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  2. Overton, Texas - Wikipedia

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    The City of Overton has had a storied history with radical groups [who?] claiming the site as their base of operations. The Republic of Texas operated within the city limits from the early 2000s, up until the building was mysteriously burned down. Overton has a historical voting base consisting primarily of older, Republican-leaning voters. [6]

  3. Flat grave - Wikipedia

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    An Iron Age flat grave. A flat grave is a burial in a simple oval or rectangular pit. The pit is filled with earth, but the grave is not marked above the surface by any means such as a tumulus or upstanding earthwork. [1] Both intact human bodies (skeletal grave) and cremated remains (urn grave) were buried in the graves.

  4. Acton State Historic Site - Wikipedia

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    The site also contains the graves of her son Robert and Robert's wife Matilda. A monument was erected in 1913 at Acton Cemetery over the grave of Elizabeth with money authorized by the Texas Legislature in 1911. On January 1, 2008, Acton was transferred from the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department to the Texas Historical Commission.

  5. Natural burial - Wikipedia

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    A natural burial grave site. It is sometimes advocated that the landscape is modified as little as possible, and in this case, only a flat stone marker was used. Natural burial is the interment of the body of a dead person in the soil in a manner that does not inhibit decomposition but allows the body to be naturally recycled. It is an ...

  6. Comb grave - Wikipedia

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    Comb grave of Champ Ferguson in White County, Tennessee. The exact origin of comb graves is unknown. According to oral tradition, the graves were first built in the 1800s to deter grave robbers and to protect sunken graves from being exposed to the surface. [2] [5] It also may have been a purely stylistic choice that became popular in the ...

  7. Gravestone - Wikipedia

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    The stele (plural: stelae), as it is called in an archaeological context, is one of the oldest forms of funerary art.Originally, a tombstone was the stone lid of a stone coffin, or the coffin itself, and a gravestone was the stone slab (or ledger stone) that was laid flat over a grave.

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