If you die and want to be buried in New York City, you might have to accept something less than what you wanted. Not the the deceased will be worrying about it… But the issue of burial space is a real one in the Big Apple. Following is an excerpt from an interesting article in [...]
Weatherford, Parker County, Texas
Lowell Sullivan is 80 and admits he can’t do as much as he used to, but Friday he’s going out to chop apart limbs from a fallen tree. It’s not for exercise or to prove a point, but a way to help preserve Parker County history.
Sullivan and members of the Abandoned Cemetery [...]
The following excerpts are from an interesting story at the Fox News website about the high-tech Memory Medallions that can be attached to headstones - and read by smart phones. Very interesting!
WAYNESBURG, Pa. — The concept of barcodes on tombstones and interactivity at the cemetery was considered too far-fetched when Glenn Toothman first [...]
The following excerpt is from an article in the August 8, 2010 edition of the Times Union. Quite a story…
Over the course of a century, silver maple trees grew to a height of more than 70 feet and dappled a gently sloping lawn in Section 32 of St. Agnes Cemetery [Located in Menands, Albany County, [...]
Following is an excerpt from a good genealogy story found in the August 8, 2010 edition of GoDanRiver.com. The honored ancestor had 13 children and something in the area of 1800 descendants.
For more than 75 years, the descendants of Stephen Tarpley have held family reunions, and this year, over the Fourth of July weekend, [...]
GLENDALE [California] — Lenore Devlin traveled more than 60 miles Sunday to visit the grave of a former student at Grand View Memorial Park.
“There are certain students in your life who just touch your heart,” the Los Angeles Unified teacher said as she arranged flowers for the grave of Ara Azaryan, who died in 2004. [...]
Another interesting story with a “Megan” connection… Following is an except from the original found in the July 8, 2010 edition of the New York Times.
You can find just about anything on the sidewalks of New York, so when John Lankenau happened upon a tombstone while walking his dog one night a few [...]
Out of respect for the dead, a number of states have passed laws allowing towns to acquire abandoned cemeteries if legal owners and heirs can’t be found. The laws don’t require that the cemeteries be cleaned up, but the hope is that with town ownership, volunteers will get involved for the actual clean-up.
However, it’s been [...]
Talk about digging up the dead… Genealogists joke about it all the time, but Jean Stevens literally dug up her husband and sister, took them in the house, and placed them on couches where she could see them…
The following teaser is from the July 6, 2010 edition of the Deseret News. The pull-quote below it [...]
This story led off in the Deseret News in Salt Lake City today. Pretty good…
SALT LAKE CITY — From the trite (”gone fishin’ ” and “rest in peace”) to the cute to the sentimental to the absolutely bizarre, epitaphs on graves in the Salt Lake City Cemetery combine to create a wide spectrum of voices from [...]
Grave markers have evolved over the years. No longer are lambs typically placed on children’s graves… Now we see etchings of more modern things, like toys, starships and bicycles… Following is an excerpt from an article I ran across.
TRAVERSE CITY, May 30, 2010 (The Record-Eagle - McClatchy-Tribune Information Services via COMTEX):
In the old Catholic section [...]
It looks like these Chinese folks had incredible sense of humor - or something… I may be at a loss for words on this one.
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 their bodies have been [...]
REGINA [Saskatchewan]— The provincial government is looking at how to better preserve Saskatchewan’s 3,500 known cemeteries and burial sites, some of which are overgrown or even near-forgotten.
Appointed to lead a review is Al Dwyer, who previously served as registrar of cemeteries in his former role with the province’s consumer protection branch.
“I think there’s recognition [...]
I was pleased to read that Hampton’s High Street Cemetery records are going to be computerized - but a bit put off by the attitude of trustees in demanding that the data not be published online. So, who’s trying to hide what? These are public records we’re talking about - cemetery records at that. Why [...]
The Covington County [Mississippi] Genealogical and Historical Society is trying to locate old photographs of the Williamsburg area.
Those photographs include pictures of families, stores, the courthouse, and homes of Williamsburg in the 1800s.
The society also is seeking information on a W. Morgan buried in the Old Williamsburg Cemetery. This Morgan information was copied from a [...]
