AUSTIN, Texas — The Bethany Cemetery opened in 1893 as the first Black cemetery in Austin. It opened when the Oakwood Cemetery ran out of room for Black graves in its small, segregated section.

ELSMERE, Ky. — Overgrown weeds, uneven ground and headstones covered by bushes and trees is putting one historic African American cemetery in disarray. “These are all over; you could break ...

Hundreds convened at the Washington State Veterans Cemetery in Medical Lake for its annual Memorial Day service to honor and remember veterans who have died. It was a solemn day of remembrance ...

The West Texas State Veterans Cemetery is nearing completion and will provide a sacred space for veterans to rest in peace, honoring their service and sacrifice.

Nozzolio was in attendance. "It was (Bull's) vision, his dream, to create a cemetery on the site of the Sampson naval base," Nozzolio said. That began what Nozzolio calls a "25-year quest" to ...

HANSEN — The cemetery south of town is a place of peace, with mowed grass and bright flags waving in the breeze. Gravesites there are among the oldest in Magic Valley, the oldest one from 1878.

It came after the city of Clearwater built over a forgotten African American cemetery, creating outrage in the community. Local leaders are discovering abandoned African American cemeteries across ...

Arizona officials and community members gathered at the National Cemetery of Arizona to commemorate Memorial Day. Secretary of State Adrian Fontes' speech against tyranny and fascism faced ...

Père-Lachaise is the most-visited cemetery in the world — and site of the hardest plots to snag. Home to Colette, Eugène Delacroix, Isadora Duncan, Honoré de Balzac, Sarah Bernhardt ...

When the Pima County Medical Examiner’s Office took over operations of the county’s indigent cemetery, Dr. Gregory Hess began a monumental task: Trying to put names to the hundreds of remains ...

Located along the ever-busy Lagos-Badagry Expressway, Isasi cemetery is a place where the dead find little peace. Overcrowded and neglected, this burial ground tells a haunting tale, as bodies are ...

SPRINGFIELD, Mass. (WWLP) – MGM Springfield volunteers were at St. Michael’s Cemetery in Springfield helping to prepare for Memorial Day, and now, you may notice thousands of flags in the area.