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The audit also noted a Jewish cemetery in Waterbury that was vandalized with more than 12 gravestones desecrated.
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Sean Krofssik, Hartford Courant, 22 Apr. 2025
After a successful fundraising campaign led by the Friends of the Hyde Park Branch Library, gravestones were finally installed for Crumpler and Arthur in 2020, 125 years after her death.
—Ella Jeffries, Smithsonian Magazine, 31 Mar. 2025
The car service driver who took her to the cemetery noticed her mom's gravestone was covered by grass and, kneeling in his suit, cleaned it for her.
—Brittney Melton, NPR, 15 Apr. 2025
Nearby, a partially split tree leaned precariously over gravestones at the edge of a cemetery.
—Robert Shackelford, CNN, 17 Mar. 2025
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Sean Krofssik, Hartford Courant, 22 Apr. 2025
After a successful fundraising campaign led by the Friends of the Hyde Park Branch Library, gravestones were finally installed for Crumpler and Arthur in 2020, 125 years after her death.
—Ella Jeffries, Smithsonian Magazine, 31 Mar. 2025
The car service driver who took her to the cemetery noticed her mom's gravestone was covered by grass and, kneeling in his suit, cleaned it for her.
—Brittney Melton, NPR, 15 Apr. 2025
Nearby, a partially split tree leaned precariously over gravestones at the edge of a cemetery.
—Robert Shackelford, CNN, 17 Mar. 2025
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“Gravestone.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/gravestone. Accessed 20 May. 2025.
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gravestone
noun
grave·stone
ˈgrāv-ˌstōn 
: a burial monument
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