Re: Grave Orientation - Randall W Fields
Subject: Re: Grave Orientation
From: Randall W Fields
Date: May 25, 1998

There is an exception to most everything.  My parents tombstone was
reversed.  My mother's name is on the right and it is at the head of the
graves.  My father died at the age of  from leukemia in 1960 and my
mother died in 1994, still a widow.  The person who engraved the
tombstone just made an error. My mother is now buried on my father's left
side.

Randall Fields
On Mon, 25 May 1998 03:11:15 -0500 LaWanda  writes:
>I've been reading the comments about graves facing east-west. I do not
>think that most 'civil' cemeteries place the graves at random. It is
>still the custom to orient graves east-west with the head of the
>deceased to the west - thus, when rising up on Judgment Day, they will
>be facing the East.  
>
>Also, the wife's name is supposed to be on the left side of the stone.
>If it is on the right (and the stone was lettered correctly), then the
>stone is at the foot of the grave and not the head.
>
>LaWanda
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