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 managed a restaurant, mom sang on the radio but also made greeting cards), Orbach moved...
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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.
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 cemeteries interesting at all for themselves. It's not out of some interest in them that...
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.
This is the grave of Arthur Flemming. Born in 1905 in Kingston, New York to a federal judge father, Flemming attended Ohio Wesleyan University and graduated in 1927. He worked.
This is the grave of George Jones. Born in 1931, the greatest singer in the history of country music grew up in a musical family. His family bought him a radio at the age of 7 and he became obsessed with the country programming he...
This is the grave of Red Sovine. Born in 1917 in Charleston, West Virginia, Woodrow Wilson Sovine was known as Red from a young boy because of his hair color..
This is the grave of James and Miriam Ferguson, better known as Pa and Ma Ferguson. James Ferguson was born in 1871 in Salado, Texas and Miriam Wallace in 1875.
This is the grave of Neysa McMein. Born in 1889 in Quincy, Illinois to a middle-class family but one with an alcoholic and difficult father, Marjorie McMein attended The School of the Art Institute of Chicago after high school. She graduated, worked as an illustrator...
This is the grave of John Connally. Born in 1917 in Floresville, Texas, Connally grew up pretty poor. His parents were tenant farmers. But not only did he graduate from.
This is the grave of the traitor George Pickett. Pickett was unfortunately born in 1825 to an elite Virginia family in Richmond. For awhile he was going to go into.