Burial on your own land!!!

There is a family cemetery on this farm there are 42 graves. There is room for about fifty more in what is fenced and deeded separate right now. First grave was started in 1842 there. All graves are family so far. My first wife is buried there. I will be and my second wife will be too. This one has a right of way to the public road. It looks out over a big valley on the back of the farm.

I like the thought that I will be there with the rest of my family. Surrounded by the farm I have worked on for most of my life. It kind of makes the work go easier. It means a great deal to me to be able to show my kids and grand kids all of their family tree here in the USA. The next generation back where all in Germany.

When my Grand father died he started a trust that owns the land and is funded to keep the taxes paid on it. As for the other up keep we just do it yourselves when needed. We usually dig the graves yourselves too. I can remember helping do them by hand when I was younger. I cheat and use a compact excavator. Until I started mowing it twenty years ago we always just had a few head of sheep there to keep the grass eat down. It really worked pretty good too. we would just switch them over to the main pasture for a few weeks after each holiday or funeral. That way they did not eat the flowers and such.

As for requirements. Here in Iowa the body just has to be embalmed. So far there are no permits or anything else needed. We have used concrete vaults the last twenty years or so.

The cemetery in my community is not on anyones privet land, but plot of land was set apart for for the decendents of the original settelers who setteled here after the indians left. The land is cleaned one time a year before Memorial day. Each family is in charge with their family's burials. The graves were dug by hand years ago, but now are dug with a backhoe, and most filled in by hand. When I needed my Mom's grave dug the tractor operator wanted me to contact dig alert. I told him I doubt there will be any phone, water, or electricity lines to worry about. He insisted. I contact dig alert they thought I was nuts, but went out anyway. Stan

(quoted from post at 23:10:37 11/27/11) As for requirements. Here in Iowa the body just has to be embalmed. So far there are no permits or anything else needed. We have used concrete vaults the last twenty years or so.

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that's a headscratcher in itself......... you can bury an animal yadda yadda and someone will complain about the ground water or something..... pump a stiff full of formalehyde (SP?) and plantem everything is fine...... guess the stuff will preserve the water too.....
I's gonna be burned....... can't even be around cheap air fresheners without being miserable.ain't gonna spend the hereafter pumped full of the stuff.........

The Indians didn't leave, we shot them!

The Indians didn't leave on their own, our ancestors shot then!

Earlier post went in the wrong spot, is it possible to delete your own post?

Yes but you're probably not up to it mentally earl.

Jim

I believe the Amish here in Ohio do not have to be embalmed, but have to be buried within 6 hours of death, I think.

Actually, in most parts of the country, the Indians the Indians DID leave.

Dean

The Indians here in my part of the country were absorbed in to the spainish missions. Where in most cases were treated fairly well. Stan

My Ansecestry is a mix of German,English,Irish,Creek Indian and others. My surname Grand parents came from Germany in 1730 on a ship named the Richard and Elizabeth.Their last name was Hermann.My GGGGrand father Isaac married into the english Pendletons.Isaac and Rachel around 1820 were granted 50 acres of land in Green County Ky. As far as can be determined they and several of their Daughters are buried on this land.Time has erased the exact spot but guesses have determined that it was on a high hill that overlooks the farm and surrounding area. Legend say there are several other families at rest in this grave yard also and that two of the men are veterans of the Revolutionary War.My Grand Father Isaac was too young to join up in the Militia so he has no War connection.His Uncles and older Cousins back in Virginia however have bronze markers on their graves praising them for their part in the war.My Mothers Great Grand Parents are buried on their farm also but the grave yard is mostly destroyed by a large Elm tree which grew up in the middle of the graveyard. Sort of a Family tree don"t you think? Another GGGGGGrand Father is buried in a very old Cemetary at a 250 year old Methodist Church and he has a Marker Stone that was placed in 1885 and it is still legible.He died in 1847. Most of my past family from that point on have been buried in established Grave Yards as the Cemetaries of central Kentucky are referred to.My Parents are buried in a Perpetual care Cemetary as my wife and I will be.A far cry from the road side ditch some of my folks have been interred at.

Dadgum government drove the Cherokees out. Read Trail of tears. Dave

I live in an old Chickasaw Indian village, over top of hundreds of graves. The Chickasaws buried their dead under the hut that they lived in.