On the hill rising to the side of Fairview Christian Church is a cemetery overlooking open farmland and the Blue Ridge Mountains. It is a lovely view.
Through the end of the 19th century, most people were buried in churchyard cemeteries or small family plots. Today churchyard cemeteries are picturesque and historic but in the past, particularly in large cities, they were often overcrowded and unsanitary which lead to the rise of commercial garden cemeteries in the 1830s. Rural churchyard cemeteries are a reminder of a time when life, and death, was centered on the local church.
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