This is the grave of Theodore Roosevelt. OK, where to begin here. I could easily write several thousand words on Roosevelt without even having to think hard about it. So I am going just make 10 points about one of the most well-known people in...
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This is the grave of Jock Yablonski. Joseph "Jock" Yablonski was born in 1910 in Pittsburgh. His parents had moved to the U.S. from Poland not long before. Not uncommonly.
This is the grave of Bruce and Brandon Lee. Bruce Lee was born in 1940 in San Francisco. His actual name was Lee Jun-Fan, but from birth, he was known.
This is the grave of William Herndon. Born in 1818 in Greensburg, Kentucky, Herndon's parents moved to the frontier of Illinois in 1820. His father was an early businessman in Springfield, building the city's first tavern, which was definitely not its last. He also served...
This is the grave of John Philip Sousa. The composer and conductor of America's soundtrack for imperialism and colonization, Sousa was born in Washington, DC in 1854. He arguably would.
This is the grave of Samuel Hammersmark. Born in 1872 in Norway, his family soon immigrated to the United States, settling in Chicago. Like so many young boys of the.
This is the grave of Harriet Jacobs. I will start this by saying that anyone who has not read Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl needs to do so immediately. This is a slave narrative with as much power as Frederick Douglass' autobiographies...
This is the grave of Moses Alexander. Born in 1853 in Bavaria, Alexander immigrated to the United States in 1867. He spent a year in New York before moving to.
This is the grave of Cap Anson. Born in 1852 in Marshalltown, Iowa, Adrian "Cap" Anson was a great early baseball player. He started his professional career in 1871 with.
This is the grave of Claude and Geraldine Lightfoot. Claude Lightfoot was born in 1910 in Arkansas. At the age of 7 or 8, near the beginning of the Great Migration, his family left for better opportunities in Chicago. Although a child, he was certainly...
This is the grave of J.R. Simplot. Born in 1909 in Dubuque, Iowa, the next year his family migrated west to Idaho, to homestead a farm in the Magic Valley,.
This is the grave of William Wirt. Born in 1772 in Bladensburg, Maryland, Wirt didn't receive as much formal education as he would have liked, with his parents dying when.