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100 Years Ago – First Aerial Bombing Raid On Britain
January 16, 2015
125 Years Later – A Look Back at The Ripper’s ‘First’ Victim
August 30, 2013
13 Grave Markers With Descriptions
November 20, 2015
140 Years of The Women’s Christian Temperance Union
November 21, 2014
2011 – The Year In Review
December 30, 2011
2012 – Remembering Those Who Have Gone……
December 28, 2012
2013 – A Continued Look Back at Those Who Died
December 27, 2013
2013 – A Look Back at Those Who Have Passed
December 20, 2013
2014 Those Who Have Passed – Part 2
January 2, 2015
21 Facts About D-Day: 70 Years Ago Today
June 6, 2014
50 Details About Kennedy’s Assassination on the 50th Anniversary
November 22, 2013
6 Drinking Phrases and What They Mean
May 6, 2015
6 Ways To Invite The Community Into Your Cemetery
January 8, 2016
A Christmas Carol: An Enduring Holiday Ghost Story
December 11, 2020
A Circus Tragedy and Showmen’s Rest
June 24, 2011
A Closer Look at Prostitutes in the Cemetery
March 2, 2012
A Date Which Will Live in Infamy….December 7, 1941
December 7, 2012
A Dying Art: Stone Carvers of the Cemetery
March 21, 2014
A Final Look at Those Who Died in 2016
December 30, 2016
A Grave in the Middle of the Road
November 29, 2013
A Grave Interest Celebrates 10 Years
February 1, 2021
A Grave Interest Celebrates Its 2nd Blog-a-versary
February 1, 2013
A Grave Interest’s First Anniversary Blog
January 27, 2012
A Haunted Hoosier Cemetery – Oak Grove
October 20, 2017
A Library in the Cemetery
April 3, 2015
A Look at Columbariums
April 5, 2013
A Look At Funeral Prices: 1915 and 2015
February 13, 2015
A Look Back at the 1971 Thiokol Chemical Plant Explosion
February 2, 2018
A Look Back at the Vicitms of Jack the Ripper
August 29, 2014
A Poet For His Times – T.S. Eliot
January 4, 2013
A Simply Spook-tacular Idea, Horror Fans
July 25, 2014
A Summertime Decision….
July 12, 2011
A Tombstone Tourist Making a Difference in Chicago
January 19, 2018
Accordions in the Cemetery
June 22, 2012
Adopt A Cemetery Plot
April 24, 2015
Al Capone – Chicago Gangster
January 25, 2013
Amelia Earhart – The Search Continues
June 28, 2013
Ancestors’ Day
April 5, 2011
Ancient Egyptian Funerary Ship Discovered
February 5, 2016
And That’s the Way it Is……
November 4, 2011
Angels in the Cemetery
April 26, 2011
Arbor Day and Those Trees in the Cemetery
April 29, 2011
Are You a Tombstone Tourist?
June 28, 2011
Attending a Funeral
April 19, 2013
Barney Clark – Medical Pioneer
March 23, 2012
Beware the Ides of March
March 15, 2019
Billy the Kid
July 13, 2012
Bockscar – A Look Back at the Plane That Ended WW II
August 9, 2013
Body Snatching – A Ghoulish Profession
January 24, 2014
Bones of Contention and Disappearing Bodies
February 28, 2014
Book Review: A Christmas Canticle by Frank E. Bittinger
December 18, 2015
Book Review: Burden of Wings by Mauro Marinelli
August 21, 2015
Book Review: Next Door To The Dead by Kathleen Driskell
September 25, 2015
Book Review: Of Statues and Effigies by Adonis Stergiou
March 11, 2016
Burial at Sea
May 25, 2012
Burial Customs of Different World religions
May 13, 2011
Buried Standing Up – A New Tradition?
