What is a rubbing?
Pretty cool find while scouting today.
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You take a big sheet of paper and place it on the face of the gravestone, then use the side of a large stick of chalk to color the whole paper. The chalk will not mark where the engraving is, so you end up with a negative copy of the gravestone.
That’s pretty dang cool!! I expected an arrow head or something sim when I saw the subject. Should be fun for y’all to see the dates and talk about how much times have changed between their lifetime and ours.
Exactly.
Whoa. I'm gonna do a cross country and bring home the relatives stones.You take a big sheet of paper and place it on the face of the gravestone, then use the side of a large stick of chalk to color the whole paper. The chalk will not mark where the engraving is, so you end up with a negative copy of the gravestone.
My old home place had a pre civil war cemetery on it, the Waters Family. Father, mother, children in a small plot surrounded by wrought iron fencing. Not far away was the slave cemetery. Family and slaves died of yellow fever. No one has ever come around seeking the location of the cemetery since 1950 when we bought the place.
I stumbled upon an all graveyard very similar to that in Paulding Forest ,nay year
I stumbled upon an old graveyard similar to that in Paulding Forest.
I stumbled upon an old graveyard similar to that in Paulding Forest.
These people won't hurt you. They make great neighbors, very quiet.
