Isaac & Rachel O. Stimpson -- Abston Cemetery, Lavon TX USA - Homemade Tombstones on Waymarking.com

This pair of homemade tombstones stands in Abston Cemetery, which is located in modern Lakeview Cemetery. To reach Abston Cemetery, turn into the main road into Lakeview Cemeterym and go all the way to the cul-de-sac at the end of the road to Abston Cemetery.

The Stimpson's homemade tombstones are some of the first ones you will see as you come into this historic early Collin County Texas Cemetery. Both were made from letters pressed into concrete by hand. Rachel's tombstone also features handwritten additions made while the concrete was still wet, and a backwards S.

The tombstones read as follows:

"IN
MEMORY OF
ISAAC STIMPSON

DIED JANUARY 26 1877

AGE 77"

and

"IN
MEMORY OF
RACHEL O. STIMPSON

BORN JUNE, 7th, 1799
DIED AUG, 24th 1874

AGE 73

Date of Birth: 7 Jun 1799 Date of Death: 24 Aug 1874 Material: Concrete Web Site: [Web Link]

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