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The name for a stone over a grave site is called a headstone as well as a marker. They are usually chiseled with the deceased person's name, birth date, death date, and sometimes pictures and quotations.

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The stones in a cemetery are called monuments, headstones, or markers. They are called headstones because they are placed at the head of the grave, just behind where the person's head is in the casket. In the past, people also used footmarkers, usually a small stone with the initials of the child's first name and surname or the year. When young babies or children died when a parent died, often their casket was placed on top of the parent's casket and the child's grave was marked only with a footmarker.

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