CEMETERY INFORMATION

When visiting a cemetery, take along these items:

All Purpose Flour (in a zip-lock bag)
2" Paint Brush (with synthetic bristles)
Primary Paper (Big Chief Tablet)
Large Black Crayon(s)
Poloroid or Digital Camera
Hand Sanitizer

If possible contact the cemetery management for hours of operation, and to locate the place of internment. The larger memorial parks will have a staff, and can provide you with section, lot, and plot numbers of the individual interned. If it is a smaller cemetery, you may have to contact the local city hall, or a funeral home to locate records. Depending on the quality of the cemetery and the records, you could end up walking the entire graveyard! It is suggested that you never go alone, and search during daylight hours.

Now that you found the gravesite. You quite possibly have found a tombstone in sad shape. Use the paint brush (dry) to clean off algae, dirt, or bird droppings. Next, lightly sprinkle the all purpose flour to fill in the letters & numbers on the marker. The flour will wash right off the next time it rains! I might suggest a before and after photograph. You be pleasantly suprised! Document your location if you have no section, lot, or plot numbers. You will want to take note of the names of individuals on either side of your loved ones. These names may have some relation in your family tree.

If the grave marker is in good, clean shape you can do a 'rubbing' with the paper and crayon. Less mess than charcoal, and you can keep all your 'rubbings' in a binder or folder.

In the near future we will begin to list State Cemetery locations.

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