This is the grave of Lemuel Shaw. Born in 1781 in West Barnstable, Massachusetts, Shaw grew up as part of the old Puritan world, with family who went back to the very beginnings of white colonization. He went to Harvard, as any son of a...
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This is the grave of Thomas Hendricks. Born in 1819 in Muskingum County, Ohio, Hendricks grew up in Indiana. His uncle based there was William Hendricks, one of the state's.
This is the grave of Evelyn Davis. Sometimes you are in a cemetery and a grave stands out. When it is this chatty and filled with braggadocio, you take a.
This is the grave of Outerbridge Horsey. Born in 1777 in Little Creek Hundred, Delaware, the almost impossibly named Horsey rose quickly in the Early Republic. He moved to Wilmington and studied law under James Bayard, one of the leading Federalists in the Senate. He...
This is the grave of Saul Bellow. Born in 1915 in Lachine, Quebec, which is outside of Montreal, Solomon Bellows grew up in Jewish immigrant family. His parents had come.
This is the grave of Robert Prosky. Born in 1930 in Philadelphia, Robert Porzuczek grew up in a working class Polish neighborhood. His father was a grocer. But as a.
This is the grave of Robert Anderson. Born in 1805 near Louisville, Anderson was destined for a career in the military. His father, Richard Anderson, was the Marquis de Lafayette's aide-de-camp during the American Revolution and was a founding member of the Society of the...
This is the grave of Susan Alamo. OK, well, sometimes when doing this series, you focus on people who do a lot of evil. That is Susan Alamo. Tony Alamo.
This is the grave of Charles Whittaker. Born in 1901 on a farm outside of Troy, Kansas, there was little about Whittaker's youth that suggested where he would end up..
This is the grave of Billy Meyer. Born in 1892 or 1893 (dates differ here) in Knoxville, Tennessee, Meyer had the great passion of baseball. He grew up with a German immigrant father who operated a brewery in that city. Meyer didn't want to follow...
This is the grave of Hugh McCulloch. Born in 1808 in Kennebunk, Maine, McCulloch grew up rich. His father was a major shipbuilder, one of the wealthiest in New England..
This is the grave of David Houston. Born in Monroe, North Carolina in 1866, Houston grew up in middling circumstances. His father was a horse dealer who also ran a.