Joseph Ritner, Pennsylvania Governor, Gravestone (Cabinet Card Photo)

A Vintage Photos Theme Park photo for the theme of gravestones and cemeteries.

This is a nineteenth-century cabinet card photo of the gravestone of Joseph Ritner (1780–1869), who was governor of Pennsylvania from 1835 to 1839. Ritner was buried in the Mount Rock Cemetery in Mount Rock, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania. The surroundings looked quite different when I visited the cemetery in 2015.

See also the full version of the cabinet card and a comparison of this photo with one I took in 2015.

Joseph Ritner

Died Oct. 16, A.D. 1869 in the 90th year of his age.

Elected governor of the state of Pennsylvania in 1835.