Twelve years ago Norfolk County native Jean Silvester Spencer began working on updating an edition of “Tombstone Inscriptions of Norfolk County” that was originally published in 1979. Spencer and a ...
For centuries, people have marked graves and commemorated the dead. Stones were originally used by prehistoric man to keep wild animals from digging up the gravesite. Today cemetery markers are ...
When people use the expression “carved in stone,” they are referencing something they regard as permanent, unchanging. Inscriptions carved in tombstones are inscribed in stone, usually granite or ...
Norfolk County farmer Henry Butt has – presumably – rested in peace for well over 150 years in the Butt Family Cemetery near Old Farm Avenue in Chesapeake’s Warrington Hall neighborhood. The cemetery ...
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Tombstones with qualifications spark debate in Mzansi
A viral image of two Mzansi tombstones showing full academic and professional qualifications has sparked debate, with users ...
Madeleine Isenberg has a special skill. She translates and extracts information from Jewish tombstones to help people connect with their families’ pasts. “I’m not good at matchmaking people who are ...
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