How to lay a headstone on a grave?

Question

Laying down tombstones

Answer 1

Check with your local cemetery association because most cemeteries in the United States restrict grave markers to a uniform size as well as limiting the choices of color for the granite used and whether the grave marker may be bronze on granite or granite only.  

Cemeteries attached to churches, or else maintained by religious bodies, such as Jewish and Roman Catholic cemeteries, may have stricter regulations than those maintained by most profit and non-profit cemetery associations.  Some cemeteries may have one type of marker in part of the cemetery and another type of marker in another section of the cemetery.

Contact a professional monument installer if the cemetery doesn't offer this service particularly if your loved one is buried in a country graveyard.

Your funeral director will probably have this information on hand or else obtain it for you.  Finally, on a personal note, I would add a word of caution:  Be careful upon selecting double grave markers for husband and wife.  My aunt died in 1986 while my uncle died in 1998.  His immediate family still has not engraved his life dates on his headstone.

Answer 2

Find your headstone company and tell them which cemetery. They'll know the protocol for any local cemeteries...and if they don't know they'll call the county for the contact person to make the arrangements.