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To start us off, here are two from Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge/Watertown MA
Joseph Morton, pioneer in the use of anesthesia:
And Buckminster Fuller, inventor of the geodesic dome and all-around intellectual and iconoclast:
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The Circle of Lebanon, Highgate. The ashes of novelist Radclyffe Hall are interred here.
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I hope this one counts for famous. He did come across on the Mayflower. This is Captain Richard More and he is buried at the Burying point in Salem, MA.
www.mayflowerhistory.com/Passengers/RichardMore.php
Above is a link that has some information on him. There is also a book written about him called "Mayflower Bastard"
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Thomas Evans was "the dentist to Napoleon III and European royalty, pioneered use of nitrous oxide, estate created Dental School, University of Pennsylvania." I read a better description of him somewhere, but of course I can not find it now.
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Oh, can't forget old Frankie Drexel:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Martin_Drexel
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Joseph Jerome McGinnity, The Iron Man
Elected to Hall of Fame by Veterans Committee in 1946, Player
Hall of Fame plaque for Joe McGinnity
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Depends on how you define famous.
The last of the wild west "bad" guys
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Great stuff so far! Everyone of these folks was indeed famous in their own unique way!
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Okay, Graceland in Chicago
John Wellboorn Root
Daniel Burnham
Louis Sullivan
Potter and Bertha Palmer - Those Palmer House folks
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So are artists considered famous? Otherwise I can't get zip.
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Napoleon's Tomb: Apparently he is inside one of like a zillion coffins. Inferiority complex to the bitter end I suppose.
Upton Sinclair: The man who forever ruined sausage.
"The best thing since sliced bread" - Here's the guy that gave it to you.
Howard Hughes' Family Plot in Houston. The name visible is that of his father. The small model airplane has long since been removed.
Alexander Macomb.
The Adams Memorial
Raphael
Robert Kennedy
JFK
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Great stuff! Here's two from my trip to England:
Florence Nightingale
Alice Liddell (Mrs. Reginald Hargreaves) - The "Alice" in "Alice in Wonderland"
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@ Henrietta - artists are fine! You get to define fame in this thread!
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Samuel Colt (Colt Firearms), Cedar Hill Cemetery, Hartford, CT:
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Ok, no one answered, so ya get the most famous person that I think is in our cemetery:
This grave belongs to Pro Hart. A world renowned artist and a fantastic ambassador for Broken Hill up until his death last year.
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Peter Stuyvesant Last Dutch Director General of New Amsterdam
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"The Little Georgia Magnet"
From her obituary in the Macon Telegraph:
"She appeared before virtually all the royal houses
of the world during the past fifteen years."
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Flannery O'Connor
... American writer, particularly acclaimed for her stories
which combined comic with tragic and brutal. Along with
authors like Carson McCullers and
Eudora Welty, Flannery O'Connor belonged to the Southern Gothic... .
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All from Crown Hill Cemetery, Indianapolis, Indiana:
James Whitcomb Riley, "The Hoosier Poet," author of "Little Orphan Annie"
Richard Gatling, inventor of the Gatling gun
Eli Lilly, Civil War colonel and founder of Eli Lilly & Co pharmaceuticals
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Eva Perone, La Ricoleta Cemetery, Buenos Aires, Argentina:
Clara Barton, founder of the American Red Cross, buried in Oxford, Massachusetts:
Grizzly Adams, buried in Charlton, Massachusetts:
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So Grizzly Adams was a real person then? I just thought he was a myth.
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How cool! Not a very nice way to die though. Death by monkey.
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Here's one local to me, Mary Shelly's grave in Bournemouth UK, the author of Frankinstein. It also contains the heart of Percy Shelly her husband and poet.
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Thomas Jefferson
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Here's a "famous" grave in Galveston. Read the story on the historical marker. The son's last words are also inscribed at the bottom of the tombstone. Pretty neat I thought.
