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As Alicia Hoyt reports: "Historically, financial limitations and social status were factors in whether a person (even a famous one) was awarded a big fancy marker. Mass, unmarked graves were also common in times of widespread disease or war; plus older markers simply deteriorated over time or were stolen.
A marker set at the head of the grave may be called a headstone. An especially old or elaborate stone slab may be called a funeral stele , stela , or slab . The use of such markers is traditional for Chinese , Jewish , Christian , and Islamic burials , as well as other traditions.
The following emblems and emblem numbers are publicized as available for government headstones and markers as of January 2025. [9] A process is in place to consider approving additional religious or belief system emblems requested by the families of individuals eligible for these headstones and markers.
Matthew carved the oldest known grave marker in the New World, a table monument made of Windsor brownstone for the Rev. Ephriam Huit dated 1644 which stands in the Palisado Cemetery in Windsor today. Both Matthew and George Griswold would continue carving both walled tomb-style markers and normal headstones until the end of the 17th century.
One of the most unforgettable quotes I’ve received came from a retired war veteran I met while volunteering in Greece, Gary. He told me, “The older I get, the smarter my father gets.”
John Heath, accused of organizing the robbery that led to the 1883 Bisbee massacre, has a grave marker near the grave of the five perpetrators of the massacre. [13] John Heath was arrested and convicted, and was later removed by a mob from the Tombstone jail and lynched on February 22, 1884. [14]
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The poem on a gravestone at St Peter’s church, Wapley, England "Do not stand by my grave and weep" is the first line and popular title of the bereavement poem "Immortality", written by Clare Harner in 1934.