There is an amusing story in the biography on the Warhol actress, Edie Sedgwick.  It says that her Sedgwick ancestor had the cemetery he was buried in arranged so that his descendants would be facing HIM on the day of resurrection.

Honor

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Harold Miller asked:

>... why the earliest graves are the farthest from the 1787
>road and the nearest house across the road, and why all of the stones face
>east, rather than north towards the road. In a deep, narrow lot, would one
>not assume the stones would face the entrance on the road?

Dan W. responded:

Here's a clip from the draft of what I have been writing:

  As the rows were oriented north to south the burials were obviously perpendicular to this and thus met the oftcited Christian practice of burial with the head to the west and feet to the east so the dead could face the rising sun on the day of the resurrection (my priomary question in this reguard is, what happens if the resurrection occurs on a cloudy day or in the late afternoon?). Even in the earliest cemeteries (settlement of the are began in 1793) have the rows of graves oriented to within a few degrees of north (with the bodies lying with the head to west and the feet to the east).

 Dan W.