Kerpash, Frank & Barbara - Mashek, MO
Posted by: Groundspeak Premium Member YoSam.
N 39° 00.278 W 091° 04.579
15S E 666570 N 4319051
Unique millstones used as tombstones
Waymark Code: WMW7JA
Location: Missouri, United States
Date Posted: 07/20/2017
Published By:Groundspeak Regular Member jhuoni
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County of stone: Lincoln County
Location of stone: MO Hwy AA & Mashek Rd., St. Mary's Cemetery, 3 miles E. of Hawk Point

Text on stone:

KERPASH
FRANK     BARBARA
1839 -- 1920    1842 -- 1922

This cemetery is a Bohemian Catholic Cemetery, founded around 1840...the church moved to Hawk Point around 1909...but the frame church here remained and was used up to 1964.

These two millstone grave stones were obviously inscribed by a stone cutter, but the stone itself was make to grist grain in a mill. The stone is Missouri Pink Granite

Both stone are family members, so I assumed they had something to do with the local mill.
Alas, I can find nothing to confirm, actually, can find nothing about a local mill even though the Cuivre River is nearby.

Date of Birth: 1839 and 1842

Date of Death: 1920 and 1922

Material: Stone

Web Site: Not listed
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