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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

Gravestones in the Union Campground Cemetery: Researched by Paige Whitcomb and Tana Redman

August, 2020 by Sarah Teel

The Union Campground Cemetery was established and used from the 1840 through 1920.  After the last burial, the cemetery was gradually forgotten and fell into neglect until it was rediscovered in 1992 by the founders of the Union Campground Cemetery Association, an organization that is dedicated to restoring and preserving the cemetery. As with most cemeteries, gravestones in … [Read more...] about Gravestones in the Union Campground Cemetery: Researched by Paige Whitcomb and Tana Redman

Filed Under: 2015 Fall, ART/MST 488: Basic Conservation of Art and Artifacts Tagged With: american midwest culture, conservation, gravestone, 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

Gravestones at the Union Campground Cemetery: Researched and Conserved by Allison Robbins, Megan Kell, and Amanda Horned

March, 2016 by Amanda Horned

Rural or “garden” cemeteries such as the Union Campground Cemetery were established in the early 19th century and continue to be used in the United States today. Stone and concrete grave markers, including headstones, footstones, and sometimes side rails or box tombs, are used in such cemeteries, the result of long-held traditions for marking graves that began in the European … [Read more...] about Gravestones at the Union Campground Cemetery: Researched and Conserved by Allison Robbins, Megan Kell, and Amanda Horned

Filed Under: 2014 Fall, ART/MST 488: Basic Conservation of Art and Artifacts Tagged With: american midwest culture, gravestone, headstone, union campground cemetery

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