January 9, 2015
Burl Ives – American Folk Music Legend
April 15, 2011
Burma Shave Safety Reminder Jingles
June 14, 2019
Cabarets of Death and Beyond
December 8, 2017
Call the Death Midwife
May 20, 2016
Capturing Spirits in Photographs
October 8, 2021
Carved Ivory Manikins – Mysterious Medical Marvels
January 24, 2020
Caskets Made by Monks
November 9, 2018
CATACOMBS IN AMERICA
March 10, 2023
Cedars in the Cemetery
June 8, 2018
Celebrate #Cabernet Day
August 28, 2013
Celebrating ‘Daniel Boone Day’
June 7, 2011
Celebrating Our Freedom on July 4th
July 1, 2011
Cemeteries Worth the Visit – Glenwood Cemetery
June 3, 2011
Cemeteries Worth the Visit – Oak Hill Cemetery, Evansville, Indiana
November 1, 2011
Cemeteries Worth the Visit – Oak Ridge Cemetery, Springfield, Illinois
September 7, 2011
Cemeteries Worth the Visit – Richmond Cemetery, Richmond, KY
October 4, 2011
Cemeteries Worth the Visit– Frankfort, Kentucky
January 10, 2012
Cemetery Angels at Easter
March 29, 2013
Cemetery Folk Art Pieces – Made with Love
August 24, 2012
Cemetery Records – And the Plot Thickens……
February 22, 2011
Cemetery Research can be an Adventure
February 15, 2011
Cemetery Responsibilities
November 16, 2012
Cemetery Statues of Grief
January 31, 2014
Cemetery Statues of Hope
February 7, 2014
Cemetery Stones Missing for Decades Have Been Found
November 13, 2020
Cemetery Symbols of Love
February 11, 2011
Cemetery Symbols of LOVE – A Valentine’s Day Remembrance
February 10, 2012
Central State Hosptial (Indiana Insane Asylum) & Cemetery
October 12, 2012
Church and Religious Records
March 1, 2011
Coffin Therapy: Giving Death a Test Drive
April 1, 2016
Considering Pet Cemeteries
May 4, 2012
Cradle Graves: Not Just for Children
March 7, 2014
Cross By the Side of the Road
August 15, 2014
Crown Hill Cemetery Celebrates 150 Years
May 30, 2014
Daffodils in the Cemetery
March 24, 2011
Daniel Boone – Folk Hero, Frontiersman and Explorer
September 26, 2014
Day of the Dead – Día de los Muertos
November 2, 2018
Day Two of the Midwest Family History Expo
July 31, 2011
Dealing With Your Digital Death
January 30, 2015
Death Records and Mortality Schedules
March 8, 2011
Death Under Glass
June 5, 2015
Desegregtion of the Military Ordered 65 Years Ago Today
July 26, 2013
Did Opening King Tut’s Tomb Dig Up a Curse?
February 16, 2018
Dining with the Dead
October 17, 2021
Discussing Death Over Dinner
January 10, 2014
Divining the Dead
August 22, 2014
Divining the Dead
August 19, 2011
Dollhouse Grave Markers
August 14, 2015
Dying Green
April 20, 2012
Eastern Cemetery – Haunted by the Past
October 27, 2017
Embalming World Leaders, Long-Term
March 15, 2013
Exploring Funeral Home Record, Obits and Memorial Cards
March 11, 2011
EXPLORING SIX DIFFERENT TYPES OF STONES USED FOR GRAVES
February 26, 2021
Faces From the Past – Ceramic Memorial Plaques
May 18, 2012
Fala – The Most Famous Four-Footed White House Resident
April 4, 2014
Feng Shui Burials
November 28, 2014
Ferdinand Cross – Bedford Indiana Limestone Carver
September 23, 2016
Finding the Forgotten in an Insane Asylum’s Graveyard
February 21, 2020
Forgotten Assets
July 29, 2011
Forgotten Cemeteries
March 18, 2023
Four Fascinating Medical Museums
July 11, 2014
Four Great Genealogy Conferences to Attend in 2020
January 3, 2020
Frank Lloyd Wright’s Cemetery Designs
June 8, 2012
Friendship Day in the Cemetery
August 5, 2011
Frightfully Spook-tcular Horror Hosts
July 12, 2013
Funeral Transports through History
August 12, 2011
Funeral Webcasts: Virtual Funerals Allow Closure
July 10, 2015
Funerals Online – Mourning on Your Monitor
January 3, 2014
Gaming Memorials – When Death Becomes A Reality Online
March 8, 2013
God’s Acre: A Look at a Moravian Graveyard
September 9, 2016
Going Out in Style: Hearses Through History
April 25, 2014
Going to the Chapel…Cemetery Weddings
June 10, 2011
Gold Star Families
August 12, 2016
Gone to the Summerland
August 28, 2015
Grave Humor for April Fools’ Day
April 1, 2011
Grave Markers Ordered From Catalogs
