Yes, grave sizes HAVE changed in the past 50 years, according to the keeper of our home cemetery in Ohio. We were noticing the very same thing when we buried my sister and my mother (they died within 24 hours of each other). The man said that Americans in particular have grown in the past 50-100 years, especially in height. The graves are usually dug approximately 8 inches longer than formerly. gwl

Apparently the reason for graves needing to be bigger is not gradual genetic changes, but instead that, with better nutrition, the average human body is able to grow closer to full potential stature, whereas the poorer nutrition of centuries past could cause various skeletal stunting problems and so prevent full stature from being achieved (although a picture of my g-g-grandfather [at 40] seems to indicate that I would have been able to look him straight in the eye - and I'm 5'11"!). Regards Kevin Georgia Lane <glane@gallatinriver.net> wrote in message news:a9ig6l18mi@enews1.newsguy.com... > Yes, grave sizes HAVE changed in the past 50 years, according to the keeper > of our home cemetery in Ohio. We were noticing the very same thing when we > buried my sister and my mother (they died within 24 hours of each other). > The man said that Americans in particular have grown in the past 50-100 > years, especially in height. The graves are usually dug approximately 8 > inches longer than formerly. > > gwl > >

Can work the other way my G.Grandfather was nearly 6.10 and I am 5.3 or thereabouts. Ingrid Billings looking for EMBERSON / BANGS in Essex v.FRAGSTEIN anywhere! In message <3cbd65f9$1@news.comindico.com.au>, Kevin Ettery <kpettery@dcsi.net.au> writes >Apparently the reason for graves needing to be bigger is not gradual genetic >changes, but instead that, with better nutrition, the average human body is >able to grow closer to full potential stature, whereas the poorer nutrition >of centuries past could cause various skeletal stunting problems and so >prevent full stature from being achieved (although a picture of my >g-g-grandfather [at 40] seems to indicate that I would have been able to >look him straight in the eye - and I'm 5'11"!). > >Regards > > > >Kevin > > >Georgia Lane <glane@gallatinriver.net> wrote in message >news:a9ig6l18mi@enews1.newsguy.com... >> Yes, grave sizes HAVE changed in the past 50 years, according to the >keeper >> of our home cemetery in Ohio. We were noticing the very same thing when >we >> buried my sister and my mother (they died within 24 hours of each other). >> The man said that Americans in particular have grown in the past 50-100 >> years, especially in height. The graves are usually dug approximately 8 >> inches longer than formerly. >> >> gwl >> >> > > -- ingrid@cumorah.demon.co.uk 'Prepare Thyself and the Opportunity Will Come'