The area I live in has 4 pretty large cemeteries (all Catholic)(at last count, the town had 350,000 dead people,and 17,000 live people) Occassionally I will wander thru one of the cemetaries, and I always see pebbles left on top, mainly on the gravesites with the very Italian sounding surnames... I asked one of the old Italian women who lives in my complex about the tradition.. and her response was similiar to the Jewish explaination...
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The pebble also lets others know that someone did come and remember. Symbolically, it suggests the continuing presence of love and memory which are as strong and enduring as a rock.
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Pretty nice tradition actually.