This unfinished gravestone at a historic cemetery

    by TheOrchardFI

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    1. There are several of these in the cemetery near where I live. The husband dies and the wife’s doesn’t have a death date. My guess is that she remarried and moved and is now buried next to latest husband.

    2. My great grandma had her headstone made when her husband’s was after he passed. It read 1910-19__. She lived to 98 years old and they had to change her headstone because she lived past 2000. This reminded me of her.

    3. VillageAccurate4931 on

      It’s wild to think someone could have lived such a long time ago and their final date was never added. Makes you wonder what happened.

    4. Additional_Comment99 on

      Many times family members did not know loved ones had burial plots pre purchased for themselves and they go unused. My family bought a large burial plots with 30+ graves, if that was not shared amongst family the plots would have remained unused.

      During this period families moved on frequently following tragedy or difficulty. A death of a father or major illness could have caused an entire family to pack up and move back east to be closer to other family for help.

      I am currently in the middle of researching an old cemetery plot from 1896 to discover if it an ancestor I have been searching for in vain for at least 30 years. I had found no clues to her whereabouts in any census in known family locations in the decades she would have lived. Not in her birthplace, not in any states my family had lived or traveled through. And in a weird irony I searched find a grave and found her name in the cemetery in the town I have lived for 38 years. No relatives have been known to live here, it was part of Indian territory before it became a state. She was native American. She is not buried near any relatives. Nor is any relative listed in cemetery records. The state has no death certificate. I have been told to check for local records, which I am trying to do, but the town was only a few years old at the time of her death.

    5. QuirrelsTurban on

      My grandfather’s headstone is like this. When my grandmother passed away he eventually met and married a woman who was a teacher in Georgia. He moved down there and passed away a few years later, so his grave down there is fully marked, but the stone he shares with my grandmother still only lists his birth year.

    6. highoncatnipbrownies on

      It’s not unfinished. They were turned into a vampire. It’s perfectly accurate.

    7. Piff-Iz-Da-Answer on

      That is the grave stone of the undead

      Devoid of life as we humans understand it

      Miss Aspasia lacks a heartbeat she does not breath

      Stuck in a state between dead and alive.

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