I think many people would be interested in the answer to this question.
Please keep us posted. So many old cemeteries and stones are fading away.
It would be wonderful to find an inexpensive way to preserve them.
Thanks for raising the question.
Peggy C.
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From: Robinson <robinson(a)svs.net>
To: IN-CEMETERIES-L(a)rootsweb.com <IN-CEMETERIES-L(a)rootsweb.com>
Date: Thursday, July 24, 2003 6:10 PM
Subject: [IN-CEM] Question about lowest cost markers
I have been wondering about this for some time. I have a number of
more
distant ancestors that need some kind of very, very very very basic marker.
All of my older family members are pretty much gone and if I don't do
something some of the family graves will be lost when I pass. I am much too
"blessed with poverty" to spend the about $300 per stone for the basic
carved stone to be set that seems to be about the minimum around here. Some
stones are missing and some are becoming unreadable. These are mostly
rather
neglected cemeteries (the old part that everybody stands with their
back to
when they look at the cemetery) so I am not too worried about meeting some
standard requirement. One stone of a set of gg-grandparents that is
becoming
very hard to read has a good sized flat blank area on the front and I
have
considered having a bronze plate made and attaching it to the flat place.
My
shop isn't equipped for that but maybe I could swap out some
work.
I have some family buried at a small church cemetery near Madisonville
KY. A family member had cast small concrete markers for a whole bunch of
them. They were only about 16" tall X maybe 12" wide and about 2" thick.
He
had bought some small letters that were made for that and he glued to the
form with rubber cement for the names and dates. Those markers have been in
place for maybe 70 years and are still all in good condition. I have no
idea
what type of cement mix he used. I wondered if he used the
water-proof
concrete powder.
One thought that crossed my mind was to get a shop with a CNC plasma
cutter to cut some plates for me from stainless steel.
Has anyone found any answers to keep cost waaaay down? If I can come up
with something to last another 100 years maybe there will be a big
awakening
and others will step up to the plate. If not I guess it didn't
matter
anyway...
I can do about anything shop wise, maybe I should take up stone
carving...
"farmer"
Francis Robinson
robinson(a)svs.net
Central Indiana USA
Always lay sod "green side up".
Always be glad you are on the green side.
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