Conservation Assessment
In
Memory of
George P Elton
son of
Anthony & Mary Elton
who departed this life
August 8th 1824,
aged 7 years 7 months
and 4 days.
What art thou gone has death
in his cold arms
Entwin’d thy frame and spread
o’er all a gloom
Is fled each hope - are all those
lively charms
Which once were thine, now destin’d
to the tomb!
Weep not then friends! his youthful
spirits fled.
To join its kindred spirits all on high
And tho’ now number’d with the
silent dead,
Revere the maxim - “That we all
must die”
Type of Marker: Headstone and footstone
Material: Marble
Issues: Biogrowth, blistering, sugaring, sunken
Recommended Treatment: Cleaning w/biocide, consolidation, fill cracks, raising
Evaluation
Historic Integrity: Intact
Structural Integrity: Good
Material Integrity: Fair
Legible Inscription: No inscription
Degree of Bioturbation: 1/4 sunken
Marker Details
Inventory Number: 178
Plot Number: 407
Historic Number: 283
Ledger Book Number: 216
Cemetery Section: 5
Orientation: East
Marker Height/Length (in): 28
Marker Width (in): 18
Marker Thickness/Depth (in): 2
Footstone Height (in): 9
Footstone Width (in): 12
Footstone Thickness (in): 1.5