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Cemeteries
Is it Cemetery or Graveyard? Cemetery is where human remains of the dead are buried or interred by public authority, private persons or families on private owned areas of land. Cemeteries are governed by established state laws, different in nature, and specifically apply to cemeteries, not the same laws of real property or corporations. Cemeteries are governed by a Board of Trustees or Association with an assigned Director with an overall responsibility of the administration and operation of the cemeteries. "Cemeterian" a person who works in, owns or operates a cemetery or memorial park.
*Point Of Contact: The cemetery Director is who you would contact to work in a cemetery and can be found through the township / city clerk office.
Graveyard is a burial ground within a religious churchyard and follow church and state rules. Groveled by the church diocese and administration by administer or director.
*Point Of Contact: The church pastor is who you would contact to work in a graveyard, who would contact the sexton who is considered the "caretaker".
Is it Cemetery or Graveyard? Cemetery is where human remains of the dead are buried or interred by public authority, private persons or families on private owned areas of land. Cemeteries are governed by established state laws, different in nature, and specifically apply to cemeteries, not the same laws of real property or corporations. Cemeteries are governed by a Board of Trustees or Association with an assigned Director with an overall responsibility of the administration and operation of the cemeteries. "Cemeterian" a person who works in, owns or operates a cemetery or memorial park.
*Point Of Contact: The cemetery Director is who you would contact to work in a cemetery and can be found through the township / city clerk office.
Graveyard is a burial ground within a religious churchyard and follow church and state rules. Groveled by the church diocese and administration by administer or director.
*Point Of Contact: The church pastor is who you would contact to work in a graveyard, who would contact the sexton who is considered the "caretaker".
Pet Loss Plots
Not all cemeteries will accept animals for burial, however more pet owners are choosing to memorialize their pets at animal burial gardens where you can have a pet marker engraved with your pet’s name.
Many animal shelters have a memorial donation program with either a wall or garden to place your pet or ashes. Check with your local shelter to find your local wooded or planted burial gardens and wall’s.
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Your pet can have a permanent Memorial on the World Wide Web.
A personalized website for you and others to message your love, thoughts, memories and photos and stories in one easy location for you and others on a Web Memorial worldwide Internet Cloud. Today building your own web memorial is very easy to do, inexpensive, fun and a super way for family, friends and future generations to participate.
We here at Wisconsin Cemetery Services would like to add our thought. One of our many thoughtful services is to help you build a sustaining or professionally built Web Memorial(Web Hosting fee's apply) available world wide. . . this way you, friends and families, can share your story and love and to commemorate, and once again feel close, if just for that brief instant. All without having to travel, the costly maintenance, and to be as close as your computer or device 24/7.
HOW IT WORKS
** For Free Consultation we(show you the rope's)
help you build
- your own freestanding personal website with memorial
or
- you choose a professional website service we trust.
Website hosting fee's apply.
Etiquette
When visiting or working in cemeteries please show respect for the living and the dead. Following some of the basic rules regarding cemetery etiquette will make for a much more enjoyable experience.
When visiting or working in cemeteries please show respect for the living and the dead. Following some of the basic rules regarding cemetery etiquette will make for a much more enjoyable experience.
- Before starting any work in cemetery get permission from director
- Follow rules posted on signpost located at entrance
- Follow dawn until dusk rules, closed after dark
- Cemeteries are NOT playgrounds for kids, show them how to respect your cemetery
- When working or visiting do not hang jackets, set tools on, sit, lean or touch any headstones, markers, or monuments
- Don't leave any trash or dirt behind, pick it up see that it looks nice
- Report to Cemetery Director/Caretaker/Sexton any hazards or problems
- Never visit in areas when funerals are occurring, come back when funeral procession is finished
- No pets running loose, keep them on leash, or in kennel.
- And PLEASE report any damage, vandalism or theft to Caretaker, Director and Police
Headstone Cleaning
Do Not Clean Your Headstone, without the appropriate equipment and cleaner. Often household cleaners will not work, they do more damage !
NEVER BLEACH !!
If not carefully researched, an attempt to clean a gravestone will result in more damage. Also you will need permission of the cemetery to do any work. But if you would like to do your own cleaning, understand and show your best. Ask for help if needed :-)
Do Not Clean Your Headstone, without the appropriate equipment and cleaner. Often household cleaners will not work, they do more damage !
NEVER BLEACH !!
If not carefully researched, an attempt to clean a gravestone will result in more damage. Also you will need permission of the cemetery to do any work. But if you would like to do your own cleaning, understand and show your best. Ask for help if needed :-)
Markers
Sandstone sedimentary rock composed of mainly of sand or rock grains of quartz or feldspar cemented together. Common colors are tan, brown, yellow, red, grey, pink, white and black. Sandstone is a filter material were water my trickle through and can hold lots of water, great for moss, mole etc. This makes it hard to clean and is very fragile, once broken can not be nicely repaired. We seen many types of repairs in many cemeteries and all looks shabby and not respectful looking, the most accepted thing to do is replace it.
