Obelisks were a common grave marker for FreeMasons. Was it exclusive (Year of death on this one is 1863) o likely to be a mason burial those years? I have one in a local cemetery and am not sure yet if it has any markings that would indicated freemasonry because we have to have brush cut and sit it back up into place. I had heard that the lack of a fremasonry symbol didn't mean anything because the obelisk alone was a statement of it. So what I want to know is if it was an exclusive symbol that others generally avoided or if someone just liked it even if they were not a mason, they may have purchased it?