College students and community members are working to restore a historic cemetery in Winston-Salem as they honor the life and ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. (WGHP) — One of ...

Denton merchant James A. Smoot donated land off Carroll Boulevard for a cemetery with a sign that now reads the “I.O.O.F. Cemetery, est. 1860.” But there’s no explanation posted there about what the ...

The remains of about 80 people who died and were buried in Santa Fe in the 1800s were reinterred at the Odd Fellows Cemetery off Cerrillos Road last week. Alysia Abbott, an archaeological expert and ...

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (WATE) – One of the oldest African American-dedicated cemeteries in Knoxville is getting a face lift thanks to some local nonprofits. Established in the late 1800’s, the Odd Fellows ...

DENTON, Texas — The City of Denton announced Tuesday that it has removed discriminatory language from the Independent Order of Odd Fellows (IOOF) Cemetery deed. The language contained in the 1933 deed ...

In 1903, Phorest Hampton became the first person to be buried at what is now Odd Fellows Cemetery. About 104 years later, in 2007, Henry Stepp became the last. In between, nearly 10,000 Black ...

Allen Whitmire, an Odd Fellows board member, said there has been an ongoing but overlooked issue with mementos at gravesites because “the cemetery was ignored for a long time.” He said items placed in ...

Cleanup efforts are continuing on Williamston’s Odd Fellow Cemetery, but there have been a few obstacles along the way the committee is addressing A lack of funding and volunteers along with equipment ...

A dozen kids traipse back and forth carrying handfuls of fieldstones of various sizes covered in gold leaf-covered with names typed on little strips of paper. They write one name on each of their ...