This is the grave of Paul Kilday. Born in 1900 to an Irish immigrant father and Texan mother in Sabinal, Texas, Kilday grew up in San Antonio, went to public schools and St. Mary's College in that city. He joined the Air Force branch of...
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This is the grave of James Angleton. Born in 1917 in Boise, James Jesus Angleton (his parents really gave him the middle name of Jesus? Which is common enough in.
This is the grave of Tom Girdler, a terrible horrible no good American and a name you probably do not know at all. Born to a farming family in Indiana.
This is the grave of John Marshall. Born in 1755 in Germantown, Virginia to an upwardly mobile father who continued to move west, eventually to Kentucky after his oldest son (of 15 children) grew up, John Marshall became simply the most important jurist in American...
This is the grave of Doc Holliday. Born in 1851 in Griffin, Georgia, John Holliday grew up during the Civil War and then left for dentistry school in Pennsylvania in.
This is the grave of Jesse Owens. Arguably the greatest track star of all time and certainly the most historically important, Owens was born in 1913 to Alabama sharecroppers. In.
This is the grave of George Norris. Born in 1861 in Sandusky County, Ohio into a very poor family, Norris worked hard, graduated from from Baldwin University, and then got a law degree from Valparaiso University. Seeking opportunities on the frontier, the young man moved...
This is the grave of Louis Brandeis. Born in 1856 in Louisville to secular Jewish immigrant parents from Prague, Brandeis grew up there mostly, although the family did return to.
This is the grave of Preston Sturges. Arguably the greatest comedic director since Chaplin, Sturges was born in 1898 in Chicago. His mom was an artist-type and pretty eccentric. She.
This is the grave of Whiskey the Horse. Whiskey was born in 1911 and came to Fort Snelling, Minnesota in 1921. It became a trick horse there, despite having a reputation as a difficult animal when it arrived. But Lieutenant William Hazelrigg took on the...
This is the future grave of John Paul Stevens. Born in 1920 in Chicago to a wealthy family, as a boy Stevens attended the famous Babe Ruth called shot game.
This is the grave of Joseph Coors. This loathsome troll, this utter scumbag, this cancer on America was born in 1917, possibly a worse event for the U.S. than World.