CARLISLE - Before he died in April 1897, Henry Spradley, a former slave, had earned the respect of his community. A former member of the U.S. Colored Troops 24th Infantry Regiment, Spradley had spent ...

COLUMBUS, Miss. (AP) — Crumbling brick pillars at Greenlawn Memorial Park cemetery in east Columbus show the wear and tear of time. The tangle of brush that covered them not long ago, however, is gone ...

Randall Keel doesn’t have friends or family members buried in the majority of cemeteries he visits, but he treats each one with the same dignity and respect as the ones where he does. Keel, senior ...

WICHITA, Kan. (KSNW) – Highland Cemetery near 9th and Hillside is one of the oldest cemeteries in Wichita. The city owns the cemetery, but weather, vandals, and deferred maintenance have taken a toll ...

Think Arlington National Cemetery and a clear picture comes to mind: Straight, stoic rows of uniformly white headstones. The scene is as beguiling as it is honorific. Crisp lines of grave markers ...

Alabama will soon be home to a second state Veterans Cemetery. Rep. Dale Strong, R-Monrovia, announced plans for a 150-acre cemetery east of Huntsville on Maysville Road NE. The facility will include ...

Tom Rothfuss was just doing his job. As a caretaker of the Webster Union Cemetery for the past five years, his job is to make sure the final resting places of many people are pristine and remain in a ...

Clarissa Case died in 1870. Her husband Samuel preceded her in death 16 years earlier, in 1854. Both are buried in the Old Village Cemetery in Brighton, but the headstone that marks their gravesites ...

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It is a leap in logic for the Rabbi Marvin Hier, dean and founder of the Simon Wiesenthal Center, to argue in his Feb. 13 Times Op-Ed article that because a parking lot has been built by Israel over ...

In a Wahaca restaurant in London’s Covent Garden there stands, improbably, a wall in rammed earth, an ancient but now uncommon construction technique. It was here that Andrew Waugh, of the architects ...