Tuam, Ireland: What began as a childhood scramble for stolen apples in 1970s rural Ireland led to one of the country’s most ...

For 56 years, Mary Dowling believed she'd be buried next to her husband in a military cemetery. Then the Army gave a plot she believed was reserved to someone else.

Nov. 9—WESTERLY — Inside the manicured grounds of the River Bend Cemetery on Beach Street lays a large square patch of close-cut grass, long thought empty except for a single upright marker and three ...

Burial plots as an alternative investment have been featured in The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal, and plots in high demand cemeteries may be worth hundreds of thousands of dollars.

The dead of the Old Town Plot were not people of means and the stone reflected that status. Several were identified as "unknown man," or as stillborn infants. The last two memorial entries list a ...

For 56 years, Mary Dowling believed she'd be buried next to her husband in a military cemetery. Then the Army gave a plot she believed was reserved to someone else.

The cemetery didn’t ask for any proof of paperwork, and took Randoll's word for it. “I called and they said they don’t have records of that plot being assigned to anybody, so everything was ...

The family burial plot sits on the banks of one of several oxbow lakes snaking through the landscape near Scott, a small community that sits just southeast across the Arkansas River from Little Rock.