Graveyard

Another calm balmy day settles over the graveyard garden as birds whistle and the occasional commotion from Kevin, the groundskeeper, keeps things about as lively as they can get on a field of graves. Luckily if you wander around enough you might land upon an interesting scene of mourners laying flowers by a headstone, or discover a deceased carpenter from 100 years ago who shares your family name. The word graveyard stems from the Anglo-Saxon words "graf" meaning a pit, and "yairden" meaning garden or open place. Since the mid-1800s, the term cemetery has become a more popular label for most burying grounds. In most cultures those who were vastly rich, had important professions, were part of the nobility or were of any other high social status were usually buried in individual crypts inside or beneath the relevant place of worship. Graveyards were usually established at the same time as the building of the relevant place of worship and were often used by those families of lower socioeconomic status. This sound uses the following file from Freesound: http://www.freesound.org/samplesViewSingle.php?id=101234