"Lives are commemorated - deaths are recorded- families are reunited -
memories re made tangible - and love is undisguised. This is a cemetery. "
"Communities accord respect, families bestow reverence, historians seek
information and our heritage is thereby enriched."
"Testimonies of devotion, pride and remembrance are carved in stone to pay warm
tribute to accomplishments and to the life - not the death - of a loved one. The
cemetery is homeland for family memorials that are a sustaining source of
comfort to the living."
"A cemetery is a history of people - a perpetual record of yesterday and
sanctuary of peace and quiet today. A cemetery exists because every life is
worth loving and remembering - always"
Author unknown -
Seen at a monument dealer in West Union, IA
"Show me your cemeteries, and I will tell you what kind of people you have."
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The fence around a cemetery is foolish, for those inside
can't get out and those outside don't want to get in.
--
Arthur Brisbane
| "I always remember an epitaph which is in the cemetery at Tombstone, Arizona. It says: ''Here lies Jack Williams. He done his damnedest.'' I think that is the greatest epitaph a man can have." | |
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-- Harry S Truman
(American 33rd President of the
United States, 1884-1972) |
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Dear Ancestor Your tombstone stands among the rest; neglected and alone The name and date are chiseled out on polished, marbled stone It reaches out to all who care It is too late to mourn You did not know that I exist You died and I was born. Yet each of us are cells of you in flesh, in blood, in bone. Our blood contracts and beats a pulse entirely not our own. Dear Ancestor, the place you filled one hundred years ago Spreads out among the ones you left who would have loved you so. I wonder if you lived and loved, I wonder if you knew That someday I would find this spot, and come to visit you. Author -Unknown |