headstone
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There is room on the headstone for only three of the seven names.
From Salon ● Aug. 10, 2026
He said he recently visited Saunders' grave and was "sad" to see there was no longer a headstone there and the area was "unkempt."
From BBC ● Aug. 6, 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
It seemed like the easiest, most natural thing in the world, to sit on somebody’s headstone under the cool shade if a tree and chat.
From "The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother" by James McBride
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
“I’m mentally exhausted,” Bishop said as she gazed at the row of craters where the headstones once rested.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 30, 2025
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
That little graveyard with its picket fence and its headstones and its lamb.
From "Beyond the Bright Sea" by Lauren Wolk
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