This is the grave of Taza. A leader of the Chiricahua Apache, Taza was born around 1843, the son of the legendary Cochise. He grew up in a period where the life for his people was in complete collapse. The various Apache groups had more...
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This is the grave of Bernandine Healy. Born in 1944, Healy went to Vassar College, graduating as a chemistry major in 1965. She then went to Harvard Medical School and.
This is the grave of Hassan Toufanian. I don't know too much about Toufanian. But I was wandering a cemetery looking for someone else and boy did that grave stone.
This is the grave of Horace Mann Bond. Born in 1904 in Nashville to a family of educators, Bond grew up in what passed for the black elite, which was small and still subject to the racial violence common to nearly all black families in...
This is the grave of Joseph Choate. Born in Salem, Massachusetts in 1832 to a well-off and well-connected family, Choate went to Harvard, graduating in 1852 and then from Harvard.
This is the grave of John Tyler. Born in 1790 in Charles City County, Virginia, Tyler grew up in the Virginia elite. His father had been Jefferson's college roommate and.
This is the grave of Gore Vidal. Eugene Louis Vidal was born in 1925 in West Point, New York. Known as Gore, after his grandfather Thomas Gore, former senator from Oklahoma, his father was the first aeronautics instructor at the U.S. Military Academy. He grew...
This is the grave of Fernando Wood. Born in 1812 in Philadelphia, Wood's Spanish first name, highly unusual for an English-American at the time, came out of a gothic novel.
This is the grave of George Clinton. Born in 1739 in Little Britain, New York, Clinton's father was a farmer involved in local politics. Although just a kid, Clinton readily.
This is the grave of John Wilkes Booth. There's really no need for a biography of Booth. All I can really say is that it was extremely weird to visit this spot. I have seen the graves of some very terrible people in this series....
This is the grave of Daniel Burnham. Born in 1846 in Henderson, New York to a Swedenborgian family, as a young man he failed to get into either Harvard or.
Underneath this fallen tree is the grave of Jonas Salk. Born in 1914 in New York City to Jewish parents, Salk at first lived a pretty normal life for that.