Archeologists believe they have finally uncovered the origins of what is believed to be the oldest gravestone in the US, which belonged to English knight, Sir George Yeardley, who died nearly 400 ...

LIFESTYLE Mysterious gravestone in Virginia reveals 400-year-old secrets: archaeologists The Jamestown, Virginia, grave likely belonged to Sir George Yeardley, an English knight ...

JAMESTOWN — The skeleton was beautifully laid out in a formal English-style burial, hands at the sides, palms down, the body probably pinned up in a shroud.

The tombstone is believed to belong to Sir George Yeardley, a colonial governor of the earliest English settlement and one of America’s first slaveholders, who was knighted in 1618.

JAMESTOWN, VIRGINIA—WHRO.org reports that an attempt to identify remains unearthed inside the chancel of a […] ...

Microfossils in America’s oldest tombstone offer clues in mystery of the first English settlement ...

Perhaps the most likely candidate based on the available evidence is a man named Sir George Yeardley, who first came to Jamestown from England in 1610 after being shipwrecked on Bermuda.

By Taylor Nicioli, CNN (CNN) — The oldest known surviving tombstone in the United States is an elaborate display of wealth — an intricately carved slab of black limestone initially laid in the ...