Inscription:

In memory of
SARAH SHUMATE
Consort of
W. D. Shumate
who departed this life
April 30, A.D. 1836
aged 25 years.

Sarah Wheeler Williams Shumate
Birth: Unknown
Death: 30 April 1836
Burial: Cold Water Cemetery, Florissant, St. Louis County, Missouri

Family members buried in Cold Water Cemetery:
Mother: Henriette Wheeler Williams
Siblings: Elizabeth Marbury Williams Evans, Henrietta Williams Bland, and Mary Eleanor Williams Henderson

Notes:
• Sarah Wheeler Shumate was the daughter of William Walter Williams and Henrietta Wheeler Williams. She was the second wife of Rev. Walker D. Shumate.
• W. D. Shumate was born in 1790 and died on 27 July 1872. He is buried in the cemetery at Fee Fee and Dorsett roads in St. Louis County, Missouri. His first wife was Susan Ann Quisenberry, daughter of James and Eliza Quisenberry. She died on 8 December 1818, at the age of 30 years. His third wife was Mary L. Dorsett Massey, formerly married to John M. Massey on 27 March 1837. She was born on 10 October 1820 and died 22 March 1897, she is buried at Fee Fee Cemetery.