Compend - cemeteries complete

Megalith

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

Columbarium

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

Veterans cemeteries

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

Lot

A grave, crypt or niche

False

A mausoleum is a building primarily intended to cremated remains

Headstone

A memorial stone marking the head of the grave

Lawn crypt & garden crypt

A pre-placed enclosed chamber, which is usually constructed of reinforced concrete, poured in place of precast unit installed in quantity, either side by side or multiple depth, and covered in either earth or sod

Epitaph

A short text honoring a deceased person that is inscribed on the gravestone of a plaque

Niche

A space in a columbarium used for inurment or 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 intended 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

Gravestone

A stone with an inscription used to mark the grave. May be as simple as the name and dates

False

All cemeteries must be incorporated

Cemetery

All property for EARTH burials

Monument

An upright memorial usually made of granite, marble or common stone

Dolmen

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

Cemetery set up

Artificial grass, chairs, tents and casket lowering device are generally referred to as

False

At the death of a licensed person, the license is transferred to the spouse

Ossuary

Bone pit

Vivisepultire

Burial alive

Potter's field

Cemetery for paupers

Polyandrium

Cemetery of the victims of great battles

Memorial Park

Cemetery which has adopted a park like style

Pyre

Ceremonial construction made of wood and fire

Memorial service

Ceremony commemoration for the deceased without the remains present

Sarcophagus

Comes from the Greek word meaning flesh eater

outer burial container

Container that's designed for placement in the grave space around the casket

Placophobia

Fear of tombstones.

Sepulchre

From the Latin sepulcrum which meant only a burial place

Potter's Field

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

Will

Generally used for the disposition of any earthly positions

Plat or plot

Group of 2 or more adjoining graves, crypts or inches owned by the same owner

All of these

How large would a grave need to be to accommodate a standard burial vault

Catacomb

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

All of these

Internment is used as a generic term used to embrace all forms of disposition of human remains to include

Cenotaph

Literally "an empty tomb". A monument erected in honor of a deceased who is buried elsewhere

Named for the King of Caria, whose wife, artemisia, built one of the seven wonders of the ancient world. A chamber or structure used for entombment. A building that houses crypts for burial. A community form of this is for several families, a private one is used for a single family.

Mausoleum

False

Most states with cemetery laws will not permit the cremated remains to be buried

Mausoleum, garden, lawn

Of those listed, which are types of crypts

Erect a scaffolding

On a hillside cemetery it may be necessary for the FD to _________ to keep the lowering device level over the grave

Taphophile

One who loves cemeteries and funerals

Memorial cenotaph

Physical identification of a space where one, several or a multitude of people died in a common occurrence

Wake

Practice of watching over the body by candlelight the night before the funeral

Family

Private cemeteries located on private family owned homesteads

Cremated remains

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

Deceased

Remains and _______ have the same meaning

Right of interment

Right to inter human remains in a designated lot

Country

Rural, roadside cemeteries, many with homemade grave markers

Sloping ground or hillside

Some modern lowering devices are equipped with telescoping legs to accommodate_______ and the location of the grave

Pyramid

Structure where the outer surfaces are triangular and converge to a single point at the top

Burial Ground

Term often used by Natives to refer to their place of burial

Tomb

The Greeks called the swollen ground or mound which marked gravesites a tumulus

Internment

The burial, entombment, or inurnment of human remains

Memorial

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

Elite Garden Cemetery

The first of this type was in Mt. Auburn, Mass. in 1839. During the Victorian era, cemeteries were used as parks for walks and picnics.

Lot Holder

The person to whom the Cemetery Authority has conveyed a right of internment through original purchase, by transfer from original purchased, or who holds such right by inheritance

Plot holder

The person to whom the cemetery authority has conveyed a right of interment in a number of adjacent cemetery lots

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 est. and discontinuance as well as to monitor their use

Obelisk

These are physical representation of rays from the sun streaming to the earth

Urban cemeteries

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

Cemetery management

They everyday care and operation of the cemetery

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

Inter

To bury or put a dead body into a grave

Vaults

Underground receptacles for caskets

1) church yard 3) family 4) veterans 5) memorial parks

Which of the following are types of cemeteries?

All of these

Which of the following might fall under the jurisdiction of use of a cemetery

reliquary

container for saint relics