Found an old gravestone can only read name

Question

I believe he is the husband of this woman.  Someone has given her a newer stone it seems.  I put the photo on her profile since I have zero infomation to make a profile for him.  I found an obituary to link her to a John Read or Reid but I can find no other information on either of them. Any ideas of where to go next?

Comments

I found a death record of a daughter (Pretty sure) so I'm going to add her as a daughter and see if that search yields more answers

Answer 1

My guess would be:

John Read

Died

Feb 8 1888

Aged 83 years

Can you take another photo, looking from the side of the stone to get more shadows/contrast of edges of letterings ? Removing grass around the edges and especially the top would help too.

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I live 3 hours away and I didn't even realize I took this photo.  But now that I'm planning to do a free space for this cemetery I am going to go back and get the graves I missed and I'll try to get a better photo.