As a new Cemetery Trustee in the Town of Grafton, NH in 2018 I wondered why we had a line item in the budget for "Stone Repairs" when nothing was being done to repair stones and no money was ever spent on it. When I saw that The New Hampshire Old Graveyard Association was having a Stone Cleaning and Repair Workshop in our neighboring town of Wilmot, I attended. I spent a Saturday morning learning how to clean the stones and found it really satisfying and was fascinated by how miraculously the product they used worked.

     I immediately went out and bought a gallon of D/2, a water sprayer, some plastic scrapers and a soft brush and drove to the East Grafton Cemetery on Lower Meadow Road and got to work on one of the biggest monuments there. I let the other Trustees know what I had learned and had started to do but it took another year or so of working on my own before others expressed an interest in getting involved.

     In the spring of 2020 Aime Jacques, chair of the Cemetery Trustees and a couple of other volunteers joined me as we got started cleaning stones in Grafton Center Cemetery. Every time a family or community member would stop and thank us for the work we did or send a letter of thanks it just touched my heart and this truly became a passion project for me.

     Since then I've been to several more workshops, hosted a few and put one on myself in 2024 for new volunteers in town. One thing that became clear at these workshops as well as cleaning stones in Gettysburg National Cemetery was that there are people all over who would like to see their family gravestones looking nicer than they do but they don't have the tools or the know-how or maybe the ability to do it.

     So I decided in 2025 I would open up this business to offer personalized gravestone cleaning to folks throughout the state. Sacred Stones is registered with the Secretary of State's office in New Hampshire and the IRS as a Limited Liability Company and is fully insured. I'm excited to share my expertise and experience with anyone who has a loved one or ancestor buried in the Granite State with a gravesite that needs some TLC.

     Please fill out the contact form today and let's get the conversation started about how we can take your family gravestone from neglect to respect.