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Flat marble or granite markers: The flat granite and flat marble grave markers are 24 inches long, 12 inches wide, and 4 inches thick. Their weight is approximately 130 pounds.
BRISTOL, Va. — The remaining members of the Twin City’s Ann Carter Lee chapter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy gathered Sunday to dedicate a granite marker placed at the feet of the ...
LAWRENCE COUNTY, Ark. (KAIT) - The Arkansas Society for the Sons of the American Revolution has started placing granite markers at the graves in honor of heroes from the Revolutionary War ...
The granite marker commemorates the death of John Quincy Marr—a Confederate soldier from Warrenton who was said to be the first Southern soldier killed during the Civil War. Tuesday, Sept. 15, 2020.
TUCKAHOE, Va. (AP) — Henrico County officials are planning to install a roadside marker honoring the historic significance of three local cemeteries that serve as the final resting places for ...
A granite marker installed in advance of the weekend ceremony reads: "Here lies the remains of 14 souls known only to God. Enslaved in life, they are enslaved no more." June 14, 2016 | Updated ...
185 years after his burial, a Revolutionary War soldier gets a grave marker Jacob Highsmith, a member of the Pitt County, N.C., militia, died in 1829 on his Brantley County plantation ...
A Rhode Island cemetery worker has admitted to robbing the grave markers of soldiers and using them to pave his garage and sheds, according to federal authorities. Kevin Maynard, 59, will plead gui… ...
VICTORIA, Va. (AP) - A state historical marker is being dedicated at a Southside Virginia school that served African-Americans during the era of segregation.
One of the markers is at Old Bethel Cemetery for Nathaniel McCarroll, who was a Revolutionary War veteran, and after the war moved to Arkansas before he died in 1835. Hogue wants people to ...