Re: Cemetery clean up Saturday

Posted by redforlife on May 20, 2022 at 10:08:48 from (174.210.169.156):

In Reply to: Cemetery clean up Saturday posted by 37 chief on May 19, 2022 at 22:02:45:

There are numerous cemeteries around here. The area was settled by people of a wide variety of ethnic and religion backgrounds. When they settled here, they settled in group clusters in small 5 to 10 mile areas. One area might be Swedish, another Irish, another German, you get the idea. They never seemed to all want to be buried in the same cemetery, next to each other. LOL. So they all started thier own cemeteries. And of course, when each town got started, they established thier own city cemetery.

Some of these cemeteries never developed much size. Some are small and or forgotten about today. Most are atleast mowed. A few don't hardly ever see burials anymore.

I have relatives buried in atleast 7 different local cemeteries (within 15 mile area) And that's just scratching the surface of how many there actual are. If that gives you any idea.

The local American Legions do Memorial Day ceremonies at the cemeteries to honor the deceased veterans and fallen comrads. They stand at attention, read off the names, and of course fire a solute and play taps.
Each post does this obviously at the city cemetery, but also at some of the other rural ones too. Some of the very small cemeteries, they don't go to. But still read off those names (as a separate list) at the closest cemetery they do go to.
It's quite moving to witness the ceremony. Hear the names being read off. I try to go to one or two cemeteries for that every year.

My church has its own cemetery. In the back yard actually. The church has a separate board for the cemetery, along with its own separate bank account. Over the years, people have left large amounts of money to the cemetery, rather than to the church itself. The cemetery board basically hires the upkeep done. About the only donated time work day type stuff that goes on, is for storm damage to the trees.

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