Tag: Footstones

  • Jane Eaton Monument, Clinton Cemetery

    Jane Eaton monument

    A simple and inexpensive zinc monument that has lasted much better than many of the more expensive stone monuments around it.

    JANE
    EATON
    BORN
    JULY 4,1832,
    DIED
    MAY 2, 1914

    This was one of the last generation of zinc monuments: in three years, production would end as all the zinc was diverted to the war effort, and the industry never resumed after the First World War, although interchangeable zinc plates continued to be available for new inscriptions for some years afterward.

    This monument has a zinc footstone to go with it.

    Footstone inscribed “Mother”