Compend- Cemeteries (1)

Columbaria

A building specifically designed with niches for the disposition of cremated remains

Veterans cemetery

A cemetery created by an act of congress for burial of those that served in the military.

Memorial park

A cemetery which has adopted a park like stay and abolished the use of upright memorials.

Polyandrium

A cemetery, originally a cemetery for the victims of great battles.

Pyre

A ceremonial construction made of wood and fire, designed to reduce a deceased human body to ashes.

Memorial service

A ceremony commemoration for the deceased without the remains present.

Reliquary

A container for the preservation of relics of a saint.

Outer burial container

A container that is designed for placement in the grave space around the casket, including, but not limited to, containers commonly known as burial vaults, grave boxes, and grave liners.

Lot

A grave, crypt or niche.

Plat or plot

A group of two or more adjoining graves, crypts or niches owned by the same lot holder.

Will

A legal document which allows its creator a limited afterlife during which it may choose to placate, amuse, gratify or anger the survivors. Generally used for the disposition of any earthly positions.

False

A mausoleum is a building primarily intended for cremated remains? True or false

C. (Both a and b)

A pre-placed enclosed chamber, which is usually constructed of reinforced concrete, poured in place or precast unit installed in quantity, either side by side or multiple depth and covered by earth or sod: A. Lawn crypt B. Garden crypt C. Both a and b D. None of these

Epitaph

A short text honoring a deceased which is inscribed on their tombstone or plaque.

Niche

A space in a columbarium, mausoleum or other structure, used or intended to be used for the inurnment of cremated human remains.

Grave

A space of land in a cemetery used or intended to be used for the burial of human remains

Crypt

A space of sufficient size in a building or land area used or inherited to be used for the entombment of human remains

Footstone

A stone marker, with or without an inscription used to mark the foot of the grave.

Dolmen

Any neolithic monument consisting of a large, flat stone supported by two or more rocks (like a table).

False

At the death of a license be it funeral director, embalmer or cemetery sales person, the license is transferred to the spouse? True or false

Sepulchre

From the Latin "sepulcrum" which meant only "a burial place?"

Potter's field

Generally state or county owned and operated for the burial of the indigent or unclaimed

C. (Both a and b are correct)

How large would a grave need to be to accommodate a standard burial vault? A. 3' X 8' B. 36" X 96" C. Both a and b are correct D. None of these are correct

Catacomb

Human made subterranean or hillside passageways for religious practice. Any chamber used as a burial place. Most commonly associated with the Roman Empire.

Erect a scaffolding

In a hillside cemetery, where the ground is on a steep slope where the grave is located, it may be necessary for the funeral director to ____________________ in order to keep the lowering device level over the grave.

Deceased

In cemetery language, "remains" and __________________ have the same meaning.

D. (All of these)

Interment is used as a generic term to embrace all forms of disposition of human remains to include: A. Burial B. Entombment C. Inurement D. All of these

Cenotaph

Literally "an empty tomb" A monument erected in honor for a deceased who is interred elsewhere

Tomb

The Greeks called the swollen ground or mound which marked gravesite a tumulus. Today, the word tomb is used chiefly to refer to those burial places which are above ground.

Cemetery set-up

The artificial grass, chairs, tent and casket lowering devise are generally referred to as ____________________________.

Memorial

The device used to identify the place of interment and whose purpose is to commemorate a family or an individual and includes such terms as monument, marker, tombstone, tablet, shutter, headstone, footnote, or niche plate.

Cemetery management

The everyday care and operation of the cemetery

Elite Garden Cemetery

The first of this type was in Mt. Auburn, Mass, in 1830. During the Victorian era, cemeteries were used as parks for walks and picnics.

Headstone

The memorial stone marking the head of the grave.

Plot holder

The person or persons to whom the Cemetery Authority has conveyed a right of interment in a number of adjacent cemetery lots.

Lot Holder

The person or persons to whom the Cemetery Authority has conveyed a right of interment through original purchase, by transfer from original purchaser, or who hold such right by inheritance.

Memorial cenotaph

The physical identification of a space where one, several or a multitude of people died in a common occurrence. The deceased may or may not be interred at that place.

Wake

The practice of watching over the body by candlelight the night before the funeral.

Right of Interment

The right to inter human remains in a designated lot as provided in the conveyance given to the original purchaser, or his designated successor(s).

Cemetery authority

The state, in its exercise of Police Power, would create one of these to regulate the creation of cemeteries by providing for their establishment and discontinuance as well as to monitor their use.

Urban cemeteries

These are relatively small cemeteries with rows of headstones and no resemblance to a park. Usually in larger cities up until the 1950's.

Church yard

This type of cemetery originated in Europe where it was thought that the closer to the place of worship a person was the greater their chance of going to heaven

Sarcophagus

This word comes from the Greek meaning "flesh-eater." It has come to mean any large burial receptacle.

Obelisk

Though the name derived from the Greek, meaning "a small spit" they are Egyptian. These are the physical representation of rays from the sun streaming to the earth.

Inter

To bury or put a dead body into a grave

Vaults

Underground receptacles for caskets.

Megalith

A "big rock." The most famous of these are not sepulchral but things or places like Stonehenge.

Ossuary

A "bone-pit"

Potter's field

A cemetery for paupers

Gravestone

A stone with an inscription used to mark the grave. May be as simple as the name and dates- John Doe 1927-1214(I think Dr. T means 1927-2014?)

Pyramid

A structure whose shape is geometric where the outer surfaces are triangular and converge to a single point at the top.

False

All cemeteries must be incorporated? True or false

Cemetery

All property for earth burials.

Monument

An upright memorial, including what used to be called a tombstone, also includes large structures like obelisks, usually made of granite, marble or common stone.

Placophobia

Fear of tombstones

Vivisepulture

Meaning: Burial alive.

False

Most states with cemetery laws will not permit the cremated remains to be buried. True or false

Mausoleum

Named for the King of Caria, whose wife, Artemisia, built one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. A chamber or structure used or intended to be used, for entombment. A building that houses crypts for burial. A community form of this building is for many families and a private one is generally sold for the use for a single family.

D. (All of these)

Of those listed below, which are types of crypts? A. Mausoleum B. Garden C. Lawn D. All of these

Taphophile

One who loves cemeteries and funerals

Country

Rural, outside cemeteries, many with homemade grave markers

Sloping ground or hillside

Some modern lowering devices are equipped with telescoping legs to accommodate ______________________________________.

Burial Ground

Term often used by Native Americans to refer to their places of burial.

Interment

The burial, entombment or inurement of human remains

1, 3, 4 and 5

Which of the following are types of cemeteries? 1- Church yard 2- Grocery markets 3- Family 4- Veterans 5- Memorial parks

All of these

Which of the following might fall under the jurisdiction or use of a cemetery: 1- Land dedicated, reserved or used for internment 2- Trees, shrubs and other vegetation grown on the property 3- Graves, mausoleums, crypts, columbaria, niches or other interment spaces 4- Memorial works of art 5- Roadways, walkways and ponds or lagoons (water features) 6- Equipment, vehicles and facilities incident to the operation there of

Family

Private cemeteries located on private family owned farmsteads.

Cremated remains

Proper term for the remains of the human body that remain following the cremation