TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Florida legislators are expected to hear a bill this session that addresses land access when erased or abandoned cemeteries are on private property. House Minority Leader ...

According to analysis for the bill, there are seven abandoned cemeteries in California, counting the four recently closed by the Cemetery and Funeral Bureau. Another 43 have underfunded endowment ...

The three cemeteries are owned by Michael Graham and Associates, a Houston, Texas-based company that has been dissolved. Sikeston has taken on the record-keeping and maintenance at the two ...

But the state has to ask the legislature every year for money to maintain these abandoned cemeteries. Now lawmakers are looking at a different approach, to better care for these neglected places.

SIKESTON, Mo. -- Sikeston and Scott County will serve as temporary custodians of records and perform necessary maintenance for three cemeteries that are no longer being kept up.

Afterlife Restoration was founded in 2025 in Harbor Beach (on the shore of Lake Huron in Michigan’s thumb area) by Robert ...

Those properties were owned by the Louisville Crematory and Cemeteries Co., which dissolved into bankruptcy by the early 1990s after top executives were charged criminally for corpse abuse, grave ...

CONNECTICUT (WTNH) — Gov. Ned Lamont announced Thursday that 37 municipalities across Connecticut will be awarded state grants for conserving neglected cemeteries. The grants, released under … ...

At issue are three cemeteries — Eastern, Greenwood and Schardein — once owned by the Louisville Crematory and Cemeteries Co., which has been defunct since the 1990s following a state ...

Helmbrecht said the abandoned cemetery board gets about $2,000 a year from the county to maintain the abandoned cemeteries. A couple of high school students mow the Pleasant Valley cemetery.

For further information contact SICemetery@gmail.com or 917-545-3309 or visit the Friends of Abandoned Cemeteries (FACSI) facebook page.

But the state has to ask the legislature every year for money to maintain these abandoned cemeteries. Now lawmakers are looking at a different approach, to better care for these neglected places.