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          Feb 18, 2006
          Canton, OH

          Businessman John George doesn’t know who Anna Wolfe was.

          But he has her tombstone.

          Feb 19, 2006
          Nashville, TN

         The rows of folding chairs were almost empty.

          Most of the 150 people who came to the Nashville National Cemetery yesterday in Madison stood. After the speeches were over,

          the bundled-up crowd walked in an inch-deep layer of snow to the heart of the cemetery.

          Feb 19, 2006
          Hendersonville, NC
          If a society can be judged by how it treats its dead, then Henderson County would not fare well.
          Feb 19, 2006,
          Bryan, Texas
          

        The Shiloh Cemetery in Robertson County dates to 1840 and holds what one area resident describes as "an unbelievable amount of history"

         from the Civil War and even the War of 1812.

              Lancaster, SC police try to find suspect who knocked over 25 to 30 tombstones in local cemetery.

              Teaneck, NJ - 12/22/2005
              The Township Council may approve purchasing a historic cemetery that some say holds the remains of slaves,
              Native Americans and early Dutch settlers if a citizens group can raise $100,000.


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