Alternatives to flowers left at a grave?
Monday, February 15th, 2010 at
9:49 pm
I am planning a family history trip and I will be visiting upwards of a couple hundred graves. Obviously, real flowers left at each grave would be a big expense but I would feel bad leaving nothing.
Are artificial flowers allowed at most cemeteries (the ones I am visiting are mostly old and unmaintained)? If I use artificial flowers, what kind of artificial flowers should I buy? Is there anything besides flowers that you can think of that I should use?
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you could go to your local dollar store and buy little statues.
we bought little angel ones and ones of jesus to leave at graves.
i believe artificial flowers are ok to leave, also if you want to, buy some dollar store stuffed animals to leave at the gravesites.
Rather than leave a couple hundred flower bouquets, donate money to the library(s), near the cemetery sites. In these tough economic times, it will be greatly appreciated.
Use a tape/digital recorder to record the names of the cemeteries and the names of your relatives buried within each cemetery. It will save time and back-up the info on any/all photos you take of headstones.
You can create a memorial to all of the deceased on http://www.findagrave.com, a free site.
If a cemetery is not listed on findagrave you can submit it.
You can write a biography and connect parents to their children.
There is a place to leave a note & virtual flowers; invite relatives to do the same.
Brave Squaws took my answer.
That was the answer that I was going to use.
Go to findagrave.com
It really is a cool website.
It is free and they have like 32 million people already listed on here.
Say a prayer, transcribe the tombstones and enter them on
http://www.findagrave.com
that way they will live forever, or until the Internet vanishes. You may help a second cousin, too.
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Added later:
I suggested this before I read the other answers. Three of us suggested the same thing. That’s a sign.
I found this, copied it off and leave one on each tombstone I visit.
DEAR ANCESTOR
Your tombstone stands among the rest;
Neglected and alone.
The name and date are chiseled out
On polished, marbled stone.
It reaches out to all who care
It is too late to mourn.
You did not know that I exist
You died and I was born.
Yet each of us are cells of you
In flesh, in blood, in bone.
Our blood contracts and beats a pulse
Entirely not our own.
Dear Ancestor, the place you filled
One hundred years ago
Spreads out among the ones you left
Who would have loved you so.
I wonder if you lived and loved,
I wonder if you knew
That someday I would find this spot,
And come to visit you.
Author Unknown
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