Hello - I like old cemeteries
I like old brownstone or slate headstones with interesting carvings. I also like to learn about headstone carvers and their unique styles they put into their craft.
Does anyone else also like old cemeteries?
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although I haven't been to one in years. I especially like the ones that have a lot of statues and other decorations on the tombs. There are old graves around here that have headstones written in French or Spanish. Those graves date back into the 1700s.
One thing you notice in those older cemeteries is how many children's graves there are. Diseases like flu and polio and smallpox killed a lot of them. A lot of women died young, too, back then. Many died from childbirth. And that's what too many people in this country want to go back to. 
The one grave that we always visited was "Little Lulu Cooper," an only child who died young in the 1800s and is buried between her parents.
My grandmother also took me to see her "family plot" where her own grandmother's children who died young are buried. Her grandmother gave birth to 14 children, but only six lived to grow up, all boys. And the eldest was my grandmother's father. The saddest ones were Robert and Leroy who were twins, they shared the same stone. 
My grandmother's mother died young so she spent a lot of time with her paternal grandmother and her "job" was trimming the grass in that cemetery. My grandmother also took me to the cemetery to practice driving... I think she just wanted to check on things there. 
for two large cemeteries in Upstate New York. As such, I had free reign over all the family crypts (keys included), all records and gravesites - which dated back to the late 18th century - and yes, I enjoyed it thoroughly. I'd do genealogical research for people who requested information from all over the world. I met quite a few amazing people and was more than happy to help all who requested it.
It got to be too much for me as I grew older, and grandchildren entered the picture. It was a voluntary position, and through the association that ran the cemeteries it wasn't difficult to find someone else from within who volunteered their time to the endeavor.
My favorite headstones were the ones crafted from zinc. They still look as new as they did the day they were first placed there, some dating back to the late 1800s. They were erroneously sold as "white bronze" but were made of cast zinc, and many were sold in the Northeast. They're rather rare outside of the New England states.
Due to acid rain (people from Midwestern and New England states will know what I'm talking about) many headstones made of sandstone and softer minerals are impossible to read anymore. Even some marble and granite headstones sustained a lot of damage from the smoke from Midwestern factories mixing with rainwater to form a dilute sulfuric acid. It almost killed hundreds of Adirondack Mountain lakes (and the fish within). A bad time in our country's history.
Yeah, I could go on all day with stories, but the answer to your question is, YES! 
I never knew about recipes on gravestones, nice to learn something new! 
Of the dozens I took, this one, with my grand-daughter Sofia, has just the right amount of everything:
Thanks for posting that. I've seen the tent graves down south, but never knew the official name for them.
I try to learn something new each day, and tent graves are today's nugget of learning.
some people think I'm weird but I don't care. 
I'm a history buff and find old cemeteries so interesting!
