Engraved on his headstone is a stanza from Thomas Gray: The plowman homeward plods his weary way / And leaves the world to darkness and to me, ( from " Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard ," 1751 ).

The headstone of each boy is inscribed " Gerald O ' Hara, Jr ."

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.

He is buried in Westpark Cemetery in Westdene under a triangular headstone that reads " Die Skrywer, The Writer, Herman Charles Bosman, b 3. 2. 1905, d 14. 10. 1951.

At his explicit request, there is no headstone marking his grave.

" He is interred at Arlington National Cemetery where his headstone reads " Lee Marvin, PFC US Marine Corps, World War II ".

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.

In Judaism, when a grave site is visited, a small pebble is placed on the headstone.

The roof of St. Patrick's Cathedral was made of roofing slate from Monson, as is the headstone of John F. Kennedy.

It is Robert Louis Stevenson's " Requiem ", which is inscribed on his own headstone in Samoa.

For unknown reasons, his headstone is engraved with the name " Eadweard Maybridge ".

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.

He suggested ( together with the French in their own country ) the creation at a national level of a symbolic funeral and burial of an " Unknown Warrior ", proposing that the grave should in Britain include a national monument in the form of what is usually, but not in this particular case, a headstone.

His headstone was originally in Belgrade, but is now found in Edirne, the second capital of Ottoman Empire.

Brandon Teena is buried in Lincoln Memorial Cemetery in Lincoln, Nebraska, his headstone inscribed with his birth name and the epitaph daughter, sister, & friend.

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

Meeker City Hall has a museum dedicated to Carl Hubbell, who is buried in the town's New Hope Cemetery in a grave with a simple headstone.

His is the only grave marked with an upright headstone in the cemetery.

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.

Peter Lawson's grave ( with headstone ) is in the little private cemetery at Hartley Vale, New South Wales, a few minutes ' walk behind what was Collitt's Inn.

His grave is marked with the traditional white headstone with an inscription that reads: " Lieut.

A tombstone is a headstone marking a grave.

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.

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.

He was buried in an unmarked grave that finally received a headstone in 1992.

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.

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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.

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.

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.

A headstone paid for by Bonnie Raitt was erected by the Mt.

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

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.

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.

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.