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For 210 years the body of 28-year-old County Kildare native James Jackson, a young Irish immigrant, has lain undisturbed in the center of Manhattan’s Greenwich Village. But this week, as park workers dug below Washington Square they revealed his gravestone, a three foot sandstone tablet buried so long ago that it’s a wonder the writing on his headstone is still so clear.Read More About James
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Death Reports of American Citizens Abroad,1910-1974 has just been put online on Ancestry.comDeath Reports of American Citizens Abroad includes records of the U.S.consular officers that reported to the Department of State the namesof U.S. citizens who died within their consular districts. These deathreports commonly provide acceptable documentation in the Englishlanguage for cases in which
The Coffin Plate of Hermine Stephan is now online. From the photo I would say Hermine died in the 1900 to 1915 time period.Hermine StephanIf you want to take a look at all the coffin plates on Ancestors At Rest try the Coffin Plate Index
Police in Vienna are investigating after a 40-year-old man was killed when a 200-kilo gravestone fell on top of him. Police said foul play had been ruled out and fingerprints on the stone had revealed the man had touched it before it fell.
There’s a plot of land off South Dixie Road that seems empty — but it’s not.There are no markers, no fences, nothing to indicate it’s a cemetery except a few places where the ground has sunken in a little.“I wouldn’t have known it was a cemetery,” said Mitch Adams, a senior GIS (Geographic Information Systems) technician for Whitfield County. “I only know it’s one because Marvin (Sowder) told me
Becka Sampaio and her fiance Kevin Bossons are planning a Halloween wedding and are dead set on tying the knot in a cemetery.Read More
This is an interesting group of memorial cards for the Berger family. I had a look around to see if I could locate this family but was unable to pin them down. I did find a Joseph Berger living in Miamisburg, Montgomery, Ohio in 1900. It would take a little more work to see if this is the family we are looking for.1900 United States Federal Census Joseph Berger Age: 62 Birth Date: Jan 1838
I have added the coffin plate of Abraham Manning to my coffin plate section on Ancestorsatrest.comOld Abraham was aged 81 years 8 mos 26 dys when he passed on. No date on this coffin plate but I would say it is from about 1870 to about 1890.If you want to see all the coffin plates in the index go to the Coffin Plates Page
Locals have long known there are bodies in the Orange Beach Community Cemetery unaccounted for by above-ground markers. But the extent was not known until 2000 when Tony Kennon, who is now the city's mayor, sought to have his late father, Robert Kennon, buried in Orange Beach's only graveyard. When a body turned up in what was thought to be an empty plot, firefighters scanned the ground to look
As researchers confirm that a Miami cemetery unearthed by construction crews was the final resting place of pioneering black residents, developers erecting a residential complex on the site move to keep what remains of the burial ground.The mysterious, long-forgotten Lemon City cemetery unearthed by construction crews earlier this year will likely be preserved as a historical monument to the
The National Museum of African American History and Culture has acquired the original casket of Emmett Till, whose brutal murder in 1955 energized the modern civil rights movement. Read More
I thought this story about the grave of Marilyn Monroe was interesting. Marilyn Monroe
Elmwood Cemetery, Memphis's oldest graveyard opened in 1852 and houses the remains of many prominent, and notorious, citizens. It's a microcosm of Memphis history—Civil War, Masons, yellow fever, immigration, crime: it's all represented.Of particular note is the number of victims of yellow fever, which struck the city most severely in 1878. Half the populace fled Memphis and at the height of the
WorldVitalRecords Free Site Access Today! World Vital Records announced today that it is extending its FREE ACCESS to the site until August 18th.Genealogists have 4 more days to explore World Vital Records and find ancestors for FREE.
A Yearbook I bought on yielded this Death Notice:DORIS HARDISTYThe late Doris Hardisty who passed away early on Saturday morning November 1st was a student in Form IV A and her death cast a mantle of gloom over the studen body of the Collegiate. When we remember her attractive personality and the great promise of her life, her death is particularly sad. in school and school activities, in Church,
I have added the Coffin Plate of Ruth Stone 1782~1863 to my coffin plate database. I did a little digging and it looks like Ruth Stone may have lived in Jaffrey, Cheshire, New Hampshire. Ruth Stone 1782~1863
Footnote has opened up the 1930 census for all to view FREE during the month of August. This is a great opportunity to have a look for your ancestors.
I found this story interesting and was thinking I would pass it on. I would love to see if they could get any DNA from the bodies.Naked, beheaded, and tangled, the bodies of 51 young men—their heads stacked neatly to the side—have been found in a thousand-year-old pit in southern England. Read More
I now have a list of names to go with the photos of St.Andrews Presbyterian Cemetery, Hillsdale, Simcoe County, Ontario.St.Andrews Presbyterian Cemetery
He was a plumber from Somerset, in many ways an unremarkable man, but Harry Patch became the last British survivor of the carnage of the Western Front.Read More
I have added a list of tenants renting land from Earl Fitzwilliam in the townland of Minmore, County Wicklow Ireland in 1839. Anne Burgess has been transcribing the 1839 Fitzwilliam rentals records, and putting them into a spreadsheet for each townland, hoping in that way to construct a sort of census substitute for 1839 in southwest Wicklow. Townland of MinmoreI also have the following Townlands
The remains of more than 60 Civil War era men, women and children, who were initially buried near Fort Craig in southern Socorro County, will be laid to rest for a final time at the Santa Fe National Cemetery on Tuesday, July 28. Among them were three Buffalo Soldiers, who were reburied with full military honors after their original graves had been desecrated by trophy hunters.Read More
I now have the coffin plate of Henry Richmond online.Henry ? RichmondDied March 30th 1885Aged 72 yrs 7 mos 6 daysHenry Richmond Coffin Plate
Vic Fearn and Company is a 160-year-old company in England that makes coffins. That doesn't sound terribly exciting, but recent customers may make you think twice about that impression. Crazy Coffins
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