A sign is posted leading hikers to a hill in Altadena that holds the grave of Owen Brown, the son of the abolitionist John Brown. The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors unanimously voted in ...

If you've ever been to a cemetery, visiting a loved one or just looking for a quiet place to reflect, you may have seen coins sitting on top of gravestones. In some graveyards, there may only be one ...

Celebrity gravestones continue to draw visitors years after deaths. Nancy Jones, widow of country music star George Jones, listens as the Jones Boys band plays as she sits at the memorial unveiled at ...

Some of my mother’s earliest memories are of scrubbing chalk onto paper pressed into the ridges of old headstones. While ...

SOMERVILLE, MASS. (WHDH) - An artist from Salem is working on a heartwarming tribute to history and the dead. Andrew Carr restored two gravestones from the early 1700s that belong to a historically ...

What’s the origin of gravestone recipes? The oldest I’ve come across is from 1994. It’s modern gravestones that are very personalized with hobbies, pets, favorite quotes. If you go to Congressional ...

America loves genealogy, whether it’s searching through online databases, sending off spit samples for a DNA trip down families’ lines or walking through local graveyards and pondering lives ...