This is the grave of Gerrit Smith. Born in 1797 in Utica, New York, he grew up wealthy. His father had married into the New York Livingston elite and made a bunch of money in the fur trade and in real
This is the grave of Leonidas Polk. Born in 1837 in Anson County, North Carolina, Polk, a distant relative of President James K. Polk and of the Confederate general also named Leonidas Polk, committed
This is the grave of Peter Cooper. Born in 1791 in New York City, Cooper was adopted by a hatmaker and Methodist named John Cooper. He was a working class guy doing all sorts of jobs as a young man, e
This is the grave of Daniel Burke. I have no idea who this guy is. He would have been too young for Korea but I don’t know if he was in Vietnam. It doesn’t really matter. I was wandering a
This is the grave of Donald and Miriam MacMillan. Born in 1874 in Provincetown, Massachusetts, MacMillan was orphaned at the age of 12 after his sea captain father died at sea and his mother died of u
This is the grave of Schenando. Supposedly born in approximately 1706, at least according to legend, Schenando, also called Skenandoa or Shenandoah, was a chief of the Oneida. He was born into the Sus
This is the grave of Henry Cabot Lodge. Born in Beverly, Massachusetts in 1850, Lodge grew up in the Beacon Hill elite of the Civil War era. No one was going to out Brahmin a Cabot Lodge, let me tell
This is the grave of Samuel Kirkland. Born in 1741 in Norwich, Connecticut, Kirkland went to Princeton and graduated in 1765. A man of the Great Awakening, he decided to try and convert Native America