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
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
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