14 January 2013
President Barack Obama has signed into law a bill introduced by New Hampshire Sen. Kelly Ayotte to restore a veterans cemetery in the Philippines that is the final resting place for more than 8,300 American service members and their family.10 January 2013
It is the eerie old church that featured in Bram Stoker’s gothic novel Dracula. Now St Mary’s in Whitby has become the scene of real horror after human bones began to emerge from their centuries-old graves.4 January 2013
As a young adult, Kathleen Cheramie visited her grandmother's grave in a tree-lined cemetery where white crosses dotted a plot of lush green grass just off Louisiana Highway 1.2 January 2013
Mobile phone technology is being used to explain to visitors why more than 80 Canadian war graves are located outside a Denbighshire church. Thousands visit St Margaret's Church in Bodelwyddan where the rows of soldiers are buried.17 December 2012
A French historical association plans to turn a graveyard near Strasbourg into France’s first "interactive Jewish cemetery."
They were privates and officers hailing from American Colonies from New England to Maryland, raw teenagers and aging veterans alike, and they shared a common fate: All “died at Fishkill.”12 December 2012
The researchers used ground penetrating radar to find at least 50 grave sites at the Arthur G Dozier School for Boys and said there could be more yet to be discovered. Evidence of other deaths was established by using archive records, other historical documents and interviews with relatives.7 December 2012
Ray Emory could not accept that more than one quarter of the 2,400 Americans who died at Pearl Harbor were buried, unidentified, in a volcanic crater. And so he set out to restore names to the dead.4 December 2012
A group of armed men belonging to a hardline sect vandalised 120 graves at an Ahmadi cemetery and assaulted a security guard and a gravedigger in this eastern Pakistani city, members of the Ahmadi community said today.
The nameless graves follow the line of a long-gone fence. They’re mostly marked with fieldstones, if they’re marked at all. And though they sit just outside the stately stone wall of the University of Virginia Cemetery, it’s unlikely anyone today will know who was buried there generations ago.3 December 2012
Maine Old Cemetery Association will mark 45 years of activity next year. Some 1 million names in 6,600 Maine cemeteries have been entered in the MOCA Inscription Project database.28 November 2012
Headstones are pockmarked, their inscriptions faded. Stone slabs that have covered tombs for centuries are crumbling. White marble has turned grey, likely from the acrid smoke that spews from a nearby oil refinery.22 November 2012
A Plymouth woman posed at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Arlington Cemetery making an obscene gesture in front of some of America's most hallowed ground. The picture posted on Lindsey Stone's Facebook page shocked most people who saw it.19 November 2012
The first guided tours to be held in a cemetery in Manchester have taken place. Opened in 1879, Southern Cemetery, Chorlton, is the largest municipal cemetery in the UK.16 November 2012
A few of Hurricane Isaac's unearthed coffins and tombs continue to line the Mississippi River levee in Plaquemines Parish, some still standing askew near houses or amid woods. By now, though, the majority of the disinterred remains are back in the Braithwaite cemeteries where they once peacefully rested.Older Posts - page 4 of 29 - Newer Posts