August 17, 2012
Grave Problems at Arlington National Cemetery
January 6, 2012
Grave Robbery of the Famous
February 22, 2013
Grave Superstitions
March 15, 2011
Gravestone Inscriptions – The Final Say
February 25, 2011
Graveyard Poets for Friday the 13th
January 13, 2012
Graveyards of the Past
February 4, 2011
Green Grave Blankets
December 5, 2014
Grief Hallucinations or Visitations
February 12, 2016
Grief Therapy Dogs at Funeral Homes
January 20, 2023
Guardians of the Dead
January 17, 2014
Hair Wreaths: A Victorian Mourning Custom
June 20, 2014
Haunted Ashmore Estates – Ashmore, Illinois
October 30, 2015
Haunted Asylums – Peoria State Hosptial in Bartonville, Illinois
October 3, 2014
Haunted Blackfoot Cemetery
October 6, 2017
Haunted Hayswood Hospital for Sale
July 2, 2021
Haunted New Harmony – Worth a Trip
August 11, 2017
Haunted Spring Grove Cemetery in Cincinnati, Ohio
October 19, 2012
Haunted Towns in the Midwest – Alton, Illinois
October 25, 2013
Haunted Towns in the Midwest – Evansville, Indiana
November 1, 2013
Haunted Towns in the Midwest – Miamitown, Ohio
October 4, 2013
Haunted Towns in the Midwest – Westfield Indiana
October 18, 2013
Haunted Towns of the Midwest – St Charles, Missouri
October 11, 2013
Hauntings At The Hannah House
October 2, 2015
Having the Last Say – Epitaphs
December 1, 2011
Help Preserve Our Veteran’s Histories
November 10, 2017
History of Coffins & Caskets
August 10, 2012
Honoring Animals That Have Served in War
November 2, 2012
Honoring Our Four-Footed Service Workers
September 2, 2016
Horror Show Hosts – The End of an Era
July 19, 2013
How Do We Dispose of Murderers Remains
May 10, 2013
Human Composting
February 3, 2023
Humor in the Cemetery
March 28, 2014
I Thought I Saw a …Ghost?
June 23, 2017
I’m Back!!
June 2, 2017
In Honor of Our Veterans on Veterans Day
November 11, 2011
In Memory of Anne Frank – 85 Years After Her BIrth
June 13, 2014
In the Cemetery at the Winter Solstice
December 23, 2011
Indigent Burials
November 23, 2012
It’s National Ovarian Cancer Awareness Month
September 3, 2017
Ivy Covered Graves
February 24, 2012
Jack the Ripper – 125 Years Later – A Look Back at the Final Murder
November 8, 2013
Jane Todd Crawford -The First Survivor of Ovarian Surgery
September 2, 2011
Johnny Appleseed Remembered
March 18, 2016
Juliette Gordon Low – Founder of the Girl Scouts
January 17, 2020
Keeping the Memory Alive
November 25, 2011
Lawn Cemeteries
February 8, 2011
Leaving Stones on Graves
April 6, 2012
Ledger, Box and Table-type Grave Markers
July 10, 2020
Lincoln’s Funeral – 150 Years Later
May 1, 2015
Lincoln’s Phantom Train
April 26, 2013
Living in a Cemetery
July 8, 2016
Looking For The Green Reaper
April 22, 2016
Louis Sullivan – America’s Modern Architect
April 12, 2013
March is Women’s History Month – Even in the Cemetery
March 14, 2014
Mausoleums – Haunted “Homes” of the Dead
October 21, 2016
Mausoleums, Crypts, and Tombs (Oh My!)
August 26, 2011
Memorial Day Memories
May 28, 2018
Memorial Day Weekend and a Hearse Cruise
May 22, 2015
Midwest Family Expo Update:
July 30, 2011
Mishandling the Dead
December 16, 2011
Modern Death
June 19, 2015
Modern Woodmen of America
June 14, 2011
Modern Woodmen of America and Tree Stones
June 7, 2013
Mourning Cards: The Art of Death
February 14, 2014
My Old Kentucky Home – Federal Hill, Bardstown, Kentucky
October 28, 2011
Mystery Surrounds the Hope Diamond
November 17, 2017
Neptune Society Memorial Reef – A City of the Dead
March 1, 2013
Nikola Tesla – Inventing the 20th Century
January 6, 2017
NOLA Museum of Death – Not For the Faint of Heart
July 31, 2015
Not Your Grandfather’s Funeral
March 6, 2015
October’s Haunted Asylums – Anoka State Hospital, Anoka, Minnesota
October 10, 2014
One Lovely Blog Award
March 17, 2011
One of America’s Most Haunted Cemeteries…
October 26, 2012
Planning a Cemetery Trip
May 20, 2011
Plans On Track for Lincoln Train and Funeral Re-Enactments
April 18, 2014
Presidential State Funerals in the U.S.
