By Rosie McCall. Archaeologists have discovered 30 tablets at the bottom of an ancient well, each engraved with curses intended to harm the recipient. According to Haaretz, the curse tablets had been chucked into a 2,500-year-old well in the ancient cemetery of Kerameikos in Athens, Greece. The perpetrators of the curses are unknown, their names […]
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Houston’s Pleasant Green-Culbertson cemetery is like many African-American graveyards – rundown and blocked off
By Sarah Smith. HOUSTON -Patrick Young waited in the woods to see who had put up a padlocked gate across the entrance to a cemetery where his family has been buried since the time they were enslaved. He had driven up to tend to the graves as he always did when he saw the gate. […]
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Archaeologists find graves of high-status Romans in Somerset
By Steven Morris. The resting places of more than 50 adults and children have been found in an unusual Roman cemetery unearthed during building work for a new school in Somerset. Archaeologists say the discovery at Somerton, near Glastonbury, sheds significant light on life and death in the southwest of Britain after the Roman invasion. […]
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Two cemeteries become one in spirit with a historical marker from the Daughters of the American Revolution
By Nancy Kennedy. It was a solemn, yet joyous day as Inverness leaders and residents met with members of the National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution as the local Fort Cooper Chapter unveiled a historic marker at the Oak Ridge and Pine Hill cemeteries Monday in Inverness. “When I first joined the […]
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Family hopes to rescue ancestor from oblivion of forgotten pauper’s cemetery
By Paul Guzzo. TAMPA — For generations, members of three families who are intertwined by marriage have gone to their final rest at the Tuten-Bell-Moody Cemetery in Jasper. One of them, though, never got the chance. James Tuten Bell, part of what then was a well-to-do plantation family, may have been visiting Tampa when he […]
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Preliminary tests point to burial grounds at Tallahassee’s Capital City Country Club
By Byron Dobson. Tests indicate the existence of graves on the grounds of the Capital City Country Club, archaeologist Jeffrey Shanks said Thursday. The National Park Service began testing near the 7th hole of the golf course in mid-November and finished Monday, in coordination with the club’s staff and the city. “The preliminary results of […]
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More People Want a Green Burial, but Cemetery Law Hasn’t Caught Up
By Alex Brown. Visitors to the White Eagle Memorial Preserve in southern Washington won’t find rows of headstones, manicured lawns, or pathways to a loved one’s final resting place. Instead, they stroll through an oak and ponderosa forest set within more than a thousand acres of wilderness. Twenty acres of the wilderness is set aside […]
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Mystery at MacDill: Base launches hunt for lost African American cemetery
By Stephen Losey. An important piece of local African American history may be hidden on the grounds of MacDill Air Force Base in Florida. Now, the base is launching a major effort to unearth its nearly forgotten secrets. Local historians believe that a cemetery — possibly the old Port Tampa cemetery, which dates back to […]
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Cemetery Thieves Common At Christmas
By Matt McGregor. When Linda Petit took her husband, Ray, to see the floral arrangement on her parents’ gravestone on Sunday at the Blue Ridge Gardens of Memory (formerly Pisgah Gardens) off Hendersonville Highway, she found their marker barren. Linda and Ray’s daughter, Denise Gonsales, who lives outside of Savannah, Ga., brought the ornate, Christmas-themed […]
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Firm hired to create computerized map of Glens Falls Cemetery
GLENS FALLS — The city is attempting to bring the 165-year-old Glens Falls Cemetery into the digital age. The Glens Falls Cemetery Commission is spending $17,440 to purchase a new computer, software and services from CemSites Software of Pennsylvania to create a complete cemetery map of lots, plots and graves. City Historian Wayne Wright, who […]
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