Ever wonder why there are so many empty spaces in old cemeteries? Michael Emery, who has spent two decades documenting historic cemeteries throughout southeastern and central Pennsylvania, has ...

Hudson County is renovating the grave markers of about 300 veterans at the Machpelah/Hudson Cemetery & Crematory in North Bergen. West New York town historian Patrick R. Cullen, who discovered the ...

If you are visiting a cemetery soon, look for a disappearing part of a Texas funerary tradition. Made mostly during the first half of the 20th century, it’s the vernacular (folk art) concrete grave ...

Veterans who served our country deserve lasting recognition, and the Department of Veterans Affairs offers just that. The VA provides, at no cost, government-issued headstones, markers or medallions ...

FORT CAMPBELL, Ky. -- As the Nation prepares to celebrate Independence Day, thoughts and thanks are given to those Patriots that came before us and fought for freedom and liberty. On June 28, a ...

The weathered and worn wooden grave marker has stood for more than 125 years in a historic Berks County, Pennsylvania, cemetery. According to experts, it could belong to a Civil War soldier. Now, it ...