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I heard that Charles Lindbergh was burried in an out of the way location in Maui, Hawaii. Last year I went looking and found his burrial location near a small church overlooking the Pacifc ocean
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While in the Cleveland Ohio area I stopped by the Lakeview Cemetery. One hundred three thousand people are buried there on three hundred acres. Many famous people have been buried there including a President of the United States. We were there to locate two graves of past family members. As we were exiting I spotted the grave of this famous person.
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Four presidents and a Civil War general:
President John Tyler, Hollywood Cemetery, Richmond, Virginia.
President James Monroe, Hollywood Cemetery, Richmond, Virginia.
(CSA) President Jefferson Davis, Hollywood Cemetery, Richmond, Virginia.
President Benjamin Harrison, Crown Hill Cemetery, Indianapolis, Indiana.
Confederate General J.E.B. Stuart, Hollywood Cemetery, Richmond, Virginia.
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Pulitzer Prize-winning author John Kennedy Toole:
First resting place of President of the CSA Jefferson Davis:
Maj. Gen. Harry Hays, CSA
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Two English leaders. Going back a ways, good old King Egbert - or, more precisely, Egbert & others:
And moving from Winchester to Salisbury,and forward 1200 years:
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great series of picture I commend all of you
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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, author most famous for creating Sherlock Holmes.
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James Earl Chaney
This is the grave of James Earl Chaney. He was one of the 3 civil rights workers who were slain on the night of June 21, 1964 by the KKK. He was from Meridian and had been working in Philadelphia, MS for civil rights. On the drive back to Meridian after inspecting a church that had been burned by the KKK, Chaney, Michael Schwerner and Andrew Goodman were arrested by the Neshoba County Sheriff and turned over to the KKK. Their car was found burned and a search for the men lasted for 44 days. Their bodies were found buried in a small earthen dam. It was determined that Schwerner and Goodman (both white) were both shot once in the heart, but Goodman's body was barely recognizable. He had been beaten so severely that his injuries were said to be like those of a "high speed airplane crash". He was also shot multiple times.
The movie "Mississippi Burning" was based on this event.
In 2005, Edgar Ray Killen was found guilty of spearheading these murders and was sentenced to 60 years in prison.
The fresh grave to the left of James' is that of his mother, Fannie Lee Chaney, who died last month (May 2007)
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Praying that this picture will come through. Paul Strasser is minimally famous for his roles at Nike and Adidas. The magnificence of his stone marker should ensure him lasting recognition.
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Well, that didn't work. Any suggestions how to transfer a photo from my stream to this thread?
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Nortorious and infamous....
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Well, I like Capone's epitaph.
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Elliot Ness lasted 10 years longer than the man he put in jail. What a great find! Elliot Ness was 53 when he died and Al Capone was 48. Both very young. The television and movies made them seem so much older. It is interesting to see the Christian markings on ths headstone. It makes me wonder about his life after he found out he was terminally ill.
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Karl Marx.
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General Ambrose Burnside, who gave his name to sideburns..
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Billy the Kid's grave in Fort Sumner, New Mexico. Billy was reportedly killed by Sherriff Pat Garrett in a night time ambush at the home of a friend in 1881. The tombstone was stolen and returned after a couple of decades.
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Jimi Hendrix
Bruce Lee & Brandon Lee
Doc Maynard (one of Seattle's founders)
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The final resting place of General James Longstreet is in Gainesville, GA.
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John Tradescant the Younger. Botanist, Gardener and Explorer.
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Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
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Here is a picture of John F Kennedy's grave. Actually his wife and two infant children are burried here, as well.
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Whlie at Arlington Cemetery, I asked to see Audie Murphy's grave. The park Ranger smiled and asked me to look out in a sea of headstones. He said out there you will fond a conservative headstone with a small United States flag next to it. There you will find Major Murphy.
