This is the grave of John Catron. Born in 1786 to a German family in Pennsylvania, Catron and his family moved to Kentucky early in the 19th century. He fought.
This is the grave of John Overton. Born in 1766 in Louisa County, Virginia, Overton moved to Tennessee in 1787 and began practicing law in Nashville in 1789. He became.
This is the grave of James Polk. Born in 1795 in Pineville, North Carolina, Polk was the oldest of 10 children born to middling farmers. They weren't particularly wealthy at.
This is the grave of Martin Luther King Sr. and Alberta Williams King. Born in poverty in Stockbridge, Georgia in 1899, Michael King connected desegregation to the ministry from a.
This is the grave of Zachary Taylor. Born in Orange County, Virginia to the Virginia plantation elite, Taylor's father Richard Taylor moved the family when Zachary was young to fresh.
This is the grave of Levi Morton. Born in 1822 in Shoreham, Vermont to a minister, he grew up in various towns around the state, started working as a teenager,.
This is the grave of Upton Sinclair. Born in 1878 in Baltimore to an impoverished boozing liquor-dealing father and a strictly religious mother from a very wealthy background who despised.
This is the grave of Richard Wright. Born in 1908 on a plantation outside of Natchez, Mississippi, Wright grew up sadly not too different than so many black agricultural families..
