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Cemetery wants to resell unused plots

Written by DeadGirl
Monday, 01 August 2005
July 27, 2005 By Brian Alexander Times Snohomish County Bureau The Edmonds Memorial Cemetery board is moving to reclaim and resell 1,176 grave sites whose owners can't be found. The cemetery initiated the process nearly five years ago. At the start of next year, it plans to file a petition for abandonment with Snohomish County and seek permission in Superior Court to resell the plots. The process is still a couple of years from being finished Ã¢â‚¬â€ the reclaimed 8-foot grave sites probably couldn't be sold until late 2007 or in 2008. The lot reclamation could intensify a problem the cemetery board already has, however. For some graves, records don't show who is buried where, said Cliff Edwards, the Edmonds Memorial Cemetery sexton, who tends the facility and sells, digs and marks the graves. Because of lost records and poor record keeping between 1891, when the cemetery was founded, and 1982, when the city took it over, Edwards sometimes finds more than dirt when he digs. "When the city got the cemetery, we didn't get the old records Ã¢â‚¬â€ they got lost," Edwards said. As a result, some people were buried without tombstones and without records. Others were recorded to have been buried in one grave but are actually in another. Edwards isn't sure all the graves the cemetery wants to reclaim are vacant like the records say. Dale Hoggins, a cemetery-board member, said the cemetery will probe graves to see if there's a casket or something else in the ground before they dig. If they're digging and find remains, they will be as respectful as possible. "The main thing is to pay the deepest respects and not just hope the thing goes away," Hoggins said. "There's nothing more sacred than a place where a family member's buried." The problem lies as much in how people marked graves as in the record keeping, Hoggins said. Some families used wooden markers and never put something more permanent in place. The markers deteriorated or were stolen or moved. Edwards tells buyers that if he comes upon an unknown burial while digging their grave, he'll find them another spot. Even before reclaiming graves, the city has lots available in all sizes and most locations. Brian Alexander: 425-745-7813 or This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/snohomishcountynews/2002403867_cemetery27n.html

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taphophilia (taf′ō-fil′ē-ă)

ORIGIN:
From the Greek words taphos, meaning "tomb" or "sepulcher" and philia, meaning "attraction or affinity to something, in particular the love or obsession with something"

DEFINITION: 1. An excessive interest in graves and cemeteries. 2. A love or fondness for funerals, graves, and cemeteries. 3. In psychiatry, a morbid attraction to graves and cemeteries

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