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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.

World War II Pilots Bones to Be Reburied PDF Print E-mail
Thursday, 27 May 2004
TULSA, Okla. - A pilot killed when his P-51 fighter was shot down over Germany during World War II will be laid to rest Friday alongside his brother, who died less than three weeks after he did in 1944.

The remains of Lt. William Lewis were exhumed from a field near Oberhof, Germany, by a U.S. recovery team that spent a month excavating the site before returning the bones to Lewis' daughter, Sharon Cross of Houston.

"He'd been there ... 58 years, and I thought maybe I should leave well enough alone," said Cross, who was an infant when her father died. "But a retired military man told me, 'No soldier wants his bones left in a foreign country. You bring him home.' So that's what we've done."

A German farmer, Adelbert Wolf, buried Lewis after the Sept. 11, 1944, crash, marked the grave and tended to the site for decades. Around 25 years ago, after Wolf notified an American about the grave, a U.S. delegation was allowed to visit the site, then in communist East Germany. But the delegation was not allowed to exhume the body.

A U.S. recovery team was finally allowed to excavate the site in 2002.

Lewis' final resting place will be alongside his brother, Ted, who died Sept. 30, 1944, in a bomber crash near Walla Walla, Wash. Alongside Ted Lewis' grave is a stone long-reserved for Bill Lewis, inscribed "Missing in Action."

Friday's services will include full military honors.

"I want it to be a joyous occasion," Cross said. "It's time, after 60 years."

Lewis' P-51 Mustang was on an escort mission for bombers targeting the town of Ruhland when he went down during a fierce dogfight. The U.S. lost 84 aircraft and the German Luftwaffe 175 in the most massive air battle since those in the skies over Normandy during the D-Day invasion three months earlier.

http://www.fortwayne.com/mld/newssentinel/8766122.htm
 
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