The following description was taken from Tom Kunesh's very informative website (http://www.darkfiber.com/tomb/):
: an oblong horizontal lid (ledger stone) made of local soapstone (local greenish-grey soft chloritic schist) with two slots cut into it, through which the vertical head and foot stones are fitted, called a 'through mortise-and-tenon joint' in woodworking. The ledger stone is thus suspended over an internal empty cavity by the weight-bearing shoulders of the head- and footstones, and by either (a) long cut stone blocks (squared-stone-logs) approximately 5"x5"x(~length of body), stacked one on top of the other equally on each side, or by (b) one-piece side slabs, to create an above-ground stone box monument that resembles a tomb. The body is presumably underground since no remains have been seen inside exposed internal cavities.
166 found to date in 'Upland South folk cemeteries' almost exclusively in rural northeast Georgia around Wahoo. ethnicity: English & Scotch-Irish and predominantly Baptist. dates: 1848-1889.
presumably locally quarried & carved.
I located these tombs at Shoal Creek Baptist Church in White County, and Brown's Chapel and Mt. Gilead Historic Cemetery in Lumpkin County.
