. *OVERVIEW

[The cemetery is believed to contain] . . . 564 gravesites. Ninety-six of the 564 graves within Bold Pilgrim are marked with commercial or homemade headstones that are still legible and document the date of death of the person interred. The inscriptions on other gravestones have been obscured by age and/or the elements and cannot be deciphered. A large number of graves are marked by simple sandstone field markers. The remaining graves are visible only as depressions. Commercial headstones are made of sandstone slabs, white marble, limestone, granite, fancy marble, and bronze World War I and II tablets. Motifs on the decorated stones include the pointing finger, lamb, sheep, a flying dove, a carved marble stump, the cross, shepherd’s crook, and a star with the phrase ‘The Lord is my Shepherd.” Commercial stone shapes include pedestals, carved rolls, triangles, semi-circular top bevels, and rectangles with and without bevels. Stones for four women were provided by burial societies. Three are from the Mosaic Templars of America. The fourth is from the International Order of Twelve Knights and Daughters of Tabor.

Contributed on 7/4/18 by hawkinsdonna48
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