Youth 13, Tries Stone Rubbing By JAN PADFIELD Deseret News Staff Writer COALVILLE - Would you dare to rub a gravestone? Hal¬loween pranks, you say? No, ed¬ucational and artistic, says Douglas Geary, 13. He went to some of the oldest graves in the city cemetery. The letters and designs on many were illegible Douglas had heard of a group of students enrolled in a Brooklyn, New York, museum and course on gravestone rubbing He began his experiment by taping thick pads of blank paper over the stones, then rubbed the paper with heavy dark crayons Slowly, the carved word appeared on the paper. Picture poems and inscriptions almost worn away by weather came out clearly on the paper. OLDEST GRAVE The first grave in the ceme¬tery was that of a two-year-old boy who wandered from his parents pioneer home in Hoytsville and was lost and died May 1. 1862. One weathered stone disclosed the resting place of young man killed May 1, 1900 in a Scofield (Carbon County mine disaster which took 19 lives. The Brooklyn Museum a group went to the graveyard one of the oldest churches New York City. The first church built on the site was erected 1654. SPOOKY FEELING Douglas, the son of Mr. a Mrs. Grant Geary, Coalvill said after practicing with ine pensive paper he might use fin art paper and make his a work permanent. He said th idea of rubbing graveston may give some a spooky feeling at first, but it is a wonderf way to record some of the beatiful writing and pictures whii years from now might be gon "And," said Douglas, "it is great way to learn a lot abo the history of a town."