This is the grave of Stand Watie. Born in 1806 in the Cherokee Nation village of Oothcaloga, which is today Calhoun, Georgia, Watie grew up in a time of massive and horrifying change for his people. T
This is the grave of Nella Larsen. Nellie Walker was born in 1891 in Chicago. She was born into a mixed-race family. Her mother was a Danish immigrant and her father a mixed-race Afro-Caribbean man fr
This is the grave of Alfred Terry. Born in Hartford in 1827, Terry grew up in the relative elite of New Haven, where his family moved shortly after his birth. He went to the Hopkins School, Yale, and
This is the grave of Anne Sexton. Born in 1928 in Newton, Massachusetts, Sexton grew up in Boston, went to a private academy in Lowell for school, modeled, married, had a couple of kids. Now, Sexton h
This is the grave of William Henry Harrison. Born in 1773 in Charles City County, Virginia, Harrison grew up in one of the new nation’s most elite families. His father was Benjamin Harrison V, a
This is the grave of Ether Shepley. Born in 1789 in Groton, Massachusetts, Shepley attended Groton Academy and then Dartmouth College, where he graduated in 1814. Shepley moved to what would become Ma
This is the grave of Katharine Hepburn. Born in 1907 in Hartford, Connecticut, Hepburn grew up in a wealthy reformist family. Her father was a prominent doctor and her mother (also buried here) was on
This is the grave of Jeter Pritchard. Born in 1857 in Jonesboro, Tennessee, Pritchard grew up in the middling classes of southern Appalachia. That the region had middling classes, the tailor turned pr