Isn't water table very shallow most everywhere in the southern part of the state? I know south of Houston is the same way. at 5 feet I get water ...graves are 6feet? Well, there is a lot of the reasons for the disrespectful looking cemeteries . No excuse, but they are wet most of the time. People are so soft on things these days...yet they will watch the JFK Assassination several times and think nothing of it... or those pimple popping videos and and exposed coffins are offensive? Confederate soldiers are in there... and how they are are treated now is disrespectful. They are heroes in every sense of the word...and they will return back out when that truth is told. Tearing up Confederate things offends me, just because believes a lie we have rights to have Southerns honored. You will never win a debate with me on that issue. Everything offensive sets me off .. LOL
You need to look up how some do it over in Europe. After 20 years, they dig you up to bury somebody else. Sickening as all get out. Wood coffins decay. This is so sad, good for you for bringing attention to this. I want to be cremated. I don't care if it's 100 years or a 1000 years, some bodies gonna dig you up or not be around to care. Peace ✌️
Man I hope you can make the right amends to that cemetery. It's so sad. And just an warning. You should be careful about posting this online because some people might come there and cause even more caos.
I’m honestly curious if they would at some point remove some graves that have been on this earth for like thousands of years and check and see if the body has been swallowed and returned back to the earth, cause I’m sure at some they would have to start making room for some graves or I wonder if the earth just grows over the grave stone
Shifting of the ground and different elements I believe have caused a lot of the breakup. If it had been maintained they could have caught some of breakage at the beginning and taken care it is really a shame. We had a friend he passed but he used to do the upkeep at a church owned cemetery, it had perpetual care but the people on the board were all old and were firing off church decided to sell the cemetery. The groups that bought it only wanted to get to the money so they got rid of our friend and that is what is happened to that cemery. The other board even had a k house the grounds keeper lived in he kept everything beautiful. There were some wealthy people that had family in that cemetery and th we y had them moved before he left. Not everyone can do tnat. So now it has no perpetual care which is why some people picked that cemetery.
The people who purchased grave plots in this cemetery with their purchase, paid for upkeep and maintenance of the grounds. The families are responsible for keeping the headstones and monuments clean and repaired. So, both parties are neglecting their responsibility. Looks to me like the cemetery owners went bankrupt. This happens more than people realize.
You cant fix this with just a weed wacker. Youll need a few dozen people with professional landscaping experience to remove brush, drain the graves of water, and tools to remove broken cement. Not to mention those human remains need to relocated during this process, because this grave needs a new restoration beyond grass trimming. The remains need to be handled with care and properly tagged for identification. Unfortunately youll need a lot of tools
Here in Ecuador now it's common that when a body has been in a vault for over 10-20 years the family has to exumate the bones, put them in a urn and rent a smaller vault. I think it's a good way to take care of the remains of a person and for the family to remember them.
This is kinda a culture problem Americans are still working out. There is still a very Victorian attitude towards death, and that remains should not be disturbed. You you have to go to the old colonial states like Massachusetts to find many cemeteries before 1850-1900 because Americans were so spread out, people were just buried on the property and then that property would be inherited for generations. It is not uncommon for developers developing farmland to stumble across remains. To demonstrate how new it is, California has the most cemeteries. This is why Americans very much have a castle doctrine mentality. Louisiana is also shockingly poor, you can tell by the way those graves are built. And they have a hard time keeping people buried in the first place. The living don't have much more value. I am in the northeast, and people maintain the cemeteries here. In fact, one near me just got a new sign and markers.
