Taphophile Corner

William Bradford.                 ~ Plymouth Colony Governor                                                                       ...

Death In New England was an all too often visitor.  Of the first 102 Pilgrims who landed at Plymouth in 1620, half died during the fir...

Countless rows of gleaming white stones, that is the image that comes to mind when one thinks of military cemeteries. But did you know...

The American Civil War was a brutal war but it brought on great awareness of how to handle and bury our war hero’s. The government for ...

It's rare, but occasionally I stumble across this icon on a grave stone. It has to be one of the most romantic images I know of.  It...

Have you ever wondered how some nicknames came about?  Why a delicate flower became the symbol of a very bloody conflict? Sometimes on the s...

While walking through a very old garden cemetery, I happened to noticed for the first time, a very steep embankment that was covered in...