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we love to tour old cemeteries and read the hauntingly poetic inscriptions on the gravestones
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Icons of lineage decorated the landscape in the form of gravestones in cemeteries and the king’s coat of arms on public buildings.
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Karin Wulf, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 July 2025
Newburyport Police over the weekend received reports of two gravestones that appeared to be damaged and vandalized at Oak Hill Cemetery.
—Rick Sobey, Boston Herald, 8 July 2025
Police were told that the gravestones from the late 1800s appeared to have had their plaques and headstones forcibly removed.
—Rick Sobey, Boston Herald, 8 July 2025
Stones River National Cemetery (May 25, Murfreesboro): Youth groups will place flags on the more than 7,000 gravestones at the Stones River National Cemetery on Saturday.
—Alessia Sandala, The Tennessean, 26 May 2025
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Karin Wulf, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 July 2025
Newburyport Police over the weekend received reports of two gravestones that appeared to be damaged and vandalized at Oak Hill Cemetery.
—Rick Sobey, Boston Herald, 8 July 2025
Police were told that the gravestones from the late 1800s appeared to have had their plaques and headstones forcibly removed.
—Rick Sobey, Boston Herald, 8 July 2025
Stones River National Cemetery (May 25, Murfreesboro): Youth groups will place flags on the more than 7,000 gravestones at the Stones River National Cemetery on Saturday.
—Alessia Sandala, The Tennessean, 26 May 2025
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“Gravestone.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/gravestone. Accessed 25 Jul. 2025.
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gravestone
noun
grave·stone
ˈgrāv-ˌstōn 
: a burial monument
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