Double Tree Stone – Bedford Indiana

double tree stone in Green Hill Cemetery, Bedford Indiana

The grave of Mammie Osborn Maddox and Alonzo Maddox is marked with a double tree stone. This monument is located in the Green Hill Cemetery in Bedford, Indiana, known for high-quality limestone. In Indiana, 2,414 tree markers have been identified ranging from eight inches to 15 feet high in 245 different cemeteries. The carved log and tree motif was a distinctive trademark of an Indiana family stone carvers, the Durlaufs, in the late 19th and early 20th century.

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