Word: grave
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...exploration of a prehistoric burial-place of the stone-grave people at Brentwood, Tenn., and of two large earth mounds in the vicinity, with an exhibition of the contents of the eighty stone graves...
Students at the University of Virginia are wont to visit the grave of Jefferson and pledge in burning draughts of mountain whiskey the memory of that departed patriot. The removal of his remains would be a blow to the educational interests of the State...
...Kendall, the physician who was shot while preparing to rob a grave at Onondaga Hill, N. Y., Thursday night, died last night...
...Kendall of Syracuse was shot while robbing a grave to obtain a subject for dissection...
Alexander Pope's grave in the Twickenham Church is in a sadly neglected state. There are two tablets in the church, one of which the poet erected to the memory of his parents; but the spot where he is buried is only marked by a small stone with a large...