I've been driving around Grimes County lately and have run across several cemeteries in the middle of nowhere that look promising.

How do I find out who owns / manages these? Local funeral homes? County government?

Got my eye on this one.

Instead of taking up space long after you are gone and allowing a funeral home to suck $10 grand from your heirs, why dont you get cremated and disappear as fertilizer or get snorted by your children?

If everyone decided to be buried in a coffin in a cemetary, eventually the entire world will be a cemetery. Dont be so selfish.

They make mass graves for a reason.

The County will be the ultimate record keeper - there might be a cemetery association sign or something at the front gate

heres a list of Grimes County
there may be contact information here on some of them
https://www.findagrave.com/cemetery-browse/USA/Texas/Grimes-County?id=county_2612

thats not going to be a complete list - our cemetery on our place is not on the corresponding list for Eastland Co
but when we buried my father-in-law the funeral home told us to just dig a hole and register with the County. I expected some kinda survey requirements but all they wanted was an estimate of how many miles from town (and our town was Okra)

My grandparents / family has a extra plot in Groesbeck but I'm not sure who has rights to that. I'm not opposed to cremation but it might give some of my surviving family some grief.

The cemetery listed by TheSheik below looks to be the one from the OP.

Donate your body to science. They will come pick up your body, ultimately do a free cremation, then return your ashes to your family in a few weeks. It's free and you don't have to take up any space. Putting your rotting corpse in a big box in the ground is both pointless and expensive.

If you know the name, there is usually a "cemetery association". Google will likely help.

Like Teacher Wife '82, I'll be cremated, have a small wooden box with my ashes buried in order to join the Blackland ground my ancestors farmed for so long. The Church wants remains to stay together. There are 8 generations of '83s in that cemetery with birthdates starting in the late 1700s.

george1992 said:

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Instead of taking up space long after you are gone and allowing a funeral home to suck $10 grand from your heirs, why dont you get cremated and disappear as fertilizer or get snorted by your children?

If everyone decided to be buried in a coffin in a cemetary, eventually the entire world will be a cemetery. Dont be so selfish.

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Don't be a dick

BaitShack said:

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My grandparents / family has a extra plot in Groesbeck but I'm not sure who has rights to that. I'm not opposed to cremation but it might give some of my surviving family some grief.

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It isn't about them. They should respect YOUR wishes.

Hope you're doing well, BS.

Normally the next door land owners can be asked about those keeping up the graveyards.

I have 7 plots in East Texas countryside but the family chose donations to science Instead and I have spread ashes with planted fruit trees and have similar directives for myself.

I can add that the medical community is very professional and respectful in handling the bodies.

Texas State has (or had) a forensics program where they place corpse in the wild to see how it would take to decompose. That way they had some accurate data for crimes scenes where someone finds a body that has been dumped.

Seemed like an interesting thing to have done with your corpse. Lord knows I won't need mine when I'm done.

I'm glad I don't have to worry about any of that, as I expect to be torn apart by wild dogs and my remains scattered about the land.

Family plot in Milam County going back to 1850s. You ain't getting in without our last name

I sprinkled my dad's ashes in the road hole bunker at St. Andrews, while I made a 7 on the hole. It was what he wanted. The ashes in the bunker, not necessarily my triple bogey.

To each their own.

My Dad passed in September. Parents lived in FW and didn't have pre-paid plots. Stepmom grew up in Coryell County and assumed they could be buried in the cemetery at the Church in Norse she went to as a kid. Nope. Apparently as big city plots become more expensive the little country cemeteries have become more restrictive.

I just inherited 11 plots in the original Cleburne cemetery.
Thank heavens I went through the heaps and heaps of old papers and records.


They were purchased in 1905. Some rando is occupying one of the original 12.

If anyone in Cleburne is looking for a final resting place, they are for sale!

BaitShack said:

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I've been driving around Grimes County lately and have run across several cemeteries in the middle of nowhere that look promising.

How do I find out who owns / manages these? Local funeral homes? County government?

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Odd fellows cemetery in Anderson. FTW!

We could be neighbors one day...

Some of them are " family" cemeteries There are multiple community families buried in the same place and only descendants of those buried already can get a plot. It's first come first served until the cemetery is full. No charge for the plot.

But it's worth asking for sure. They're not all like that. Call the largest city cemetery nearby the one you like and they can tell you about the one you're interested in and give you contacts.

Al the GB answers are taken

My dad's side has a couple of small town cemeteries with his mom's side pretty well represented but him and mom are going with the one they live in. My brother died already and was cremated. There's a small marker for him there.

As for me, cryogenic storage FTW. I'll probably need a cure for 17 stab wounds in order to come out though.

I'm just a whole bunch of carbon
But I'm gonna be a diamond someday.

I'm going to have my ashes converted into a diamond. Since I don't have any kids of my own, my niece will be the lucky recipient. she doesn't know this yet.

george1992 said:

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Instead of taking up space long after you are gone and allowing a funeral home to suck $10 grand from your heirs, why dont you get cremated and disappear as fertilizer or get snorted by your children?

If everyone decided to be buried in a coffin in a cemetary, eventually the entire world will be a cemetery. Dont be so selfish.

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https://www.wired.com/2011/10/holy-smokes-loads-cremation-ashes-into-shotgun-shells/

If you contact any reputable Funeral Home, they should be able to give you the contact information, on public cemeteries in their "trade area". Keep in mind that in rural Texas there are numerous privately owned burial plots many in the same family since the 1800's.

a different FairView cemetery

Fairview Cemetery Richards, Texas
Contact - Tom Haynie
979-220-3058
936-825-2436
A sign posted at the cemetery has this information:
All plots must be reserved. All funeral homes must have prior approval from an officer.

I've always thought it was so strange that people care where they'll be buried. I've always told my loved ones to max out organ donation if it's possible and then cremate me. I don't have any preference what happens beyond that.

Jimmy McNulty said:

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This is likely the correct answer - he can help you with.a tombstone and ensure that you Rest. In. Peeeaaaccceee!

BaitShack said:

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My grandparents / family has a extra plot in Groesbeck but I'm not sure who has rights to that. I'm not opposed to cremation but it might give some of my surviving family some grief.

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If your grandparents purchased plots in a public cemetery, then they own the rights to who can be buried in them. If both are still alive, great, they can designate. Then is would be the surviving spouse, then their children and then the grandchildren and on down through time. It sometimes gets a little tricky when it gets to a third or forth generation as all the heirs get a say so in who gets buried in the plot in question . However, this same red tape prevents one of your distant cousins from digging up great grandpa and selling the plot. Exception to this is if one or more of the plots were willed to you or one of your relatives.