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we love to tour old cemeteries and read the hauntingly poetic inscriptions on the gravestones
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Ancient Indigenous mounds found in Forest Home Cemetery in Milwaukee
At Milwaukee’s Forest Home Cemetery, the city’s oldest operating cemetery, history can be seen in every direction – etched on the gravestones, mausoleums and monuments of founders, pioneers, industrialists and beer barons.
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Steven Martinez, Journal Sentinel, 21 Nov. 2024
Celebrity hairstylist Jen Atkin is thankful for a friend who recovered the gravestone of her beloved dog, Chewy, from her home before the house burned down in the deadly Los Angeles wildfires.
—Charlotte Phillipp, People.com, 10 Jan. 2025
The gravestones are numbered to reflect the burial system that was developed to properly inter hundreds of victims whose bodies were never claimed or identified.
—Jennifer Jett, NBC News, 26 Dec. 2024
The youngsters were even tipping over gravestones until Mo stopped them in their tracks.
—Charlie Mason, TVLine, 15 Dec. 2024
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Steven Martinez, Journal Sentinel, 21 Nov. 2024
Celebrity hairstylist Jen Atkin is thankful for a friend who recovered the gravestone of her beloved dog, Chewy, from her home before the house burned down in the deadly Los Angeles wildfires.
—Charlotte Phillipp, People.com, 10 Jan. 2025
The gravestones are numbered to reflect the burial system that was developed to properly inter hundreds of victims whose bodies were never claimed or identified.
—Jennifer Jett, NBC News, 26 Dec. 2024
The youngsters were even tipping over gravestones until Mo stopped them in their tracks.
—Charlie Mason, TVLine, 15 Dec. 2024
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“Gravestone.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/gravestone. Accessed 1 Mar. 2025.
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gravestone
noun
grave·stone
ˈgrāv-ˌstōn 
: a burial monument
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