gravestone

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Their authors were seldom scholars; more often they were nonprofessional writers and editors whose volunteer contributions ranged from family snapshots to gravestone photographs, fragmented town histories, folkloric anecdotes and tall tales.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 16, 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

A gravestone for Ebenezer Scrooge, left behind after the filming of a 1984 movie adaptation of A Christmas Carol, has been smashed.

From BBC • Nov. 25, 2024

From the cemetery, I see a small glow that’s the fire, and I sit there, looking at the gravestone with my father’s name on it.

From "I Am the Messenger" by Markus Zusak