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Is it OK to lie and say I live there? If I live in Skokie, can I mention one in Chicago? What if I used to live in Chicago, is it still "my city"? My mother is buried in a city where I've never lived --- no go? What are the rules?
There's no need to lie. I haven't lived in Wilkes-Barre for over 30 years. I grew up there and have been to Hollenback twice just to walk around and look at the lovely mausoleums, statues, and distinctive grave markers.* I'd feel free to mention a cemetery where a relative or friend was buried.
*Once was when my father was in Cardiac ICU at the hospital across the street. That was his view from the window in his room. I went over there to be in a quiet, green place for a while.
The fairly rare long-eared owl occurs often in Kansas, where town cemeteries offer an ideal undisturbed habitat of a grove of old growth trees surrounded by bare fields. If there is a nesting pair, they will stay for decades and make a reconnaissance fly-over if visitors stop. The pair at Jetnore KS cemetery was well-known.
Country cemeteries, especially those pioneer cemeteries on the prairies or plains, are often the refuge for rare and endangered plants and wildflowers because they have never been plowed.
We have a number of small community cemeteries around the area dating back to the 1840's. You won't find many graves dating back further than that due to Oregon main settlement happened about that time. Often you'll will see a whole family buried around the same date, often makes me wonder about their story.
In the area is Jacksonville Cemetery, Rocky Point Cemetery, Logtown Cemetery and the Missouri Flat Cemetery, all of these date back to the 1840's. When my wife and visit these cemeteries we often wonder about the lives these people led, some died really young and others lived to be a ripe old age.
Boston has a bunch - Granary is in the heart of downtown and is probably the most famous with the graves of Paul Revere, John Hancock, and Samuel Adams (as well as Boston Massacre victims). King's Chapel, Copp's Hill, and Central Burying Ground are the other big ones (all pretty close together too).
If you drive down to Fall River, Oak Grove is worth a stop too. It's pretty, but it's also the resting place of Lizzie Borden, the infamous (alleged) axe murderer.
Just go see where your ancestors are buried, if you haven't done so already.
I live in CA, and last month I finally made a visit to N Minn, and saw my grandparents' graves.
They're buried side-by-side, but for some reason my grandfather got a marker and my grandmother didn't
(my father and his sisters are no longer around to explain that). But from reading the names
on the neighboring markers and stones, I could see that they're resting among their countrymen (Finns).
No one famous is buried there, as far as I know, and it's not scenic... but I learned a bit of history:
the cemetery manager pointed to some nearby woods, and told me there was a Hooverville there
during the Depression, populated by men looking for work.
Salem & Evergreen cemeteries, both in Winston-Salem, NC. Many prominent people are buried in both, especially the former. RJ Reynolds and family, the Hanes clan, and Shaffners at Salem (among many others). Members of the Five Royales singing group, an actor who played in some of the Police Academy movies, and bluesman Guitar Gabriel in Evergreen.
Is it OK to lie and say I live there? If I live in Skokie, can I mention one in Chicago? What if I used to live in Chicago, is it still "my city"? My mother is buried in a city where I've never lived --- no go? What are the rules?
Someone questioned why Arlington National Cemetery wasn't on the list. I highlighted that the question asks about the city in which people live, which is why Arlington National Cemetery wasn't listed. (posters were responding to the question posed)
I'm not advising how people respond. I simply pointed out why no one had mentioned Arlington.
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