gravestone
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Considering his own mortality, while consumed by daily news of death and destruction on the network he founded, Turner mused about what one day might be inscribed on his gravestone.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 6, 2026
“People sell those markers, even those little vases you put on them, and melt them down for money,” says Rebecca Meyer, 48, a gravestone conservationist and president of Epoch Preservation.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 14, 2026
In the cemetery, Munzanza's mother Florence knelt by his gravestone and wept.
From Barron's ● Oct. 13, 2025
The gravestone of Ebenezer Scrooge has been reinstated, after it was smashed into piece by vandals in November.
From BBC ● Dec. 7, 2024
The first Vincent was always there, in the family history and on the gravestone in the churchyard right next door:
From "Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers" by Deborah Heiligman
A ragtag online group, the “Grave Marker Recovery Team,” hunts down gravestones that have been stolen, typically to sell at antique shows as accents for upscale decorating.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 14, 2026
As night falls, the bat hunters make their way amongst the gravestones of Guestwick Church in Norfolk.
From BBC ● Oct. 30, 2025
If you’re looking to go big on your decor, skeletons, gravestones and inflatables are perfect to transform your home into a real-life haunted house.
From Salon ● Oct. 30, 2025
But when I go to these cemeteries and take pictures of the gravestones, I’m not usually scared.
From Slate ● Oct. 24, 2024
Far below, a tiny light—a lantern, maybe, or a flashlight—bobbed towards me through the crowd of gravestones.
From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt
