Inscription:

In memory of
IDELL PATTERSON
Consort of
Walter Scissna
Born Oct. 6, 1854
May 4, 1880

(verse illegible)

Idell Patterson Scissna
Birth: 6 October 1854
Death: 4 May 1880
Burial: Cold Water Cemetery, Florissant, St. Louis County, Missouri

Family members buried in Cold Water Cemetery:
Mother: Matilda H. Harris Patterson
Siblings: Lucy R. Patterson, Amanda Virginia Patterson, and Margaret Matilda Patterson
Husband: Walter Scissna
Daughter: Elizabeth Maud Scissna Carrico

Notes:
Idell was one of nine children born to Durrett Patterson and Mathilda R. Harris Patterson. She married Walter Scissna, circa 1878, and died about 15 months later. She was the mother of one child. She died of measles and pneumonia (J. C. Berryman minister at Bellefontaine Methodist Church).