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

For more than two millennia, a pair of modest graves lay anonymous, their occupants reduced to catalog numbers and conjecture ...

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 ...

The burial ground at the former American president’s home in Nashville is the latest to be discovered at a presidential site. By Annie Correal The South is a land of lost graves. The burial grounds of ...

After more than a decade, an unusual program to place markers on long-forgotten graves of 686 infants and adults in the former “poor lot” of Concord’s huge Blossom Hill Cemetery, the resting place of ...

TAYLOR — On a recent gray day with a cold wind blowing, Ernest Rector looked over a mostly empty plot of land dotted with a few headstones at the Taylor City Cemetery. The 96-year-old pointed to the ...