7161 - Cemetery trip, continued -

[scottobear]

Cemetery pics - Cracked, chipped and buried markers. Clicking on the image will make 'em bigger when possible.

	ant attack! A high price of being buried in South Florida... many many ants. I wonder if they got into the box?
	ants This marker was covered in ant-sand too.
	ants! so, I cleaned it off, a little.
	Hidden Marker, #2 I found this one almost totally covered with sand. only the very clean white area on the lower right was showing, near another marker. I love the typoed reversed S in rest.
	Handwritten Marker I'm not sure if this is a replacement for a lost marker, or if the person buried was too poor to afford any other kind.
	crack - 1 some of the markers have been weathered or broken pretty badly.
	crack - 2 this was originally a standing stone, but is now laying atop the site.
	crack - 3 I wonder what causes most of these to break? no freezing this far south.
	crack 4 Skipper. It's somehow worse when it's a child.
	chipped 100 years from now, they'll probably have no idea what the date of death was.
	broken plate the ID plaque is almost completely off. I wonder if it'll be there, next time I visit?
	broken headstone No information on this stone at all.
	twin cracks a mother and father stone, both cracked in the middle, laying where they once stood.
	slid looks like someone leaned too hard on this one, and it slid to the right.
	mess I have no idea what happened here. High wind? Desecration?
	rising erosion of the soil is letting these markers sit freely atop the ground, rather than being planted.

Comments

[shoo.livejournal.com]

It looks like either people have desecrated the stones, or earthquakes and hurricanes did it...Odd indeed.

I'm glad we don't have ant problems where my dad and grandparents are at, that would make me sick.

[scottobear.livejournal.com]

I suspect it's from age and weather, for the most part. We do get driving rain off and on through the year. No earthquakes worth noting, thank goodness!

I always wonder about what the condition of the bodies are...if I ever get buried instead of cremated, I want to be in a simple pine box, easily absorbed by the earth.

[ex-dcl.livejournal.com]

Thanks for sharing.....cemetery photography is something of a hobby of mine.
;>

[scottobear.livejournal.com]

My pleasure! I'd love to see more of your boneyard photos, too!

[eryx-uk.livejournal.com]

Theres a cemetery here, just off the centre of town that I have walked through when visiting friends. It always make me sad to see the number of young people, teens & early twenties, buried there. Most are road/car accident victims I think. Which makes it even more tragic.

[scottobear.livejournal.com]

Most of the youger deaths in this cemetary were veterans, folks that I imagine were killed as a result of Either the first or second world wars.

graveyards

[wickenden.livejournal.com]

I love cemetaries. I grew up across from one, it was where we played. There was never any descration, and the cemetary was well cared for by a family who were its caretakers. I'd love to go there with my dad.

There is a graveyard outside Nortbridge, MA, where I saw the saddest gravestone. Engraved on it was bereavment for a lost child. I can't remember any of the lines except the last two, which haunt me:

"A voice is stilled within our home
which can never be replaced".

My second favorite gravestone was in Lexington, MA, not far from Emersons. An old slate black stone with a quote from the bible...the quote required a "not" in it to reflect the positive, that the dead one would rise in the resurrection. But the negative construction made for a "typo" and they had to use a caret pointing to the word "not" above. I wish I could remember the verse, or that I'd had a camera.

don

Re: graveyards

[scottobear.livejournal.com]

That seems to be a common memory in MA... when I lived up north, there was always a beautifully manicured lawn and a friendly atmosphere at the boneyards I visited.