Samuel Lane's gravestone at Glendale Cemetery includes a meteorite.

 

 

 

False - Samuel Alanson Lane (1815-1905) authored a popular history of Akron and Summit County published in 1892 and was a colorful citizen of early Akron.  He is buried in Glendale Cemetery and the monument has a base of polished Quincy Granite topped by a large piece of red and gray banded rock.  It is this rock that many people thought was a meteorite.  It is actually a piece of banded iron formation (BIF) which are Precambrian iron deposits composed of alternating layers of reddish jasper-rich material and gray material that is rich in hematite and magnetite.  Similar rocks have been brought to Northeastern Ohio from Minnesota and Wisconsin since the mid 1800's.  

 

 

Hannibal, Joseph T., Guide to the Building Stones and Cultural Geology of Akron; Guidebook 19; (2006) The Cleveland Museum of Natural History, Columbus, Ohio.


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