A Day at the Cemetery

There is an old church which we drive by when we go out to visit one of the members of our branch.  Someone said there was a old cemetery by it so Shauna and I decided to check it out.  This picture was taken just as we walked into it.

You can see the grave stones, but if you look behind on the hill you can see some other grave markers.

Again, just look behind the trees at other markers which are much older.

Navigating through the cemetery was interesting as there was no rhyme or reason.

I wish we would of come here on the night of the dead when they put all the candles on the graves.  I can't imagine how they get the casket and these head stones up here through these narrow walkways.

This is obviously one of the older stones from around 1917.

Here is another stone like so many of the others.  The reason I photographed this one is because you can see the date of his/her death.

There were very few of these that we could read the dates on as time has worn them off the stone.

There were a couple of ladies in the "newer part" talking so I thought I would take their picture.

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Remember those grave stone behind the trees in the first pictures?  These are some of the rest of them.  If I understand it correctly, these are markers commemorating those who have died and not had their bodies recovered.  

This could easily be one of the Hungarian soldier slain during their many wars.  In Hungarian they say the last name first and the first name last, so in America his name would be:  Istvan (Steven) Nemeth.

Just moving back toward our car.  It was cold up there. You will know that spring is here when you don't see anymore pictures of THE black coat!

Here is a demonstration of how the cemeteries in German are done also.  People are just buried one top of each other.  This show a family of three who are buried in the same place.  In Plieningen, Germany, where Grandfather and Grandmother Flammer were buried back in the 50's, the family had to pay for that spot, as I remember, about 3000 Deutsch Marks a year.  If they couldn't, or wouldn't pay any longer, someone else was buried on top of them.  Germans and Hungarians have been around for a long time so you can imagine how burying their dead may be a problem if they didn't "stack them one on another."