Across the Southeast, hidden cemeteries hold the stories of people long forgotten. Overgrown graves and fading headstones mark lives that history barely remembers. Local legends surround many of these ...
Pastor Leoma Leigh-Williams of Bethel AME Church in Cedar Rapids looks out over gravesites after placing a temporary marker on a recently identified, unmarked grave at Oak Hill Cemetery in southeast ...
CHESTER TWP., Pennsylvania (WPVI) -- As our nation marks Veterans Day, some of the most hallowed grounds are cemeteries. But not everyone who served has gotten the final peaceful resting place they ...
Graves from a neighboring Black burial ground extend into a backyard and two county rights-of-way. Paul Guzzo is a former culture reporter. The Tampa Bay Times e-Newspaper is a digital replica of the ...
TAHLEQUAH -- The number of forgotten graves across Oklahoma is staggering, according to Melvena Heisch, the state's deputy historic preservation officer. "People sometimes think the state maintains ...
Hidden beneath brush and dirt was the gravestone of Capt. Moses M. Warrick, 1884 to 1932, a fire marshal of Engine 38 in the City of Pittsburgh who was also a veteran of WWI and lived with his family ...
Some 300 American flags, arranged in six rows, take up a small corner of hillside in the Machpelah/Hudson Cemetery and Crematory in North Bergen. When Patrick Cullen, town historian for West New York ...
After more than a decade, an unusual program to place markers on long-forgotten graves of 686 infants and adults in the former “poor lot” of Concord’s huge Blossom Hill Cemetery, the resting place of ...
In this video, we explore 25 forgotten graves in a 156-year-old cemetery, uncovering the hidden stories behind each one. Join us on a journey through time to learn about the people laid to rest here. ...
For longer than many can remember, grieving Black families have followed the caskets of their deceased loved ones along a bumpy dirt road into Boston Cemetery where scores of Oviedo’s early ...