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CLAYPOOL
1701 - 1788
This is NOT Jane. She is buried further up the hill a few feet down hill from her husband James's real grave. Her stone is fallen and weathered, but readily readable. (See the page for that stone.)
Beyond that, I don't believe that this is an actual footstone or that it marks an actual grave. When we visted in 2004, this stine was not standing and was not where it is now located. Rather, it was lying on its face at the foot of the grave that is now marked as James '01, but which is not. In the second picture here, you can see circled and highlighted the hole from which this stone was removed. That hole is in line both with the headstone that is not James and with its downhill edge in line with the other four footstones (see the cemetery map).
If you believed that this was a headstone and belonged where it now stands, it might be reasonable to conclude that it marks the wife of the man buried next to her, but since it was actually located where the fifth footsotne would have landed had it toppled and stylisticly matches the headstone, and all four adajcent graves are marked with both head and footstones, it is fat more likely that it is a footstone.
And that leaves us with the question of whoe grave is that?