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Mississippi man killed by police SUV receives funeral months after first burial in paupers' cemetery
Associated Press via Yahoo News· 7 months agoDexter Wade received a dignified funeral and burial Monday in Mississippi's capital city, months...
A Mississippi man buried in a pauper’s grave finally gets a proper funeral
NBC News via Yahoo News· 4 months agoJonathan David Hankins' family spent more than a year and a half searching for him, unaware that...
Meet the farmers who founded Florida’s first green burial cemetery
Miami Herald via Yahoo News· 1 year agoJohn and Bill Wilkerson never thought they’d be funeral directors. Before they founded the Glendale...
Dexter Wade, buried alone in Mississippi, finally gets the funeral he was denied
NBC Universal via AOL· 7 months agoDexter Wade was run over by a police officer in Jackson, Mississippi, and buried in a pauper's...
Burial site of long-dead fisherman found by kin
Gloucester Daily Times, Mass. via Yahoo News· 2 years agoSep. 2—"I once was lost, but now am found" reads the epitaph on a newly placed stone for Ebenezer Devine. The words are especially apt for the fisherman who has lain in an unmarked grave in ...
25-50-100 Years Ago -- July 6
The Frederick News-Post, Md. via Yahoo News· 11 months agoJul. 6—100 Years Ago July 6, 1923 Public spirited citizens Thursday provided against the burial of the four victims of Monday's automobile fatality, near Urbana, in a pauper's grave. Instead ...
Strangers pay tribute at burial for Jamaican WWII vet who volunteered in Britain's hour of need
Associated Press via Yahoo News· 1 year agoWhen Peter Brown died alone in London without any known family, neighbors made sure that the humble...
Reading's legendary Stoneman Willie's true identity revealed at burial service
Reading Eagle, Pa. via Yahoo News· 8 months agoOct. 7—For more than a century, the mummified remains of an unidentified man lay within a Reading funeral home. The body, that of a man who died in the Berks County jail in 1895, took on a life ...
Putnam County Sheriff’s Office exhumed skeletal remains, looking for answers in 40-year-old case
WJAX via Yahoo News· 6 months agoThe Putnam County Sheriff’s Office is reopening a 40-year-old cold case after finding strong...
