This works great, some have been replaced in our cemetery in this manner. ----- Original Message ----- From: NevaJB@aol.com Sent: Thursday, July 05, 2001 12:39 PM To: WVFAYETT-L@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [WVFAYETT] Grave site markers June, I don't know about the company, but maybe you could make one yourself. Just a suggestion it the cemetery is a country-type cemetery (no sexton, no groundskeeper, no record, etc.). A long time ago my cousin made one for her aunt who died during the flu epidemic of 1918. She just made a concrete enlongated shape and then pressed small white plastic letters and numbers into in and decorated it a bit with some colored stones. She made it as a stand-up type stone, but I'm sure you could make one to fit flat into the ground. It was for a country family cemetery -- I'm sure cemeteries with offices and groundskeepers wouldn't allow this kind of marker. Neva ==== WVFAYETT Mailing List ==== ============================== Create a FREE family website at MyFamily.com! http://www.myfamily.com/banner.asp?ID=RWLIST2Get more from the Web. FREE MSN Explorer download : http://explorer.msn.com

June Also, I have seen some in cemeteries I have visited that were made with "sack crete" in poured into the large aluminum (throw-away) roasting pans. Some were left in the pans, some were removed and just set into the ground. This "sack crete" requires only water to mix up, and could, if you wanted too, be made "on location" You could then add anything you wanted into the wet concrete. The only worry then, would be to buy the sackcrete locally, and have, perhaps empty milk jugs to carry the water, and a 5 gallon paint bucket or similar bucket to mix it in before pouring into the pans. Jeannette ----- Original Message ----- From: Sarah Kincaid <Sept7_1943@hotmail.com> To: <WVFAYETT-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, July 05, 2001 12:46 PM Subject: Re: [WVFAYETT] Grave site markers > This works great, some have been replaced in our cemetery in this manner. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: NevaJB@aol.com > Sent: Thursday, July 05, 2001 12:39 PM > To: WVFAYETT-L@rootsweb.com > Subject: Re: [WVFAYETT] Grave site markers > > June, > I don't know about the company, but maybe you could make one yourself. Just > a suggestion it the cemetery is a country-type cemetery (no sexton, no > groundskeeper, no record, etc.). A long time ago my cousin made one for her > aunt who died during the flu epidemic of 1918. She just made a concrete > enlongated shape and then pressed small white plastic letters and numbers > into in and decorated it a bit with some colored stones. She made it as a > stand-up type stone, but I'm sure you could make one to fit flat into the > ground. It was for a country family cemetery -- I'm sure cemeteries with > offices and groundskeepers wouldn't allow this kind of marker. > > Neva > > > ==== WVFAYETT Mailing List ==== > > > > ============================== > Create a FREE family website at MyFamily.com! > http://www.myfamily.com/banner.asp?ID=RWLIST2Get more from the Web. FREE MSN Explorer download : http://explorer.msn.com > > > ==== WVFAYETT Mailing List ==== > > > > ============================== > Visit Ancestry's Library - The best collection of family history > learning and how-to articles on the Internet. > http://www.ancestry.com/learn/library > > >

Wow! Thanks to everyone for the suggestions! With one exception (I have a great-grandfather buried in Highlawn Cemetery in Oak Hill with no marker if you can believe it!), the graves are in country cemeteries on private property. Charles Asbury Settle and Cora Lee Huddleston are buried in a cemetery at Laurel Creek right after you come down Laurel Creek Mountain (if you're coming from Wriston; if you're coming from Beckwith, it would be right as you start up the mountain). I do like the idea of a nicely done homemade marker. This could be a project I could even get the boys involved in and perhaps help foster their interest in their family tree. Speaking of my great-grandfather, Benjamin Franklin Caudill: the part of Highlawn he is buried in allows only, or so I've been told, the flat markers with bronze (so it can be mowed easily). Does anyone have an idea of the cost of one of those? Real simple: just full name, birth/death dates. Best wishes, June