Descriptive Essay: The Barrett Cemetery

“No, No… I know where it is.” My mama then said chiming in. “She’ll be with the rest of the family down by the creek.” When we came to the area of the cemetery where my mama had said the Barrett clan lay buried, I could see right away by my family’s isolation, that the people of Mount Harrison didn’t want our family being with the rest of the deceased residence of the village. Our family’s tombs were down at the bottom of a hill and at the end of a narrow gravel pathway that snaked its way through the hill slope and around a couple of old weeping willows. The base of the hill ultimately came to a plateau leveling out where the Barrett family graves began and ended before reaching another small escarpment that led directly into a creek that wound its way around the east end of the cemetery. …show more content…
As we walked down the incline of the hill where the weeping willows cast their heavy shadows down upon the Barrett gravesite below, I could hear the behemoths creaking when the breeze blew. Their invasive roots had breached up from the ground crossing over the gravel-dirt pathway we had to follow. The grass on the hill and down by the graves looked as if it hadn’t been mowed all summer, while the graves themselves—the ones that weren’t toppled over—had weeds and vines growing all over them, giving them an appearance that they were being slowly