Kerpash, Harry E. & F. Carol - Mashek, MO
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YoSam.
N 39° 00.278 W 091° 04.583
15S E 666565 N 4319050
Unique millstones used as tombstones. Error on the stone...her name is F. Carol and stone cutter cut Carol F.
Waymark Code: WMW7Q5
Location: Missouri, United States
Date Posted: 07/21/2017
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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
HARRY E. CAROL F.
APR 16, 1944 JUL 26, 1948
DEC 17, 2009 DEC 21, 2016
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