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 stevedore, which was one of those hard labor jobs where Black Americans could get work....
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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..
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 a contract to play for Enterprise in the Kansas League. This led to a rise...
This is the grave of Warren Robbins. Born in 1923 in Worcester, Massachusetts, Robbins grew up in a Jewish immigrant family. His parents immigrated from what is today Ukraine. He.
This is the grave of Henry King Carroll. Born in 1848 in Dennisville, New Jersey, Carroll grew up a strong Methodist. Now, I should say that this is one of.
This is the grave of Richard Goodwin. Born in 1931 in Boston, Goodwin grew up in an upper-middle class Jewish family. He went to Tufts and graduated cumma sum laude. He spent some time in Army, enlisting as a private in 1954. When he got...
This is the grave of Tiny Tim. Born in New York in 1932, Herbert Khaury was half-Jewish, half-Lebanese. While we so often think of Jewish communities and Irish communities and.
This is the grave of Mary Martin. Born in 1913 in Weatherford, Texas, Martin grew up in a pretty well off family. Her father was a local doctor and her.
This is the grave of Henry Grimes. Born in 1935 in Philadelphia, Grimes grew up in a musical family. Both his parents played various instruments and their son would prove quite the musical whiz. His first instrument was the violin and then he played a...
This is the grave of Jacob Collamer. Born in 1791 in Troy, New York, Collamer grew up in Burlington, Vermont after his family moved there in 1795. He went to.
This is the grave of Tom Mooney. Born in Chicago in 1882, Mooney grew up in an Irish immigrant working class family. His father was a Knights of Labor organizer.