By Rachael Smith. NEW LONDON — For the past several years, Delores Nash Hicks has been lovingly maintaining a now-inactive cemetery in New London where […]
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Nearly 100 years after Tulsa Massacre, city plans to search cemetery for victims
By Mihir Zaveri. Archaeologists plan to excavate part of a cemetery in Tulsa, Okla., to see if it holds the remains of black residents slaughtered […]
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Paying some respects at forgotten cemetery
By Vince Martonis. HANOVER – Citizens everywhere should adhere to and be guided by this very simple but important principle — all cemeteries should be […]
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30 Curse tablets addressed to gods of the underworld discovered down well in ancient Greek cemetery
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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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