Lonely Headstone

Near the place I once lived is this headstone under a tree right by an intersection in the front lawn of a church. The church has a cemetery on the other side of the building but this particular person or persons chose to be buried by themselves away from everyone else. I passed this headstone almost everyday for years and always promised myself I would stop to see whose grave it was. I had a curiosity about it.

Did the people buried there think perhaps being laid to rest there was a honor or was it a case of the church being obligated to furnish them a grave site but didn't want them buried next to anyone else? Were they so disliked in life that they are even shunned in death?

From the neat surrounding of the grave and the fresh flowers it appears that someone does care, either about the people buried in the grave or in appearances.

The way the grave is laid, it is as if there was something the people (it appears to be husband and wife) there wanted to see but there is a house, a building for retail stores, and a convenience store on the other three corners of the intersection, none of which are particularly view worthy.

It can't be just the church or the neighborhood that the couple wanted to be buried near for being in the same cemetery with everyone else would have been just fine for that. Either the family thinks its so special that they felt the need to shun everyone else as too common or they were themselves the shunned ones I can't answer.

I know now who is buried there but not why that particularly spot or when they lived and died. I do know that living outside the mainstream is lonely, whether one chooses to live apart or forced too, it's just lonely and uncomfortable. Too want to portray being different and outside of mainstream society for as long as ones grave marker lasts is not an idea that appeals to me.

See you in church Sunday.