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I remember mom and dad talking to my grandparents graves in Cherokee county and then taking me to my great grandparents graves in Villanow every spring. I don’t make it to Centre to much but every so often I feel the need to stand in the graveyard and look at John’s Mountain.

This is yet another example among of a myriad of customs that show why Southerners, perhaps unlike most modern Americans, intensely feel that they are 'from' somewhere - and that it is important for them to feel that way.

This is very special!

The Zion Church of Christ in Parrish, Alabama just celebrated their 142nd Decoration Day/Homecoming this past First Sunday in May. The church started, I was told, in 1860 just before the Civil War, and in 1881 decided to have their first reunion. We've always added the word, "Homecoming" on the end of the words "Decoration Day" for some congregations. When I was a child, there was a lady there who lived to be 105, and was the widow of a veteran of the Spanish American War. She said, "I helped to wear out three church buildings at this place!" They now have a brick building, and the older people remembered the wooden frame building it had replaced, but she remembered the LOG building before the wooden-frame building! Memories that can never be replaced.

I don't understand how Decoration hasn't caught on outside of rural North Alabama. Part of my job when I was a little girl was to put flowers on the very old graves that didn't have any family left to decorate them. It might just be one little dollar store flower, but EVERY grave got decorated.

My grandparents really put a lot into keeping graves up, they almost went weekly. They always took me with them, we have it on the 4th Sun in May where they are burried now. I'm the only one who tends to it now , I guess most folks are too busy nowadays , I think it is very important, but i have no kids so I wonder who will tend when I'm gone.

I have we live in northern Alabama and my dad grew up in eastern Alabama near Anniston, Heflin and every decoration day he would drive all of my brothers and sisters all the way down there spend two or three days down there and then bring us all back to northern Alabama.

In the community of Aimwell in Marengo county Alabama we did Decoration at the little Baptist church. We placed new flowers and straightened the cemetery then everyone displayed their food they brought and we all walked around and got a little from each table. My dad and I called it dinner on the ground.

So I just saw this video tonight and my mom's family does "decoration" on father's day every year. It started with our family somewhat 55 years ago. I never thought this was a thing that other people do. And I live in northern middle TN

Im from the Marshall/Dekalb county area of Alabama. My family has Decoration on 3rd Sunday in May at Blessing Church of Christ Cemetery and the first sunday in May at Union Cemetery. I also didnt realize that it wasnt a traditional thing everywhere until I started meeting people from outside the area as an adult. At the request of my Grandmother I have taken on the job of doing some extra (on top of what the churches do already) cleaning and landscaping the graves of my family members a few weeks before Decoration day. I also try and poison the fire ant 🐜 hills on the plaques of the Veterans if they dont have family members doing it. You cant hate birds or fire ants until you clean up a gravestone or two lol. I always enjoy looking at the really old gravestones at Blessing Cemetery. The two oldest graves from the mid 1800's are just huge flat slabs of creek rock from a local creek im sure with the names and dates scratched into the stone but undecipherable now. Some of the oldest graves are baby graves that are just one standing flat stone. Anyway Decoration is a very nice way to remember those who have past and hear storys about those who died years before you were born. We always meet at the cemetery then meet for a reunion lunch at someone's house. Im acustom to it but I do think its a good way of remembering and learning about ancestors who have passed away and enjoying the company of those family members you still have living. Its especially good for my Grandmother and was the same for my Grandparents who have passed away now. Anyway thats what Decoration Day is to me.

My mother's side of the family come from Dekalb Co., Ala. and I remember as a child going to the cemetery at Walker's Chapel on Decoration Day to put flowers on the graves of my great- grandparents and other deceased relatives I had never met. The thing that really stuck in my mind was tending the grave of my mother's little brother who died from pneumonia at the age of 3 many years before my mother was even born. All my grandmother's brothers and sisters were there from "the mountain" (ie Lookout Mountain) and it was a great get together. This was in the 1970's.

I just went to my first decoration day at my maternal mawmaws side of the family. Never knew of it, guess cause my parents moved to Georgia before I was born. My aunt brought it up and I decided I wanted to go. My family is from Gadsden but my kin live(d) on lookout MTN. It was a small roadside cemetery....no church, but basically it was a social gathering as much decorating didn't happen. Learned alot though.

Wow, do this in the UK and there is every chance of being arrested.

We do that on memorial day here in South East Kentucky.

Kind of like “the flower project” 🌹🌺💐🌷🌸🌼🌻we do the same thing here in our little town