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A few Civil War notables
Thaddeus S.C. Lowe-American Civil War Areonaut, Scientist & Inventor. Chief Aeronaut of the Union Army Balloon Corps in the Civil War. Mountain View Cemetery, Altadena, California
William T. Glassell-Confederate Submarine Officer Angelus-Rosedale Cemetry, Los Angeles, California
Robert E. Lee-Lee Chapel-Lexington, Virginia
Traveler-Robert E. Lee's Horse-Lexington, Virginia
Stonewall Jackson's Arm -Fredericksburg, Virginia
Stonewall Jackson-Lexington, Virginia
Sam Davis-Smynra, Tennesee
Confederate Spy
"Boy Hero Of The Confederacy"
Oliver Wendell Holmes-Supreme Court Justice Arlington National Cemetery
Montgomery C. Miegs-Quartermaster General and planner of Arlington National Cemetery
Abner Doubleday -General and "Inventor of Baseball" Arlington National Cemetery
George Crook-Civil War General and Indian Fighter Arlington National Cemetery
Nancy Hanks Lincoln-Abe Lincoln's Mom Lincoln Boyhood Home, Spencer Co., Indiana
Abraham Lincoln Springfield, Illinois
William McKinley-Canton, Ohio
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W.B. Yeats- poet/writer
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A pair of kings of Germany from of the royal Hohenzollern family, and an elector.
These first two are from the 1500 and 1600's (Berliner Dom crypts):
The white marble one is Emperor Friedrich III, the closer Elector Johann Cicero of Brandenburg who lived in 1530's.
King Friedrich 1 of Prussia (also Berliner dom crypt) :
it's a bit gawdy for my taste, but I guess if you were living in the 1700's iit would have been "natural".
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What a surprise to find that some great photos have been added to this thread!
@civilwarbattlefields - Thanks for a truly massive infusion of notables. I look forward to checking them out individually.
@phoenixesrose - excellent sarcophagi of the most ornate kind, and of figures so important to history..
and, crassy777, thanks for the Yeats. He is one of my favorite poets!
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Conrad Hilton, founder of Hilton Hotel and probably rolling over that the antics of his progeny.
Bonnie Parker of Bonnie and Clyde infamy
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Ok so I dug a few more out - but these are worthwhile IMHO - as they're all from Egypt and most people will never see these in person. Sorry for the cheesy tourist thing on "A", but it was the only one I had.
a) Pharoh Tut Ankh Amon's tomb
b) Only ruling Pharoh whom was a Woman - Queen Hatheheput - recently in the news because they discovered her "missing" body:
c) Egypt's Valley of Nobles - where the advisors, children (non inheriting) and so on were buried:
Keep in mind that they do NOT allow pictures inside - so, this was the best I could do - despite actually being able to go in the tombs.
~Rose
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A bit late I know but here's a pic of Mary Shelleys grave, author of 'Frankenstein', in Bournemouth, England:
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E.M. Bannister was a significant African American artist in the 19th century. Buried in North Burial Ground, Providence RI
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The Heinz family Mausoleum at Homewood Cemetery in Pittsburgh. H.J. Heinz who founded the (H.J.Heinz) company is here, as well as the late Senator H.J.Heinz III.
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@ Graceland Cemetery in Chicago
department store legend
architect & director of the Bauhaus
architect
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Mozart's grave, St. Marx Cemetery, Vienna
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Rob Roy McGregor
Robert Roy MacGregor, (March 7, 1671 - December 28, 1734) usually known simply as Rob Roy, was an infamous Scottish folk hero and outlaw of the early 18th century.
Balquhidder Churchyard
Balquhidder, Stirling, Scotland.
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Elizabeth Tilley, wife of John Howland. They came on the Maytlower. This is a memorial stone set in Little Neck Cemetery in Riverside, RI where she is buried in the plot with her daughter's family (Brown). Oddly, this is near where my husband grew up but Elizabeth is my 11th great grandmother.
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