Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Twelve years ago Norfolk County native Jean Silvester Spencer began working on updating an edition ...

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 ...

LITTLE ROCK — Visitors to Hot Springs will find numerous recreational and relaxing activities, but they also may find help in locating graves of their ancestors. The Garland County Historical Society ...

Joel Cheskin's tombstone will greet visitors to his grave with a funny, if not morbid, golf joke. VICTORALCORN.COM There’s nothing grave about these inscriptions. Tombstones can poignantly preserve ...

Mary Beller Russell never struck her children -- it says so on her tombstone. Russell is buried in Bellefonte Cemetery in Boone County. She died on Feb. 14, 1902. Russell's epitaph has added meaning ...

Mike Fichtel's fascination with genealogy began when he was 13 and rummaging in his family's attic looking for something to do. Little did he know the notebook he found would lead to a lifelong, ...

Tombstone, Arizona is famous for its cemetery called Boot Hill. Back in the old west the expression, “to die with your boots on” meant to meet your end from unnatural causes. That happened to almost ...

A Hebrew-inscribed tombstone dating to the 13th century has been discovered in southern India. The tombstone was found on a coconut farm in the city of Ramanathapuram in the state of Tamil Nadu, The ...