The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1900-01-31
With the Feet TO the East.


GUN, from Il western newspaper, par
agraph about the disintcrncnt and re-
burial OF = body ina cemetery, Iccaiisss
1T had been buried in the wrong way.
'Thc undertaken, - the paragraph
said, was Il new man at the business,
and the body was placed with it's feet
to the west. The relatives recalled
the fact, and would not be satisfied
until the remains were cxhumcd and
turned with the feet to the cast, in
accordance with the popular custom"
New York undcrtakers say that
hcrcabouts bodies are buried accord
ing to the situation Of the burial plot.
with tho feet to the path in front,
however, that may bring the lsbody
with regards to the points of the com
pass. 1t was a common custom in old
times to bury the dead with their feet
to the east, 80 that when they should
rise. on the day Of tho resurrection.
they would rise facing whence the
summons was expected. There are,
1T Is said, whole churchyards filled
with dead, all facing east, but with
the growth Of cities and of cemeteries
outside Of churchyard burying grounds
this practice fell into disusc. Gene
tcrics were variously situated to start
with, and then they were laid out in
such manner as to bring the land
within them most advantageously into
use. Obviously, for illustration. of n
double tier Of lots joining ut the back
and each tier facing nn path. one
tier of lots would face one way and
the other tier i'll exactly the opposite
way A body buried in any of these
lots, facing either way, would be bur
led with the feet to the path upon
which the lot frontcd, SO that the
bodies in the two tiers of the double
tier of lots would sface in ex-
actly opposite direction, and it
might be that neither faced exactly
east.
In laying out cemeteries there are
likely Co be curving roads and there
might be roads crossing diagonally,
with the result of some plots Of irreg-
ular shape, and some triangular; and
there are likely TO De found in some
cemeteries some circular plots. In
circular plot that was enclosed by 9th
er land it might be that the grades
would be .made with the feet toward
the monument at the centre of the
plot: if, as would more likely be the
case, the circular plot had path
around it, then the bodies would b.
placed with their heads to the central
monument and their feet to the path,
the graves radiating from the centre,
and SO lying as to the points Of the
compass in various directions. In
triangular plots the bodies might not
be inferred with feet to path, but
lcngthwise of the plot in the longest
section; in this or irregular plots they
would be buried as they could be most
appropriately to the plot. But in
most lots it is possible to bury the
body with the feet to the path, and
this is now, without regard to the
compass points, substantially the com.
mon practice. And if body were
disinterred from one lot and re;nterred
in another it would, upon it's renter
ment, be placed with its face to the
iFcnt Of the new lot, whether this
faced In the same direction or not. It
is the location of the lot that governs
the practice being to bury with the
feet, and thus, of course, the face, to-
ward the path.
But while the direction in which
bodies shall lie buried is nowadays
commonly thus determined, there are
those who still prefer to be buried
facing cast, and who accomplish that
result simply by buying lot that fa-
ccs in that direction. -Ncw I0rL SIN.
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