This is the grave of Franklin Sanborn. Born in 1831 in Hampton Falls, New Hampshire, Sanborn should have died at the age of two. He was struck by lightning. Whether he remembered the experience, I don't know, but for the rest of his life, he...
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This is the grave of Joshua Bowen Smith. Probably born in 1813 in Coatesville, Pennsylvania, Smith was a mixed race man. His mother was part Black and part Native and.
This is the grave of Angelina Grimké. Born in 1805 in Charleston, South Carolina, Grimké grew up in the planter elite of that state. Her parents were super big time.
This is the grave of George Luther Stearns. Born in 1809 in Medford, Massachusetts, Stearns came from old (or olde) Puritan stock that went back to the early days of the colony. But he grew up in downwardly mobile circumstances. His father ran a private...
This is the grave of Wendell Phillips. Born in 1811 in Boston, Phillips grew up as part of the long-standing Boston elite that went back to the founding of the.
This is the grave of Amos Phelps. Born in Farmington, Connecticut in 1805, Phelps went to Yale, graduating in 1826. He then took a degree from Yale Divinity in 1830..
This is the grave of Theodore Parker. Born in 1810 in Lexington, Massachusetts, Parker grew up in an old, old Massachusetts family, going all the way back to the beginning of Puritan settlement. But although the family was a reasonably well off group of farmers,...
This is the grave of David Buffum. This is going to be a short but important one. Buffum was born in 1822 in Massachusetts. He became a strong abolitionist and.
This is the grave of James Freeman Clarke. Born in 1810 in Hanover, New Hampshire, Clarke came out of the elite religious families of Puritan New England, with ancestors that.
This is the grave of Moses Brown. Born in 1738 in Providence, Rhode Island, Brown grew up in the Rhode Island merchant elite. That meant the slave trade. It also meant whaling, but it was the slave trade where the money was. They were all-in....
This is the grave of Ovid Butler. Born in 1801 in Augusta, New York, Butler grew up around there until he was sixteen, when the family moved west to the.
This is the grave of Levi Coffin. Born in 1798 in Guilford County, North Carolina, Coffin grew up on the farms of that area. His family was Quaker and that.