Steinmetz Family Plot

This grand marker commemorates the Steinmetz family, who were prominent businessmen in Pekin. Note, however, that no one surnamed Steinmetz is buried in this immediate cemetery plot -- instead we see the surnames of Burress, Kaylor, Smith and Klein (i.e., Steinmetz relatives). In 1909 the Steinmetzes commissioned the construction of a memorial chapel further to the south in Section 11, but that structure fell into disrepair and was demolished about 1958. The remains of the Steinmetz family's most prominent members are entombed in Lakeside Cemetery Mausoleum in the south part of the cemetery.