> > Back a generation or two in my family I think that was more common that
> > being at a funeral home.

>   When people lived on farms mostly the loved ones were also buried on the
> property.
>   My old family home there were many buried near the house.
>   When the old homestead was sold many years ago the new owners, who could
> care less, took the tombstones and broke them up to use as gravel in a drive
> way!
>   There is now no idea who is buried where there.  :(

We have an old family cemetary which has switched hands.  Most of the
gravestones are no longer legible, but my great-great-great grandfather's
still was last time I was there.  He was a Methodist preacher, so the UMC
had made him a nice headstone at some point.

In recent years, the farm changed hands again.  The little cemetary was
separated from the rest of the farm by an extra fence.  The fellow took it
down and started moving the headstones.  Luckily, a family member who is in
that area & who still tends to it caught him.  In Kentucky, that is
actually illegal, even if it is on your property.  The guy had already been
warned at least once, so he got fined.

Supposedly, he tried to play dumb but the family member pointed out that it
was obviously being tended to since the grass was cut.

Since that grandfather's father's grave has long since been lost (we think
it is under a small strip mall in Pike County, KY), keeping that cemetary
from being forgotten is somewhat important.

Mike

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