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 as Bruce. His father was a well-known Chinese opera actor and his mother was from...
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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.
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 Gilded Age, he started work around the age of 13, as a clerk in a...
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.
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 the mighty Rockford Forest Citys as a third basemen. He was traded to the Philadelphia...
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.
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 he was young and only receiving a relatively small inheritance. But he had skill and...
This is the grave of Frank Church. Born in 1924 in Boise to a conservative Catholic family, Church was an academic star in high school and enrolled at Stanford because.
This is the grave of Jason Mizell, better known as Jam Master Jay. Born in 1965 in Brooklyn, Mizell grew up in the church, playing music from a young age..