This is the grave of George Thomas. Born in 1816 in Southhampton County, Virginia, Thomas grew up in a family of slaveholders. They owned 685 acres and 24 slaves in 1829, despite the fact that his father had died in a farming accident. In fact,...
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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.
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.
This is the grave of William Hooper and John Penn. William Hooper was born in 1742 in Boston. The son of a Scottish minister, he was expected to enter the ministry and thus went to Harvard in 1757. He graduated in 1760, but had no...
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.
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.
On January 3, 1931, farmers converged on England, Arkansas to demand poverty relief. This led to Will Rogers' poverty tour and a greater national conversation about conditions in rural America in the early years of the Great Depression. In 1930, Arkansas suffered a severe drought,...
This is the grave of Junius Booth. Born in 1796 in London, Booth came out of a fairly radical family. His father was a big supporter of the American Revolution.
This is the grave of Madam C.J. Walker. Born Sarah Breedlove in 1867 in Delta, Louisiana, she was the first member of her family born into freedom. She was an.
This is the grave of Curt Gowdy. Born in 1919 in Green River, Wyoming, Gowdy was a high school basketball star in his state, leading the state in scoring his senior year, at a high school in Cheyenne. He went to college at the University...
This is the grave of Bobby Doerr. Born in 1918 in Los Angeles, Doerr was given his middle name of Pershing after John J. Pershing, World War I general. Doerr.
This is the grave of Norman Rockwell. Born in 1894 in New York City, Rockwell grew up in general comfort, as his father worked for a prominent textile firm. He.