Best materials for gravestones today would be a durable material like granite or bronze, also stainless steel is becoming quite popular. Granite is affordable and hard, also heavy making it hard to steal. Also granite makes for a very good foundation for any headstone or monument to place your engraved granite headstone on rather then concrete. This should be installed with a good footing to keep it from heaving.
Sandstone sedimentary rock composed of mainly of sand or rock grains of quartz or feldspar cemented together. Common colors are tan, brown, yellow, red, grey, pink, white and black. Sandstone is a filter material were water my trickle through and can hold lots of water, great for moss, mole etc. This makes it hard to clean and is very fragile, once broken can not be nicely repaired. We seen many types of repairs in many cemeteries and all looks shabby and not respectful looking, the most accepted thing to do is replace it.
Best materials for gravestones today would be a durable material like granite or bronze, also stainless steel is becoming quite popular. Granite is affordable and hard, also heavy making it hard to steal. Also granite makes for a very good foundation for any headstone or monument to place your engraved granite headstone on rather then concrete. This should be installed with a good footing to keep it from heaving.
Links
📌 Museum at the Portage: Cemetery Burials Columbia County Master Index File
(Thank You Anna Mae)
📌 Save A Grave Website (http://saveagrave.net)
📌 Wisconsin Headstone Finder (http://wigenweb.org)
📌 Wisconsin Department Of Safety And Professional Services Wisconsin Department Of Health Services
* Wisconsin Funeral and Cemetery Aids Program. WFCAP
📌 Wisconsin State Law Library Cemeteries
📌 ICCFA International Cemetery, Cremation and Funeral Association www.iccfa.com
📌 Museum at the Portage: Cemetery Burials Columbia County Master Index File
(Thank You Anna Mae)
📌 Save A Grave Website (http://saveagrave.net)
📌 Wisconsin Headstone Finder (http://wigenweb.org)
📌 Wisconsin Department Of Safety And Professional Services Wisconsin Department Of Health Services
* Wisconsin Funeral and Cemetery Aids Program. WFCAP
📌 Wisconsin State Law Library Cemeteries
📌 ICCFA International Cemetery, Cremation and Funeral Association www.iccfa.com
Ashes to Ashes:
– Don't Just Settle for perpetual cemetery care also choose a perpetual memorial –
Burial of the dead is one of the oldest human traditions. Evolving traditions rich in cultural past but also religious beliefs, that continues to change in our future. As science and technology grow so do future traditions and ever so slowly religious beliefs. Add to that economics and resources that also play a big role in cemetery innovations and changes. The days of sprawling fields of headstones and marble monuments are becoming part of the same past as our ancestors, mostly abandoned as time goes by.
It troubles me how folks are pushed into the old ways of burial after death, no mention of permanent memorializing from funeral or cemetery directors. So just what is the best way to respect the loss of a loved one forever. There still is the traditional burial with casket, vault and headstone then finding an appropriate cemetery. Nowadays Going Green where bio-degradable and or cremated remains is a choice. Also now is liquid cremation, alkaline hydrolysis(cremation with water and lye) as suppose to burning, in the end you get ash. Cremation allows families many choices for memorializing a love one. Remains can be divided, spread in a favorite location like land or water and some folks just like to the keep their loved one’s cremated remains in an urn at home or yard to memorialize.
But what happens after your gone, who’s to remember your loved one, or you for that matter. Perpetual memorialization like a cenotaph, columbarium, niches and mausoleums, or cremation garden that does have a permanent public location. Having a consistent place for healing allows for family and friends to anchor to, long after burial is over. Does this preserve your loved one’s legacy with dignity future families can connect to, a headstone with short epitaph? Personal history research by genealogist, and obituary if you can find one, does little to tell you who the person was. This seems a little short on respect for your loved one and for others to remember.
Cemeteries are becoming full, out of room, its hard to find an open spot for burial. Cemetery land is also hard to get and very pricey and add to that the maintenance required for upkeep is pricey. Some big cities are developing open high-rise buildings looking like parking ramps for cremated remain burials. No grass just small piece of green carpet with urn and marker as a public cemetery for memorialization of your loved one.
Now this may be all well and respectful way for your loved one’s memorial, in the short term. I just don’t think it really does much in the way of perpetual memorializing a loved one. For one, burial can be very expensive, hard for families and friends to get to and requires follow up maintenance for families and landlords. To me I see burial does little in the way of respect to the living families and friends for that matter in memorializing your loved one far into the future. Your loved one is soon forgotten as time go’s by making it hard for families and extended families to research or experience long past family that they feel belonging to.
Your family history is very much part of who you are and were you belong in your life at your given time on earth. Also it is what you will be passing on to your future families, your meaningful part of history.
Burial is not a final disposition! When my mom and dad passed, I buried their cremated remains in a cemetery, as they wanted, in an existing old family graveyard with family. This did little for me, I felt it was not complete in respect or a memorial deserving for my living family and friends of theirs. And what about our future families that will be part of their legacy, how will this continue to be part of our family. No, I wanted a much better memorial that would not be abandoned, because of just location, with short text honoring a deceased person with an epitaph on a headstone and newspaper obituary.
