Record #:

36889

Author(s):

Jabbour, Alan; Singer-Jabbour, Karen

Abstract:

Visiting several cemeteries in Jackson County’s Canada Township, the author happened across a cemetery style that he had not seen before, found in three different cemeteries. The style was a bare earth mound, meaning the graves were mounded up and kept clear of grass and weeds, and then covered with a thick layer of white gravel to maintain the shape and suppress growth of grass.

Source:

North Carolina Folklore Journal (NoCar GR 110 N8 N6), Vol. 59 Issue 2, Fall-Winter 2012, p47-59

Subject(s):

Cemeteries; Burial mounds; Burial customs; Burial traditions; Decoration Day