In the Oakland Cemetery in Taunton, there is another grave of a Mary Linkon who died along with two more siblings a year or so later. The stone appears to have been carved by the same hand.

The interesting thing there is there appears to have been more than one person regularly carving homemeade gravestones at that time and place.
And all the carvers have their own distinct lettering.

As we have discussed before, many of the 'professional' carvers did quite well, financially. A single stone could bring more than a good horse. That puts their services out of the reach of the hardscrabble farmer eking out a living. My own mother's mother never had a stone; I spoke with the funeral home that handled the arrangements and 90 years on, their records only indicate an area in a 'Potters' field.