A Matter of Grave Concern

After stopping at the church in Viethorey, we loaded up in the van and set out to see if we could find the cemetery. It wasn't near the churchyard, so we drove a little down the road and sure enough, we came to a small cemetery surrounded by stone walls. The graves here were a little different than most American cemeteries - each individual grave plot was surrounded by a little edging or short wall, defining the grave site. Then, on top of the actual grave the area was filled in with stones - not grass - as in most of our cemeteries. Because it was raining harder, we quickly walked around the cemetery, photographing the Girardot graves. Another thing that seems unusual it that some of the graves would have multiple names on the stones, yet the grave plot was the same size as one of our graves in the US. Do they bury on top of one another?

I do have pictures and will post those later.