Jane Adams Lecture: Page 11
The vision of the rural we have received has viewed it as made up of balanced, harmonious, self-sustaining communities. This vision never existed. The rural regions of the nineteenth century were full of flux and change. They were a patchwork of (what we now call) ethnic communities, riven with religious and ethnic and occasionally class conflict. They were boisterous, energetic, open.

This graveyard at St. Peter, in Fayette County, spans that period. German settlers buried their first dead around the 1830s and marked their graves with small stones. Their increasing prosperity is marked by stones that grow ever larger, as the cemetery filled in from west to east.

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St. Peter Lutheran Cemetary, St. Peter, Fayette County. Older Graves on Left
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