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headstone

[hed-stohn] / ˈhɛdˌstoʊn /
NOUN
gravestone
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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

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

From MarketWatch • Nov. 18, 2025

Next to its headstone in the graveyard of institutions, one might also place a marker for the era that publisher Henry Luce once labeled “the American Century.”

From Salon • Aug. 16, 2025

Marching around on the ground in front of Yelena’s headstone, pecking at bugs and worms, was the raven from before.

From Anya and the Dragon by Sofiya Pasternack




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