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Below is a very good link of what to do and what not do in looking at gravestones.

Chalk and wire are bad things to use on a tombstone.

Removing soil at the base of a tombstone (trying to read info that may be covered up) is not good either if you do not have an expert with you.

Older gravestones are easily damaged.

https://blackcatcemeterypreservation.ca/2021/04/20/illegible-gravestones-cleaning-damage-wire-chalk-shovels/

Turn Again To Life

If I should die and leave you here a while,

Be not like others, sore undone, who keep

Long vigil by the silent dust and weep.

For my sake turn again to life and smile,

Nerving thy heart and trembling hand to do

That which will comfort other souls than thine;

Complete these dear unfinished tasks of mine,

And I, perchance, may therein comfort you.

~~Mary Lee Hall