Catherine Wagner Ware

There’s no denying that the monument honoring this person clearly indicates she had lots of money. It’s one of the tallest in the cemetery, along with the Masonic column in…

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Daniel McBride Graham

Someone whose working life was a mix of several different occupations is often a person who  lived in several different places. Daniel’s journey was like that; his career path was…

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George Subers Broadbent

George was born in Morgantown, Berks County, Pennsylvania to Joseph and Adelaide Broadbent, immigrants from Yorkshire, England. Inspired by a pastor’s preaching, he felt convicted to leave the Episcopal Church…

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William Barber

William Barber and Anna Maria Coultart were born in London and married there in 1830, when they were in their early twenties. Their first child arrived a year later with…

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Unknown Heroes

The phrase “sanctity of human life” holds special meaning in cemeteries. Rooted in the idea that human life is inherently sacred or precious, each body that was laid to rest…

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Mary A. Brady

This four-word epitaph, Volunteer Civil War Nurse, does well on the surface to summarize this person’s great achievement. Before looking closer at her life, two other women of the Antebellum…

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Pieter Haga

Only on a very rare occasion will the neat rows of white marble in the cemetery’s Naval Plot be interrupted by a different type of marker. The massive stone on…

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