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.

The remains of some 65 individuals were found, buried under huge horizontal headstone structures, some of which consisted of up to 3 tons of locally-produced white plaster.

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

For many years it was accepted that she was born in the city of Limerick, as she herself claimed, possibly on 23 June 1818 ; this year was graven on her headstone, which seemed to make it the literal ' last word '.

A short time later, the village, which currently owned the cemetery, erected the steel cage to protect the gravesites, preserve the chipped-away white headstone and placed Billy's individual footstone in shackles, to discourage further vandalism and theft.

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.

** In the back of the pet cemetery ( top left ), there is a headstone of Mr. Toad in tribute to Mr. Toad's Wild Ride, which closed in 1998.

Her name was added to her parents ' headstone which uses the original spelling of the family name, Neidecker.

Even so, there had been a notable shift in perceptions e. g. where the remains of a soldier in Confederate uniform were recovered from, say, the Gettysburg battlefield, he would be interred in a single grave with a headstone which stated that he was an unknown Confederate soldier.

He was buried in an unmarked grave which remained unmarked for nearly 54 years, until the Negro Leagues Baseball Grave Marker Project raised funds for a proper headstone in 2004.

After his death, his estate was sold by his creditors leaving no funds to purchase a headstone for his grave, which remained unmarked for fifty-seven years.

Where Lori's married name once was on the headstone is now engraved the Portuguese word " Filhinha ," which translates to " little daughter.

She led him to Stephen ’ s gravesite, “ which had only a cedar tree to mark it .” Mellon promised to have a headstone carved for Stephen ’ s grave.

Then a regimental headstone was placed over the grave and in a simple ceremony on 16 April 2004 the headstone which was covered in the regimental flag of the 60th Rifles was unveiled by Lieutenant General Sir Christopher Wallace.

He is remembered because of the elaborate grave, consisting of painted headstone and footstone, in the churchyard of St Mary ’ s in Henbury, which is a grade II listed building.

There was no headstone marking his grave which is located in Plot E, Row 5, Grave 20, but a memorial stone was erected in October 2003

A memorial cross ( sometimes called an intending cross ) is a cross, which was built as memorial to commemorate a special event ; or it may be a simple form of headstone to commemorate the dead.

The headstone ( pictured here ) had a fallacious date of death ( 1876 ) which was later corrected to 1877.

Unlike a grave site headstone, which marks where a body is laid, the memorial marks the last place on earth where a person was alive-although in the past travelers were, out of necessity, often buried where they fell.

The inscription on their headstone reads, " We loved the earth but could not stay ", which is a line from his poem The Little Treasures.

Keith reaches the island, meditates on the fate that has brought him so far, takes many pictures, erects a headstone — and leaves with the wreck's engine, which he proposes to ship back to Britain and sell.

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

His headstone features an opera curtain that has been drawn open.

It stands in a small graveyard that features a headstone with a death's head design.

By 1996, the cemetery and marker were in poor condition, but a new granite headstone was erected in 1997.

To commemorate the 250th anniversary of Euler's birth, the headstone was moved in 1956, together with his remains, to the 18th-century necropolis at the Alexander Nevsky Monastery.

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

He had once quipped that he wanted his headstone to bear the words " I told you I was ill ." He was buried at St Thomas's cemetery but the Chichester diocese refused to allow this epitaph.

According to a letter published in the Rye and Battle Observer, Milligan's headstone was removed from St Thomas's churchyard following the burial of his wife Shelagh.

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

In 2012 the original burial place was officially recognised with a new headstone.

Usually, the more writing and symbols carved on the headstone, the more expensive it was.

They have Wanda buried with a headstone bearing the name she was born with, Alvin Mann, dressed in a suit and with her hair cut short.

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.

It was an era when many headstone, memorials and wayside crosses were erected.

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

Murphy's headstone was smashed in 1989 and had to be replaced.

A tall headstone marked Mary A. Stampfli 1821-1867 was placed above her grave.

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

Though Chief Kanosh still has a headstone in an honored location of the city cemetery, it was not until 1929 that the U. S. Government granted official recognition of the tribe and deeded them a small reserve near their ancestral lands at Corn Creek.

A granite headstone was added later.

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.

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.