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The City of Eau Claire, Wisconsin has posted searchable cemetery indexes online. The indexes cover Forest Hill Cemetery, 822 Emery St. and Lakeview Cemetery, 1500 Buffington Dr. They are also including some interactivity to the website. The following is from Continue reading Eau Claire, Wisconsin Cemetery Indexes Found Online
WOODBRIDGE [New Jersey] — Three years ago after Antoinette Partesi buried her father Edmund at St. Gertrude Cemetery, the family placed a veteran’s grave marker next to his headstone to honor his service in the Army during the Korean War. Continue reading Veteran’s Grave Marker Designated a Trip Hazard
Descendants of two people buried in Richmond County [NC] in the late 1800s are being sought so the landowner can relocate their graves. Riley Paving is soliciting relatives of the occupants of two graves about a quarter mile up Glider Continue reading Looking for Descendants of James (d 1899) & Nancy Hughes (d 1882) of Richmond County, North Carolina
The Burlington Liars Club, which began in 1929 as a lighthearted way to honor the creativity and humor of good exaggeration, said it received almost 500 entries this year. … The runners-up include this line from Ellen Everts of New Continue reading “If I Bought a Cemetery, People Would Stop Dying”
About two dozen grave markers were vandalized or damaged at historic St. Mary’s Catholic Cemetery [Norfolk, Virginia] sometime late Friday or early Saturday, the cemetery’s caretaker said. At least two markers were broken in the incident, James Fitzpatrick, a member Continue reading Cemetery Vandalism at Historic St. Mary’s Cemetery in Norfolk, Virginia
“The Cemeteries of Cadiz and Trigg County [Kentucky],” a thorough record of all the burial sites east of Land Between the Lakes in the county, is in its third and final printing and is available to anyone who enjoys local Continue reading The Cemeteries of Cadiz and Trigg County in 3rd & Final Printing With a New Book in the Planning
Ah…, another tombstone that was used as a hearthstone. I’m afraid that the practice has been more common than you would think. I’m sure that the headstone of one of my great grandparents was used for just that. The stone Continue reading Tombstone Hearthstone Discovered in Ontario
The following teaser is about one women’s quest to document online the graves of Trinity Rest Cemetery, located in Hixton, Jackson County, Wisconsin. Hixton’s Trinity Rest Cemetery has been a beautiful and peaceful final resting place for generations. Now, through Continue reading Hixston Wisconsin’s Trinity Rest Cemetery Headstone Photos Uploaded to FindaGrave.com
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 Continue reading No Room in the Cemetery – If It’s in New York City
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 Continue reading The Abandoned Cemetery Association of Parker County Texas Cleans Up
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 Continue reading High-Tech at the Cemetery
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 Continue reading 107 Years Later – 3 Drowned Orphan Girls Get a Headstone
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 Continue reading Descendants of Stephen Tarpley Dedicate a New Headstone at Annual Reunion
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 Continue reading Cemetery Access Closes for Four Months During Remodeling
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 Continue reading Tombstone from a New York Sidewalk