Now that one is original!

I seldom see modern monuments so distinctive. ^_^

I've never seen anything like this myself. How many like this have you found?

Just this one. I feel like this was an original designed for the artist.

Oooh so it's one of a kind. Makes sense for an artist to do this.

Not bad for a modern gravestone, usually they are so non-descript, especially these days.

I wonder if my tombstone will be as unique

GC, you'd have a better idea of the surroundings having been there to take the picture, but it seems like this relatively-recent headstone doesn't have much in the way of other burials nearby, or at least behind it in the background. Was this at all a monument honouring the artist, rather than a specific capstone marking the artist's grave? It just seems to me that a burial not much more than fifty years old would be located in a cemetery that was still in use, with other graves (perhaps more recent) around it. I mean, it could be a cemetery that doesn't see a lot of use or hasn't since this burial.

I'd appreciate it if you could post back about this (as in, if there are indeed not a lot of other burials nearby to this grave marker).

-2Paw.

I've no idea as to why it was placed where it was. It just happened to be in the more sparsely populated left hand quadrant of that particular hill.
The placement of the stones tended to thin out the closer they got to the western boundary, which had a few private homes on the other side.

That makes more sense, especially if there is developed housing nearby (and given the 'youth' of this particular burial, it may not have preceded it by much if at all). Although I doubt any of the three or four burial grounds I'm thinking of here in Toronto come close to the kind of vintage you have in the great majority of your posted interments in New England and Rhode Island or Vermont, some of them were, when the burials began, way out in what would've been 'the boonies'. There's one in particular that's very small, complete with church built alongside the cemetery, whose burials go back to the early 1800s and the church's dedication was in 1821. As it is now, it's well-embedded in the residential eastern end of the city in the borough I live in and barely 20 minutes away from my home, but in the 1820s there would've been farmland or wilderness for a considerable distance all around; a wee bit of civilization in a country that had yet to divide its direct ties (officially) with Britain, with parishioners then fortunate to have a decent dirt road- if that- to get to the church for services.

I've visited that cemetery more than once, and it's fascinating to think that beneath the acre or so of hallowed ground there are the remains, memories and remembrances of people who lived near where my home would be (and in 1841, according to a map I have a copy of, the property where my home is was in the middle of a wheat field) two centuries prior. I've been told there's a considerable bit of work being done to have a celebration of sorts when the church and grounds have their bicentennial in 2021. I suspect I maintain the same awe of a place like Don Mills United Church and Burial Grounds that you have when you encounter a chunk of history that has often survived better than three hundred years of weathering and wear.

-2Paw.

That was one of the newest gravestones you've ever created!