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Marlene Pajor scrubbed away at an old tombstone Saturday at Luther Cemetery in Washington Township, using a gentle brush that wouldn’t damage the stone, which reached back generations.
Reuben and Amy Miles buried three of their babies in the old Presbytery Cemetery on a hilltop in Lysander. The record of the children's lives is shared on one long white marble tombstone. Harriet ...
OLD FRONTENAC -- Five Americorps volunteers recently spent a week restoring approximately 50 tombstones in the historic cemetery in Old Frontenac which has graves dating back to the pioneer era ...
AVON, Ohio -- Avon High School Leo Club members took part Saturday (Sept. 23) in the cleanup and restoration of very old tombstones in the historic Avon Center Cemetery.
Monfort Cemetery, which includes Dutch settlers and veterans of the Revolutionary War, is in need of major repairs.
This Halloween, News 8 spoke to Brandon Dean, a University of Iowa religious studies professor, on how you can 'read' cemeteries and the tombstones within them.
The famous old Jewish cemetery of Cracow, Poland, containing burial grounds sacred to many Jews around the world, has been cleaned up, ancient tombstones having been restored and their ...
NEW YORK -- Here lies the forgotten history of New York. Across Gotham's five boroughs, old cemeteries are tucked away, some visible but ignored by passers-by, some in the shadow of latter-day ...
Granville's Old Colony Burying Ground flooded with volunteers after Memorial Day to clean the tombstones and show the town's history.
Lancaster is one of America's oldest inland cities — and its cemeteries are some of the oldest, too. Here, carved stones from the 1700s and early 1800s mark the final ...
Headstones that date back to mid-19th century stand among large, statue monuments Wednesday at Sacramento’s Old City Cemetery. Lezlie Sterling [email protected] ...
Ongoing vandalism at Cape Girardeau's oldest cemetery reached a new level over the weekend when 69 tombstones were toppled in the Old Lorimier Cemetery. A line of broken headstones greets visitors ...