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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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, […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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The Hanging Coffins of Sagada, Philippines
Members of the Igorot tribe of Mountain Province in northern Philippines have long practised the tradition of burying their dead in hanging coffins, nailed to […]
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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 […]
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A Host of Mummies, a Forest of Secrets
In the middle of a terrifying desert north of Tibet, Chinese archaeologists have excavated an extraordinary cemetery. Its inhabitants died almost 4,000 years ago, yet […]
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