Do You Visit Your Ancestor's Graves?

[SciFiSam]

@Sudden_Kestrel

Oh no you don’t! You’re not going to get away without explaining this post. (That is, if you feel like explaining it. It sounds like an interesting story.)

The family ashes go to the Roman crypt museum at All Hallow’s By The Tower at the Tower of London. The reason they go there is that my Grandmother was murdered nearby and the then vicar, now Archdeacon of London, was a family friend, and apparently did it as a favour to commemorate her. They’re just marble slabs - that we don’t have to pay for (we pay for the engraving if we go for it) in rows, going roughly back in time.

And I challenged myself to visit 100 museums last year so finally got round to visiting the ashes.

[rowrrbazzle]

I did visit my family’s graves at first, but I stopped going. My older brother would visit occasionally. He died a couple of years ago, and since I was the only one left, at the time I decided I should resume regular visits just as a gesture of respect. I also visit my father’s parents’ graves in another part of the same cemetery. I visit twice a year, on my late sister’s birthday and All Souls’ Day.