Finding your Family Graves is more then documenting your family line. Seeing the pictures also is very warm feeling. Knowing that is where your roots are and your family walk on these grounds. Some of the graveyards have been not taken care of properly. Hopefully the family will care enough to make their families resting place a place where the family can be proud. There is alot of people trying to clean the graveyards. Let's try to help them.

			William B. Carey
	Devitt			George H. and Minnie M. Miller	June C and Mary E. Miller
		James V and Mary Monaghan		Michael Sweeney Sarah Devitt William L. V. Sweeney

Interesting Facts about burials

The closer to the church wall you were buried the worst a person you were. These were reserved for the unfit or a person who took there on live.. As the saying goes "bury you were the sun doesn't shine", meant that you were bury by the wall that did not have sun or only shade. and it meant you were not a nice person. The direction your body faced counted. Buried face up is good, face down not good. Buried with feet face south or north counted also..

Different Designs on Tomestones  give you clues and what is allow and not allow depending on your culture or religious believes.

Most wakes were held in the house and each culture had a different of what the wake should be.

Irish believe the louder the crying the better changes of getting to heaven. They would actually have people to just cry over the body they were called wailers....

The Welsh did not agree with this or other cultures.

There was always someone with the body at all times. Just in case the person would come alive again. Which did happen at this time, many were buried alive not knowing they didn't die but just were in coma or sleeping soundly.

Burials were written up in the paper and if you were of any wealth the coffin was written about as a status to you.

Example a beautiful Oak Coffin...Many died without a proper burial lack of money. poor people who could not afford a plot or stone. Many had just a rock to mark there spot...or a wooden cross made of branches.

See how to Date a Tomestone

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