It takes some hard labor and detective work, but volunteers working at the West Side Cemetery have discovered pieces of Geneva history that have not been seen for decades. For instance, Geneva History ...

On the eastern edge of Girard Cemetery, you'll find an unusual headstone featuring a century-and-a-half-old consumer tip, of sorts. And talk about tragic irony. The epitaph reads: "In memory of Ellen ...

Have you ever seen an unusual epitaph on a headstone and wanted to know the rest of the story? No one is ever surprised to learn that I do. Sometimes I’ve found clues to someone’s story in the final ...

No sense in burying the lede: I’m sold on cemeteries. That’s why I’m tempted to move to Weld, Maine, a town of about 400 people that’s 90 miles north of Portland. If I moved to Weld — which, OK, I’m ...

Although graveyards can sometimes appear eerie and haunting, especially during those witching hours, there is a beauty in how we mark our final resting places. It is a deeply personal space where ...

TUSKEGEE, Ala. (WSFA) - Willie Boyd grew up in Tuskegee. It’s a special place to him. He left for a long career flying helicopters in the military and then settled down in Georgia. But four years ago, ...

GUILFORD - Abner Stone, a cousin of Medad Stone whose 1803 tavern still stands, died in 1767, but for 200 years his grave was ...

Feb. 3—Some stories are buried too deeply to uncover, lost behind forgotten names and impersonal dates of birth and death. It's like a slightly macabre game of telephone: Things that began in sharp ...

On Saturday, Oct. 25, the Lombard Historical Society presents “Daylight with the Departed: A Tour of Lombard Cemetery,” a daytime tour of the oldest cemetery in town, at 1 p.m. This 60-minute tour of ...

Manitowoc volunteers located two unmarked Civil War veteran graves using 1800s burial logs, installing headstones on Veterans Day after a century-long search.