This is the grave of Hank Snow. Born in Brooklyn, Nova Scotia in 1914, Clarence Snow grew up dirt poor. His parents had a bad marriage and they had no money at all. His father worked in sawmills, many of which were far away from...
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This is the grave of Meyer London. Born in 1871 in Lithuania, which was then part of Russia, London came from a leftist Jewish family. His father was a former.
This is the grave of Jessie Benton Fremont. Born in 1824 outside of Lexington, Virginia, Jessie Benton was the daughter of the legendary Missouri senator Thomas Hart Benton. The reason.
This is the grave of Jesse James. Before we get into the details of James' life, I think we should take a step back and ask a couple of questions. Why do we care about this violent treasonous scumbag? Why has he become legend? Why...
This is the grave of John Edgar Thomson. Born in 1808 in Springfield, Pennsylvania, J. Edgar Thomson grew up in an engineering family of the Transportation Revolution. His father was.
This is the grave of Carrie Chapman Catt. Born in 1857 in Ripon, Wisconsin (a town famous for hosting the founding of the Republican Party just three years earlier), Carrie.
This is the grave of Frances Perkins. Born in Boston in 1880, Perkins grew up relatively well-off, though not rich. She grew up in Worcester and then went to college at a time when this was still not super common for women. She went to...
This is the grave of Louis McLane. Born in 1786 in Smyrna, Delaware (is this first time I've ever visited a grave of someone from Delaware; I know I've never.
This is the grave of W.J. Cash. Born in Gaffney, South Carolina in 1900, Wilber J. Cash grew up in the mill ownership class of these small upcountry towns. His.
This is the grave of Archibald Yell. Born in 1797....somewhere. Seriously no one knows. The headstone says North Carolina. There's better evidence that suggests Kentucky. Or maybe Tennessee. And was he really born in 1797? This is also unclear. Record keeping on the late 18th...
This is the grave of Clark Kerr. Born in 1911 in Stony Creek, Pennsylvania, outside of Reading, Kerr grew up in a middle-class household. His father was a teacher (as.
This is the grave of Buck Buchanan. Born in Birmingham, Alabama in 1940, Junious Buckingham. He was a star athlete in both football and basketball. With Jim Crow still dominant.