Members of the list will be interested the publication of Studies in Stone: Memorialization, the Creation of History an the Role of Preservation, by Emily Williams:



https://vernonpress.com/book/1029



Full disclosure: Emily is a longtime friend.   But my admiration for her work is wholly independent of that.



And my own work some years ago (1998) on forgotten local burials was an element in Emily’s developing an interest in these particular tombstones:



http://williamsburg.kspot.org/other/other14a.htm



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Terry L.. Meyers, Chancellor Professor of English, Emeritus<http://wmpeople.wm.edu/site/page/tlmeye/>, The College of William and Mary, in Virginia, Williamsburg  23187



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