September 7, 2012
Psychopomps – Guides of the Soul into the Afterlife
September 30, 2011
Public Enemy Number One – John Dillinger
July 22, 2011
Putting Lyme Disease in the Limelight
May 15, 2015
Random Acts of Cemetery Kindness
February 18, 2011
Religious Symbols in the Cemetery
April 19, 2011
Remains of the Day – Relocating a Body
February 8, 2013
Remembering a Broadcasting Legend – Edward R. Murrow
April 27, 2012
Remembering a Circus Tragedy
June 21, 2013
Remembering a Life Well Lived – Harry ‘Hap’ Fleming
November 18, 2011
Remembering An Architectural Legend: Frank Lloyd Wright
April 8, 2016
Remembering Audrey Hepburn
January 20, 2012
Remembering Big Band & Jazz Legend – Harry James
July 5, 2013
Remembering Dame Agatha Christie
January 12, 2018
Remembering Fathers in the Cemetery
June 17, 2011
Remembering George Burns
February 9, 2018
Remembering Glenn Miller 70 Years After His Disappearance
December 12, 2014
Remembering Gretta
May 24, 2011
Remembering Greyfriars Bobby
January 14, 2024
Remembering Jazz Great – Miles Davis
September 28, 2012
Remembering Mothers in the Cemetery
May 10, 2011
Remembering Peg Entwistle – The Hollywood Sign Girl
September 14, 2012
Remembering the 1977 Evansville Purple Aces
December 13, 2013
Remembering the Apollo One Astronauts
January 26, 2018
Remembering the Edmund Fitzgerald – 40 Years Later
November 6, 2015
Remembering the Father of Radio: Guglielmo Marconi
July 18, 2014
Remembering the First American Flying Ace of WWII
February 20, 2015
Remembering the Great Jack Dempsey
May 31, 2011
Remembering The Hindenburg Disaster
May 6, 2016
Remembering the Johnstown Flood
May 31, 2013
Remembering the Pets On The Titanic
April 11, 2014
Remembering The SS Eastland Tragedy 100 Years Later
July 24, 2015
Remembering the Tragic Fire at Our Lady of the Angels School
December 1, 2017
Remembering the Victims of the Titanic, 100 Years Later
April 13, 2012
Remembering Those Who Died in 2025
January 4, 2026
Remembering Those Who Passed in 2014 – Part 1
December 26, 2014
Remembering Those Who Serve
November 6, 2020
Remembering Walter Cronkite’s 100th Birthday
November 4, 2016
Remembering WWII Correspondent Ernie Pyle
April 17, 2015
Rest in Peat: Bog Bodies
August 19, 2016
Resurrection Mary and Resurrection Cemetery in Chicago
October 5, 2012
Roadside Memorials
July 6, 2012
Rural Cemeteries
February 1, 2011
Seeking Relatives of Unclaimed Persons
February 27, 2015
Shine On Harvest Moon
September 4, 2015
Silencing Valor in U.S. Military Cemeteries
January 16, 2026
Skeletons in the Family Closet
July 20, 2012
Social Media, Death and Mourning
January 15, 2016
Spirits of The Golden Lamb Inn – Ohio
October 2, 2020
Spooky Stories Just in Time for Halloween
October 28, 2016
Spring – The Season of the Family Bible
March 29, 2011
St Ignatius Cemetery in West Baden, Indiana
June 9, 2017
Stealing from the Dead
January 9, 2026
Symbols: Flowers and the Frailty of Life
September 9, 2011
Ten Eclispe Superstitions
August 18, 2017
That Final Ride: Hearses
June 26, 2020
The 5 Deadliest Tornados of the 20th Century
March 4, 2016
The 9/11 Memorial – Remembering The Day
September 11, 2015
The Amityville Horror
October 9, 2015
The Bicentennial of the War of 1812
June 15, 2012
The Black Aggie
May 17, 2013
The Celtic Cross in the Cemetery
March 18, 2011
The Children’s Blizzard of 1888
January 10, 2020
The Cost of Dying – Cremation
March 16, 2012
The Day Niagara Falls Disappeared
March 20, 2015
The Day the Music Died
February 3, 2012
The Dead Tell Tales – A Look at U.S. Body Farms
January 6, 2023
The Deadliest Tornado in US History
March 30, 2018
The Death of President Abraham Lincoln
April 15, 2016
