Find a grave central illinois4/24/2024 My husband and I recently completed this process in Central Illinois. Keep in mind, the time to plan a family cemetery is long before you need one. Yet, if one is willing to do the homework, is not afraid of some legwork and is able to complete a fair amount of paperwork, a family cemetery can be a reality. Fortunately, they are legal in all 50 states, but not without some serious hoop jumping. In general, we prefer to keep death at a safely sanitized distance, and because the average American salary has steadily increased over the decades, we often delegate end of life tasks to funeral home professionals at an exorbitantly high cost.īut still, there are those of us, the homesteaders, the survivalists, the self-sufficient or perhaps just the frugal, who are returning to a simpler, less expensive and more personal way to bury our dead-in our own back yards.Īctive family cemeteries, ones where burials still take place, are not only rare, but often considered suspect by neighbors and local zoning boards. In addition, and most especially over the last 50 years with a marketing emphasis on anti-aging serums and life-prolonging gadgets, we’ve become a death denying society. Few of us live close to the homes, or even the states, we were raised in and even fewer live on the same grounds our ancestors first settled. ![]() The reasons for this are numerous and include increased financial and geographical mobility. ![]() What once was a source of pride and a place of peaceful remembrance is now a rapidly disappearing piece of Americana, a scene of neglect. Unfortunately, most have been abandoned as evidenced by overgrown vegetation, collapsing headstones, and rusty fences. ![]() Take a drive thorough most any rural area of the United States and it’s still likely you’ll see a family cemetery.
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