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I was surprised to see this high mound, which was not here when I visited two years ago. Almost no one is buried like this, now.The Keno Cemetery does not have an official caretaker, so this is probably the family's work. The cemetery is extremely helter-skelter, with no design or plan. People are buried every-which-way and I can't imagine how anyone decides where to dig a grave, since a lot of the oldest graves are unmarked.

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 Don Barrett (aka DBs travels)
Don Barrett (aka DBs… club
What amazes me even more is that it is still possible to do ad hoc burials without the assistance of some formal organization.
8 years ago.
Diane Putnam club has replied to Don Barrett (aka DBs… club
I'm not sure, but this really seems that way. I suppose a funeral home delivered the casket, but the rest was up to the family. Interesting - wish I knew more about this cemetery. There are a few wacky graves among the newer ones. The oldies (before 1960s) are very traditional.
8 years ago.
Don Barrett (aka DBs… club has replied to Diane Putnam club
I've seen similar in multiple rural towns in the west.
8 years ago.
Diane Putnam club has replied to Don Barrett (aka DBs… club
You're right, it's a real back-country thing. I recall seeing mounds in a small, old cemetery in South Dakota, way out in the prairie. This one is piled higher than any I have seen and had some odd stuff on the dirt as mementos: shotgun shells, a golf ball, etc.. Don't know why I find these things fascinating, but I do.
8 years ago.
Don Barrett (aka DBs… club has replied to Diane Putnam club
One from a trip up to SF last year, in a town near a tiny town south of Salinas.
San Lucas cemetery (0965)
8 years ago.

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