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Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A lively tour through the history of US cemeteries that explores how, where, and why we bury our dead. The summer before his senior year in college, Greg Melville worked at the cemetery in his hometown, and thanks to hour upon hour of pushing a mower over the grassy acres, he came to realize what a rich story the place told of his town and its history. Thus was born Melville's lifelong curiosity with how, where, and why we bury and commemorate our...
Author
Publisher
Clearfield
Pub. Date
2006.
Physical Desc
1 volume (various pagings) : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
This collection of transcriptions of gravestones from a large number of Henry County, Kentucky, cemeteries originally appeared in three issues of The Filson Club History Quarterly (July and September 1978, and July 1979) and is reprinted here with permission of The Filson Club. Mr. Johnson, then a member of the Oldham County Historical Society, prepared the first two installments; Mrs. Dent, an active Filsonian and local historian, prepared the final...
Series
Genealogy and local history volume LH 588
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[1928]
Physical Desc
20 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Author
Series
Gravekeeper novels volume 2
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
293 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Keira, hired as Blighty Graveyard's new groundskeeper, lives surrounded by the dead. They watch her through the fog. They wordlessly cry out. They've been desperately waiting for help moving on?and only Keira can hear them. But not every restless spirit wants to be saved. Sometimes the dead hate the living too much to find peace. As Keira struggles to uncover the tangled histories of some of the graveyard's oldest denizens, danger seeps from the darkest...
Author
Series
Genealogy and local history volume LH 1124
Publisher
W.E. Wenner
Pub. Date
[between 1800 and 1899]
Physical Desc
14 pages ; 19 cm
Language
English
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