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From: "Kit McChesney" <>
Subject: Re: [ALL] GRAVE MARKER
Date: Wed, 25 Dec 2002 23:55:49 -0700
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I searched a wonderful book that I own for pictures of the gravemarker
described, but could not find any images. However, there is a fabulous
bibliography that might be worth searching to find what you're looking for.
Hundreds of articles about gravemarkers. I'll bet there will be something in
one of those articles that will help you figure out what you're looking for.

The book is:

Richard E. Meyer, ed., Cemeteries and Gravemarkers: Voices of American
Culture (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, 1992).

Kit McChesney


> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <>
> To: <>
> Sent: Sunday, December 22, 2002 8:50 AM
> Subject: [ALL] GRAVE MARKER
>
>
> > My Great Grandfather and Mother have a strange marker in front of their
> family
> > marker in the cemetery. It is a metal stake , approx 2" wide and part
way
> up
> > has a block ( a rectangle) and then about 4" above that a five pointed
> star.
> > At the end of each point on the star, there is a cross. At the present
> time
> > the whole thing is a dirty red in color, and if their was any
inscriptions
> on
> > it, they have long since been erased by time and weather. I thought
> perhaps
> > one of the wars, but their ages throws me. Father b.1850, d.
> > 1904=====Mother b. 1857 d. 1934. Can anybody shed any information
what
> this
> > might represent. I have pictures and will be glad to scan and e-mail if
> > someone has and idea what they represent. AGAIN THANKS--JOHN IN SAN
> ANTONIO
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