Sentence examples for earliest gravestone from inspiring English sources

The earliest gravestone dates back to 1793.

Nearly a dozen carved stone Egyptian funerary steles -- early gravestones -- are shoehorned into double-sided vitrines built into floor-level arches.

In the church's adjoining cemetery, the earliest extant gravestone dates from 1834, and several unmarked interment sites may exist from as early as 1759.

The earliest extant gravestone dates from 1834, however, several unmarked interment sites within the surrounding cemetery may exist from as early as 1759.

All the other gravestones are grey.

Karl-Willi Beck, 56, who has been mayor of Wunsiedel since 2002, said the cemetery administrators removed Hess's remains and his gravestone early Wednesday.

In the United States rubbings often are made of colonial and early 19th-century gravestones, and in Europe they are applied to brass plaques mounted in stone slabs.

An early announcement that he would like his gravestone to be inscribed "a revolutionary soldier kneeling to be blessed", from Yeats's poem, matured, in his later years, to the unequivocal "surrounded by idiots".

Among the gravestones of early residents of Douglaston and Little Neck (the town's next-door neighbor) are memorials to Civil War veterans and the eccentric poet Bloodgood Haviland Cutter.

Guests get to learn about Colonial burial methods, view gravestone carvings and hear legends of early settlers.

People coming in to look at gravestones always want to know where the earliest one is".