Sun Dial Hourglass - Big Hatchie Disaster - City Cemetery - Hermann, MO
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YoSam.
N 38° 41.945 W 091° 26.035
15S E 636186 N 4284548
Grave site of 35 dead from big steamboat explosion...Sun Dial Monument
Waymark Code: WM16JRT
Location: Missouri, United States
Date Posted: 08/16/2022
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County of hourglass: Gasconade County
Location of hourglass: Shiller St., E. 9th St., & Gutenburg St., city cemetery, Hermann
Erected by: Brush & Palette Club, Inc.
Date Erected: 2019
This sun dial is a common one, even saw this exact sun dial in Canadian waymark. It is a hourglass with wings and the text beneath it saying: TEACH US TO NUMBER OUR DAYS
Memorial Text: In memory of the early pioneers who perished in the explosion of the steamboat "Big Hatchie" at the wharf at Hermann in 1842, the thirty-five dead that lie buried here in unmarked graves and the many whose bodies were never recovered from the waters of the Missouri River.
"In 1842 the steamer Big Hatchie blew up while leaving the Hermann wharf, maiming and killing many of the crew and passengers. John and Bill Massie, coming up to town in a skiff, helped save many of these unfortunate people and were the first to board the burning wreck after the explosion. Some 40 of these people (mostly immigrants going out West to seek a new home), are buried in unmarked graves in our Hermann Cemetery." ~ Steamboat