This is the grave of Nina Gomer DuBois. Born in 1870 in Quincy, Illinois, Nina Gomer grew up in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Her father was a cook at a local hotel, just about the best job a Black man could get in that time, even...
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This is the grave of Ralph Carr. Born in 1887 in Rosita, Colorado, Carr grew up in the mining town of Cripple Creek during its heyday as a gold rush.
This is the grave of Charles Henry Foster. Born in Salem, Massachusetts in 1833, Foster became a spiritualist. The weird religious movements of the pre-Civil War era brought on by.
This is the grave of Johnny Ramone. Born in Queens in 1948, John Cummings grew up there. He had a bad relationship with his disciplinarian father and Johnny wasn't going to respond well to that. He preferred rock and roll to sports and his father...
This is the grave of Horace and Baby Doe Tabor. Born in 1830 in Holland, Vermont, Tabor grew up on the family farm up near the Canadian border. At the.
This is the grave of Pearl Buck. Born in 1892 in Hillsboro, West Virginia, Pearl Sydenstricker grew up the daughter of Presbyterian missionaries, a fact that defined her life. When.
This is the grave of Peter Falk. Born in 1927 in The Bronx, Falk grew up in a fairly typical Jewish family of that time. His dad owned a dry goods store. Falk grew up with a weird look. He had eye cancer at the...
This is the grave of Barry Commoner. Born in 1917 in Brooklyn, Commoner grew up in the Jewish immigrant world of that place and time. He was a science-oriented kid.
This is the unmarked grave of Madeline Albright. Born in Prague in 1937, Marie Jana Korbelová grew up the daughter of the Czech elite. Her father was a big time.
This is the grave of Nathaniel Southgate Shaler. Born in Newport, Kentucky in 1841, Shaler grew up in a well-off slaver family. It might have been northern Kentucky, but Kentucky it still was and status was determined on the ownership of human beings. He ended...
This is the grave of Willie Dixon. Born in 1915 in Vicksburg, Mississippi, Dixon grew up very poor. He was one of 14 children in the family. He got into.
This is the grave of Raymond Odierno. Born in 1954 in Rockaway, New Jersey, Odierno grew up in an Italian American family in that very Italian American state. He stayed.