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 ...

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 ...

Emotional expressions on Greek tombstones from the Hellenistic period -- 323-31 B.C. -- help increase our understanding of social communication and cultural values. Despite the potential of the ...

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 ...

A rare Roman tombstone discovered facedown weeks ago in England proved to be even more spectacular on Wednesday, when archaeologists turned it over. The inscription on the front of the tombstone, ...

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 ...