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A Grave Concern by Ashley D. Smith is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License.
A Grave Concern 
I find it interesting that she’s someone’s “wife” and someone’s “daughter.” I guess back in those days you had to be associated with a man to be “someone?” Interesting writing on the stone though, very interesting “prepare for death and follow me.” Pretty eerie, but intriguing.
Women are more likely to have a tombstone with relational signifiers than men, but they do happen a lot overall. (Children’s tombstones probably have them just as much.) If a tombstone has more than a name and date, it’s likely to tell you about a familial or marital relationship, even for men. Tombstones very rarely tell an occupation (with doctors and clergy as an exception) or how the person died. In this woman’s case, I’m sure her father’s name was mentioned to illustrate that she was part of an important family in the area, the Cozads.
Hi Ashley, I’m replying to this 2.5 year old thread from my original post of 10/27/11 because I have been involved in genealogy a lot since my original post. It’s of particular irony that I commented on this post because I am a Cozad descendant (and did not know it at the time of my original post). I have many ancestors that are buried at the Presbyterian Church and East Cleveland Township Cemetery and have been to both cemeteries numerous times doing research. Samuel Cozad was my 7xggrandfather.