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 ...

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 ...

When people use the expression “carved in stone,” they are referencing something they regard as permanent, unchanging. Inscriptions carved in tombstones are inscribed in stone, usually granite or ...

STATEN ISLAND, New York (WABC) -- A family from Staten Island has been trying to add the last touch to their loved one's final resting place for more than a year, but when they paid for an inscription ...

Joel Cheskin's tombstone will greet visitors to his grave with a funny, if not morbid, golf joke. VICTORALCORN.COM There’s nothing grave about these inscriptions. Tombstones can poignantly preserve ...

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 ...

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 ...

Tombstone, Arizona is famous for its cemetery called Boot Hill. Back in the old west the expression, “to die with your boots on” meant to meet your end from unnatural causes. That happened to almost ...