Category Archives: Zinc Markers

Grave Marker Erector Set

Posted on July 3, 2020 by gravelyspeaking

DR. WILLIAM HANNA DIED JANUARY 8, 1878 AGED 33 YRS. 9 MOS. 22 DAYS HUSBAND & FATHER, WE MISS THEE. WE SHALL NOT MEET AGAIN, GONE, BUT NOT FORGOTTEN. BLESSED ARE THE DEAD WHICH DIE IN THE LORD. The tallest … Continue reading →

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Mail Order Markers

Posted on May 27, 2019 by gravelyspeaking

The Monumental Bronze Company of Bridgeport, Connecticut, produced cast zinc cemetery markers billed as “white bronze.”  The company set up their first subsidiary in Detroit, Michigan. Others followed in Philadelphia, New Orleans, St. Thomas, Ontario, Des Moines, and Chicago. The Chicago subsidiary … Continue reading →

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Skull and Crossbones

Posted on August 12, 2017 by gravelyspeaking

The zinc KEESE Family Monument in the Rock Creek Cemetery at Washing D.C. displays symbols representing The Knights of Pythias—a knight’s helmet surmounts a shield with a skull and crossbones and three letters, “F”, “C”, and “B”, which stand for … Continue reading →

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Government Issue

Posted on January 2, 2017 by gravelyspeaking

13615. CAPT. DAN’L M. KEYS INDEPENDENT WEST VA. RANGERS. In national military cemeteries across the United States standing tall and straight are rows of “Government Issue” white marble gravestones. Those gravestones are a third iteration. Not long after the start … Continue reading →

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Portraits in Zinc

Posted on September 14, 2016 by gravelyspeaking

The Monumental Bronze Company of Bridgeport, Connecticut, produced cast zinc cemetery markers billed as “white bronze”.  The company set up their first subsidiary in Detroit, Michigan. Others followed in Philadelphia, New Orleans, St. Thomas, Ontario, Des Moines, and Chicago. The Chicago subsidiary … Continue reading →

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The Plow

Posted on November 1, 2015 by gravelyspeaking

  JAMES PATTERSON BORN OCT. 10, 1823, DIED JUNE 11, 1886 Gone but not forgotten JOHN PATTERSON DIED AUG. 13, 1873, AGED 76 YRS. 4 MOS. 9 DYS. SARAH, WIFE OF JOHN PATTERSON, DIED SEPT. 5, 1854, IN THE 46TH … Continue reading →

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Coming Apart at the Seams

Posted on January 2, 2015 by gravelyspeaking

SARAH ELLIS DAUGHTER OFJ.A. & S. B. LAURIE, DIED FEB. 12, 1879 AGED 19 YRS, & 3 MOS.   TAKE THEM O FATH ER IN THINE ARMS AND MAY THEY HENCEFORTH BE A MESSENGER OF LOVE BETWEEN, OUR HUMAN HEARTS … Continue reading →

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A calm and undisturbed repose

Posted on October 8, 2013 by gravelyspeaking

FRANCIS WIFE OF WILLIAM GESS BORN FEB. 27, 1813 DIED JAN. 27, 1888 AGED 75 YEARS   Asleep in Jesus; Blessed sleep. From which none ever wakes to weep A calm and undisturbed repose Unbroken by the last of foes. … Continue reading →

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The G.A.R. Badge

Posted on October 5, 2013 by gravelyspeaking

ALEXANDER ST. CLAIR FEB. 24, 1828. SEPT. 25, 1900. 2ND. LEUT. CO. I. 43, U.S. C. INF. 16TH. PENN. CAV. No other event in the 19th Century had a larger affect on America than the Civil War.  It tore the country … Continue reading →

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Woman’s Relief Corps

Posted on September 15, 2013 by gravelyspeaking

SARAH ELIZABETH WIFE OF E. P. DRAKE DIED JUNE 4, 1894, AGED 38 Yrs. The Western White Bronze Monument Company of Des Moines produced zinc monuments.  The Woodland Cemetery in Des Moines, Iowa, has many of their monuments in all … Continue reading →

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