Was her name on the headstone...if not it could have been a cross with her name on it... anne > Thanks to Sandy Day, in Jefferson co, I have found the headstone of my > great-great grandmother, Araminta Smith, who died in 1859 and is buried in > the Emma Grove Cemetery in Hannibal. > The headstone has an indentation in it, the shape of the federal shield > (you know, the shape that surrounds the number on the highway road signs). > You can see, in the indentation, that there was originally something > attached to the headstone with 2 screws or brads, and it has been torn off, > leaving just the indentation. For the life of me I can't figure out what > could have been put onto a ladies gravestone in this shape. If it were a > man's I'd think he had been in some branch of the armed services, or a > member of some sort of a fraternal order...but, what could it have been on a > woman's stone? I'd think the year, 1859, would be too early for it to have > been some sort of a photograph....has anyone else had this experience, or > any ideas of what it could have been? > Sandra