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

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

From Washington Post • Mar. 4, 2020

“There was no tombstone or footstone and the plot location was never recorded. Both of my grandparents are buried there, but no markers.”

From Washington Times • Feb. 2, 2019

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

From Washington Post • Aug. 30, 2018

And then, with a good tall slab at the head, and a footstone six foot away from it, it'll look just as if there was a man underneath.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 25, November, 1859 by Various