My name is James Greene & I am from a small Midwest Missouri town called, Pleasant Hill. I presently reside in Sun City Center, Florida with my long time friend & companion, Bradd. I have been a cemetery sexton in my previous life & have continued to assist cemeteries through the years, at keeping maintenance records up to date, finding family members & also locating information, that may help others in their searches.For the past 10 years, I have been searching for & not finding much out about the W.S.Dickey Clay Manufacturing Company of Kansas City/Deepwater Missouri. It is my hope, before I die, I can find out as much about this company as humanly possible, for I would like to make one of their fine examples of funerary art, aka a headstone, to better a cemeteries way of life, by providing a replacement headstone that families can continue to honor a family members memory, without the high cost of a conforming granite marker. On January 1st, 2015 I found the information I've been searching for on these hollow glazed cemetery monuments. I found mention of it in Sweet's Architectural Catalogue, 15th edition, dated 1920, page 139. It agree's with what I've been saying all along, that Dickey Clay Manufacturing Company of Kansas City, made "lot markers" among other things. I have since retired.

My name is James Greene & I am from a small Midwest Missouri town called, Pleasant Hill. I presently reside in Sun City Center, Florida with my long time friend & companion, Bradd. I have been a cemetery sexton in my previous life & have continued to assist cemeteries through the years, at keeping maintenance records up to date, finding family members & also locating information, that may help others in their searches.For the past 10 years, I have been searching for & not finding much out about the W.S.Dickey Clay Manufacturing Company of Kansas City/Deepwater Missouri. It is my hope, before I die, I can find out as much about this company as humanly possible, for I would like to make one of their fine examples of funerary art, aka a headstone, to better a cemeteries way of life, by providing a replacement headstone that families can continue to honor a family members memory, without the high cost of a conforming granite marker. On January 1st, 2015 I found the information I've been searching for on these hollow glazed cemetery monuments. I found mention of it in Sweet's Architectural Catalogue, 15th edition, dated 1920, page 139. It agree's with what I've been saying all along, that Dickey Clay Manufacturing Company of Kansas City, made "lot markers" among other things. I have since retired.