Twelve years ago Norfolk County native Jean Silvester Spencer began working on updating an edition of “Tombstone Inscriptions of Norfolk County” that was originally published in 1979. Spencer and a ...

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Mike Fichtel's fascination with genealogy began when he was 13 and rummaging in his family's attic looking for something to do. Little did he know the notebook he found would lead to a lifelong, ...

LITTLE ROCK — Visitors to Hot Springs will find numerous recreational and relaxing activities, but they also may find help in locating graves of their ancestors. The Garland County Historical Society ...

As grave markers, tombstones offer a focus for mourning and commemoration. Typically made of stone and usually engraved with the deceased's name, date of birth and death, they also often carry ...

Norfolk County farmer Henry Butt has – presumably – rested in peace for well over 150 years in the Butt Family Cemetery near Old Farm Avenue in Chesapeake’s Warrington Hall neighborhood. The cemetery ...

For centuries, people have marked graves and commemorated the dead. Stones were originally used by prehistoric man to keep wild animals from digging up the gravesite. Today cemetery markers are ...

They used digital imaging technology to identify the gravestone in Loddington.

KINGSTON, Ark. (AP) - Mary Beller Russell never struck her children - it says so on her tombstone. Russell is buried in Bellefonte Cemetery in Boone County. She died on Feb. 14, 1902. Russell’s ...

Mary Beller Russell never struck her children -- it says so on her tombstone. Russell is buried in Bellefonte Cemetery in Boone County. She died on Feb. 14, 1902. Russell's epitaph has added meaning ...