GC, I'd like to ask if you have any idea who that little marker in front of Elisha's 'side' belongs to. It just seems like an odd place for a grave to be dug so immediately in front of the double marker that your picture and description primarily describes.

-2Paw.

I believe it was supposed to have been the footstone for the couple. Perhaps it was "reinterred" in its out-of-place position at a later date.
That's something that could happen for more than one reason.

That makes a lot of sense, given that over time the ground might wear down around or erode in front of or behind a smaller stone like that. The footstone doesn't look like it had any carving done on it from the angle you took the photograph of it at (towards the dual inscriptions on the headstone) as the weathering on the front is quite even; a carved inscription or design I imagine would look much different after two-hundred-twenty years of wear. It looks like flat slate or granite, with layered chipping near the top but not the remains of a softer layer where such carving might have otherwise been.

I really appreciate your taking the time to post me back here in the two pictures I posted you comments on a couple of days ago. I learned something important to improving my understanding of the symbolism used in the carvings on many gravestones from the 17th and 18th Century, that the double-winged skull angel was not at all meant to be scary. I used to think that about grave-carvings like these, and I'm glad I don't anymore. ^_^

-2Paw.