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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.

Body unidentified in morgue for 2 years PDF Print E-mail
Wednesday, 14 December 2005

Sunday, November 20, 2005 Posted: 1445 GMT (2245 HKT)

PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania (AP) -- A city health official has apologized to the relatives of a woman whose body sat unidentified in the medical examiner's office for more than two years.
"It's something certainly the family is due," Health Commissioner Joanne Godley told The Philadelphia Inquirer.

Godley said what happened to the remains of Unisha "Niecey" Jefferson, 38, was an "aberration" and that the city would conduct an extensive review to prevent similar mishaps in the future, the newspaper reported Saturday.

Jefferson's sister, Katrina Johnson, 35, questioned the sincerity of the apology, which she said should have come from Mayor John Street.

"I don't feel like the apology is genuine," Johnson said. "Why did it take until (the story of what happened) was printed in the paper for an apology to be offered?"

Jefferson vanished April 14, 2003. Police found the body that turned out to be hers in an abandoned factory five months later.

The medical examiner's office was unable to identify the decomposed remains and failed to match the body with missing-person reports filed two weeks after Jefferson's disappearance.

The body was identified Tuesday after news reports about a missing-persons conference highlighted the case.


http://edition.cnn.com/2005/US/11/20/lost.in.morgue.ap/index.html
 
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