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 ...

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

Celebrity gravestones continue to draw visitors years after deaths. Nancy Jones, widow of country music star George Jones, listens as the Jones Boys band plays as she sits at the memorial unveiled at ...

Woodland Cemetery and Arboretum, near the University of Dayton, is one of the five oldest rural garden cemeteries in the United States, established in 1841. There are more than 3,000 trees on the ...

America loves genealogy, whether it’s searching through online databases, sending off spit samples for a DNA trip down families’ lines or walking through local graveyards and pondering lives ...

What’s the origin of gravestone recipes? The oldest I’ve come across is from 1994. It’s modern gravestones that are very personalized with hobbies, pets, favorite quotes. If you go to Congressional ...

Dale Hoppe is all smiles about a newly discovered title for his unique hobby, which is a dearly departed departure from usual pastimes, and what he says others often describe as somber spare-time ...

On a hill above Altadena named Little Round Top, a grave stood for 136 years as the community below it blossomed. Here lay the remains of Owen Brown, son of the legendary abolitionist John Brown. Owen ...