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headstone

[hed-stohn] / ˈhɛdˌstoʊn /
NOUN
gravestone
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The first would be to buy a bigger headstone for his family gravesite, where his parents, four siblings and a nephew are buried in a single plot in the Green Street Cemetery.

From Salon Aug. 10, 2026

Other notable artifacts connected to St. Eustatius are a headstone from its Jewish cemetery, commemorating a merchant’s wife, and a Hanukkah lamp from Amsterdam that was eventually carried to St. Thomas by Jewish exiles.

From The Wall Street Journal May 6, 2026

Last year, Ms Dorrian's siblings added her name to their mother's headstone to commemorate the 19th anniversary of her disappearance.

From BBC Dec. 8, 2025

Not included: “A headstone or any other permanent memorial,” the site adds.

From MarketWatch Nov. 18, 2025

They settle into a comfortable silence, both staring at the headstone.

From "Dear Martin" by Nic Stone

Every year, local people come along and rub beach sand into the marble headstones so the names of those U.S. soldiers can still be read.

From Salon Jun. 9, 2026

The “expat graveyard” is filled with headstones of people who boldly declared, “We love it here. We’re never leaving.”

From MarketWatch Apr. 24, 2026

Beneath moss-covered cinder blocks, dilapidated stone markers, and a handful of headstones, more than 200 children who died in state custody between the 1870s and 1930s are buried.

From Slate Mar. 30, 2026

They often have an image of the soldier in uniform engraved on the headstones.

From BBC Feb. 5, 2026

I pointed towards the moldy headstones of people I never knew, some of them born a hundred and fifty years ago or more in Scotland or Ireland or New Hope, Pennsylvania.

From "Cold Sassy Tree" by Olive Ann Burns




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