In a message dated 97-03-11 14:59:35 EST, [log in to unmask] (MR ARTHUR A
REITER) writes:
 
<< Question; what would you do if you came across an unmarked
 footstone, that was flush with ground level,  which had no
 corresponding headstone? >>
 
Be sure what you are calling the "footstone" is not, in actuality, the
headstone.  There are often cases where the deceased or relatives did not
have enough money to purchase a large stone and so, what is normally a
footstone for many graves, becomes the main and only stone for a grave.  This
could explain why writing on a "footstone" faces inward toward the grave.
 Also, there have been cases we have seen where a grave is marked by nothing
more than a stone with a number which one has to match to a name on a list
somewhere.
 
Mike Polk
Sagebrush Consultants, L.L.C.
Ogden, Utah