When local high school students attending McKinley Tech High School learned about the condition of the Mount Zion and Female Union Band Society Cemetery in Georgetown, they decided to do something to ...

WHEELING, W.Va. — It's been over a year since a mudslide impacted Mt. Zion Cemetery. And with state funding from the governor, restoration efforts are set to begin. A $2 million check from former ...

OHIO COUNTY, W.Va. — A massive mudslide ripped through Mount Zion Cemetery last week, and now elected officials and specialists are getting a first-hand look at the situation. Hundreds of burial ...

WHEELING, W.Va. — Days of rain are the suspected cause of a mudslide at the historic Mt. Zion Cemetery in Wheeling. Steve Novotney The slide has damaged more than 150 gravestones. Steve Novotney, of ...

The headstone of Isabel Janken’s father, Henry Morhar, lies flat on the ground at Mount Zion Cemetery, knocked from its ledger. It’s an elegant headstone, weighing more than 1,000 pounds. A few feet ...

WHEELING, W.Va. — The Wheeling-based Mt. Zion Cemetery Corporation received a $2 million check from Gov. Jim Justice Thursday to help with repairs following a mudslide that damaged as many as 150 ...

The dead in Queens outnumber the living, thanks to the Rural Cemeteries Act of 1847-8. After a series of epidemics cut a broad swath through all of New York City’s social classes in the 1830s and ’40s ...

Shlomo Rechnitz, a Los Angeles businessman and philanthropist, has donated $250,000 to restore the badly vandalized Mount Zion Cemetery in East Los Angeles. In addition, two other donors, real estate ...

LANSDOWNE, Md. (WBFF) — Dozens of distraught families are demanding answers and an apology from Mount Zion Cemetery in Lansdowne. Overgrown grass, toppled trees, sunken graves, as well as cracked and ...

A Baptist minister who helped build one of the largest churches in the state is buried there. A Revolutionary War hero who didn't want to die with British lead in him is there, too. Mount Zion Baptist ...

May 26, 2021 May 26, 2021 Updated May 26, 2021 0 MOUNT ZION — Don Holeman would keep going, but after 60 years of serving on the Mount Zion Township Cemetery board, he decided to give it up to others.