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31 <br /> ORANGE COUNTY LOCAL LANDMARK APPLICATION <br /> was probably the son of the James Thompson (1743-1794) who was a trustee of the Eno Quaker <br /> Burying Ground.' <br /> While there well may be others no longer visible, only one gravestone in the Eno Quaker <br /> Burying Ground has been identified as the work of a particular professional tombstone maker. <br /> When Elizabeth Jackson died in 1848, her stone (Photo 17) was produced by well-known <br /> Fayetteville stonecutter and tombstone maker George Lauder(1810-1888).7 Typical of Lauder's <br /> work, his inscription on Jackson's gravestone makes use of more than one font style as well as a <br /> combination of all upper case and upper- and lower-case letters. Scottish-barn Lauder was <br /> prolific, making the largest number of gravestones, spread across the largest geographic region, <br /> of any stonecutter in North Carolina prior to the twentieth century.$ <br /> Catharine and Thomas McCracken died twenty years apart—she in 1873 and her husband in <br /> 1892—during the latter years of burials in Eno Quaker Burial Ground. Their gravestones, <br /> however, are identical in design, although Catharine's stone is larger (Photo 18). Each has a <br /> gracefully curved top and an incised line creating a border that follows the two sides and the top. <br /> Given the quality of the carved lettering, it appears that they were both created by a professional <br /> gravestone carver. Of particular interest is that these stones, atypical of the stones in the Eno <br /> cemetery, carry epitaphs beneath the basic birth and death information about each person. <br /> 6 Cemetery Census:Old Eno Quaker Burying Ground; Ancestry.com:James Thompson Family Tree. <br /> httys://www.ancestry.com/fami ly- <br /> tree/ erson/tree/1695775621 erson222198681827/facts? phsrc=Nii3945& hstart=successSource.Accessed 6-29- <br /> 2024;Not having access to all the dates,Mary Claire Engstrom thought this burial may have been for the elder <br /> Thompson,who was the trustee, <br /> 7 Cemetery Census:.Old Eno Quaker Burying Ground. <br /> s M.Ruth Little,Sticks and Stones: Three Centuries of North Carolina Gravemarkers(Chapel Hill:The University <br /> of North Carolina Press, 1998),200. <br /> 9 <br />