Kerpash, Frank & Barbara - Mashek, MO
Posted by: 
YoSam.
N 39° 00.278 W 091° 04.579
15S E 666570 N 4319051
Unique millstones used as tombstones
Waymark Code: WMW7Q7
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
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.