# The long-term fate of cemeteries? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [May 11, 2021, 9:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-long-term-fate-of-cemeteries/941829 "2021-05-11T09:49:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 12
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2021, 1:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-long-term-fate-of-cemeteries/941829/12 "2021-05-11T13:19:04Z")
See this thread for related info: > [@Removing a gravesite from your private land](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/removing-a-gravesite-from-your-private-land/916726/): > > Out here in the US’ Southwest, there’s potentially thousands of unmarked, frontier or settler graves. Then, there’s a handful of gravesites that are marked. I happen to drive by a prominent one on my way through Datil, NM that lays on private land. That [Morley gravesite](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/23600870/william-raymond-morley) (at least the cenotaph) sticks out from the rolling hills like a sore thumb, and is kind of a local by-the-road stopping point; the landowner’s fence before the actual site is very clearly marked as “Private Property – No Tres… --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-long-term-fate-of-cemeteries/941829)._