This is the memorial to Margaret Fuller. Born in 1810 in Cambridge, Massachusetts to an active family in politics and reform and to a father who served several terms in Congress, Fuller was taught to read at a very young age and subjected to a...
graves
This is the grave of William Jennings Bryan. One of the most complicated and fascinating figures in American history, Bryan was born in Salem, Illinois in 1860 to a locally.
This is the grave of the vile right-wing anti-union extremist senator from Ohio, Robert Taft. The son of William Howard Taft and grandson of former attorney general Alphonso Taft, Robert.
This is the grave of the traitor Matthew Maury. Born in 1806 to an elite Virginia family near Fredericksburg, Maury wanted nothing more than to join the Navy. But after his older brother died of yellow fever while in the Navy, his father forbade it....
This is the grave of the traitor Jefferson Davis. Unfortunately born in 1808 in Kentucky, Davis' family moved when he was a child, first to Louisiana and then to Mississippi..
This is the grave of Jackie Robinson. There isn't much point of doing a biography of Robinson here. He's so famous and his story is so well-known that I'd just.
This the grave of John O'Hara. Born in 1905 in Pottsville, Pennsylvania to a well-off Irish-American family, O'Hara was a bit of an outsider in the elite circles his family allowed him to move in, due to being an Irish-Catholic in a very WASPy time....
This is the grave of John Hancock. Born in 1737 in Braintree, Massachusetts to a prosperous and slave owning family, Hancock's father died when he was 7, but he went.
This is the grave of Stefan Osusky. Born in 1889 in the Austro-Hungarian Empire in what is today Slovakia, Osusky became a Slovak patriot from a young age and was.
This is the grave of Edwin Drake. Born in 1819 in Greenville, New York, Drake grew up on farms in New York and Vermont. He wasn't too interested in doing that for a living and he got work on the railroads near New Haven, Connecticut...
This is the grave of Ephraim Bull. Born in 1806 in Boston, Bull was not destined for a life as an agricultural innovator. He was a city boy and was.
This is the future grave of B. Vithal Shetty. Yesterday, I wrote about what happens when you wander around cemeteries, seeing stories of interesting people. Well, sometimes you find yourself.