Burying "bits"

I learned today, while going through old cemetery records in a small Iowa town, that you can bury yourself a piece at a time. I ran across at least three individual plots today that had been sold in the 50's to people who buried an amputated body part in the plot. It doesn't ssy that the rest of the body was buried there. The Name of the interred is "amputated foot" of (insert name). Creepy.

Let's say that someone buried an amputated body part in the garden back in the 1800's. Today when they are excavating to build a high rise in that spot, they will go crazy after they find just the foot bones.
Backhoe Operator: "Hey, I got a foot here, Charlie......."
Charlie: "Well, let's call in the archaeologists so they can perform a comprehensive dig in this location to find the rest of the civilization."

What a mess that would be. I guess those folks in the 1950's were pretty smart to put the parts in a cemetery instead of the garden. Who knew?

This sums it up

While visiting Linwood cemetery in Dubuque, Iowa, last month, I saw a monument that perfectly sums up the respect that cemeteries deserve. I hope you agree.

And this second monument is one of the more disturbing ones I've seen. Something looks pretty sinister about that visitor to the grave, don't you think?