Re: Question about cemeteries - john c ottinger
Subject: Re: Question about cemeteries
From: john c ottinger
Date: May 21, 1998

 according to the article, it is the only known cemetery in
> the US with the headstones facing north/south......ALL of the others have
> the headstones facing east/west......am I the only one not to have ever
> noticed this....is this general knowledge, even to us graveyard
> plunderers?  I just had to ask this.
> Any feedback and/or responses would be welcome.
> Bill Hughes
> [email protected]


I don't claim to be an authority, but my memory of the two largest
cemeteries in Memphis, TN, Forest Hill and Elmwood, is of most markers
facing north and/or south. My memory of rural church cemeteries is that
they face east-west.

John Ottinger

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