Planning Ahead
Essential Things to Know Before You
Bury a Loved One or Purchase a Coffin, Urn or Monument
The above document will help guide you and your family through the burial process to ensure compliance with Vermont and Marlboro rules and regulations.
Depth & Layout Options for Burials: Plots within King Cemetery allow for burial of the remains of more than one individual as identified here.
Planning ahead and sharing plans with funeral professionals and family members responsible for coordinating burial services will help to ensure the undisturbed interment of your loved ones.
It is recommended that you create a map of your plot showing the location of each burial (as seen in the images below) and retain this paperwork with your plot deed. It is illegal in Vermont to disturb an existing burial and having this information available will help to ensure your loved ones rest in peace.
The following diagrams provide important information about burial depths as well as layout ideas for accommodating sequential interments.
NOTE: The required (maximum) burial depth for Green Burial plots is 3.5 feet (to support proper body decomposition within the biologically active soil zone). The minimum burial depth for Cremation Burial plots is one foot (12 inches) from the top of the urn; cremains shall not be buried deeper than 3.5 feet in any plots. See images below for clarification.
Memorialization: In addition, scroll down this page to view the proper sizing and location of headstones, grave markers, rocks, or other memorialization pieces, and review the details on our Rules & Regulations document.
Please contact us if you have any questions before you bury a loved one or buy a memorialization piece.
Green Burial
5' x 10' Plots
Cremation Burial
5' x 5' Plots
Memorialization Monuments:
Size limitations & placement requirements (more details found in Rules & Regulations)
Memorialization: Permanent memorialization is allowed only in the form of natural rocks, granite markers, headstones, or gravestones (or nothing). Only one upright, flat or slant memorial/marker/monument or natural rock shall be allowed on a plot. The total dimensions of the memorial piece, including any above ground base on which the monument sits, shall not exceed 32 inches in height, 32 inches in width, and 12 inches in depth (depth shall be measured from the east boundary of the plot). The memorial piece shall be located lengthwise along the
east boundary of the plot; it shall face west and be centered on the plot (see diagram below). All monuments shall be set in a way to ensure long-term structural integrity.