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Where are Ohio's Revolutionary War veterans buried? A new effort seeks to find out
To celebrate the country's 250th anniversary, an Ohio group is working to put all of the state's Revolutionary War veteran ...
Chicago doesn’t remember one of its worst disasters, and there are few memorials to this day
The closest thing we have to a memorial for people who died from the heat is not even in Chicago. It’s the headstone of the ...
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Prairie cemetery hides behind headstone overlooking I-94 in central North Dakota
CRYSTAL SPRINGS, N.D. — As drivers follow Interstate 94 near the exit marked for Crystal Springs, a white gravestone perched ...
Who’s watching out for Oregon’s historic cemeteries? Sometimes, it’s the neighbor
From placing flags on veterans' graves to preserving local history, volunteers like Sandra Hendrickson are dedicated ...
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Ohio group making Revolutionary War veteran graves easier to find
To celebrate the country's 250th anniversary, an Ohio group is working to put all of the state's Revolutionary War veteran graves in one public database.
KC widow waits seven months for husband’s gravestone; cemetery’s new owners promise to ‘improve’
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (KCTV) - A Kansas City widow said she was left frustrated and forgotten after an experience at an area ...
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Illinois veteran bestowed military honors nearly a decade after death
An extraordinary cold case investigation revealed a formerly unidentified ward of the state to be a Women's Army Corps ...
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Military honors bestowed on Illinois veteran identified nearly a decade after death
Standing near the gravestone for the relative he never met, Mark Bailey accepted the crisply folded American flag from the ...
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The Broadway Butterfly, the Lady Gangster of the Jazz Age, flew too close to the lights
Known as the Broadway Butterfly, Vivian Gordon dreamed of fame on the stage but instead found it enmeshed in political ...