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Burial costs were also low: Opening and closing a grave cost just $4, while handling the body cost $5. (Grave markers, burial vaults, fences, and other improvements cost significantly more.) In comparison, at the highly popular (and almost all-white) Rock Creek Cemetery, opening and closing a grave cost $6.50. [13]
Burial in Fort Rosecrans National Cemetery was available for eligible veterans, their spouses and dependents at no cost to the family and includes the gravesite, grave-liner, opening and closing of the grave, a headstone or marker, and perpetual care as part of a national shrine.
At opening, the cemetery estimated it would receive 270 burials per year. [4] It is the first state-owned and federally-funded veterans cemetery in South Dakota. Veterans can be interred at no cost [5] and have the choice between a typical grave or interment in a columbarium. [1] Spouses or dependents of veterans can also be interred for a fee. [6]
However, there were hundreds of graves moved every day; although it is seldom mentioned, many were just put in an unmarked mass site. The re-interments were completed on November 17, 1960. [6] It was the largest cemetery move in the nation's capital, and cost $1 million. [7]
Despite acknowledging there were 902 Chinese buried at the site, and that each grave had cost the Chinese US$10, Martin wanted the remains moved to the new cemetery and offered $2 per body as compensation, "The idea being that you would move all of the bodies as fast as practicable." [9]
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Immediately west of the lot is a small business. On all other sides the cemetery is surrounded by open lots and worked fields. The northern three-quarters of the property has tall mature deciduous trees sheltering most of the graves; the southern quarter is open. Among the trees are a rare yucca and one of the few butternuts in the area. [1]
The cost of the land was $600 ($18,943 in 2023 dollars). [4] Formerly the Leand farm, it was named Calvary Cemetery. [5] Toledo cemetery designer, horticulturist, and cemetery superintendent Frank Eurich [6] designed Calvary as a lawn cemetery. [7] The land was regraded and other initial improvements made by The William H. Evers Engineering ...