This is the grave of Leonard Matlovich. Born in Savannah, Georgia in 1943, Matlovich grew up in a military family. He was born on a base and moved around with his parents as a child. By the time he was a teenager, the father was...
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This is the grave of William Rosenberg. Born in 1916 in Boston, Rosenberg grew up in a Jewish immigrant family. His father ran a store. They lived in Dorchester and.
This is the grave of William Glackens. Born in Philadelphia in 1870, Glackens grew up well off, went to the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, by most accounts was a.
This is the grave of John Lomax. Born in 1867 in Holmes County, Mississippi, Lomax grew up in Texas to a farming family. His father was a reasonable successful farmer, though nothing crazy. But his father, who mostly raised cattle, hired cowboys and those cowboys...
This is the grave of Bill Usery. Born in 1923 in Hardwick, Georgia, Usery, whose actually birth name was Willie but who went by Bill his whole life, grew up.
This is the grave of Margaret Mitchell. This very sucky person was born in 1900 in Atlanta. The family was super wealthy and so had no reason to question the.
As dockworker Terry Malloy in Elia Kazan's On the Waterfront, a young Marlon Brando firmly established himself as a leading Hollywood icon. I suppose it is my duty to report on the rare times when graves make the news and this one is actually worth...
This is the grave of Zoot Sims. Born in 1923 in Inglewood, California, John Sims grew up in a performing family. Both of his parents were vaudeville performers. His older.
This is the grave of Wesley Everest. Born in Newberg, Oregon in 1890, we know little of Everest's early life. Like many working class kids in the Northwest, he ended.
This is the grave of James Carleton. Born in 1814 in Lubec, Maine, Carleton entered the military as soon as he could. He received a commission as a second lieutenant in 1839. This was during the Aroostook War, when crazy American frontier people in northern...
This is the grave of Bobby Jones. Born in 1902 in Atlanta, Jones was a pretty sickly kid. He started playing golf on a doctor's advice to get some exercise..
This is the grave of Mildred Dresselhaus. Born in 1930 in Brooklyn, Mildred Spiewak grew up in a immigrant Jewish family. Both her parents had immigrated from Poland. Good call..