A 19th-century obelisk grave marker in Callaway County, Missouri, commemorating Mary Elizabeth (Cheatham) Yeiser, who died in 1877, along with several Yeiser children who died in infancy or early childhood. Photographs such as this one, preserved among a family's personal papers, document genealogical connections and were often collected as part of family history research alongside wartime letters and keepsakes. Project: 218484