I believe that the use of headstones by early Baptists and their views as to the propriety of such varied widely across the Southern colonies.  I have had occasion to know of MANY early TN, NC, and VA Baptist congregations and of their cemeteries, and even within those burial lands, it is apparent that some thought the practice of creating monuments to be entirely proper, while other families of the same place known to me to have been of equal affluence (or lack of it) are conspicuous in their lack of such carvings.  Paul 
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  I have a famous direct ancestress Hannah (Lee) Corbin who died in 1782 and is buried at Woodberry (her plantation) in an unmarked grave. She was a "solid" Baptist fowards the end of her lifeI was interested in the question to you  as to era in which Virginia Baptists did not mark graves with headstones or ledgers. Best regards, Bill

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