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many of the headstones were for children who had died during the influenza epidemic
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Watching in horror as the city made plans to bury the buried and raze the tombstones, Trinity in late 1897 sent John Watson, a sexton of the nearby St. John’s Chapel, to record information from the cemetery’s headstones for posterity.
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Christina Ray Stanton, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 Oct. 2024
In the military section of the cemetery, Ukrainian flags flew over every headstone.
—Kim Barker, New York Times, 20 Feb. 2025
Inside, several headstones commemorate the lives of some of the early settlers of the region.
—Blane Bachelor, AFAR Media, 12 Feb. 2025
Perry notes that historians and archaeologists have found that enslaved people in the upper South were not given headstones, but instead their graves were adorned with blue periwinkle flowers.
—Ira Porter, The Christian Science Monitor, 28 Jan. 2025
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Christina Ray Stanton, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 Oct. 2024
In the military section of the cemetery, Ukrainian flags flew over every headstone.
—Kim Barker, New York Times, 20 Feb. 2025
Inside, several headstones commemorate the lives of some of the early settlers of the region.
—Blane Bachelor, AFAR Media, 12 Feb. 2025
Perry notes that historians and archaeologists have found that enslaved people in the upper South were not given headstones, but instead their graves were adorned with blue periwinkle flowers.
—Ira Porter, The Christian Science Monitor, 28 Jan. 2025
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“Headstone.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/headstone. Accessed 23 Mar. 2025.
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headstone
noun
head·stone
-ˌstōn 
: a memorial stone placed at the head of a grave
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