Publication: Akron Beacon Journal
Author: Kathy Antoniotti
Publish Date: June 29, 2009
Article Excerpt:
In a cash-strapped economy where some have been forced to sell off the family burial plots, residents are snapping up spaces in the city’s cemetery.
Tallmadge City Council approved legislation this month that doubles the cost of remaining plots for sale in the community’s land-locked cemetery. For residents who want to spend eternity in Tallmadge, the price will increase from $400 to $800 per plot on July 1. For nonresidents, the price will increase from $800 to $2,000.
Word quickly spread at the end of April as council began considering the increase for the 4-foot-by-10-foot spaces to bring the city’s prices in line with other municipal cemeteries.
The land rush began almost immediately. And by last week only about 350 remained.