Re: Cemetery clean up Saturday

Posted by wisbaker on May 21, 2022 at 09:54:18 from (173.30.33.249):

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

I've had two experiences with cemetery managers. My Dad's Uncle somehow or another ended up the caretaker and manager of a few cemeteries in his area. He lived in an area of West-Central Illinois that had a large exodus of people in the 1930's. Many of those people, including my Grandfather, left when they found work in the Chicago area. Years later many of those people started passing and left instructions to bury them back home and provided the name or sometimes a description of where they wished to be buried. This was providing a challenge to many of the funeral directors in the Chicago area as the wishes often stated towns or cities that no longer existed. Eventually they found Uncle Mike, if he wasn't involved with that particular cemetery he new who was. Some of these cemeteries where only accessed through fields and weren't visible from the road, others were associated with long defunct churches. At one point in the late 60's or early 70's one of the funeral directors was overheard telling another if something happens to that old man we're screwed. Flash forward to the early 2000's and I'm a maintenance director for a county building and grounds department. Although not my responsibility the county owned a small cemetery with the newest grave being 50-60 years old and most being 70+ years old. It was the county asylum's cemetery. It's care and management fell within our county HHS department and was usually done by youths that had run afoul of the system and needed to book some community service time. Well they weren't taking care of it and some miscreants got in there and knocked over a few of the headstones. One of the county board members found out and all of a sudden I'm getting called to the carpet for it. No problem I sent a maintenance man over and billed his time to the HHS account. This of course upset then as then things they wanted done no longer had funding to do so. They started doing a little better after that. There are laws regarding the care of cemeteries, evidently they're not enforced equally.

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