The Different Types of Crosses in the Cemetery
April 22, 2011
The Great Molasses Flood of 1919
January 11, 2019
The Haunted Brown Hotel – Louisville, Kentucky
October 10, 2020
The Haunted Landmark Theatre – New York
October 12, 2018
THE HAUNTED READ HOUSE IN CHATTANOOGA, TENNESSEE
October 16, 2020
The High Mortality Rate of Infants and Children
September 16, 2011
The History of the Blue Star Memorial Highway
November 7, 2014
The History of the Ghost Story (and Why We Love Them)
September 20, 2013
The History of the Order of Knights of Pythias
September 15, 2017
The History of the U.S. National Cemetery System
November 15, 2013
The Irreverent Comedian – Sam Kinison
April 10, 2015
The Kiosk of Death at the Mall
August 2, 2013
The Legacy of the Daffodils
March 25, 2016
The Legend & History of the Corpse Road
March 30, 2012
The Mad Gasser of Mattoon
August 30, 2019
The Making of The National Cemetery System
July 15, 2011
The Most Haunted House in Ohio: Franklin Castle – Cleveland, Ohio
October 23, 2015
The November Pogrom (Kristallnacht or The Night of Broken Glass)
November 9, 2012
The Old Slave House – Equality, Illinois
October 7, 2011
The Poe Toaster: Nevermore…
January 18, 2013
The Reason for Memorial Day
May 27, 2011
The Red Baron: Remembering a 100 Year Milestone
September 16, 2016
The Restoration of Hickory Hill (The Old Slave HOuse) Cemetery
September 19, 2014
The Role of the Pallbearer
January 15, 2021
The Salvation Army – Celebrating 150 Years
February 6, 2015
The St Valentine’s Day Massacre
February 15, 2013
The Start of the Civil War
April 12, 2011
The Stone Markers of the Cemetery
August 16, 2013
The Symbols of Autumn
September 23, 2011
The Tombstone Trail: An Innovative Idea
May 9, 2014
The Tradition of the Riderless Horse
January 29, 2021
The Victims of Jack the Ripper
August 31, 2012
The Year Without a Summer
June 19, 2020
Those Amazing Tree Stones
July 27, 2012
Those Who Died in 2016
December 23, 2016
Those Who Died in 2017 (Part 2)
December 29, 2017
Those Who Died in 2017 (Part One)
December 22, 2017
Tiny Tim’s Tiptoe Through the Tulips of Life
November 30, 2012
Tis the Season – Celebrating the Real St Nicholas
December 6, 2013
Today Marks the Anniversary of the First Auto Death in the US
September 13, 2013
Toddler Looks Life-Like 145 Years After Her Death
July 1, 2016
Traveling Along the Historic National Road
May 29, 2015
Twelve Terms of Death
December 4, 2015
Undertaking Death
February 17, 2012
Unrest at Elks Rest in Terre Haute Indiana
January 1, 2022
Update
March 5, 2011
Using the Internet to Identify the Dead
March 22, 2013
Valentino and His Ladies in Black
August 23, 2013
Waverly Disaster
February 23, 2018
Waymarking (and such) in the Cemetery
June 29, 2012
What Do Cement Grave Markers Tell Us?
July 8, 2011
When Children Die
December 21, 2012
White Bronze – A Monument for All Time
September 5, 2014
White Bronze – A Monument of Quality
June 1, 2012
White Hall and Cassius Marcellus Clay
October 14, 2011
Who Was Guy Fawkes?
January 31, 2020
Why Do We Wander Cemeteries?
March 23, 2018
Women as Mourners
April 9, 2011
Women’s History in the Cemetery
March 22, 2011
Woodmen of the World and the Tree Stone Grave Markers
June 21, 2011
Worth a Trip: The Geode Grotto
July 3, 2020
Worth a Visit: Gill’s Funeral Practices Exhibit
June 7, 2019
Would You Rent A Casket?
January 23, 2015
Wreaths Across America – Saturday, December 15, 2012
December 14, 2012
Wreaths Across America – Saturday, December 10th
December 9, 2011
WWI Zeppelin Crew Left To Die In North Sea – 1916
January 29, 2016
You Can Take It With You – When Its Coffin Furniture
February 7, 2020
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