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Thank you @lizelle, this was the style here when the tombstones and the mausoleums were made. I go there with my mother when I am visiting them; many of the families we (or the older members of my family) knew, it is like remembering those people or the stories about them at least once a year.

It's a lovely way of 'paying respect' and remembering the people who were laid to rest there.
How times have changed!