If you want to do it right you should put in a concrete foundation at least
30" deep so that someone doesn't have this same problem 10-20 years down
the road. Sand and gravel is fine for a small marker but something this
size should be on concrete. My opinion, of course.
Kyle D. Conrad
Iroquois Valley Monuments
In a message dated 11/28/2014 8:39:59 A.M. Central Standard Time,
inpcrp(a)rootsweb.com writes:
Hello,
I am planning to do some restoration work in a Swafford Cemetery, in
Monroe County Indiana. This cemetery has a large stone stump that has fallen
over:
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GScid=2371638&GR...
& . Does anyone have any information about what type of base these
types of monument should have? The stone stump is approximately six feet tall
and 20 inches in diameter, at the base. For a regular stacked memorial we
would bury it six or eight inches in the ground, but the stone stump is
carved all the way to the bottom, and it would seem like a waste of that
effort to bury any of it. It was on a piece of limestone that settled to one
side, which made the monument fall.
Since we will have to work on the base anyway, I wanted to make sure the
base was the right size and the sand & gravel the right depth.
Thank you for you help
Scott Emery
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