The Atlas Obscura Podcast · Thursday, October 29, 2026
Christina Rae Stanton highlights the efforts of John Watson, a church sexton who recorded and drew details of approximately 800 headstones in two large ledgers just weeks before the graves at St. John's were bulldozed.
“He got there just a few weeks before these tombstones were plowed down. And he compiled two huge books that had everything. He went through each 800 headstones and he documented each one that he saw.”