By Selene San Felice. The Downs family saw their land become a military base during World War I. Now, their family cemetery is about to become a cyber defense building. Last week, a Maryland District Court judge granted the federal government the right to possess the 418-square-foot Downs Cemetery on the grounds of Fort George […]
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By Peter D. Kramer. Maggie Farley wants to remember the way her father lived – the Denver probate lawyer’s sense of humor, integrity and decades fighting for affordable housing – not how he died of COVID-19 with no family permitted at his hospital bedside. “I don’t feel like he died with regrets and I don’t […]
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By Shachar Peled. PARIS – Deaths from the coronavirus are mounting in France and the Thiais cemetery on the outskirts of Paris is almost out of space. “In normal times we fill one row of graves per year,” says mortician Avraham Weinberg. “Now we are burying a row and a half every week.” On Monday, […]
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By Matthew Chayes. So many people are dying from coronavirus in the metropolitan area that each link in the mortuary system is overwhelmed: morgues, hospitals, funeral homes, cemeteries, crematoria, even transportation between these places. “There’s people dying all over the place,” said Dan Moloney, co-owner of Lake Ronkonkoma-based Moloney Family Funeral Homes. “We’ve never seen […]
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By Rachael Smith. NEW LONDON — For the past several years, Delores Nash Hicks has been lovingly maintaining a now-inactive cemetery in New London where her father and his family were buried. The work had been a solo mission until Saturday, when she had a little help from her friends. For the first time, members […]
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By Mihir Zaveri. Archaeologists plan to excavate part of a cemetery in Tulsa, Okla., to see if it holds the remains of black residents slaughtered by white mobs during a massacre in 1921. The mayor said Wednesday it was an “unprecedented” step to address one of the worst instances of racist violence in American history, […]
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By Vince Martonis. HANOVER – Citizens everywhere should adhere to and be guided by this very simple but important principle — all cemeteries should be respected and protected. Sometimes this principle is ignored. Such was the case with the West Irving Cemetery, located on Routes 5 and 20 in the Sunset Bay area of Hanover, […]
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By Rosie McCall. Archaeologists have discovered 30 tablets at the bottom of an ancient well, each engraved with curses intended to harm the recipient. According to Haaretz, the curse tablets had been chucked into a 2,500-year-old well in the ancient cemetery of Kerameikos in Athens, Greece. The perpetrators of the curses are unknown, their names […]
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By Sarah Smith. HOUSTON -Patrick Young waited in the woods to see who had put up a padlocked gate across the entrance to a cemetery where his family has been buried since the time they were enslaved. He had driven up to tend to the graves as he always did when he saw the gate. […]
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