gravesites on private property?

google your state name and burial laws, i.e.:

california burial laws

You will get a few sites to look at.

It is legal to bury people on private property in 37 states. Most of them do not require embalming, casket liners, or even caskets. You can wrap Grandma in a sheet and chunk her in a hole in the backyard.

I researched it in Tenn. Here, you have to get a death certificate, which can be done at the place where the person died (home) if their death was expected (terminal cancer, etc). The body never has to leave the house. If a family member dies in a hospital and no autopsy is required (cancer, car accident, etc), you can wheel the body out to your car and take it home (after the coroner signs the death certificate). It never has to go to a morgue or funeral home. You have two days to get it in the ground before it's considered improper storage of a body.

The grave must be 6 feet deep and clearly marked. You then have a certain time period to register the grave on your deed. Access to the grave cannot be denied to relatives in perpetuity (forever). If you buy land that has graves on it already, you become responsible for their upkeep.

Just search for 'georgia home burial' and you'll probably find something.

I think the health department would know or the zoning commission. No doubt, each state, county or town/community has their own laws. Here in Maryland where I live you can have a cemetery if you own 5 acres or something like that. It has to be a pretty big piece of land, and you'd have to follow the burial laws. Like some places require a vault for the casket in case of floods and so forth.

You need to get permission from your town. Each town has it's own rules regarding what can be done with human remains. I'm sure you'd need a permit.

We had a case near where I live recently, where a town was trying to make a woman exhume her husband, who had been buried on their property. (Property that had been owned by the family for generations.) It was a nightmare for her.

talked to your local town zoning people.