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The cost to bury a loved one at Woodland Cemetery will double this year after the Woodland City Council voted Tuesday to raise burial plot prices.
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Daniel Lempres, Sacbee.com, 4 Feb. 2026
Enter to win a burial plot in Paris’ Pere Lachaise cemetery.
—Lilit Marcus, CNN Money, 8 Nov. 2025
Later in the podcast, the conversation turned to Tanner’s burial plot — and Shay said that the pair had gotten a joint headstone inscribed with both of their names.
—Luke Chinman, PEOPLE, 1 Oct. 2025
That family, Groat said, represented an important aspect of the potter’s field: This is a burial plot where generations of families were laid to rest.
—Carolyn Stein, Chicago Tribune, 21 Feb. 2025
The remains of Johnson-Schroeder were moved to a burial plot closer to her family in northern Illinois, thanks to local donations.
—Nicole Acosta, People.com, 15 Feb. 2025
Echevarria had a burial plot picked out beside his mother’s grave.
—Colin Mixson, New York Daily News, 14 Feb. 2025
At the time Highland was founded in 1909, no cemetery in the city would allow Black families to purchase a burial plot so loved ones could be interred together.
—Natalie Wallington, Kansas City Star, 25 Jan. 2025
Vance ended his speech by giving a description of his family burial plot nestled on a mountainside in eastern Kentucky, where seven generations of his ancestors rest.
—Nik Popli, TIME, 18 July 2024
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Daniel Lempres, Sacbee.com, 4 Feb. 2026
Enter to win a burial plot in Paris’ Pere Lachaise cemetery.
—Lilit Marcus, CNN Money, 8 Nov. 2025
Later in the podcast, the conversation turned to Tanner’s burial plot — and Shay said that the pair had gotten a joint headstone inscribed with both of their names.
—Luke Chinman, PEOPLE, 1 Oct. 2025
That family, Groat said, represented an important aspect of the potter’s field: This is a burial plot where generations of families were laid to rest.
—Carolyn Stein, Chicago Tribune, 21 Feb. 2025
The remains of Johnson-Schroeder were moved to a burial plot closer to her family in northern Illinois, thanks to local donations.
—Nicole Acosta, People.com, 15 Feb. 2025
Echevarria had a burial plot picked out beside his mother’s grave.
—Colin Mixson, New York Daily News, 14 Feb. 2025
At the time Highland was founded in 1909, no cemetery in the city would allow Black families to purchase a burial plot so loved ones could be interred together.
—Natalie Wallington, Kansas City Star, 25 Jan. 2025
Vance ended his speech by giving a description of his family burial plot nestled on a mountainside in eastern Kentucky, where seven generations of his ancestors rest.
—Nik Popli, TIME, 18 July 2024
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“Burial plot.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/burial%20plot. Accessed 14 Feb. 2026.
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