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LIMESTONE.  SOME INCLUSIONS OF DARKER CLAY.  POPULAR STONE FROM 1880 TO 1900.

MARBLE.  A METAMORPHIC LIMESTONE.  POPULAR FROM 1880 TO 1920. COMMONLY MILITARY MONUMENTS

PROBABLY AN IGNEOUS ROCK.   ALL THE NEXT IGNEOUS AND METAMORPHIC ROCKS SEEM TO HAVE BEEN QUARRIED AND USED FOR MONUMENTS, AFTER SAY 1920.

PROBABLY ANOTHER IGNEOUS ROCK. SIMILAR TO THE PREVIOUS.

LABRODORITE.  BLUE IRIDESCENT FELDSPAR MINERAL.  NOT TOO COMMON.  QUARRIED FROM LABRADOR CANADA, PERHAPS. LATER AFTER 1950.

GNIESS, A METAMORPHIC ROCK.  GRANITE IN COMPOSITION WHICH MEANS QUARTZ, FELDSPAR, PERHAPS SOME BLACK MICA.  THE PATTERN TELLS IT APART FROM GRANITE.

GRANITE.  FELDSPAR, QUARTZ, AND A DARK MINERAL PERHAPS BIOTITE A BLACK MICA.  A LATER THAN 1920 HEADSTONE.  THIS COULD HAVE BEEN QUARRIED FROM AROUND ORTONVILLE, THE QUARRIES THERE HAVE A SIMILAR PINKISH GRANITE.

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