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<blockquote data-quote="rod" data-source="post: 964875" data-attributes="member: 5382"><p>The cemetery I take care of for the local Township was started in the early 1800's. The early years of record keeping and even up until after WWII are terrible. When someone wants to bury someone now we will locate the site that they want but they are warned to have whomever they hire as a grave digger to dig slowly. More than once we have had to "adjust a site". Also for many years our cemetery was used as a paupers last resting area. Those with no money or had no relatives to pay for burial or who nobody knew (transients just passing through town) were burried in just a corner of the cemetery in unmarked graves with no record of where they were burried. In the regualr area of the cemetery many of the old headstones (most of them homemade) have long since sank into the ground and are covered with a layer of grass. We don't, as a Township, maintain headstones-- that is up to the families. All I do is mow, run a string trimmer and keep the trees trimed--- and clean up all the cheap plastic Walmart crap that people put out on Memorial Day and forget about. People don't realize how quickly that crap fades and falls apart in the weather. I would say that out of about 200 marked gravesites only about 10 show any signs of some family member actually taking care of them. (thats the reason I want part of my ashes to go to the Veterans Cemetery) Thats not counting the new ones each year-----most people tend to take care of the site the 1st year. P.S. I highly reccomend that you and the Mrs. set down and discuss exactly what your final wishes are. Believe me some day some family member will appreciate the fact that they aren't the ones who have to make that decision. While you are at it its a good time to decide if you want to become an organ donor.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="rod, post: 964875, member: 5382"] The cemetery I take care of for the local Township was started in the early 1800's. The early years of record keeping and even up until after WWII are terrible. When someone wants to bury someone now we will locate the site that they want but they are warned to have whomever they hire as a grave digger to dig slowly. More than once we have had to "adjust a site". Also for many years our cemetery was used as a paupers last resting area. Those with no money or had no relatives to pay for burial or who nobody knew (transients just passing through town) were burried in just a corner of the cemetery in unmarked graves with no record of where they were burried. In the regualr area of the cemetery many of the old headstones (most of them homemade) have long since sank into the ground and are covered with a layer of grass. We don't, as a Township, maintain headstones-- that is up to the families. All I do is mow, run a string trimmer and keep the trees trimed--- and clean up all the cheap plastic Walmart crap that people put out on Memorial Day and forget about. People don't realize how quickly that crap fades and falls apart in the weather. I would say that out of about 200 marked gravesites only about 10 show any signs of some family member actually taking care of them. (thats the reason I want part of my ashes to go to the Veterans Cemetery) Thats not counting the new ones each year-----most people tend to take care of the site the 1st year. P.S. I highly reccomend that you and the Mrs. set down and discuss exactly what your final wishes are. Believe me some day some family member will appreciate the fact that they aren't the ones who have to make that decision. While you are at it its a good time to decide if you want to become an organ donor. [/QUOTE]
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