A sign is posted leading hikers to a hill in Altadena that holds the grave of Owen Brown, the son of the abolitionist John Brown. The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors unanimously voted in ...
Celebrity gravestones continue to draw visitors years after deaths. Nancy Jones, widow of country music star George Jones, listens as the Jones Boys band plays as she sits at the memorial unveiled at ...
Some of my mother’s earliest memories are of scrubbing chalk onto paper pressed into the ridges of old headstones. While ...
Caitlin O'Kane is a New York City journalist who works on the CBS News social media team as a senior manager of content and production. She writes about a variety of topics and produces "The Uplift," ...
SOMERVILLE, MASS. (WHDH) - An artist from Salem is working on a heartwarming tribute to history and the dead. Andrew Carr restored two gravestones from the early 1700s that belong to a historically ...
America loves genealogy, whether it’s searching through online databases, sending off spit samples for a DNA trip down families’ lines or walking through local graveyards and pondering lives ...
What’s the origin of gravestone recipes? The oldest I’ve come across is from 1994. It’s modern gravestones that are very personalized with hobbies, pets, favorite quotes. If you go to Congressional ...
On a hill above Altadena named Little Round Top, a grave stood for 136 years as the community below it blossomed. Here lay the remains of Owen Brown, son of the legendary abolitionist John Brown. Owen ...