Whetstone Marker Carvers & Dealers

Powell, Richard L.

Indiana University

Whetstone Marker Carvers & Dealers

Powell, Richard L.

Keywords: Indiana; whetstone; gravemarker; cemetery; headstone; Hindostan whetstone; stone carver; stone carving; marker style; headstone shape; T. R. Reding; A. Waldrip; J. F. Keys; nineteenth century; industrial history; history; head stones; grave stones

URI: https://hdl.handle.net/2022/1800

Date: 2006

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Type: Presentation

Abstract:

Eighty-six of the approximately 1,850 whetstone grave markers found to date in Indiana and Illinois have been signed by their engraver or the dealer who sold them. The signatures usually are found to the lower right of the inscriptions. Some signed markers have not been found because the name was buried below the soil, windblown soil or humus accumulated and obscured the name, or a broken marker was re-set deeper in the soil.

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