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Historic Burial Grounds of the New Hampshire Seacoast By Glenn A. Knoblock

Arcadia Publishing has releases a new title in the Images of America series, the historic account of the cemeteries along the New Hampshire Seacoast. This collection is a must for anyone interested in local history, genealogy, or colonial-era art. Please visit Arcadia Publishing to purchase your copy of Historic Burial Grounds of the New Hampshire Seacoast and browse other cemetery books!

Green-Wood Cemetery By Alexandra Mosca

Arcadia Publishing announces the release of the historic account of one of New York's most famous cemeteries. Aracdia Publishing's Images of America series has an extensive catalog of many cemetery publications! Please visit Arcadia Publishing to purchase your copy of Green-Wood Cemetery.

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Quoting Death in Early Modern England: The Poetics of Epitaphs Beyond the Tomb By Scott L. Newstok

An innovative study of the Renaissance practice of making epitaphic gestures within other English genres. A poetics of quotation uncovers the ways in which writers including Shakespeare, Marlowe, Holinshed, Sidney, Jonson, Donne, and Elizabeth I have recited these texts within new contexts. Visit Palgrave Macmillan and purchase your copy today!

Living by the Dead By Ellen Ashdown with illustrations by Mary Liz Moody.

A memoir about living beside a cemetery--and about the members of my family who came to rest at Roselawn Cemetery in Tallahassee, Florida. Please visit Kitsune Books for more information.

Graveyards of Chicago: The People, History, Art, and Lore of Cook County Cemeteries By Matt Hucke And Ursula Bielski.

Discover a Chicago That Exists Just Beneath the Surface - About Six Feet Under! Take a tour of Chicago's permanent residents! Please visit the Lake Claremont Press website to purchase your copy of Graveyards of Chicago today!

Epitaphs: The Magazine for Cemetery Lovers By Cemetery Lovers

For information regarding subscriptions, single issues, submission guidelines, deadlines, classifieds or advertising for future issues, please visit The Cemetery Club.

Guardians of the Soul: Angels and Innocents, Mourners and Saints with photography by John Bower and foreword by Claude Cookman

Indiana's remarkable cemetery sculpture is now available. Please visit Studio Indiana for more information.

West Springfield Massachusetts: Stories Carved in Stone by Rusty Clark

Features information on early New England gravestone carvers with more than two hundred photos and illustrations. Please visit the Dog Pond Press website.

Family sues cemetery after body moved PDF Print E-mail
Wednesday, 27 July 2005
By LAURIE MASON
Bucks County Courier Times

MIDDLETOWN, PA - The family of a 19-year-old Philadelphia man whose body was moved from one grave to another after a divorce dispute is suing the Langhorne cemetery where his remains are buried.
Stephen Gregory Fuhrmeister died in a car crash on Nov. 27, 2003. He was buried at Our Lady of Grace Cemetery in a plot owned by his father's family.

Last year, court records say, his body was disinterred and moved to another gravesite in the same Middletown cemetery. The Fuhrmeisters' lawyer, Thomas Grier, said this was done at the direction of the teen's mother after a divorce.

Grier said the father's side of the family showed up one day to visit Stephen's grave and found it gone. They were not told Fuhrmeister had been moved to another gravesite, according to the suit, and cemetery employees refused to tell them where his body was.

"They were extremely upset," Grier said. "It took quite a long time to get some answers. They could not believe that the cemetery allowed this to happen."

The boy's mother is not named in the suit. According to the lawsuit, filed Monday in Bucks County court in Doylestown, Our Lady of Grace, off Route 1, was not permitted to open a grave without the consent of the plot's owner, the teen's paternal grandmother.

The family is seeking a jury trial and more than $50,000 in damages.

There was no answer Monday night at the cemetery's office, and the Courier Times was unsuccessful in reaching officials there for comment on the lawsuit.

http://www.phillyburbs.com/pb-dyn/news/111-07262005-519115.html
 
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