The instrument he held was reminiscent of a divining rod with which some mountain inhabitants used to detect water. But ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Michelle Harris brushed dirt from an old tombstone and found family. “Tom Harris, son of Dewitt and Minnie,” she read aloud. “Oh, ...

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 ...

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. ...

TRANSYLVANIA COUNTY N.C. (FOX Carolina) - Blair Tormey is on a decade-long mission to help find forgotten graves in North Carolina. “Just about every cemetery that you can think of has some section or ...

We searched cemeteries across Alabama, Georgia, and South Carolina to find the most interesting and forgotten graves linked to local legends. Competing alongside other explorers, the History Seekers ...

CEDAR RAPIDS — The preservation of the history and ancestry of Black Iowans drew volunteers to Cedar Rapids’ Oak Hill Cemetery Saturday morning. A group of more than a dozen members of the local ...