 view gallery |   Zebulon York - Natchez MS
in Grave of a Famous Person Civil War Confederate Brigadier General. When the Civil War started, he was a plantation owner, formed Company F of the 14th Louisiana Infantry and was made Captain. posted by:  Don.Morfe location: Mississippi date approved: 7/14/2020 last visited: never |
 view gallery | William Thompson Martin - Natchez MS in Grave of a Famous Person Civil War Confederate Major General. He was promoted Brigadier General in December, 1862 and remained on Lee's staff until sent west in March, 1863 and then promoted to Major General. posted by: Don.Morfe location: Mississippi date approved: 7/14/2020 last visited: never |
 view gallery | Michael Joseph Blassie - Lemay MO in Grave of a Famous Person Blassie was the unknown service member from the Vietnam War buried at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at Arlington National Cemetery. After his remains were identified by DNA testing in 1998, his remains were moved. posted by: Don.Morfe location: Missouri date approved: 7/14/2020 last visited: never |
 view gallery | John Benjamin O'Fallon - Saint Louis MO in Grave of a Famous Person John B O'Fallon was a businessman, philanthropist, and military officer, a nephew of the explorer William Clark. During the 19th century he rose to become the wealthiest person in St. Louis, Missouri. posted by: Don.Morfe location: Missouri date approved: 7/14/2020 last visited: never |
 view gallery | Richard Barnes Mason - Saint Louis MO in Grave of a Famous Person Richard Barnes Mason was a career officer in the United States Army and the fifth military governor of California before it became a U.S. state. He came from a politically prominent American family and was a descendant of George Mason. posted by: Don.Morfe location: Missouri date approved: 7/14/2020 last visited: never |
 view gallery | Hubert Horatio Humphrey - Minneapolis MN in Grave of a Famous Person 38th United States Vice President, US Senator. It is widely believed that this change of position ON Vietnam contributed to Humphrey's narrow loss to Richard Nixon in the 1968 Presidential election. posted by: Don.Morfe location: Minnesota date approved: 7/12/2020 last visited: never |
 view gallery | Franklin Clarence Mars - Minneapolis MN in Grave of a Famous Person Businessman. He founded the Mars Candy Factory in 1911, which exists in the present day as Mars, Incorporated. Among the candy products he created was the "Milky Way" candy bar, which is one of the best selling confections in history. posted by: Don.Morfe location: Minnesota date approved: 7/12/2020 last visited: never |
 view gallery | George Emerson Leach - Minneapolis MN in Grave of a Famous Person Minneapolis Mayor and Army Major General. During World War I he commanded the 151st Artillery regiment in France, and took part in the Battles of Champagne-Marne, Aisne-Marne, St. Mihiel, and Meuse-Argonne. posted by: Don.Morfe location: Minnesota date approved: 7/12/2020 last visited: never |
 view gallery | Edward Joseph Tracy - Minneapolis MN in Grave of a Famous Person General Tracy went to Europe in May 1942 as staff surgeon of the Eighth Bomber Command, and in January 1944 became staff surgeon of the Eighth Air Force in that theater. posted by: Don.Morfe location: Minnesota date approved: 7/12/2020 last visited: never |
 view gallery | Charles William Post - Battle Creek MI in Grave of a Famous Person Businessman, Inventor. He was a manufacturer pioneer most noted for being the developer and founder of the Post Breakfast Cereal Company. In 1891, he moved to Battle Creek, Michigan, where he invented Grape-Nuts and Post Toasties, breakfast foods. posted by: Don.Morfe location: Michigan date approved: 7/12/2020 last visited: never |
 view gallery | John Chisum - Paris, TX in Grave of a Famous Person Cattle baron John Chisum is buried with his parents in the old Chisum Family Cemetery, a park-cemetery that is all that remains of their homestead, where Washington St meets the railroad tracks in southwest Paris, TX. posted by:  QuarrellaDeVil location: Texas date approved: 7/11/2020 last visited: never |
 view gallery | William Clay “Bill” Ford, Sr - Detroit MI in Grave of a Famous Person Ford was the youngest son of Edsel Ford and Eleanor Clay Ford. Mr. Ford was the last surviving grandchild of Henry Ford, and he was the largest individual shareholder in Ford Motor Co. At the time of his death, Forbes listed his wealth at $1.35 Billion and the 409th richest person in the United States. posted by: Don.Morfe location: Michigan date approved: 7/11/2020 last visited: never |
