This is the grave of Maggie Walker. Born in 1864 in Richmond to a mother who was a freed slave and cook for Elizabeth Van Lew, who herself was a spy for the Union during the Civil War, after the war, Maggie and her mother...
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This is the grave of I.W. Abel. Iorwith Abel was born in 1908 in Magnolia, Ohio to a working class family. His father was a blacksmith and his mother's family.
This is the grave of Lucy Randolph Mason. Born to an elite Virginia family in 1882 (she was a direct descendant of George Mason), Mason dedicated her life to improving.
This is the grave of Arthur Ashe. Born in 1943 in Richmond to a working-class family, Ashe's childhood was a little rough. His mom died from pregnancy complications when he was a child. His father worked in the city's recreation department, which in the 1940s...
This is the grave of the traitor J.E.B. Stuart. James Ewell Brown Stuart was born in 1833 on a plantation near the Virginia-North Carolina border. His family had long political.
This is the grave of John Eaton and Peggy O'Neill Eaton. Born in 1790 near Scotland Neck, North Carolina, to a landowning and political family, the Eatons had landholdings in.
This is the grave of the Haymarket Martyrs. The events of the Haymarket bombing are fairly well known and I've written them up, so you can read it for the basic background. Buried in the Haymarket tomb are the original five martyrs--August Spies, Louis Lingg,...
This is the grave of Simone Signoret and Yves Montand. Both born in 1921 and both leading lights among postwar French acting, even though neither were born in France, Signoret.
This is the grave of Sumner Welles. Benjamin Sumner Welles was born in 1892 to a New York elite family. In fact, Sumner, his preferred name, came from his ancestor.
This is the grave of Gertrude Stein and Alice Toklas. Born in 1874 in Pittsburgh into a pretty wealthy Jewish family, Stein spent a year in Europe as a youngster and then her father became the head of San Francisco's streetcar system. She was shuttled...
This is the grave of George Kennan. Born in 1904 in Milwaukee to a tax lawyer and his wife who died two months after her baby was born, Kennan was.
This is the grave of George Marshall. Born in 1880 in Uniontown, Pennsylvania, Marshall attended Virginia Military Institute, received a commission as a second lieutenant in 1902 and started rising.