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

For the past two years, Bill Bray has been on a mission to restore abandoned cemeteries. Bray, 57, of Penn Township, has cleaned headstones covered in years of mold, moss and lichen and reset ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 … ...

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 ...

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.

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.

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 ...

Much of the county’s, and state’s, history can be found on smaller, family burial sites, and those are harder to protect. The state law covers those cemeteries too, but, historically ...

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