This is the grave of Chris Kelly. Born in 1978 in Atlanta, Kelly grew up in the burgeoning rap world that came out of New York but soon made a home in Atlanta. He was into it. So was his friend Chris
This is the grave of Hoke Smith. Born in 1855 in Newton, North Carolina Michael Hoke Smith grew up pretty wealthy. His father was the president of Catawba College and then became a professor at the Un
This is the grave of John Tower. Born in Houston in 1925, Tower moved through Texas as a child because his father was a Methodist minister and moved around a lot to different parishes. By high school,
This is the grave of Joseph Pulitzer. Born in the town of Mako, in what is today south central Hungary, in 1847, Pulitzer did not go into the town’s iconic industry of garlic, which it is still
This is the grave of John Spellman. Born in 1926 in Seattle, Spellman was a rich kid. His dad was an insurance executive and a starting guard on Oregon’s 1917 Rose Bowl team (Go Ducks!). Spellma
This is the grave of Ernest Tidyman. Born in 1928 in Cleveland, Tidyman grew up pretty well off. His father was the crime reporter for the Cleveland Plain-Dealer and this would influence his son deepl
This is the grave of Maynard Jackson. Born in 1938 in Dallas, Jackson grew up as part of the Black elite, such as it was. His grandfather John Wesley Dobbs was a major civil rights figure who had succ
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 went back forever and man