diaphanous robes at the base of the monument are part of a neo-classical design.
Gravely Speaking 