<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:tahoma, new york, times, serif;font-size:10pt"><DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: tahoma, new york, times, serif">Leslie,</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: tahoma, new york, times, serif">You are very correct in your statement that you must check on the rules for the cemetery before you get to excited about placing headstones. Also if you check with the monument/headstone companies (or in our case with the local funeral home that sells headstones) they may give you the information that you are looking for concerning the cement perservative. <BR>Also your local construction people who work with cement on a daily basis may know. </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: tahoma, new york, times, serif">Good luck in your search!</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: tahoma, new york, times, serif">Anne<BR></DIV>
<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: times new roman, new york, times, serif">----- Original Message ----<BR>From: Leslie Chapman <reedsportchapmans@verizon.net><BR>To: Oregon List <or-roots@www.sos.state.or.us><BR>Sent: Monday, November 20, 2006 8:31:00 AM<BR>Subject: [or-roots] Gravestones<BR><BR>
<DIV>The thing you have to take into account when putting grave markes in<BR>cemeteries is whether they have rules concerning what you can place. Some<BR>"for profit" managed cemeteries have very specific rules, mainly to keep<BR>maintenance easy, here is a representative sample;<BR><BR><BR>Flat stones, kerbstones, fencing, or any other form of enclosure or border<BR>is not permitted. Trenches or any other type of boundary marking are not<BR>allowed.<BR><BR>Potted or planted trees or shrubs are not allowed on or near graves. Only<BR>cut flowers are allowed (and potted plants on the plinth - see above).<BR><BR>Memorials, trees and shrubs which are not allowed will be removed.<BR><BR>Nothing is to stand on the grass in front of the area reserved for the base<BR>of a headstone.<BR><BR>All new graves (excluding woodland graves and traditional ones) are lawn<BR>type graves and so will be mown on a regular basis.<BR><BR>The cemetery staff will - as part of their routine
maintenance - top up<BR>graves, remove any object or debris, or disallowed objects from the rear of<BR>the memorial<BR><BR><BR>Interestingly enought when I google "maximum height" for gravestones it<BR>seems that the two cemeteries I am most familiar with, Reedsport and Fir<BR>Grove in Cottage Grove are the exception in only allowing low headstones;<BR>most places restrict the height to between two and four feet, typically no<BR>more than three feet. Now I am wondering if Fir Grove has a height<BR>restriction, I know they didn't in 1972, but can't remember if it has<BR>changed.<BR><BR>I did recently find a "cement preservative" which I cannot lay my hands on<BR>to give you more details, it is "supposed" to hold togehter crumbling<BR>concrete. I will try to remember to pass along more info when I locate it<BR>and put it to use on my foundation.<BR><BR><BR>Les C<BR><BR><BR>_______________________________________________<BR>or-roots mailing
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