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From: cindy birk conley <>
Subject: Re: [ILHAMILT-L] Headstone expert? RE MUNSELL Cemetery stones
Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2003 21:40:35 -0600
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Cordah,

My guess is that the small stones are for children, the one stillborn
May 18 1842. He/she had the initials CVM, the last name being Munsell.
The other had the initials VM. A family member may have done the
carving, as parents many times did not spend the money for
professionally done stones like the ones on the bottom row. Who knows
why both of them don't have dates.

Cindy

Tom James wrote:
>
> Recently my cousin took some digital images of family stones in the
> MUNSELL Cemetery. Two of the stones have inscriptions - a date and
> initials - but the other information is incomplete or ambiguous. We
> have thought that perhaps they are not grave markers.
>
> If there is someone on the list who is familiar with carving styles and
> the types of stones found in Hamilton County's early cemeteries, could
> you take a look at these stones online? I have created a web page with
> the two similar stones side-by-side, and underneath, four other family
> stones in the same cemetery for comparison, along with the dates.
>
> http://php.indiana.edu/~cordah/munsell/markers.html


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