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  2. William Edmondson - Wikipedia

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    I looked up in the sky and right there in the noon daylight, he hung a tombstone out for me to make. I knowed it was God telling me what to do." [7] He carved tombstones primarily from chunks of discarded limestone from demolished buildings, which were delivered to him by wrecking companies' trucks. A signature Edmondson tombstone reflects ...

  3. Monumental masonry - Wikipedia

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    Monumental masonry (also known as memorial masonry) is a kind of stonemasonry focused on the creation, installation and repairs of headstones (also known as gravestones and tombstones) and other memorials. [1]

  4. List of quarries in the United States - Wikipedia

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    T.J. Gipple's stone quarry, near NRHP-listed Gipple's Quarry Bridge (1893), Columbus Junction, Iowa; Old State Quarry, North Liberty, Iowa, NRHP-listed; Quarry, Iowa, site of limestone quarrying in Marshall County, Iowa. Town was laid out by Le Grand Quarry Company in 1868. Nearby Quarry Bridge, in Marshalltown, Iowa, is NRHP-listed.

  5. Organic burial pods to replace tombstones with trees - AOL

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    Anna Citelli and Raoul Bretzel proposed a plan to make cemeteries more eco-friendly by replacing headstones with trees. It's called "Capsula Mundi," and Organic burial pods to replace tombstones ...

  6. List of tombs and mausoleums - Wikipedia

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    near Maku, Iran: Saint Thaddeus Monastery: Saint Bartholomew: one of the Twelve Apostles: near Başkale (Albayrak)Turkey: Saint Bartholomew Monastery: Saint John the Apostle: Apostle and author of the Gospel of John and Revelation: Disputed; may be either on the island of Patmos, Greece, or at Selçuk, a small town in the vicinity of Ephesus in ...

  7. Gravestone - Wikipedia

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    Originally, a tombstone was the stone lid of a stone coffin, or the coffin itself, and a gravestone was the stone slab (or ledger stone) that was laid flat over a grave. Now, all three terms ("stele", "tombstone" or "gravestone") are also used for markers set (usually upright) at the head of the grave.

  8. His great-grandfather was a famous artist. This craftsman is ...

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    East Fork works out of three buildings in Asheville: a store downtown, a factory located a few blocks from downtown, and an office building in the River Arts District, an area ravaged by Helene ...

  9. Stećak necropolis Radimlja - Wikipedia

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    When the Čapljina-Stolac road was built during the Austro-Hungarian period in 1882, it ran through the necropolis and destroyed at least 15-20 tombstones. [1] [7] Out of nine types of stećci, 36 slabs, 1 slab with pedestal, 27 chests, 24 chests with pedestal, 4 tall chests, 5 tall chests with pedestal, 2 sarcophagi (i.e. ridge/gable), 31 ...