COLUMBUS, Miss. (AP) — Crumbling brick pillars at Greenlawn Memorial Park cemetery in east Columbus show the wear and tear of time. The tangle of brush that covered them not long ago, however, is gone ...

CARLISLE - Before he died in April 1897, Henry Spradley, a former slave, had earned the respect of his community. A former member of the U.S. Colored Troops 24th Infantry Regiment, Spradley had spent ...

GREENFIELD — Time had not been kind to the relatively small cemetery on a quiet country road. Falling trees and vandalism had taken their toll over the years. Hinchman Pioneer Cemetery, just off ...

Randall Keel doesn’t have friends or family members buried in the majority of cemeteries he visits, but he treats each one with the same dignity and respect as the ones where he does. Keel, senior ...

A cemetery is the last refuge of the body, a sacred space of remembrance and for some a place to remember history. For people working to preserve historic Black cemeteries, the sacred nature of ...

CINCINNATI — This is a story about what the living owe the dead and – more specifically – what Cincinnati owes the thousands of people buried in an overgrown portion of West Price Hill called Potter’s ...

Clarissa Case died in 1870. Her husband Samuel preceded her in death 16 years earlier, in 1854. Both are buried in the Old Village Cemetery in Brighton, but the headstone that marks their gravesites ...

HAMPTON, Va. (WAVY) — On Veterans Day, we reported on a cemetery advocate and the efforts to restore a cemetery at the corner of Mercury Boulevard and Woodland Road in Hampton. On Veterans Day, Civil ...

TOWN OF ROCK—Jack Pokorney didn't forget about the cemetery he came across while geocaching with his family five years ago. “It's always kind of been in the back of my mind,” said the 18-year-old ...

The number of U.S. military veterans who cremated remains are unclaimed runs into the tens of thousands, and probably a whole lot more. Fifteen were given a proper sendoff during July 15 ceremonies in ...

With several family members buried there, Tammy Gibson said she is very passionate about conditions at Burr Oak Cemetery in Alsip. Families with loved ones interred there “want to make sure they’re ...