This is the grave of Phil Kearny. Born in 1815 in New York to a pretty wealthy family (his grandfather had been a royal official in New York at the start of the American Revolution and his father was one of the founders of the...
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This is the grave of John Clarkson. Born in 1861 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Clarkson rose to become one of the pitching beasts of the early baseball era. He grew up.
This is the grave of William Rogers. Born in 1913 in Norfolk, New York, Rogers was raised by his grandparents after his mother died when he was a child. He.
This is the grave of Jesse Helms. Unfortunately born in Monroe, North Carolina in 1921, Helms didn't fall far from the tree. His father was a racist sheriff who routinely beat and killed black people, including committing violence in front of a child named Robert...
This is the grave of Porter Wagoner. Born in 1927 in West Plains, Missouri, Wagoner grew up in a farming family. But from a child, he was taken with increasingly.
This is the grave of James Rouse. Born in 1914 in Easton, Maryland, Rouse grew up in a well-off family, though when he was 16, his mother and father both.
This is the grave of Jerry Falwell. An oozing cancerous sore on the United States, Falwell was born in 1933 in Lynchburg, Virginia. He didn't come from any crazy religious family. His father was a bootlegger who was openly an agnostic and his grandfather was...
This is the grave of John Bell. Born in 1796 near Nashville, Bell came from a relatively prosperous family for the Tennessee frontier. He went to Cumberland College, graduating in.
This is the grave of George Dewey. Born in 1837 in Montpelier, Vermont, Dewey grew up in a strong Episcopalian family. His father was a doctor and insurance company founder..
This is the grave of George Washington Carver. Carver was born at some unknown date during or perhaps just before the Civil War, a slave near Diamond, Missouri. His master was a small-time slave owner named Moses Carver, a German immigrant who had purchased the...
This is the slave graveyard at Montpelier, James Madison's mansion. Ever since I visited Montpelier in June, I've been praising the amazing way that museum has redone its interpretation of.
This is the grave of Ted Stevens. Born in 1923 in Indianapolis, Stevens grew up pretty poor in a broken home. After his paternal grandfather died in 1934, he moved.