The article then follows with:
" On the top of one of those majestic bluffs overlooking miles of fertile fields to the southward can be found two old tombstones, one which was placed over a well-rounded grave just 13 years before the first settlers came to what is now known as Muscatine in 1833.
And the other, the grave of a young lad of 16, bears the date of 1848, just 15 years after the first house was built on the site now occupied by our thriving city"  .

The bluff is described as one of the larger bluffs overlooking Muscatine Island.
 
 
 

The first stone is described as a slab about four feet high by two feet wide, worn and crumbled (which means it is probably GONE by now since this was in 1931) with the following inscription:  "Joseph Clark, died Oct. 29, 1818 in the 42 year of his age.  Praises on Lambs are titles vainly ----- Man's good name is his best monument."  It was further indicated that one word was left blank as illegible on the weather beaten stone.

 
 

The other marker, described as two feet high by one foot wide and not showing signs of damage as bad as the first, was described as plainly legible reading:  "Thomas B., son of R. and M. Graham.  Died Nov. 30, 1848.  Aged 15 years"

The author then speculates on the family ties of the aforementioned deceased, and believed that Joseph Clark was tied to the family of a Benjamin W. Clark, native of Virginia who immigrated to Illinois, then to White Oak Springs Wisconsin.  After the Blackhawk War, this gentleman was to have moved to what was known as "Buffalo, Iowa" , where he built the first log cabin and planted crops in 1832.  This Clark later built a hotel in Buffalo, which part of was in use as a grocery store in 1931 when the article was written.    While the author believes this Joseph Clark was somehow connected to the family of Capt. Benjamin Clark, the article offers no specifics as to the connection or how he came to be on the Bluff long before Benjamin.

No speculation as to how Thomas B. Graham came to be buried here was offered.  The article did point out that the markers were both facing north and that they were discovered on High Bluff by an L. M. Neyens of Muscatine while "walking fence".

End of Article:

To date, the only further information I have been able to locate on these two burials :
The Works Progress Administration (WPA) in the late 1930's list these burials as being on the "Frank Tarpy Farm" in Seventy Six Township and while the dates match, the WPA lists the Clark burial as Thomas Clark, died age 12 (same death date)