What are the boundries of an unfenced familly cemetary?

Question

I have seen many family cemetaries that have fences around them and I suppose that when there is no more room you can't bury any more people but I've also seen many that don't have and fences. Just curious.

Answer 1

That varies by State and County laws and regulations.It is not common today to bury a loved one on private property. We are in a society that most everyone is rather 'mobile' and move frequently. Our forefathers had homesteads, estates, acreage and they buried their loved ones on an isolated area of their property. There have been cases on record that properties were later subdivided and then sold. Buriels were discovered later by people wishing to build on the 'thought to be vacant property.
Fences basically were to identify the area of the property that buriels could be made.
Your questions is very good. Hope this helped.

Answer 2

RANDOM~my family is in our country around our town , one day the friends that own and ride motorcycle with me as a kid said come out to the farm and I'll want you to tell me about your family, the boys dad and i work together a the monstrous anaconda planet, his world is only twenty minutes in to the country, there the six grave of my families markers were all down and under the foot of earth and grass i the west side of the yard behind the house, sure enough there were the grave and it took a summer to drill and rebarr the stones that were three high and two wide to cement and reset all the cemetery, when we were through it had cause a great deal of time and money to go there and reconstruct this but when it was over i could see that they went out and fenced it off, there is no limitations about what you think is a full grave site when you see a fence around it, that only means that that is where they are and the rest is subject to being mowed and this keeps the tractors and mowers of the grave that's all the fence were about, now that they were unearthed and exposed it give the country home a sad look as the lime stone grave are breaking the silence of the view, i liked the property better when all was underground and forgotten,summer of 72

Answer 3

Old laws and new laws...
Current laws---deeds state how much land and how many lots can be used....and no more.....
also must be fenced.

older cemetery's did not meet certain guidelines but if any new burials were to be added then they would have to meet those new guidelines.