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Examples of gravestone in a Sentence
Here is the gravestone of the wife of Dr Johnson.
Their common gravestone is in existence at the present day, bearing date July 11, 1759.
Do you have a gravestone in need of cleaning?
Personalizing a gravestone with headstone phrases or epitaphs will add a special touch to the final resting place of your loved one.
Rather than writing their gravestone epitaphs, the major players are readying themselves for the end of the second digital decade.
In the churchyard against the south wall will be found the gravestone of Henry Evans.
There was also another marble gravestone which had a brass plate.
In the porch there is a Romanesque carved gravestone from about 1200.
When Lilian died in 1935 Caroline erected a gravestone (pictured) with a very bold and unequivocal message to the world.
The Hogg family gravestone, where Leonard Hogg of the Yorkshire Regiment is commemorated.
First, to Kirkby Lonsdale, and to see a unique and frightening viking gravestone.
At the edge of Evergreen Cemetery overlooking a dusty suburb of Oakland in California is a small granite gravestone.
What can I do about my family's old gravestone?
Incidentally, a good number of Family History Societies either have already recorded gravestone inscriptions in their areas, or are currently doing so.
The oldest surviving relic is the 1623 gravestone to Jane, daughter of George Graham, Bishop of Orkney.
The great Phrygian saint of the 2nd century was named Avircius Marcellus (Abercius); the mass of legends and miracles in the late biography of him long brought his very existence into dispute, but a fragment of his gravestone, discovered in 1883, and now preserved in the Lateran Museum in Rome, has proved that he was a real person, and makes it probable that the wide-reaching conversion of the people attributed to him did actually take place.
Whenever, feasible, the gravestone was placed in an upright position and ranked in serried lines like soldiers on parade.
The gravestone is long and somber, typical of the period.
If the deceased did not choose what he/she wanted, it will be up to you to decide which one would be best for the gravestone.
However, upon further exploration, the two men discovered an old cemetery where they could hear a baby's cry coming from the ground in front of a gravestone and a fresh grave site of a mother and infant who were recently buried together.
Draped over her gravestone was the man's leather jacket.
In another example, there's a person kneeling by a gravestone with long hair in her face.
If you can't find the ideal inscription for your loved one's gravestone, consider writing your own.
Near the green, in the old burying-ground, are the graves of Captain Parker and other American patriots - the oldest gravestone is dated 1690.
So the old man led him across the street to the family cemetery where they found her gravestone.