This is the grave of Joan and Ray Kroc. Ray Kroc was born in 1902 to a Czech immigrant family near Chicago. He was just an average guy for the first few decades of his life. His father had briefly held a fortune in real...
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This is the grave of Samuel Adams. Born in 1722 in Boston, Adams started Harvard in 1736. Disappointing his parents, he took a greater interest in politics than the ministry..
This is the grave of Pete Rozelle. Born in South Gate, California in 1926, Rozelle played on the same high school sports teams as Duke Snider in Compton. After a.
This is the grave of James Cox. Born in 1870 in Jacksonburg, Ohio, Cox never went to college but became a journalist in the 1890s, first working in Cincinnati and then in Washington, where he became highly interested in politics. He bought the Dayton Evening...
This is the grave of John L. Lewis. Born near Cleveland, Iowa in 1888, Lewis came from a largely lapsed Mormon family that he later claimed influenced his desire to.
This is the grave of Pushmataha. Probably born in 1764 in modern-day Mississippi, Pushmataha became a warrior at an early age among the Choctaw and fought in their many wars.
This is the grave of Bernard Malamud. Born in 1914 in Brooklyn, Malamud graduated from City College in 1936 and received a master's degree from Columbia in 1942. Beginning in 1949, he taught 4 courses a semester of freshman writing at Oregon State University, a...
This is the grave of Cab Calloway. Born in 1907 in Rochester to a fairly well-off family, Calloway grew up in Baltimore. His parents saw their son's talent early on.
This is the grave of Adolph Rupp. Born in 1901 in Halstead, Kansas, Rupp grew up poor on a Kansas farm, but managed to attend the University of Kansas, where.
This is the grave of Horatio Seymour. This terrible person was born in Pompey Hill, New York in 1810. He became a lawyer in 1832 after attending several colleges. But he never practiced, instead managing the family businesses and entering into politics. He became a...
This is the grave of Tom Lantos. Lantos was born into a Jewish family in Budapest in 1928. His family did not get out during the Holocaust. At the age.
No regular grave will do for Halloween. Thus, this is the tomb of Abraham Lincoln. There is no reason to go over Lincoln's biography. Just a few general points and.