Neat Headstones

It is so neat to see tombstones that have photographs as part of the headstone or more amazing the images are etched into stones. Here is an etched work where the two are together.


What is new to me is how the photographs are protected with little metal covers.


Here I have lifted the metal covers to reveal the photograph of a 16 year old girl that would not have been possible to know how very pretty she looked without this headstone feature.


Here the headstone has both the photograph and an etching.




I found this picture on the internet and it is the sister church of the Augusta Sacred Heart Catholic Church that was destroyed in the 1900 Hurricane in Galveston, Texas.