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Elmwood Cemetery is a historic rural cemetery located at Columbia, South Carolina. It was established in 1854, and expanded in 1921. The older section is heavily wooded and has a section devoted to Confederate dead. [2] [3] It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1996. [1]
The longest sitting death row inmate, Fred Singleton, is also the oldest at age 80. He was convicted in 1983 after sexually assaulting a 73-year-old woman and strangling her to death with a ...
Pope John Paul II was the subject of three premature obituaries.. A prematurely reported obituary is an obituary of someone who was still alive at the time of publication. . Examples include that of inventor and philanthropist Alfred Nobel, whose premature obituary condemning him as a "merchant of death" for creating military explosives may have prompted him to create the Nobel Prize; [1 ...
In 1813, the South Carolina Legislature incorporated the church as the "First Presbyterian Church of the Town of Columbia" [3] The current site of the church was a shared cemetery with the local Episcopal congregation from 1794 to 1813. [3] The legislature gave the cemetery and other lands to be shared between the Episcopalians and the ...
West Columbia Police Officer Daniel Wayne Cogburn [2] 7 Fred H. Kornahrens III: White 47 M July 19, 1996 Charleston: Patti Jo Kornahrens, Jason Avant, and Harry Wilkerson 8 Michael Rian Torrence: White 35 M September 6, 1996 Lexington: Dennis Lollis, Charles Bush, and Cynthia Williams 9 Larry Gene Bell: White 46 M October 4, 1996 Electrocution
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In local newspapers, an obituary may be published for any local resident upon death. A necrology is a register or list of records of the deaths of people related to a particular organization, group or field, which may only contain the sparsest details, or small obituaries. Historical necrologies can be important sources of information.