Does anyone else think grave yards are interesting?

Question

I love going to this old civil war one by my house. The head stones are really ornate and I find it peaceful.

Yes it is very sad when you see ones for babies, it makes me thankful i live in this day and age where we have proper medicine.

Answer 1

I love old graveyards and have spent many interesting hours beguiling myself wandering around and reading old tombstones.

On Sunday afternoons I used to take my children and we would all wander around and show each other interesting things we found.

There's something so timeless and removed about old graveyards that appeals to me, although I never plan to be buried.

Answer 2

Years ago I spent three weeks in a small town in Belgium about 50 miles or so from Brussels. I had enough free time that I walked from one end of the town to the other, and explored a couple of cemeteries. One, the town cemetery, had headstones from a couple of American bomber crews that had gone down with their aircraft and had been buried near where they had died. There were also German and French headstones from combatants from those countries.

And there were the usual collection of doctors, lawyers, and citizens of all ages who had passed on. You can write a town's history sometimes from the headstones.

Nearer the center of this town stood an old Catholic church with headstones all around it, some dating from as far back as the 16th Century.

These places fascinated me at the time. Speaking of the Civil War, the Gettysburg battleground and cemetery is one of the most fascinating places in America. Everyone should go, especially if you have read anything about the great battle that happened there.

Answer 3

it relatively is in no way unique, yet i won't be able to locate the source, yet its dates decrease back to the 1800s. I had a school chum who theory that R.I.P. meant return If available. no longer an inscription, yet a demise word which i chanced on while perusing previous, community newspapers in Westmorland (now Cumbria): The trumpet sounded, The Angel pronounced 'Come'. The pearly Gates opened And in walked Mum.

Answer 4

Yes I do. They have alot of information in them for doing family research. I get a very calming feeling when I'm there also. The sad thing is, there are alot of them that has never been recorded. And after time the names and dates are lost forever.

Answer 5

If you don't already do it you should think about making rubbings of those head stones. Some people really get into the rubbing and documenting of very old head stones. It's art and it's beautiful.

Answer 6

Actually I do. I find it intresting to see how long a person lived during certian years. ex: 1800's It is really sad though when you come across an old graveyard and you find graves for babies.

Answer 7

Oh yes my hubby and I think that they are great, we pick wild flowers and leave them on the main gates, dust off the grave markers, it is very interesting to take a nice peaceful walk thru and see who is there and their markers or head stones...

Answer 8

We have one that is extremely old. I love to go through and see who some of the first settlers were in this area. Some family's are still living here.

Answer 9

My husband and I go quite often. It's very quite. We like to take pic's of the old and interesting tomb stones.

Answer 10

I like them too, but for the history and genealogy. I also like to get an idea how hard life was back then when you see many young deaths.