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Union Campground Cemetery Gravestones: Researched, Conserved, Reconstructed, and Reset by Jordan Davis and Sharlee Gunther

February, 2023 by Malena Hemenway

The Union Campground Cemetery was established in 1840, and the graves in this integrated cemetery include people from all levels of wealth and status. Slaves and the poor marked their family graves here with rough fieldstones and sometimes with molded concrete grave markers, while people of more wealth erected monuments of local limestone and sandstone that were carved in … [Read more...] about Union Campground Cemetery Gravestones: Researched, Conserved, Reconstructed, and Reset by Jordan Davis and Sharlee Gunther

Filed Under: 2021 Fall, ART/MST 488: Basic Conservation of Art and Artifacts Tagged With: 19th century, conservation, footstone, gravestone, gravestones, headstone, union campground cemetery

Gravestone Images in the Union Campground Cemetery: Researched and Conserved by Jasmine Currey

August, 2020 by Sarah Teel

Nineteenth-century gravestones, like those in the Union Campground Cemetery, use a great deal of symbolic imagery to convey meaning about the deceased and the sentiments of their families and friends. A prevalent 19th-century symbol exists in the pair of clasped hands on Jane C. Caldwell’s gravestone.  This symbol is interpreted by many sources as a goodbye, where the living … [Read more...] about Gravestone Images in the Union Campground Cemetery: Researched and Conserved by Jasmine Currey

Filed Under: 2017 Fall, ART/MST 488: Basic Conservation of Art and Artifacts Tagged With: american midwest, american midwest ozarks culture, footstone, headstone, ozarks culture

Gravestone Shapes and Types of Graves in the Union Campground Cemetery: Researched and Conserved by Emma Schupbach

August, 2020 by Sarah Teel

The main purpose of a gravesite is to provide a resting place, but it is also to provide a place where family and friends can visit and show respect to the deceased.  Styles of graves and gravestones can vary in style due to income, social class, location, religious beliefs, and time period. Thomas Patterson Ellison’s grave is the oldest in the Union Campground Cemetery, and … [Read more...] about Gravestone Shapes and Types of Graves in the Union Campground Cemetery: Researched and Conserved by Emma Schupbach

Filed Under: 2017 Fall, ART/MST 488: Basic Conservation of Art and Artifacts Tagged With: american midwest, american midwest ozarks culture, footstone, headstone, ozarks culture, slot-and-tab grave

African American Gravestones in the Union Campground Cemetery: Researched and Conserved by Robyn Slusher

August, 2020 by Sarah Teel

In the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, cemeteries in the Midwest United States were seldom integrated. It is quite significant, therefore, that African Americans are buried in the Union Campground Cemetery, with both African American and Caucasian graves located throughout the cemetery. Because many African Americans of the Ozarks region had limited finances and … [Read more...] about African American Gravestones in the Union Campground Cemetery: Researched and Conserved by Robyn Slusher

Filed Under: 2017 Fall, ART/MST 488: Basic Conservation of Art and Artifacts Tagged With: african-american culture, african-american midwest ozarks culture, footstone, headstone, midwest culture, ozarks culture

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  • 2019 Fall, ART/MST 488: Basic Conservation of Art and Artifacts
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