Dallas City Cemetery Anthropology

coffins into the ground. The burial service is conducted for and by African Slaves. The

The living, the wounded, and the escaped of Deerfield had to get on with life. Tradition says that there was a mass burial in the town cemetery a sorrowful task for all that survived.

There are beauties unknown deep in the ground of Concordia. Stories that have been altered over the course of time and history that has tailgated behind these tombstones of deceased bodies. Gunfighters who thought they would rule the world were slain by the scythe of death. They were once owners of land, beholders of beauty, famous gun ringers, loving family members, and burdened veterans of war. Concordia Cemetery, the land that once gave birth to crops now lays burdened with the segregation of death, where even then people were all divided by their race, credentials, ethnicity and even gender. Gunfighters were caged underneath their tombstones where people were sure that they wouldn’t rise again.

Cemeteries can be a vital source to anything that has happened in the past. All cemeteries carry information that can answer a lot of questions. Many cemeteries possess information that can be utilized as a helpful tool. Additionally, Texas has over 1,600 cemeteries that have a Texas Historic Cemetery Status. Out of each 254 counties in Texas, at least one cemetery has been designated as an HTC. In Texas, there are numerous of cemeteries that can be accessible. However, there are some that can not be accessible anymore but they are still counted for. It was stated that it was estimated that there are roughly 50,000 cemeteries in Texas. Those cemeteries, are cemeteries that are currently range from single, isolated and often unmarked graves

Criticisms of American funeral practices have been made publicly aware since the 1920’s, and actually go back to ancient times in the scope of human’s ceremonies for the dead. Since the first published argument against modern funerals various authors joined the movement publishing their disparagements of customs for the deceased; that in essence contend the grandiosity and lavish displays are merely a social and psychological representation of the monetary opportunity of funerals (DeSpelder & Strickland, 2015, p. 306-307). Even further, regarding the encompassing funeral industry as exploiting grieving loved ones for their financial gains, while disregarding the actual needs of modern society (DeSpelder & Strickland, 2015, p. 307).

This cemetery specifically is a Catholic cemetery, which makes it different from others. The people who own it, as well as the people who use their services, believe in certain notions

Ms. Gray started this project without knowing that it was an African American cemetery and started to clean it up because it was a place that she visited as a young child and was in ruins even back then. For the past year, she took it upon herself to resort the neglect cemetery by recruiting volunteers and even started a nonprofit organization to keep the effort going. Ms. Gray has become attached to the cemetery stating “I know them by their names. They’ve become my family, they were people who lived among us. They deserve respect, especially the veterans.”(Wall Street Journal) She believes that she has shown

The shortage of burial space in the capital is reaching a critical stage in many of its 32 boroughs. Data shows that the majority of them currently lack the capacity to supply enough graves to meet the level of demand suggested by mortality projections over the next two decades.

West Los Angeles is home to two prominent cemeteries: the Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery and the Los Angeles National Cemetery. The Westwood Cemetery was constructed in 1905, serving as the rest place for many famous individuals within the entertainment industry. Famous names such as Marilyn Monroe, Dean Martin, Natalie Wood, Roy Orbison, and Jack Lemmon are buried at this grave site. Nearly less than a mile away from this cemetery is the Los Angeles National Cemetery. Established in 1889, this national cemetery is home to many members of the armed forces who have actively served in the military and/or law enforcement. These two distinct cemeteries may only appear to share relativity through their short distance, but they also symbolize many cultural aspects of the American ideology. The Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery and the Veterans Cemetery reinforces American societal conformities and ideals by perpetuating the idea of gender bias, displaying extreme idolization of celebrity status, and imprinting religious affiliation. Through tombstone appearance, cultural imprints on the tombstones, and categorization of the tombstones, both cemeteries embody contemporary American and Los Angeles culture.

No matter my role, I forge unique relationships with publicly elected leaders, public agencies, business, non-profits and community groups. Metro’s Lone Fir Cemetery, which is listed on the National Register for Historic Places and identified by National Geographic as one of the top ten cemeteries to visit in the world, hosts a forgotten piece of land that was one of the first burial grounds for early Chinese settlers and also for the first patients of the “Oregon Asylum.” I worked to bring together the Oregon Chinese Benevolent Association, the mental health community and pioneer family groups to create the Lone Fir Cemetery Foundation. This was unconventional; typically the public does not like to give money to the government, but Metro knew there needed to be more support for a nationally recognized cemetery in Portland. I led the process for the formation of the foundation, worked on donor identification and mapping and secured the first

By June 1907, Long Beach had a new cemetery--Sunnyside. There were 3,500 lots in the new burying grounds with ample room for five graves per lot, giving the Silent City (as cemeteries were referred to then) a capacity of holding 17,500 persons. The drives in the grounds were called Myrtle, Fern, Magnolia, Ivy and Lotus. On both sides of these drives date palms were planted along with flowers and greenery. The association guaranteed a first class water system available throughout the grounds so survivors would not have to worry about dead shrubbery and grass disgracing the graves of the departed.

• Some choose to bury the cremated remains of their loved one in a previously chosen burial plot.

Ceremonies in regards to internment and burial service cremation speak to the convictions, heavenly cosmology and judicious development of individuals and their traditions. Today, the normal individual is liable to carelessness mulling over or investigating about conventions of internments and funerals. The explanation for this is that the present world is more about youthful life and existence with a dug in fear of death covered in one side of the psyche. Demise is an unpreventable piece of living. Archeologists seek and research the historical backdrop of old human advancements by finding internment and memorial service hones that diverse societies have deserted. These discoveries unveil more about the way social orders have lived and from

Over time the process of memorialisation has changed and developed. Types and styles of memorials have evolved as societies values and attitudes have changed. Cooke (2000), Morgan (2001) and Furlong (2002) examine the differences in utilitarian and non-utilitarian memorials and the influence these have on the meanings and values society ascribes them.

Depending on the cultural landscape surrounding a place of interment, mourners may handle the arrival of unorthodox disposal methods in a negative fashion (Seong Lee, Young Kim, & Choi, 2014, p. 534), since they act as an ‘emotional landscape’ (Woodthorpe, 2011, p. 264). Woodthorpe claims that this emotional landscape of the dead must also compete against the commercial and communal implications of a place of interment. In the case of CLCC’s Open Day, conflict ensued between “the visitors attending the site for education and recreation” and “those of the bereaved ‘consumer’ who had purchased aspects of the cemetery service” (2011, p. 268). This clash between the sustainability of the interment grounds themselves and the delicate nature of these sites raises “questions of how to generate income and promote a cemetery, while also ensuring it is amenable to the bereaved visitor advocating on behalf of the