 Many of the headstones have high-quality decorative carvings in addition to the usual information about the decedent's birth and death date.This collection of funerary art is more extensive than in other American cemeteries of this size from this period and illustrates changing Protestant notions of death.Sarah Smith's 1766 gravestone, the oldest in the cemetery, is made of slate and features an inverted half-moon and semi-circular finials.