This topic brings together inscriptions, stone, ceremony, order of names and restoration. Read the section as a connected set of questions about how public memory is designed, funded and maintained.
Material evidence is especially useful when it is separated into parts: what the stone looks like, what the inscription says, how the object was paid for, and how later repairs changed its surface. No single photograph or description answers all four questions.
The best starting point is the Memorials section, then the dossier on reading local records when you want to compare an object with documentary evidence.
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Start with why the names are not in alphabetical order, then follow its related evidence.