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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Pittsburgh’s NPR News Station Interviews CemSites’ Chief Technology Officer Sean Johnson
Radio Station: WESA 90.5 – Pittsburgh’s NPR News StationBroadcast Date: July 16, 2019Interviewee: Sean Johnson, Chief Technology Officer, CemSitesInterviewer: Kiley Koscinski, Morning News Producer, 90.5 WESA A Local Startup Is Bringing Cemeteries To The Cloud Announcer:It’s The Confluence on 90.5 WESA. I’m Kevin Gavin. Cloud computing has infiltrated almost every corner of our working lives, […]
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CemSites brings cloud tech to cemetery management
By Julia Mericle – Technology Reporter, Pittsburgh Business Times. Scott McAfee and Sean Johnson are bringing cloud technology somewhere unexpected — cemeteries. The duo co-founded CemSites, a software company that helps cemetery owners manage record keeping, GPS mapping and other operations. Since its launch in 2012, McAfee said the software has been implemented by hundreds […]
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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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The Hanging Coffins of Sagada, Philippines
Members of the Igorot tribe of Mountain Province in northern Philippines have long practiced the tradition of burying their dead in hanging coffins, nailed to the sides of cliff faces high above the ground. Comfortably predating the arrival of the Spanish, the procedure can probably be traced back more than two millennia. To this day, […]
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A Cemetery Underwater: Neptune Memorial Reef
The fact that we are all going to die one day is not something that I like to think about at all. For me, it is such an unlikely thing, which I rarely consider my mortality, or even worse, that of my loved ones. In the rare occasion, I think about the remote possibility of […]
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