re: Forgotten Graves

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Graveyards are a waste

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I’d rather have my ashes thrown in a mountain stream than be put in a cemetery.

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It is not about “you” after you have passed….it is about those that cared about you. If it gives them comfort to put your ashes in a stream, that is where they should put you. However, if it gives them more comfort to put you in a grave, then that is what they should do.

The cemetery that my wife’s family are all buried is an old Church cemetery. Probably one of, if not the oldest in the county. There are a few Revolutionary soldiers buried there. The old country church where this cemetery is located has about 8 members left, and they are all 80+, including her 96 year old grandmother.

There are 6 plots left for the family and she and I MAY be buried there. I have 8 plots in the old city cemetery that were bought for my family in the 70’s. Her parents will be buried at the old Church, but I always wondered how long someone will continue to keep this cemetery kept. Someone’s been doing it for well over 200 years, but there’s got to be expiration date.

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I stumbled upon a graveyard in the woods when I was a kid. The headstones were so old they were almost impossible to read.

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I ran into the same thing while out hunting rabbits one day when I lived in Jackson, MS.

I had run across the Ross Barnet Reservoir to a heavily wooded area around Pelahatchie Bay I wanted to hunt and started walking through the woods only to stumble on an old graveyard that looked to be totally forgotten about. Tall weeds, scrub trees growing by the graves, headstones all covered in algae and damn near impossible to read.

To see all those graves, obviously forgotten to time was a bit eerie----and sad at the same time.

Dr. Tichenor Is buried in a cemetery near downtown BR.

My daddy goes to his mom’s grave almost weekly. Every All Saint’s Day my mom and her sisters go to Avoyelles Parish to clean the graves and put fresh flowers.

One of my first jobs was working at the city cemetery before school. I’d get there at 5 and weed wack until 7, go home shower and get around for school.

There was a lot of older stones that had damage from the years but we took care of the grounds. My grandfather was burried there, now 3 grandparents there all in the same section with one grandmother alive.

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It could have been a gravesite for slaves or native Americans.

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Neither. Just rural folk from the late 19th and early 20th century.

This thread reminds me of this quote

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When walking around this graveyard, what struck me was how some of the graves have been utterly forgotten

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Within 3-4 generations after you die know one will remember you. Your memory will be totally forgotten.

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