Walked through a old cemetery last weekend and noticed every grave from the 1800s had a full story carved in stone

I was killing time in St. Louis before a job and ended up at Bellefontaine Cemetery. The old headstones had whole paragraphs about how people died, what they did for work, who they left behind. Made me think about how we write characters now versus how people used to describe their whole life in 50 words. Has anyone else pulled writing ideas from old graves or epitaphs?

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jessew8317d ago

That line about "a full story carved in stone" really hit me, every grave feels like a lost novel.