This is the grave of Jack Pardee. Born in 1936 in Exira, Iowa, Pardee moved with this family to Texas in the early 1950s. They were very poor. He was the youngest of seven children and even the kids had to work to eat. In...
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This is the grave of George Parker. Born in 1866 in Salem, Massachusetts, Parker just loved board games. He was a huge fan from the time he was a child..
This is the grave of Roger Taney. Born in 1777 in Calvert County, Maryland, Taney grew up in the Catholic elite of Maryland. That was a lot less powerful than.
This is the grave of Ellsworth Bunker. Born in 1894 in Yonkers, New York, Bunker grew up in the super elite. The family went back in New York forever and his father was a co-founder of National Sugar Refining Company. So this was big money....
This is the grave of Henry Blair. Born in 1834 in Campton, New Hampshire, Blair went through a tough childhood. Both his parents died young and he was an orphan.
This is the grave of Clara Barton. Born in 1821 in North Oxford, Massachusetts, Barton grew up in a relatively well off family with a father who had fought under.
This is the grave of Tom Connally. Born in Eddy, Texas in 1877, Connally grew up on a farm, the son of a Confederate veteran and a mother who died young, though otherwise I don't know much about his childhood. He went to Baylor University,...
This is the grave of Arthur Denny. Born in 1822 in Washington County, Indiana, Denny grew up on the frontier, with his family soon moving to Illinois. As with a.
This is the grave of Charles Seymour. Born in 1885 in New Haven, Seymour's blood ran as blue as the Bush family would in the 20th century. This was pure.
This is the grave of Benjamin Shibe. Born in 1838 in Philadelphia, Shibe grew up poor and lame. He had a bum leg and there wasn't much anyone could or would do about that in pre-Civil War Philadelphia. He had to wear a steel brace...
This is the grave of Edward Morse. Born in Portland, Maine in 1838, Morse must have had a somewhat difficult childhood. His father was a strict Calvinist and his mother.
This is the grave of John and Alice Coltrane. Born in 1926 in Hamlet, North Carolina, a poor town that was much later home to one of the worst industrial.