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Glen Dyberry Cemetery, Honesdale, PA The delicate flower also known as Convallaria majalis appears often on 19 th century grave ston...

The G.A.R. was a fraternal organization of veterans of the Union Army who served in the Civil War.  Founded in 1866 in Decatur, Ill...

My father’s favorite cemetery gravestones are those in the shape of tree stumps.  The Victorian rusticity movement celebrated nature, and m...

Eternal Flame at top of Receiving Vault, Dunmore Cemetery The eternal flame, a flame that burns day and night for an inde...

     Carvings of weeping willows became very prevalent on gravestones in the early 19 th century.  Use of this graceful symbol reflected t...