The Anniston Star l Monday, December 21, 2009
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Off to work ... with a monument engraver
James Wininger considers his job to be a privilege By Bill Edwards bedwards@annistonstar.com
Assuming that genealogists will always be interested in the hobby of gravestone tracings, the skills of James C. Wininger could well be appreciated a century hence. Wininger, a 56-year-old native of working-class Scottsboro, goes off to work daily as a gravestone engraver and installer for Miller Monument Co. in Oxford. His duties include everything from trucking 13,000 pounds of raw granite out of Elberton, Ga. — “The Granite Capital of the World,” if you didn’t already know — to setting completed stones in the cemetery. It’s been his job at Miller since April 2004 and similar work was his job for 11 years before that for a company in north Alabama. Yet, given the solemn setting in which his work appears, it’s perhaps not surprising Wininger regards it as more than a way to earn a paycheck. Please see work ❙ Page 3
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James Wininger washes a tombstone that he engraved at Miller Monument In Oxford.
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