The headstone, which features a portrait relief, was paid for and erected by the Royal Scottish Academy.

A memorial headstone, designed by the local architect Robert Burn, for Fergusson's grave was privately commissioned in 1787 by Robert Burns and paid for at his own expense.

In 1973, a biographer paid for a new headstone with the words, John Porteous, a Captain of the Edinburgh City Guard, murdered 7 September 1736-All passion spent.

A headstone memorial to Chatmon with the inscription " Sitting on top of the World " was paid for by Bonnie Raitt through the Mt.

In 2007, 72 years later, a headstone was erected as a lasting memorial, paid for by a family friend.

A diddley bow is featured on his headstone which was paid for by John Fogerty and Rooster Blues Records through the Mt.

No one claimed him, so a carnival took his body, mummified it, and toured all over the South with him, calling him the “ The Famous Mummy Man .” McLean ’ s song inspired radio station WGN in Chicago to tell the story and give the song airplay in order to raise money for a headstone for Anderson McCrew ’ s grave.

George Ville calculated an average age at death at 27 for gladiators ( based on headstone evidence ), with mortality " among all who entered the arena " around the 1st century CE at 19 / 100.

Marcus Junkelmann disputes Ville's calculation for average age at death ; the majority would have received no headstone, and would have died early in their careers, at 18 – 25 years of age.

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As with most other human property such as houses and means of transport, richer families used to compete for the artistic value of their family headstone in comparison to others around it, sometimes adding a statue ( such as a weeping angel ) on the top of the grave.

Those who could not pay for a headstone at all usually had some religious symbol made from wood on the place of burial such as a Christian cross ; however, this would quickly deteriorate under the rain or snow.

Coming upon a graveyard, Alan notices a headstone for a stranger named George Staub ( Staub is German and means dust ): " Well Begun, Too Soon Done.

In a column on Mitchell's death William Safire wrote, " His friend Richard Moore, in a eulogy, noted that near Mitchell's grave in Arlington National Cemetery was the headstone of Colonel Gregory " Pappy " Boyington, a Medal of Honor recipient, who used to call Mitchell yearly to thank him for saving his life.

In 1994 at the urging of writer Dick Waterman, Raitt funded the replacement of a headstone for one of her mentors, blues guitarist Fred McDowell through the Mt.

Plath's headstone is regularly vandalised by removing Hughes's surname from the memorial, because some of her fans believe he was responsible for her death.

The Javanese majority of Indonesia are known for their pre-Islamic Kejawen traditions of washing the headstone using scented water from the traditional terracotta water-jug, the kendi, and sprinkling hyacinth and jasmine over the graves.

The headstone was for the vintner Ebenezer Lennox Scroggie, a relative of Adam Smith, who had won the catering contract for the visit of George IV to Edinburgh and the first contract to supply whisky to the Royal Navy.

Wooden headstone for two of the British soldiers killed at Ohaeawai, preserved at Te Waimate mission

As with most other human property such as houses and means of transport, richer families used to compete for the artistic value of their family headstone in comparison to others around it, sometimes adding a statue ( such as a weeping angel ) on the top of the grave.

Those who could not pay for a headstone at all usually had some religious symbol made from wood on the place of burial such as a Christian cross ; however, this would quickly deteriorate under the rain or snow.

This is the current headstone for Doc Holliday.

His headstone is a replica of an award he received in 1972 for International Guitarist of the Year.

Tunku caused a search to be made for her grave, and when it was found, totally neglected, he raised enough to meet the cost of providing a white marble covering and an inscribed headstone.

* In " The Night that Terror Stalked the Town ", Loveless has a headstone prepared for West, showing his birthdate as July 2, 1842 87 years before the birth of Robert Conrad.

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Ocellar varieties of gabbro can be used as ornamental facing stones, paving stones and it is also known by the trade name of ' black granite ', which is a popular type of graveyard headstone used in funerary rites.

His grave has been claimed to be at Kirklees Priory near Mirfield in West Yorkshire, as implied by the 18th-century version of Robin Hood's Death, and there is a headstone there of dubious authenticity.

The tomb was protected by two large stones-a headstone and a larger stone six feet ( 182 cm ) in length.

His headstone was later erected that year by Irish members of the 8th New Hampshire Infantry Regiment, then encamped in Thibodaux.

The headstone of General Thomas L. Hamer is in the old cemetery located by the Brown County Fair Grounds.

He was originally interred at Angelus Rosedale Cemetery in Los Angeles, but was moved by his wife, Geraldine Tatum, to the Great Mausoleum of Glendale's Forest Lawn Cemetery in 1991, so she could ultimately be buried next to him, although his headstone was left at Rosedale to commemorate where he was first laid to rest.

However, there was a hint that this might not be permanent, when UFO released a compilation album featuring songs by UFO ( as well as other groups featuring ex-members of UFO ) entitled Headstone, the sleeve of which showed a headstone, denoting UFO with their formation date but an incomplete end date.

Originally buried in an unmarked plot in Maple Grove Cemetery in Kew Gardens, New York, her grave received a headstone on May 4, 2008, after a fundraiser was held by local historians.

Little more than a week after they were married, the couple's funeral was at St Giles ' Church, Horsted Keynes, where they are buried together in a grave marked by a War Graves Commission headstone.

He had left instructions that there was to be no religious ceremony, but that a record should be played of Schubert's " Ave Maria " sung by Marian Anderson, and that his granite headstone should read simply: " Wilhelm Reich, Born March 24, 1897, Died ..."

His headstone, with the epitaph, God's finger touched him and he slept was erected by Dan Leno, and the Grand Order of Water Rats.

To this effect, the war dead are commemorated by name on either a headstone, at an identified site of a burial, or on a memorial.

Commonwealth military service members are commemorated by name on either a headstone, at an identified site of a burial, or on a memorial.

A historical headstone marks Campbell's approximate gravesite and is maintained by the West Haven Historical Society.

In 1976, in conjunction with the American Bicentennial, his headstone was replaced with a new memorial by a local historical association.

The following epitaph, said by Billy Martin himself at his number retiring ceremony at Yankee Stadium in 1986, appears on the headstone: I may not have been the greatest Yankee to put on the uniform, but I was the proudest.

He gets permission to bury her there, by himself with only a shovel and uses the part of the door with " Silver Fox + Logan " in a heart that he had carved into it as a headstone.

The movie ends with Rocky's biker family, Rusty, Gar and Dozer, visiting his grave, leaving flowers and some 1955 Brooklyn Dodger baseball cards by his headstone.