This is the grave of Billy Joe Shaver. Born in 1939 in Corsicana, Texas, Shaver grew up in the Texas working class. He was the son of a single mom who dragged the boy to honky tonks, which is really where he grew up, along...
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This is the grave of Wallace Stegner. Born in 1909 in Lake Mills, Iowa, Stegner grew up in various in the West--Montana, Saskatchewan, Utah. These experiences--especially being a non-Mormon in.
This is the grave of Susan and Anna Warner. Susan Warner was born in 1819 and Anna Warner in 1827 on Long Island. The family was downwardly mobile. Their father.
This is the grave of Leverett Saltonstall. Born in 1892 to an extremely wealthy and elite family, Saltonstall grew up in exactly that world. All the Gilded Age summer resorts, all the super fancy schools, etc. He then went to Harvard because of course he...
This is the grave of Henrik Ibsen. Born in 1828 in Oslo, Norway, Ibsen grew up wealthy, the son of a prominent merchant. The family was slightly downwardly mobile, as.
This is the grave of Homer Banks. Born in Memphis, Tennessee in 1941, Banks grew up in the city and inhaled the incredible mix of music popular in that amazing.
This is the grave of Lefty O'Doul. Born in San Francisco in 1897, Francis O'Doul became a high school pitching star, known as Lefty for being, well, a lefty. He got picked up by the San Francisco Seals in AAA and was pretty successful there....
This is the grave of Bill Wallace. Now, I had never heard of this guy before and I didn't go to this cemetery to visit him. But when you see.
This is the grave of Willa Cather. Born in 1873 in Gore, Virginia, Cather grew up pretty well off. Not knowing too much about her life really, I assumed she.
This is the grave of Hubert Howe Bancroft. Born in 1832 in Granville, Ohio, Bancroft grew up in an abolitionist and religious household that was interested in reform movements generally, as most abolitionists were. He had your standard common school education of the time, got...
This is the grave of Henry Newhall. Born in Saugus, Massachusetts in 1825, Newhall was an auctioneer by trade. But he came to California during the gold rush. That was.
This is the grave of Cordell Hull. Born in 1871 (I know the grave says 1872 but it is evidently wrong; it's amazing how common this is) in Olympus, Tennessee,.