Interesting Houston chronicle excerpts about our Historic Crown Hill Cemetery.
These are some excerpts taken from an article in the Houston Chronical.
Their work has spanned decades and took the 7.5-acre cemetery from a place so overgrown you couldn’t see a gravestone, to one that pulls in dozens of volunteers for Saturday cleanups twice a month.
👆 (Sure wish this could be said for Crown Hill Cemetery)
“Cemeteries have a multi-faceted significance to their communities. They are sites of memory and places where our past is physically recorded. Every single burial tells a story, and that is certainly true at Olivewood,” Malone-France said. “They are a chance to remember and to take care of our past … in a way that inspires us to take care of our future.”
“Cemeteries are repositories of community traditions. They reflect spiritual beliefs and burial customs and, in a lot of cases, they’re the only site left associated with prominent individuals,” said Preservation Houston executive director David Bush. “They show how people wanted to be remembered. If you look at it, when communities are established, one of the first institutions created is usually a cemetery.”
"Some graves are marked with objects related to spiritual beliefs and superstitions from years past, including drain pipes that would allow their spirits to be set free, or text written backward so the dead could read it from the spiritual world".