Situation grave for tiny cemeteries in West Virginia?
Roman Catholic and the city and county. Great hopes and dreams pulled immigrants from all over the world to Virginia City. Now they all rest together in these authentic Old West mining cemeteries. Because of the historic significance of the cemetery, it qualified for a “Save America’s Treasu...
Murray, Virginia H. 2000. "A 'Right' of the Dead and a Charge on the Quick: Criminal Laws Relating to Cemeteries, Burial Grounds and Human Remains." Journal of the Missouri Bar 56 (March-April): 115.Rezatto, Helen. 1980. Mount Moriah: Kill a Man, Start a Cemetery: The Story of ...
Old West outlaw William Bonney, aka “Billy the Kid,” was famously shot by Lincoln County Sheriff Pat Garrett in Fort Sumner, New Mexico on July 14, 1881. He was buried in the Old Fort Sumner Cemetery alongside Tom O’Folliard and Charlie Bowdre, two members of the Kid’s gang, who...
Barnes, Virginia Ann No dates BARNETT Barnett, Mrs. Mollie 6-26-1871 2-26-1951 BARRIER Barrier, Ira 6-30-1899 7-4-1978 Eva Rose Bell 12-28-1911 4-6-1988 BASS Bass, Richard L. 3-10-1957 10-17-1992 husband of Tammy, father of Jimmy, Josh, Cassie ...
Proposed legislation could create a national park network of overlooked gravesites. But for now, it’s up to communities to preserve them.
said “the surges reflected deaths that occurred days, even weeks, in the past.” Which can happen. But he first tried to blame the surge on “a computer glitch.” Where’s Bill Gates when you need him. Selling birth prevention products to Africa and vaccine-tracking systems to the West...
This paper is an update to a presentation made in 2003 at the Council for West Virginia Archaeology Spring Workshop where the three most commonly applied geophysical techniques (ground penetrating radar – GPR; magnetics; and resistivity/conductivity) were reviewed through case histories documenting ...
Doughboy Statue Martinsburg, West Virginia Click to view Doughboy Memorial Neillsville, Wisconsin Contributed by SSgt Tod Lube of Neillsville Click to view World War Monument Cheyenne, Wyoming Contributed by Bob Ford Click to view Doughboy Statue Evanston, Wyoming Sources and thanks: Mike Iavarone...
We then identify eighteen HMCs of interest in Boone, Kanawha, and Raleigh Counties in West Virginia's coalfields to document the scope ofMTR's threat to HMCs. We conclude by examining the greater forces that propel cemetery damage and destruction in MTR regions (access to cemeteries, ...