I got some information from St. Boniface Cemetery in Cook County that said 2 of my relatives were in term graves. What is a term grave? Do they dig the bodies up and move them after a certain amount of time? They were buried in 1879 and 1899. > > To post a message to the COOK-CO-IL mailing list, send an email to COOK-CO-IL@rootsweb.com > . > > __________________________________________________________ > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to COOK-CO-IL-request@rootsweb.com > with the word "unsubscribe" without the quotes in the subject and > the body of the > email with no additional text. > > > End of COOK-CO-IL Digest, Vol 7, Issue 10 > ***************************************** >

This definition is from Raymond Johnson of the Chicago Genealogy Examiner, Sept 9, 2009. "For lack of a better comparison, a term grave could be looked at as a grave "rental" A term grave is an option usually chosen when a family cannot afford a "perpetual" grave site. It can be for any time frame specified in the contract between the purchaser and the cemetery but is usually 20-25 years. After the expiration of the "term" the family is usually given a specified length of time to purchase the grave in "perpetuity" In the case where a family decides to not renew the term or purchase the grave in perpetuity than the ground is built up a few feet above the previous grave and the marker (if there is one) is either thrown away or placed on top of the previous grave. The grave is then available for a new burial on top of the old burial with it's new respective marker. " Robert ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jackie & Al Fritsch" <ajfritsch@excel.net> To: <cook-co-il@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, January 19, 2012 5:17 PM Subject: [COOK-CO-IL] What is a Term grave? >I got some information from St. Boniface Cemetery in Cook County that > said 2 of my relatives were in term graves. What is a term grave? Do > they dig the bodies up and move them after a certain amount of time? > They were buried in 1879 and 1899. > >> >> To post a message to the COOK-CO-IL mailing list, send an email to >> COOK-CO-IL@rootsweb.com >> . >> >> __________________________________________________________ >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> COOK-CO-IL-request@rootsweb.com >> with the word "unsubscribe" without the quotes in the subject and >> the body of the >> email with no additional text. >> >> >> End of COOK-CO-IL Digest, Vol 7, Issue 10 >> ***************************************** >> > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > COOK-CO-IL-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >