There’s a graveyard on my property.

[writerinmo]

I would recommend that you detail each gravesite's information and post it with pictures online so that someone researching genealogy might benefit. If it weren't for people doing so, my wife wouldn't have been recently contacted by a half-sister that she never knew existed, their father having been married several times and being very closed-mouthed about that fact. She now has a family that she never knew existed, thinking for all these years that she was an only child and she owes it all to people who put things like this on the internet.

 

[Onomea]

It seems that those of you who have gravesites/graveyards on your land treat them with respect, and, perhaps, even a degree of affection.

Years ago I was considering a piece of land in Hawaii, up on a bluff with a great view of the Pacific. Maybe a couple of acres. There was a gravesite, just one, on the land. It was the grave of a very young Japanese child that had died in the early part of the 20th century. I felt a degree of...., maybe friendliness, or affection, about the grave and the departed soul within. Did not bother me at all. But my wife, who is Japanese, would have nothing to do with it. For her it killed any interest in the lot, even when the realtor pointed out that one could hire a Buddhist priest to reinter the departed elsewhere.

So I was puzzled, at the time, as to whether this difference in reaction to a gravesite on one's land was a Japanese thing versus an American way of looking at it, and asked a couple of my American pals how they would have felt about it.

To my surprise, none of them liked the idea of a gravesite either. Well, "liked" is not the right word. They said it would kinda freak them out, too.

So I was thinking that maybe I am unusual in my tolerance, and perhaps even a tad of affection, for graves nearby. But based on this post it seems that my sentiment is not unusual...

Giz has a gravesite on his land that he has very strong, positive feelings about.

 

[charlie sherrill]

I find them out in the middle of nowhere. Usually there was a sawmill there around the time they died and when the virgin timber was all cut out the place was abandoned. I would think that similar things happened around old mining towns. One stone has "Killed By Carpetbaggers" inscribed on it. At the center of the "Granny Bounds" cemetary is Granny Bounds' grave. It's located deep in a national forest. It's over 150 years old and her stone is inscribed "Full Blooded Cherokee Indian." I know quite a few of her descendants and even though most of the Indian blood is no longer flowing in their veins you can still see hints of it in their facial features.

 

[David LaPell]

My uncle has a cemetary on his property that is actually a historical sight because the family was massacred during the French & Indian war. There have been several times over the years where the sight was gone over by archeologists and there is now one of those blue historical markers in front of his house.

Me, I have a little cemetary but it has two stones, but I think they were either a dog or a cat because one is called Muffy.

 

[11B Lifer]

Cool!

My compliments to you and your family! When we moved to Missouri, my son and I discovered a small neglected grave yard-One stone, about 7 feet high had the Woodmen of America inscription-it was for Alfie Colley-a Corporal in the US Volunteers during thje Phillipine Insurection-I have spent years doing research on Alfie and his father-a Civil War veteran. We have also restored the cemetery. Found out that this had been a prominent family-the mystery is what motivated a kid in central Missouri to go fight in the jungles of the Phillipines? And how did they get his body all the way back here-there are no news accounts-Its a good thing to honor these citizens who helped to build our nation-gives you a sense of participating in a great endeavor.

 

[cass]

Cemeteries should be a National treasure. Every time I see one, I'm reminded of a quotation by Maculay: "a people that takes no pride in the noble achievements of remote ancestors will never achieve anything worthy to be remembered with pride by remote descendants".

 

[AL Deputy]

Family Cemetery

Kelly...I have made a Family Cemetery on our 20 acre Farm...which is part of 800 acres left from my wives old home place . It is about a 1/4 acre near our house, and it took about a year for the County to OK it ....lot of Red Tape . Hopefully the Grand Daughters will take care of it !
Al Deputy

 

[crsides]

It seems that those of you who have gravesites/graveyards on your land treat them with respect, and, perhaps, even a degree of affection.

Years ago I was considering a piece of land in Hawaii, up on a bluff with a great view of the Pacific. Maybe a couple of acres. There was a gravesite, just one, on the land. It was the grave of a very young Japanese child that had died in the early part of the 20th century. I felt a degree of...., maybe friendliness, or affection, about the grave and the departed soul within. Did not bother me at all. But my wife, who is Japanese, would have nothing to do with it. For her it killed any interest in the lot, even when the realtor pointed out that one could hire a Buddhist priest to reinter the departed elsewhere.

So I was puzzled, at the time, as to whether this difference in reaction to a gravesite on one's land was a Japanese thing versus an American way of looking at it, and asked a couple of my American pals how they would have felt about it.

To my surprise, none of them liked the idea of a gravesite either. Well, "liked" is not the right word. They said it would kinda freak them out, too.

So I was thinking that maybe I am unusual in my tolerance, and perhaps even a tad of affection, for graves nearby. But based on this post it seems that my sentiment is not unusual...

Giz has a gravesite on his land that he has very strong, positive feelings about.

My wife and I were looking at some property in Mt Rogers Va. There was a private cemetery on the back of the 35 acre property. I thought it kinda neat, but the wife - well she must have a little Japanese in her.


Charlie