The Old Lima Cemetery was the second oldest graveyard in the city. It replaced the original Tanner Street Cemetery and, by 1863, many of Lima’s citizenry favored it over the older location. It sat on ...

SUNBURY — Searching for a relative buried Sunbury Cemetery just became much easier. Several months ago, Mayor Kurt Karlovich began a project to take old cemetery records and make them available online ...

The Christilla Pioneer Cemetery in Happy Valley has been maintained by a small group of families for generations. Now, the city and charities are stepping in to help preserve its future. Christilla ...

A large gang of workmen had the task 118 years ago of removing bodies from the Old Catholic Cemetery to be re-interred in Hanover Green Cemetery. The location of the Old Catholic Cemetery as described ...

It’s a curious sight to come upon while walking the Appalachian Trail in Cumberland County: a tiny, ancient cemetery, nearly consumed by trees, brush and earth. Many a hiker has surely stepped inside ...

GRAND RAPIDS -- Robert Keeler was buried in Oakhill Cemetery more than 143 years ago, but Eloise Haven probably knows more about him today than his fellow Civil War veterans did when he died. "He was ...

The remains of Squire Hoffman, who died in 1850 at age 33, lie in the oldest recorded plot at the cemetery that sits at the crossroads of Old Scenic Highway and Mount Pleasant Road in Zachary. Its ...

STUART — In the early 1900s, when Stuart was settled by pioneers and homesteaders, the need for a public burial ground soon became a necessity. Without a public cemetery, families were relegated to ...

Most remnants from the 1700s in NC have been lost to time – washed away by hurricanes, destroyed by cannon blasts or burned away in fires. Some entire towns were abandoned and destroyed. But along the ...

HAMLIN TOWNSHIP, MI – Off the beaten path and out of the way, this tiny cemetery at a Northern Michigan state park is the final resting place for dozens of people. Even seasoned visitors of Ludington ...

The land at Enterprise South Nature Park holds an old historic African American cemetery, Old Summit Cemetery, in the area that is slated for a land swap with McDonald Farm. From what I understand, ...