This is the grave of Claus Spreckels. Born in Hanover, Germany in 1828, Adolph Claus Spreckels grew up in the German working classes. He was pretty much dirt poor. When he left for the U.S., he had almost no money at all. As you can...
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This is the grave of Lamar Stringfield. Born in Raleigh, North Carolina in 1897, Stringfield grew up in the region as the son of a Baptist minister who had parishes.
This is the grave of John Dioguardi. A genuinely horrible human is in this grave. Giovanni Dioguardi, later known as John Dioguardi or Johnny Dio in the underworld, was born.
This is the mass grave for victims of the 1862 Wilmington, North Carolina yellow fever epidemic. Yellow fever is a horrible disease. Before the discovery of that it was mosquito-borne, it was even more horrible because no one knew why they were dying or what...
This is the grave of Cecil Andrus. Born in Hood River, Oregon in 1931, Andrus and his siblings grew up near Junction City, Oregon, just outside of Eugene. This was.
This is the grave of William Faulkner. Born in 1897 in New Albany, Mississippi, Falkner grew up in Oxford, the home of the University of Mississippi and the center of.
This is the grave of Richard Ballinger. Born in Boonesboro, Iowa in 1858, Ballinger grew up wealthy. He got to go to Williams College in Massachusetts, today often considered the best college in the country (whatever that actually means) and even then was a pretty...
This is the grave of Marvell Thomas. Born in 1941 in Memphis, Thomas grew up around music and the church. His father was the legendary Rufus Thomas and his sister.
This is the grave of Buck O'Neil. Born in 1911 in Carabelle, Florida, O'Neil grew up in Sarasota. His father ran a pool hall, which made him pretty middle class.
This is the grave of Robert Winthrop. Born in Boston in 1809, Winthrop came from one of the true Brahmin families. His ancestor was John Winthrop, founder of the Massachusetts Bay Colony all the way back in 1630. He was super elite all the way,...
This is the grave of James MacArthur. Born in 1937 in Los Angeles, MacArthur was the son of two legends--the playwright Charles MacArthur and the actress Helen Hayes. They adopted.
This is the grave of Cokie Roberts. One of the most genuinely annoying and useless figures in the history of American political media, Mary Martha Corinne Morrison Claiborne Boggs was.