Usually rectangular slabs are polished on each side and the sides are roughhewn. Jack Daniel , the inventor of the eponymous whiskey, was buried in Lynchburg, Tennessee in 1911 beneath this rectangular slab. The two white chairs are supposedly for visiting ladies. Richard Nixon's dog Checkers rests beneath a rectangular vertical slab in Wantagh, New York. A marker that is a geometric form, such as oval, cubes, or abstract geometric forms.
Geometric markers can take a wide range of forms.
Generally it is safe to assume that markers of this size were more expensive to produce than smaller markers. This monumental figural marker rests atop Confederate General A.P. Hill , who died in battle in 1865. Hill now rests at the middle of a traffic circle in Richmond, Virginia's northside. The Ayres family marker at Crown Hill was erected in 1896, when department store patriarch Lyman Ayres died. This marker would be classed as monumental in this classification system because it is quite high, but the needle form is typical of obelisk markers.