Oldest Pasvalys cemetery

The age of the cemetery can be traced from the tombstone inscriptions. If about 150 years ago people built the tombstones, they were mostly made of stone. The stones were polished, so in the long term, they became mossy, so the names and dates are not readable today. The current Petras Avižonis street, which is on the side of this oldest cemetery, earlier was called the Cemetery Street (then renamed Tarybų Street during the Soviet times). Wherever you go, you will see kinds of mounds in this cemetery. These are the oldest graves, probably without tombstones. There are also a lot of single and grouped rounded stones: remains of old graves or grave fences. Now we do not know whose they are, because every year they overgrow with grass that is later cut. Some of the oldest – very large and very heavy – tombstones, squared and cast, have been standing for decades sloping and ruining the image of the cemetery. It is characteristic of the oldest cemeteries in Lithuania planting the trees inside them, not on the fringes or even behind the cemetery fence. Over time, the trees have grown. In some places, even the fences were damaged. And in the oldest trees, the rook colonies began to build their nests. Therefore, in the Pasvalys cemetery, the noise of the rooks have been giving people no rest since the early spring, and later, tombstones are pooped by them. Philosophically-minded culturalists say that the dead people do not disappear: we still have memories of them. Most of those who lived not for themselves, but for our brighter future