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

February, 2023 by Alyssa L. Cartier

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 Epitaphs at the Union Campground Cemetery: Researched and Conserved by Katelyn Hageman

August, 2020 by Sarah Teel

Gravestones are monuments that are usually inscribed with general information about the deceased, including the name, birth date, death date, and sometimes names of close relatives such as parents or spouses. An epitaph, however, is an inscription that goes beyond these basics to memorialize the deceased or to communicate the feelings of the deceased or their survivors. Books … [Read more...] about Gravestone Epitaphs at the Union Campground Cemetery: Researched and Conserved by Katelyn Hageman

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

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