This is the grave of John Mitchell, Jr. Born into slavery in Richmond in 1863, Mitchell learned to read as a young child, even though he was also working as a newsboy and then as a carriage boy for a white lawyer who had been...
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This is the grave of Pop and Hattie Stoneman, as well as Scotty Stoneman and other various Stoneman Family members. Ernest "Pop" Stoneman was born in 1893 in Monarat, Virginia..
This is the grave of Roy Acuff. Born in 1903 in Maynardville, Tennessee to a fairly prominent family for that poor region of the South, Roy Acuff grew up surrounded.
This is the grave of Julian Bond. Born in 1940 in Nashville to Horace Mann Bond and Julia Bond, Julian grew up in a household where education mattered more than anything. His father was a college president after all. He graduated in 1957 from a...
This is the grave of Reinhold Niebuhr. Born in 1892 in Wright City, Iowa to a German immigrant family, Niebuhr grew up in a religious world. His father was a.
This is the grave of Henry and Carrie Getty. Henry Getty was a lumber capitalist. He's not very interesting. There's not even any significant information about him easily available, partly.
This is the grave of Pendleton Vandiver. Born in 1869 in Butler County, Kentucky, Vandiver was an old-time fiddler. That wasn't uncommon. No one made any real money at this, but there wasn't much to do in the Kentucky hills, or most other rural places...
This is the grave of Jerry and Elaine Orbach. Born in 1935 in The Bronx to parents on the edges of the entertainment industry (dad was in vaudeville but also.
This is the grave of Stephen F. Austin. Born in 1793 in Wythe County, Virginia, in 1798 the family moved to eastern Missouri, which was the extreme frontier at that.
This is the grave of James Russell Lowell. Born in 1819 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Lowell graduated from Harvard in 1838 and then got a law degree from the same institution in 1842. He was an atrocity as a student, basically setting records for missing classes,...
I'm a little behind in my grave posts because I have been trying to get a bunch of other things done. Unlike what people generally believe, I do not find.
This is the grave of John J. Pershing. Black Jack Pershing was born in 1860 on a Missouri farm. He graduated from high school in 1878 and took a job.