This is the grave of Tim Conway. Born Thomas Conway in 1933 outside of Cleveland, the future Tim was half-Irish, half-Romanian, and thus all Catholic. In fact, he was known as Toma as a kid, which is the Romanian version of Thomas. He became Tim...
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This is the grave of Adolph Zukor. Born in 1873 in Ricse, in what is today Hungary, Zukor grew up in a middling Jewish family. His father ran a store..
This is the grave of Lucy Burns. Born in 1879 in Brooklyn, Burns grew up in a well off Irish Catholic household. She went to the Brooklyn Female Academy for.
This is the grave of Peter Mayhew. Born in 1944 in Barnes, Surrey, England, Mayhew suffered from gigantism. I can't even imagine how horrible that must be. You are just a freak and one who might not live very long either, although luckily, Mayhew had...
This is the grave of Mickey Rooney. Born in 1920 in New York, Joseph Yule grew up in a vaudeville household. Given Rooney would basically be a vaudeville-type guy his.
This is the grave of Raymond Pearl. Born in 1879 in Farmington, New Hampshire, Pearl grew up pretty wealthy and had a very good education. Although his parents wanted him.
This is the grave of Glenn Hughes. Born in 1950 in New York, Hughes went to a Catholic high school. In fact, he was a classmate of Bill O'Reilly. I know this because I used to know a guy who was in the same class...
This is the grave of Brock Adams. Born Brockman Adams in Atlanta, Georgia in 1927, Adams grew up in the Northwest, where his parents moved shortly after his birth. Sensibly,.
This is the grave of Ellen Swallow Richards. Born in 1842 in Dustable, Massachusetts, Ellen Swallow grew up in a middling family of farmers who did not have a lot.
This is the grave of Anthony Haswell. Born in 1756 somewhere around Portsmouth, England, Haswell grew up the son of a shipwright. His father decided to move to the American colonies in 1769 and he took his family with him. Anthony was apprenticed to a...
This is the grave of Judith Shklar. Born in 1928 in Riga, Latvia, Judita Nisse, her given name, grew up in a family wealthy enough to escape the Nazis, going.
This is the grave of J.J. Johnson. Born in 1924 in Indianapolis, James Louis Johnson, or J.J. as he would be known throughout his life, started playing music as a.