Can't Forget Hiedi Sue

Located at Centerton Cemetery in Centerton, AR. 

Patty Sue

Stubbs

Sept 17, 1939

May 29 2006

Yes there are

stars in her crown.

And we can't forget Hiedi Sue.

Just Outside The Gate

Ok so this is not inside a cemetery but it is right across the street from the Forest Park Cemetery in Ft Smith, AR. And its a memorial also.  I liked it so I thought I'd share.

Dedicated to the memory

of our comrades

who entered the service

of their country

from Fort Smith, Arkansas

and who gave their lives

on the World War

----

Victor Ellig Post No. 31

The American Legion

Must Have Been A Cat Lover

This unique marker can be found at Mount Pleasant Cemetery in hiwasse, AR.

Bryonna Dayle

Sullivent

Oct 30, 1988

Oct 6, 2001

Momma's precious gift from God. 

Died at 103 years old

Located at Bethel Cemetery in Gravette, AR.

Aunt Nellie

Austin

Grandmother of

L & E Austin

Born Oct 1789

Died Jan 1892

Aged 103 Years

The gates of Heaven for

her will open wide

Identifying Major StoneTypes

This information was taken from The Association of Gravestone Studies. It has been very helpful to me so I though I would share it.


GRANITE

• Igneous rock with visible grain, primarily quartz and feldspar
• Speckled appearance with sparkly mica and dull black flecks
• Extremely hard rock that is difficult to carve by hand
• Grays, pinks in a wide range of colors
• Commercial granites include gneiss and other rocks not strictly granite
• Exhibits a full range of grain sizes with uniform surface patterns
• Granular with no discernable bedding planes
• Often used for monuments and tombs

LIMESTONE

• Soft, sedimentary rock primarily composed of calcite
• Fossils may be recognizable and are the most diagnostic trait
• Tan, buff or gray colored that darkens with age
• Matte surface almost never polished
• Somewhat rough texture, rarely “sugars” like marble
• No marked veining like marble
• No definite layers or bedding planes like sandstone
• No sparkly mica grains like granite
• Often gets gypsum crusts

MARBLE

• Hard, dense crystalline or granular metamorphic limestone
• White when new or in new breaks, but older marbles may appear gray from soiling
• Capable of taking a high polish, yellows with age
• May have veins of gray or gold
• Commercial marble is any lime carbonate capable of taking a polish, could include limestone and many colors
• Tennessee marble is medium-grained similar to limestone in texture with a pink cast
• Georgia marble is very large-grained, somewhat gray in color
• Predominant stone for gravestones in the 19th century
• Many early marbles are eroded and “sugaring”

SANDSTONE

• Sedimentary rock composed of cemented sand grains – “bedding planes”
• Red and brown (Brownstone) in color, can be gray, tan or blue (Bluestone)
• Fine-grained stone with sand grains
• Often flakes and delaminates

· SLATE

• Metamorphosed shale, hard and brittle
• Usually black, gray or blue
• Sometimes fades with time
• Extremely smooth, fine-grained stone with even bedding planes usually running parallel with the stone’s face
• Holds carving very well, inscriptions usually very clear
• Uniform surface appearance
• Gravestones tend to be thin and simple in shape, generally not more than six inches

SOAPSTONE

• Metamorphic rock
• Largely composed of the mineral talc and is rich in magnesium
• Easily carved and darkens over age
• Smooth to the touch
• Used in 19th century, commonly for slot and tab tombs in Georgia
• White, gray, greenish gray, pale green -- commonly discolored in reddish or brownish hues and mottled

Saturday Symbol: Gold Star Mother

The Gold Star Mothers is an organization for those who have lost a child in the service of the country.

Famous File: General Abraham Whinery

Located at Bethel Cemetery in Gravette, AR.

General

Abraham Whinery

1795 - 1866

Served under General

Andrew Jackson in the

War of 1812, Battle of

 Horseshoe Bend. Elected

Colonel of Bedford Co.

Tennessee Militia, 1827.

Moved to Cane Hill,

Arkansas in 1828. Represented

Washington Co. at territorial

legislature from

1831 thru 1835. Auctioneer

of original town lots of

 Fayetteville, 1835 thru 1837.

Represented Washington

Co. at Constitutional Convention

in 1836. State Representative

Washington Co. 1836 thru 1838. State Senator

Washington Co. 1838 thru

 1840. Appointed Lt. Commander

of 8 companies. Removed to

 Spavinaw in 1839 after murders

of Ridge and Boudinot.

State Senator Benton and

Madison counties 1840 thru

1842. Inspector General of the

 state of Arkansas 1840. State

Representative of Benton County 1854 thru 1855.

Charter member of Wash. Lodge

No. 1 AF & AM 1836. 1838 delegate

to form Grand Lodge of Arkansas.

Charter member Far West chapter Fayetteville.

US and CSA Postmaster of Spavinaw

1852 thru 1866.

Trustee Spavinaw Methodist Episcopal

Church South.