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Cemetery Folk Art

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CEMETERY

Cemetery Folk Art

Hoisington, KS | Barton County

Here you'll find the first of several folk-art gravestones created by local man Phil Webb. Something tugged at his heartstrings several years ago when he noticed graves without headstones. The first marker he created was for Creola Paxton who he learned loved to sewβ€”and those are the exact words he inscribed on her marker along with a cross, a needle, and a spool of thread. You'll find many more of these irregular concrete blocks with small figures and bright splashes of paint that tell you something about the deceased.

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