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| Pioneer Park in Dallas Metal Marker could be White Bronze (Zinc |
Sisters Alma and Lillie Buried on opposite sides of the same stone.
I have been too alot of cemeteries in my time for my age, of all those stones I two were cast of metal. As I have done more research on those stones I found out they were called White Bronze Monuments. A blog I did research on said they were manufactured in the years of 1875-1912, Going on to say the blog said some cemeteries banned them. They do last longer than traditional stone do, stone breaks down due to weather and time. (http://graveyardrabbitofcentralohio.wordpress.com/category/zincwhite-bronze-tombstones/ )
The Monument is hollow ( as was both the ones that I have seen) . One of these I know for sure are White Bronze ( Zinc) and is located Dumas Cemetery , Cannon/Van Alstyne Texas. The other is painted silver and located in Pioneer park in Dallas, its metal but may not be zinc. ( More to come on that one later)
To determine if a marker is zinc, if you knock on it and it sounds hollow then it is made of zinc.
the white bronze markers have panels on the sides of which to attach name plates onto. ( the one at Dumas is missing on of its name panel parts on one of the sides. While stronger than stone markers they can fall prey to mowers and vandalism just like other stones
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| DUMAS CEMETERY |
(http://graveyardrabbitofcentralohio.wordpress.com/category/zincwhite-bronze-tombstones/ )
http://familytrees.wordpress.com/2008/07/01/tombstone-tuesday-zinc-or-white-bronze/
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