Robert & Matilda Horton - Oak Grove Baptist Church Cemetery - Warren County, MO
Posted by: 
YoSam.
N 38° 48.309 W 091° 20.765
15S E 643611 N 4296453
Very well done and surprising how it is done.
Waymark Code: WMVFTZ
Location: Missouri, United States
Date Posted: 04/13/2017
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County of church & cemetery: Warren County
location of church & cemetery: MO Hwy Y & Tower Rd., about 6 miles S. of Jonesburg
Phone: 636-488-5280
Pastor: Dr. David Tolliver
Tombstone text:
ROBERT MATILDA
1856 1927 HORTON 1882 1950
I was told this is how it is done, A frame of wood is constructed at the grave site, concrete made and pored, then smoothed (or in concrete terms -finished), then topped (pressed) with a plaster raised letter mold to imprint the text.
To created the mold pressed in the concrete. A smooth pine board is engraved with the letters using a LeRoy set (woodworkers know what it is), this is a negative mold, the it is covered with plaster and allowed to set. This creates the positive (or raised letter) mold.
Sounds like a lot of work, and it is, but the cost is just a couple of dollars even in today's (2017) market.
There are two like this in the cemetery, I had never seen it before, and they creation of each is almost 40 years apart. And they are side-by-side in the cemetery