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Laurel Hill has quite a few homemade markers, which are featured on this page. Concrete is a favorite material of these markers; it was cheap, and easy to create if you could make a wooden mold in the shape you preferred.     

This marker is one of the more interesting and ornate markers in the cemetery. It's the only one of it's kind I've seen, and I love the carving. 

 

The next marker is very nicely done; Mr. Barsell was a member of the Woodmen Circle.

 

 I like the Hooten marker. It looks handmade, but has a frivolous air. 

 

The middle marker is extremely weathered and difficult to read the name on; the name according to the Laurel Hill book is Lena Fetzner, and you can just make out the "zner" of the last name. 

 

The next marker is for a man who served in the 30th Illinois Infantry. There are several military markers in Laurel Hill, but not as many as you'd expect to see.  His original marker is first below, with the new replacement after that.

 

 

 

 

 The Baby Jessie Willis marker photo below is new; the one I took in 1999 is below that.