Ever wonder why there are so many empty spaces in old cemeteries? Michael Emery, who has spent two decades documenting historic cemeteries throughout southeastern and central Pennsylvania, has ...

The weathered and worn wooden grave marker has stood for more than 125 years in a historic Berks County, Pennsylvania, cemetery. According to experts, it could belong to a Civil War soldier. Now, it ...

QUANTICO, Va. — Curator Owen L. Conner carefully unties the ribbon around the weathered slats and removes the storage paper. Sand from the island where the Marines fought still clings to some of the ...

With small hand shovels, Patrick Donmoyer and Kaya Hernandez carefully placed scoop after scoop of dirt into a 14-inch-deep hole, building up the soil on either side of a white, wooden marker.

FARGO — As Ryan Netterville approached his brother’s grave in early July ahead of the one-year anniversary of his sibling’s death, he saw that a white wooden cross he made and placed in Fargo’s ...