Genealogy websites are nice to discover your family roots with old family data and some photos of your family history and now even DNA testing. But still that just seems to miss on a personal level for me, I want to know more, like personalities and old family stories to really feel connected to my past with photos, documents and words from friends. A personalized website for you and others to message your love, thoughts, memories and photos and stories in one easy location for you and others on the worldwide web. Today building your own web memorial is very easy to do, inexpensive, fun and a super way for family, friends and future generations to participate.
We here at Wisconsin Cemetery Services would like to add our thought. One of our many thoughtful services is to help you build a sustaining or professionally built Web Memorial(Web Hosting fee's apply) available world wide. . . this way you, friends and families, can share your story and love and to commemorate, and once again feel close, if just for that brief instant. All without having to travel, the costly maintenance, and to be as close as your computer or device 24/7.
HOW IT WORKS
** For Free Consultation we (show you the rope's)
help you build
- your own freestanding personal website with memorial for ever
or
- you choose a professional website service we trust.
Website hosting fee's apply.
– Don't Just Settle for perpetual cemetery care also choose a perpetual memorial –
Burial of the dead is one of the oldest human traditions. Evolving traditions rich in cultural past but also religious beliefs, that continues to change in our future. As science and technology grow so do future traditions and ever so slowly religious beliefs. Add to that economics and resources that also play a big role in cemetery innovations and changes. The days of sprawling fields of headstones and marble monuments are becoming part of the same past as our ancestors, mostly abandoned as time goes by.
It troubles me how folks are pushed into the old ways of burial after death, no mention of permanent memorializing from funeral or cemetery directors. So just what is the best way to respect the loss of a loved one forever. There still is the traditional burial with casket, vault and headstone then finding an appropriate cemetery. Nowadays Going Green where bio-degradable and or cremated remains is a choice. Also now is liquid cremation, alkaline hydrolysis(cremation with water and lye) as suppose to burning, in the end you get ash. Cremation allows families many choices for memorializing a love one. Remains can be divided, spread in a favorite location like land or water and some folks just like to the keep their loved one’s cremated remains in an urn at home or yard to memorialize.
But what happens after your gone, who’s to remember your loved one, or you for that matter. Perpetual memorialization like a cenotaph, columbarium, niches and mausoleums, or cremation garden that does have a permanent public location. Having a consistent place for healing allows for family and friends to anchor to, long after burial is over. Does this preserve your loved one’s legacy with dignity future families can connect to, a headstone with short epitaph? Personal history research by genealogist, and obituary if you can find one, does little to tell you who the person was. This seems a little short on respect for your loved one and for others to remember.
Cemeteries are becoming full, out of room, its hard to find an open spot for burial. Cemetery land is also hard to get and very pricey and add to that the maintenance required for upkeep is pricey. Some big cities are developing open high-rise buildings looking like parking ramps for cremated remain burials. No grass just small piece of green carpet with urn and marker as a public cemetery for memorialization of your loved one.
Now this may be all well and respectful way for your loved one’s memorial, in the short term. I just don’t think it really does much in the way of perpetual memorializing a loved one. For one, burial can be very expensive, hard for families and friends to get to and requires follow up maintenance for families and landlords. To me I see burial does little in the way of respect to the living families and friends for that matter in memorializing your loved one far into the future. Your loved one is soon forgotten as time go’s by making it hard for families and extended families to research or experience long past family that they feel belonging to.
Your family history is very much part of who you are and were you belong in your life at your given time on earth. Also it is what you will be passing on to your future families, your meaningful part of history.
Burial is not a final disposition! When my mom and dad passed, I buried their cremated remains in a cemetery, as they wanted, in an existing old family graveyard with family. This did little for me, I felt it was not complete in respect or a memorial deserving for my living family and friends of theirs. And what about our future families that will be part of their legacy, how will this continue to be part of our family. No, I wanted a much better memorial that would not be abandoned, because of just location, with short text honoring a deceased person with an epitaph on a headstone and newspaper obituary.
Genealogy websites are nice to discover your family roots with old family data and some photos of your family history and now even DNA testing. But still that just seems to miss on a personal level for me, I want to know more, like personalities and old family stories to really feel connected to my past with photos, documents and words from friends. A personalized website for you and others to message your love, thoughts, memories and photos and stories in one easy location for you and others on the worldwide web. Today building your own web memorial is very easy to do, inexpensive, fun and a super way for family, friends and future generations to participate.
We here at Wisconsin Cemetery Services would like to add our thought. One of our many thoughtful services is to help you build a sustaining or professionally built Web Memorial(Web Hosting fee's apply) available world wide. . . this way you, friends and families, can share your story and love and to commemorate, and once again feel close, if just for that brief instant. All without having to travel, the costly maintenance, and to be as close as your computer or device 24/7.
HOW IT WORKS
** For Free Consultation we (show you the rope's)
help you build
- your own freestanding personal website with memorial for ever
or
- you choose a professional website service we trust.
Website hosting fee's apply.