collinscemetery

The Collins Cemetery has always been a very dark and lonely place. Not
much of the Collins Family is left here in the states, so there are not that many that visit the gravesides of those that have entered the other world.

The return of Mistress Muffy has shed new light on the old famliy cemetery
and she is giving it a face lift so to speak! Plans have been talked about to
get the cemetery cleaned up and not only are repairs getting made but they
are expanding the cemetery to accommodate more family members.

Its interesting that no matter where a Collins Family member may be
residing in the world they have made arrangements to be sent home at the
time of their demise.

Much work needs to be done to the cemetery pillars that are at the entrance
gate and along the perimeter of the cemetery. Discussion has been about
designing a new fence and pillars.

There has always been lights in the Family cemetery and the generations of
the Collins Family that exist today claim they have no idea what this is
about. It has been a promise from one generation to the next to be sure
the lights stay lit for the dead of the night. Out of family respect.....they do it!

Another discussion has been in progress in regard to the old Collins hearse.
It has been tradition for all Collins members to be pulled to their resting
place in the Family hearse. The original hearse was brought from overseas
when the Collins Family first arrived on this soil.

It has been said that when the hearse could no longer be used....that a Family member was telegrammed in Yugoslavia and he made arrangements for the
wood to be cut from the Collins Family property there and crated and shipped here to the family so that another hearse could be built from this wood.

That hearse is now in a shambles so Mistress Muffy is deciding what to do
and looking at designs that the family has kept in its vault of the hearse that
is built when a new one is needed.

Collins Cemetery

May 19, 2007
Quite a bit of the new fence sections have been built and painted. This time the fence has been made higher than its usual 3 feet and Mistress Muffy has had it extended to 5 feet high. There is a little more work to be done to these new sections and 2 are left to be painted. The next feat is the re-building of the entry pillars. The marble company had come out today to look at the tombstones, as many of them had been vandalized over the years. A decision will be made as to repair the old stones or just to replace them with new ones.

April 19, 2008
We got a lot of work done on the cemetery before the guests arrived for the Hallow's Eve 2007 Masquerade Party but the closer it got to Hallow's Eve the more fearful the work crew became of working at the edge of Collinwood Forest.

Unfortunately due to this resistance to work around that time of the year in this area the work on the cemetery was no where completed. Just a small section of fence was done, the pillars were rebuilt but not completed and the gates still need work. A new arch sign will be made and attached to the top of the pillars and will read "Collinwood Cemetery".

At this time plans are being made to extend the cemetery fence along with building additional pillars for the extra fence panels. With the size of the cemetery at this time in the case of a funeral there is no way the hearse carriage would be able to fit inside the fence for unloading of the casket. SO the additional panels will leave enough room for that. The finials that will top each fence poll have been on back order as they were a special order item coming from overseas.

All the tombstones are being repainted and new epitahs are being added to them as you could hardly read the old ones.