The old cemetery of Apátújfalus
Cemeteries, tombstones, graves
My former informant József Siket (1904) said the following about the cemetery and cemeteries of the village: “The cemetery was placed almost under the highest hill, because the village was poor, the place was poor, the place below was suitable for something else. That part was also called Rás-hegy, Nemesódal, and Temetőoldal. The deceased had to face east, not towards the village. Catholics lived in one part, Lutherans in the other. At that time, the dead were even brought here from the Slovak Empire. In the past, it didn’t matter who was buried where….” ; ; From the informant István Siket (1910) we know that in the 1920s, burials were still taking place “except in the Old Cemetery. Anyone who had relatives there was buried there. Families were buried in one place, next to each other.”