Cemetry project

  1. Select a Cemetery to study. What is the name of this cemetery? Spend about 15 minutes just walking around the Cemetery. Pay particular attention to fences, paths, paved drives, chapels and other buildings, planting, and other features of the landscape. Identify boundaries of the Cemetery. Are they marked by a fence, sidewalk, shrubs, or other? Note, they are marked by a sidewalk. 2. Make a rough sketch map showing the location of the fences, paths, and other features you have identified. Note the earliest and most recent gravestones and sketch their locations. Does the cemetery seem planned or are the graves located haphazardly? Note, I will upload a picture of cemetery. 3. Using copies of the provided form, record 20 gravestones. Try to find different styles of gravestones to record. Do you find certain gravestone styles in only some areas of the cemetery and not others? Are these styles associated with only certain time periods? 4. Locate at least 5 stones from different time periods, which have epitaphs. What do these epitaphs say? What might they reflect about attitudes toward death? How does the use of epitaphs and what epitaphs say change over time? What might this mean? Note, you can choose 5 from the uploaded graves and don't forget to mark them so I know which one is which. 5. Locate a family plot or several gravestones with the same surname. Do you think these individuals are related or are husband and wife? How can you tell? Are other relatives buried in the same area? Are these family burial areas more common in earlier graves or more recent graves? What might this tell you about the changing use of family plots over time? Note, There is a grave uploaded where three family members are buried together. 6. Select 5 stones with men's names and 5 stones with women's names from different time periods. How are men's and women's gravestones similar? How are they different? What might this tell you about the changing roles and statuses of men and women over time? The following questions must be answered as a detailed analysis, not short answers. Be sure to address each question in your narrative.