Black-owned Burr Oak Cemetery, resting place of Emmett Till, heads toward National Register listing

The Alsip cemetery is the final resting place of Mamie and Emmett Till, rapper King Von, singer Dinah Washington and generations of other prominent figures.

Death notices and funeral announcements in The Newcastle Chronicle last week

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Three more veterans’ graves identified in Great Smoky Mountains National Park

A group working to find the graves of Veterans in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park has identified three more veterans ...
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French archaeologists uncover 'vast Roman burial area' with cremation graves 'fed' by liquid offerings

More than 160 cremation graves were discovered at the ancient site of Olbia, which began as a fortified Greek settlement around 350 B.C. in what is now the south of France. The ge ...