Some info on Amish Funerals and cemeteries. Casket/Coffin: Caskets are plain pine boxes, wooden coffins made within the local community. They use simple pine boxes made locally instead of ornate coffins. The deceased is generally buried in the local Amish cemetery. Graves and Grave Stones:Graves are usually dug by hand. People make take turns sittting with the body until the grave can be dug. Gravestones are simple, following the Amish belief that no individual is better than another. Children are buried in unmarked graves or have small headstones that lie flat on the ground. Some Amish communities do not engrave their gravestones. Instead community elders maintain a map of the cemetery to identify the occupants of each burial plot. Mourning : Mourners still wear black. The immediate family enters a year of mourning. No "Memorial Day":Families do not observe a formal memorial day, nor do they go back to visit the grave. In Amish faith after death, the spirit has left the person's physical body.