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Rushes Cemetery - Bean Cryptic Tombstone 
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Articles about the cryptic tombstone published in local newspapers
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Bean Cryptogram Tombstone Original
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Bean Cryptogram Tombstone Reproduction
1955 Weird Tombstone Lauds Wives

1968 Crypt Cryptogram Over the Crosshill Crypt

1978 The Curious Cemetery Stone

1979 Epitaph a Puzzler for Over a Century

1982 History Lovers Save Tombstone Mystery

1982 Wellesley Settlers Honoured with Cemetery

1989 Strange Tale of a Tombstone Cryptogram

2016 Can You Crack the Code on this Crosshill Headstone?

2016 Headstone Puzzle was Finally Decoded in 1947

n.d. More Information Gained About Mysterious Crosshill Gravestone 

n.d. Replica Saves Coded Epitaph for Posterity