This is the grave of Anna Jarvis. Born in 1864 in Webster, West Virginia, Jarvis and her family moved to Grafton, West Virginia when she was a girl. She went to Augusta Female Seminary, a sort of half
This is the grave of Edward Bellamy. Born in 1850 in Chicopee, Massachusetts, Bellamy grew up in what is best described as an upper-middle class religious household. His father was a Baptist minister
This is the grave of Israel Joshua Singer. Born in 1893 in Poland, Singer grew up in a strongly religious and intellectual family. His father was a rabbi. His brother became the famous writer Isaac Ba
This is the grave of Francis Pickens. Born in 1807 (though some claim 1805) in Togadoo, South Carolina, Pickens grew up at the pinnacle of the South Carolina elite slaveholding class. His father was g
This is the grave of Francis Newlands. Born in Natchez, Mississippi in 1846, Newlands grew up in the wealthy antebellum South. His father was a prominent physician who moved there from Scotland. He we
This is the grave of Cass Gilbert. Born in 1859 in Zanesville, Ohio, Gilbert was named for Lewis Cass, one of the truly reprehensible politicians of the antebellum years, a doughface’s doughface
This is the grave of Ernest May, as well as various other professors associated with Harvard. Born in 1928 in Fort Worth, Texas, May went to UCLA for college, graduating with his B.A. in 1948 and his
This is the grave of Henry Morgenthau, Jr. Born into the Jewish elite of New York in 1891, Morgenthau grew up well-connected. His father was a major financier and ambassador to the Ottoman Empire. He