Among the monuments cited in Riverview Cemetery’s nominating documents for inclusion on the National Register of Historic Places was a narrative description and image of the Celtic Cross on the Tattersall plot:
Tattersall: James C. Tattersall (1872-1932), president of The Tattersall Coal Company, is interred in Section R, Lot 75-76 ... The monument (Trenton Evening Times, April 19, 1921, p. 12) on the plot is a replica of the St. Martin’s Cross located at Iona, Scotland, and was carved from blue-white granite quarried in Westerly, Rhode Island, by Alexander McDonald Co., Trenton, and Cambridge, Massachusetts. The firm also carved the individual lawn level markers of a complementary style.
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| Tattersall Monument, 2015 |
During the overnight hours of August 22/23, 2017, a line of thunderstorms passed through Trenton felling a maple tree (TS 269) and damaging a large limb on another maple (TS 270) along Maple Avenue that, unfortunately, in falling dislodged the monument’s die from its base:
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| Tattersall Monument after storm damage |
Although it was in a rather precarious position, its restoration was deemed to be relatively easy and the grounds crew was able to reset the die onto the base, and the final work of gently tapping the lead seal (wedge lead is used to prevent stone-to-stone contact and to prevent water from running into the mortise) back into position was completed today:
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| Tattersall Monument, 2017 |
And the Tattersall Monument is whole once again.
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