The remains of five Irish labourers, who researchers believe were murdered in 1832 while building a Pennsylvania railroad, received a dignified reinterment Friday more than 5,000 kilometres from their homeland and nearly two centuries after their first anonymous burials.
http://www.thespec.com/news/world/article/684908--railway-workers-reburied-with-dignity-180-years-later
Tuesday, March 20, 2012
Railway workers reburied with dignity 180 years later
Labels:
Cemeteries,
Death Customs,
Genealogy,
Irish Immigrants
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