If you do this early game before you gain skill points, and also die again during the no skill drain buff, this mechanic will work well.
Personally, i like the chest storage system with all of my chests labeled.
the only reason to leave gravestones imo would be to create a cemetery... this works better when there are different names on each stone. If you are playing single player world, you can create characters just to have them die in your cemetery and then delete the characters after logging them off your world.
On that note, you could name said temporary characters things like wood, stone, hides, etc.