footstone

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He also paid a visit to the East Pike Cemetery, where he found Laurie Heikkila already had a footstone, virtually identical to the one in the lake, including an inscription of a cross.

From Washington Times • Jul. 6, 2020

Mason plans to visit Minnesota next July and claim her uncle’s footstone - she is just not sure what she’ll do with it, she said.

From Washington Times • Jul. 6, 2020

A small, white footstone sat unsteadily in the earth, like a loose tooth.

From Washington Post • Mar. 4, 2020

And the footstone at the grave of Chief Gunner’s Mate Henry Lynde is inscribed “USS Santee.”

From Washington Post • Aug. 30, 2018

Here's a marble headstone beautifully crocketed, with medallions beneath of typical subjects; here's the footstone after the same pattern, and here's the coping to enclose the grave.

From Far from the Madding Crowd by Hardy, Thomas