This is the grave of John Howard Payne. Born in 1791 in New York City, Payne grew up in a well-off family. They had old colonial roots and he mostly grew up in Boston, where his father ran a school. From the time he was...
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This is the possible grave of Solomon Northup. Born sometime around 1807, Northup was born free, in Minerva, New York. This would be central to the horrors he experienced later.
This is the grave of Lizzie Borden. Borden was born in Fall River, Massachusetts in 1860. She grew up pretty wealthy and then probably killed her father and stepmother in.
This is the grave of Howard K. Smith. Born in 1914 in Ferriday, Louisiana, near the Mississippi border, Smith grew up with a railroad conductor father, so it's not like he was super rich. But he went to Tulane University, graduated in 1936, and then...
This is the grave of T.F. Green. Born in 1867 in Providence, Rhode Island, Theodore Francis Green grew up pretty well off. His father was a prominent lawyer. Green went.
This is the grave of Timothy Flint. Born in 1780 in Reading, Massachusetts, Flint graduated from Harvard in 1800 and went west. This was the moment in which westward expansion.
This is the grave of Kenneth and Mamie Clark. Born in the Panama Canal Zone in 1914, Kenneth Clark started out pretty wealthy for a Black person in early 20th century America. His father was an agent for United Fruit and made good money. But...
This is the grave of Joseph Tracy. Born in 1793 in Hartford, Vermont, Tracy grew up in a reasonably prosperous farming family and both worked on the family farm and.
This is the grave of Tiger Flowers. Born in 1895 in Camilla, Georgia, Theodore Flowers grew up in the horrible conditions of Jim Crow. He got a job as a.
This is the grave of Hugh Lofting. Born in 1886 in Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, Lofting grew up fairly well off in a family that would spawn a lot of success. In fact, his brother Hilary later became a fairly prominent novelist in Australia. Well, Hugh...
This is the grave of Julia Ward Howe. Born in New York City in 1819, Julia Ward grew up rich. Her father was a stock broker and she went to.
This is the grave of Zack Wheat. Born in 1888 in Hamilton, Missouri, Wheat has an evidently unexceptional childhood, except for being very good at baseball. In 1906, he got.