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A monument carved as a rough-barked stump with its limbs cut short.
Also known as: Woodmen of the World monument, Log monument
A whole monument shaped as a rough-barked stump with the branches cut off. Strongly associated with Woodmen of the World, whose members were entitled to one — which makes it one of the few motifs that reliably identifies an organisation.
A monument carved in the form of a tree trunk cut off short, with bark texture and severed limbs, conventionally read as a life cut short in the same way as the broken column.
Later 19th–early 20th century · Contexts: History
Strongly associated in the United States with Woodmen of the World, a fraternal benefit society whose membership benefit included a monument of this form, which makes the stump a fairly reliable indicator of membership where it occurs there.
United States · c. 1890–1920
The number of severed branches is sometimes said to indicate family members lost. This is repeated in the popular literature and is not supported by the society's own records.
Commonly stated online; unsupported.
A thick vertical stone column carved with rough bark texture, cut off flat or raggedly at the top, with short stubs where limbs have been severed.