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Interesting cemetery marker
Posted by bill93 on January 30, 2018 at 3:20 amI have no idea what this guy did for a career, but the marker is suggestive …
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/183772152/donald-eugene-noland
daniel-ralph replied 3 years, 7 months ago 7 Members · 7 Replies- 7 Replies
I provide instruction on using various NGS (and others) tools for doing control research. I call it “desktop recon.” In Data Explorer one example I use is a NGS NAVD88 leveled bench mark along the California Coast (PID KT2196). The “to reach” description calls to a cemetery and a specific headstone. I drill down to street view then show these.
Another surveying-related cemetery item: It was common practice more than a century ago for the Coast & Geodetic Survey to place markers for local surveyors to use when checking their compasses. Cemeteries were a great choice if they had a long view to some good sighting point, because the marker could be a long way from magnetic materials like fences and piping. That might be less so nowadays with the use of metal coffins.
I did an OPUS Share on this one from about 1901/02, more as a commemorative to remind people the historic item was there, than expecting anyone to use the data.
https://www.ngs.noaa.gov/OPUS/getDatasheet.jsp?PID=BBFS77&style=modern
https://www.ngs.noaa.gov/OPUS/getimage?imgType=close-up&pid=BBFS77&ts=17241155629
https://www.ngs.noaa.gov/OPUS/getimage?imgType=horizon&pid=BBFS77&ts=17241155629
.As a side note, I’ve set many of my control points in and around Churches and Cemeteries.
This (or something similar) is done when creating a “memorial stone” for those who are cremated or bodies cannot be found or recovered. They drill a hole in the stone and place some or all of the ashes inside if available and seal it with these caps which resemble survey markers. You can choose a larger stone for a couple or even larger for a family of 3 or 4, each with their own hole and cap added as they pass away. My recently deceased nephew has a much larger stone placed at a very scenic spot on the bank of a creek within a cemetery in Broken Arrow, OK where his parents will be with him and their ashes added to the memorial stone as they pass away. Very interesting idea and I suppose one could make a marker that more closely resembled a survey marker if so desired.
No dimple on the disk, so we don’t know exactly where he lies.
https://www.nsps.us.com/page/FinalPoint is a fine brass cap that I’ve used on my mentor’s grave.
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