Reading Time: 5 minutes What does the beginning of WWI, anti-immigrant sentiment, and a vampire have in common? Oddly enough, a small dilapidated cemetery located in Park Hills, Missouri. Due to decades of neglect…
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Reading Time: 3 minutes Today’s Posthumous Profile features Witcher Jones. What a name, right? I really wanted to know more about this man with the unusual name, so I started researching his life. Witcher…
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Reading Time: 2 minutes Cornelius McLaughlin is buried in one of Utah’s most beautiful cemeteries, Glenwood Cemetery in Park City. Glenwood Cemetery was established in 1885 as a private burial site. Spread out on…
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Reading Time: 2 minutes I picked Catharine Westwood for this week’s Posthumous Profile because of the unusual shape of her headstone. Catharine Caroline Dallin was born on November 6th, 1840 in Ilfracombe, England. Her…
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Reading Time: 3 minutes This week’s Posthumous Profile is slightly unusual in that it is the grave of Thornburgh the dog. The story about how this grave came to be is pretty unique. What…
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Reading Time: 7 minutes taphophile (plural taphophiles) A person who is interested in cemeteries, funerals and gravestones If you haven’t noticed by now, I LOVE CEMETERIES! I think they are some of the most…
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