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unusual facts about unmarked grave



Mahomet Weyonomon

As a foreigner, he was not permitted to be buried in the City of London, and he was interred in an unmarked grave in what is now Southwark Cathedral.

Southampton Old Cemetery

Charles Rawden Maclean (1815–1880), alias "John Ross" friend of King Shaka and an opponent of slavery, died on board a ship bound for Southampton and was buried in a pauper's grave.


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Albert Weisbogel

Weisbogel died at age 74 or 75 and was buried in an unmarked grave at Holy Cross Cemetery in Brooklyn, New York.

Dan Tipton

His body was buried in an unmarked grave at the Green Lawn Cemetery in Columbus, Ohio.

Francis Towneley

Towneley's body was buried in an unmarked grave on 31 July either in the church or churchyard of St. Pancras, London.

George Henry White

He died in Philadelphia in 1918, and is buried in an unmarked grave at Eden Cemetery in nearby Collingdale.

History of Paraguay

In a gesture calculated to rewrite history and erase seven decades of national shame, Franco declared Solano López a national hero "sin ejemplar" (without precedent) because he had stood up to foreign threats, and sent a team to Cerro Corá to find his unmarked grave.

Thomas R. Ranson

After the war, Ranson went there and had a marble marker placed over the unmarked grave of Julia Neale Jackson (1798–1831) in Westlake Cemetery, to make sure that the site was not lost forever.

Ranson knew of the short and tragic life of Jackson's mother, who had been buried in an unmarked grave in Fayette County along the James River and Kanawha Turnpike when Thomas was orphaned at the age of only 7 in 1831.

Unidentified body on Christmas Island

With the island under threat of invasion, after brief examinations by the island's harbour master, the medical officer, and the gentleman in charge of the radio station, the body was buried in an unmarked grave near Flying Fish Cove.