Repairing a Child's Marble Tablet Headstone

Edwin A. Brewster
May 2, 1855 - Aug 17, 1858
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[@manssearchforhappiness2655]

Caring for the forgotten babies, you are great pal watching from the uk 🇬🇧

[@FCWW87]

KZbin algorithm finally sends me to a winner. Good on you for preserving our history.

[@athorpe630]

Thank you for being so caring and respectful of the dead. May your blessings be bountiful.

[@joelheaton8738]

Outstanding! My oldest daughter passed in 2007 at the age of 21. The Cemetary required ground level markers. Such a shame.

[@ohger1]

💔

[@scottemery4737]

Filling the crack also makes the water run off, instead of into the stone.

[@TheGoldeyFamily]

Love that intro bro! There are a lot of people being blessed and they don't even know it. 🙏

[@pizzafries]

Thank you for doing this,great job!

[@noranorcutt9750]

I just found your channel. Very informative. The world needs more kindness. Thank you.

[@reneecarter6702]

This is so sweet and kind of you to do. I love your channel bro ❤️

[@jakegiddings6331]

I like everything about what this Guy is doing

[@cathryng3849]

I'm amazed at how strong your epoxy is.

[@user-po6jh5tl4m]

Thanks for remembering the forgotten

[@shelleywalker4893]

I just found your channel and I have a question how long have you been doing this? I think what you’re doing is The sweetest, and unselfish, and a beautiful greeting to respect the people in the graves.

[@much2fun]

Informative and inspirational. Great to pass on your knowledge and experience. Well done. Thank you.

[@raywilliams3849]

Thank you for all that you do for the departed and their families.

[@rickhall4318]

Another excellent repair

[@nathaliep8512]

I just discovered your channel today and I love what you’re doing. I’ve always wondered if I could do something Ike this for old, neglected or broken headstones. I’m curious… do you need permission from family or the graveyard keepers? What do you do about fire ants or hornets? What the oldest and biggest stone you’ve worked on? Do you work alone? Great content! 🤓👍🏻

[@joelheaton8738]

You will be blessed in this life-and the Next!

[@Headstoneman]

Absolutely great work! Keep it up!

[@janicepeace-bastian6132]

Very informative!

[@TheGoldeyFamily]

Great work!

[@Fu-manchoo]

Nice work watching from Australia

[@CWolf-hx4yi]

amazing work. thank you

[@lakediver6388]

Just use some dry ice. The dry ice will "denature" the epoxy (freeze it below its minimum adhesion temperature ) and should flake off with light taps from a chisel or claw hammer.

[@ohger1]

Any chance of fracturing the stone with dry ice?

[@gearjammer7087]

I wonder if there’s a company that specializes in retracing the worn and weathered letters on old headstones? That would be cool. 🤔

[@ohger1]

Any modern headstone carver could touch these up easily, but eventually, the stones will dissolve away. Touching them up will give them more visible life for sure. Cleaning stones is not invasive, but I think that touching up the original carvings might require some legal authority from the descendants or the cemetery.

[@zachomis]

Makes sense how the concrete base can be a bad design, as it bonds to the head stone. What is the proper way to use concrete for head stones? What do you think of pouring the concrete base with a framed slot/void for the head stone to then fit into, and then use sand or a temporary bonding agent to fit the head stone inside? That way the head stone could be removed from the slot (not easily, of course.)

[@ohger1]

Just throwing this out there... I wonder if a wood form that matches the dimensions of the stone could be constructed and placed in the concrete, then removed after the concrete has set up?

[@zachomis]

@@ohger1 Yup exactly, that's what I mean. Then the headstone could be slotted into the void created by the form. Stone could then be fixed into the slot with a non-permanent solution like epoxy.

[@jerrodbeck1799]

Good job bro 👍🏻

[@MrJeep75]

Nice work

[@bret9741]

My son n laws family owned a large concrete sealant manufacturing plant called ConSeal. They have water based sealants that are very very good. One of their sealants has anti-microbial properties and stops mold and mildew growth for many years. If you’re interested at all let me know. I’ll try to far some shipped to you.

[@2652-ztkl]

I really do enjoy watching your videos, but I wish you would identify the name and location of the cemetery where you made the video.

[@flournoymason8961]

Go to Woodsfield Ohio to the cemetary across the street from the couthouse

[@gregb2830]

Would a lime mortar (old-age marble) be acceptable as a filler..?

[@VirginiaTombstoneRevival]

Hello, would you have any suggestion on repairing the head of a lamb on a child’s tombstone? The head has been missing since at least the 80s.

[@HappierHeadstones]

Do you have the head? I have one now that I am about to fix

[@VirginiaTombstoneRevival]

@@HappierHeadstones unfortunately no. That thing has been MIA since probably before I was born.

[@HappierHeadstones]

@@VirginiaTombstoneRevival Tons of those are missing. Fortunately I found one with a clean break, and the piece was not really near the headstone either, and I am going to use Pratley’s Quick Set to repair it. WIthout the piece there is nothing you can do.😥

[@VirginiaTombstoneRevival]

@@HappierHeadstones yeah I kinda figured that. I was even thinking of making a replica out of something durable….but I guess cleaning it regularly will be what I do. Thanks for all you do btw!

[@HappierHeadstones]

@@VirginiaTombstoneRevival Thank you! It is very common for these to be broken. Keep cleaing it and just try to be happy doing that, I know that is hard to do, trust me.

[@beckysnead8914]

Earned grace. What type and style of headstone would you purchase knowing what you know now?

[@yvondville4832]

What do you use to clean a stone

[@relicrecoveryspecialist16]

@millennialstonecleaner, what proportion of D2 to water do you use in your spray bottle. I’ve been using straight D2, and that’s how I was taught since it came out, I’m just curious because I see you spray yours down and get them really nice and while I can clean ours really good I live in the Boston Mountain area of Arkansas, so the humidity, mold, lichens, and hard water stains are our biggest issues. I hate them hard water, it make it look like iron stone bleeding out of it

[@johnholtonjr.4557]

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[@gabrielagarciamayagoitia1599]

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[@Canuckmom128]

Blessings on you for doing this. GAWD what these poor families went through. I’ve seen family plots where there are 5 or 6 siblings who all died in childhood from diseases that we now vaccinate against. Thank you for preserving History, and also the memory of this poor toddler who died. Such a caring thing to do. 👍🫵🥇🎖️