headstone
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Second, a granite headstone, measuring six feet by three feet, will be erected.
From Salon ● Jun. 1, 2026
A few pens have been left on the headstone, which has been replaced at least once; generations of fans have attempted to obliterate “Hughes.”
From Los Angeles Times ● May 14, 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
Roper says a local pub landlord raised money for the headstone and chose the words to place on it: "It's quite... poignant that those words were chosen because it was some mother's son."
From BBC ● Apr. 29, 2026
I say nongrave, because his remains are not under the headstone that marks the spot.
From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall
Fewer burials mean less demand for plots and headstones.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 29, 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
She said she was still mourning the loss of her son when more than a dozen headstones were stolen.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 14, 2026
The newest headstones on the freshly-dug fringes of the graveyard tell an alarming story of a lost generation in this pretty tourist town on Scotland's west coast.
From BBC ● Feb. 19, 2025
I stopped before a gray wall where high above me the headstones of a church graveyard arose like the tops of buildings.
From "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison
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