Google Map of all the known cemeteries in the Hampton Roads Area.
Ghettotery aka Jones Memorial Park
This is the ghettoest cemetery ever. The names have been changed to protect the innocent as the last photo shows.1) This cemetery that has no name to be found on it or on the google, mapquest, yahoo, etc. Trashnglam Informed it is Jones Memorial Park.
2)It is still in active use. The last photo shows someone who died just as recently as 3 months ago.
3)This is the only cemetery I have seen that posts its site cleaning rates.
4) It has giant no littering signs at its entrance.
5) There is no full time grounds keeper. This place has sections that are just overgrown. A weed-whacker would be a great addition to this place.**
6) It has (as the first photos show) vaults that have been spray-painted silver. I have no idea why there are foil covered bricks on them.***
The following information provided by Trashnglam:
**A news article about the ghettoness of the cemetery.
[In] 1990-Workmen (unknown if city or private) came into Jones Memorial Park to "clean it up". In the process, they took all loose gravestones and put them in a huge pile near the records office. It was also discovered there were no "records" in the office. I lived less than a block away from this cemetery during that time period. I recall seeing headstones piled up about 7' high. Many were from turn of the century.
Here is what it looked like when the place still had a sign giving its name but didn't have the cleaning signs mentioned above.
*** And if all that wasn't enough she also contributed this bit about the spray paint: "Silver spray paint-usually done on cheaper vaults in rural areas by independent vault services aka gravediggers. I've seen it on a few other obscure cemeteries in the area. Bricks wrapped in foil. Apparently it's some sort of gift for the dead."
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