 view gallery | Joseph Lowthian Hudson in Grave of a Famous Person Department store magnate. More commonly known as J.L. Hudson, as in J.L. Hudson's Deptartment Store. Posthumously, the department stores became the nation's 3rd-largest in 1927 behind R.H. Macy in New York and Marshall Field's in Chicago. posted by: Don.Morfe location: Michigan date approved: 7/11/2020 last visited: never |
 view gallery | Edsel Bryant Ford - Detroit MI in Grave of a Famous Person Ford Motor Company President. The only child of Henry Ford I and Clara Bryant, he married Eleanor Lowthian Clay in 1916. A designer and executive, he was the first secretary of the Ford Motor Company, becoming its president in 1921 and serving until 1943. posted by: Don.Morfe location: Michigan date approved: 7/11/2020 last visited: never |
 view gallery | Henry Goddard Thomas - Portland ME in Grave of a Famous Person Civil War Union Brigadier General. Commissioned Captain, 5th Maine Volunteer Infantry on June 24, 1861, and fought with his regiment at the Battle of First Bull Run. In March 1863 he was commissioned Colonel and commander of the 1st Kansas Colored Infantry regiment, making him the first Regular Army officer to accept command of a Union Colored unit. posted by: Don.Morfe location: Maine date approved: 7/10/2020 last visited: never |
 view gallery | Francis Fessenden - Portland ME in Grave of a Famous Person Civil War Union Major General. Entered Civil War service by being commissioned directly into the Regular Army as a Captain in the 19th United States Regular Infantry. Served as Mayor of Portland in 1876. posted by: Don.Morfe location: Maine date approved: 7/10/2020 last visited: never |
 view gallery | Neal S. Dow - Portland ME in Grave of a Famous Person Civil War Union Brigadier General. Served as Mayor of Portland, Maine in 1851 and 1855. He spent over 10 months in Richmond's Libby Prison before being exchanged for CSA General W.H.F. "Rooney" Lee (son of Robert E. Lee). posted by: Don.Morfe location: Maine date approved: 7/10/2020 last visited: never |
 view gallery | Max Bishop - Woodlawn MD in Grave of a Famous Person Major League Baseball Player. For three consecutive seasons (1929-31), he played for the Philadelphia Athletics in 18 World Series games without committing an error. posted by: Don.Morfe location: Maryland date approved: 7/10/2020 last visited: 7/12/2020 |
 view gallery | John Franklin “Home Run” Baker - Easton MD in Grave of a Famous Person Major League Baseball Hall of Famer. Nicknamed "Home Run" not for the amount of homers he hit, but for the timeliness of them. posted by: Don.Morfe location: Maryland date approved: 7/10/2020 last visited: never |
 view gallery | Edmund Tyler Wooldridge - Annapolis MD in Grave of a Famous Person US Navy Four Star Admiral. During World War II he commanded the battleship New Jersey in the Iwo Jima and Okinawa campaigns and in the first naval raid on Tokyo. Represented the Joint Chiefs of Staff on the National Security Council. posted by: Don.Morfe location: Maryland date approved: 7/10/2020 last visited: never |
 view gallery | Alfred Gustave Ward - Annapolis MD in Grave of a Famous Person Admiral in the United States Navy. From 1965 to 1968, Ward was assigned as U.S. Military Representative, NATO Military Committee. During the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962, Ward, then commander of the Second Fleet and Strike Fleet, Atlantic. posted by: Don.Morfe location: Maryland date approved: 7/10/2020 last visited: never |
 view gallery | Elmo Russell Zumwalt, Jr - Annapolis MD in Grave of a Famous Person Youngest Admiral in U.S. Naval history at age 49 and the youngest man ever to serve as Chief of Naval Operations. He initiated wide-ranging reforms in an effort to revitalize the Navy. He ordered the Navy to end racial and sexual discrimination. posted by: Don.Morfe location: Maryland date approved: 7/9/2020 last visited: never |
 view gallery | Joseph Mason “Bull” Reeves - Annapolis MD in Grave of a Famous Person United States Navy Admiral. Nicknamed "Bull," he became known as the "Father of Carrier Aviation" for his role in integrating aircraft carriers into the US Navy Fleet as a major part of the Navy's attack capabilities. posted by: Don.Morfe location: Maryland date approved: 7/9/2020 last visited: never |
 view gallery | Louis McCoy Nulton - Annapolis MD in Grave of a Famous Person US Navy Admiral. He served as the superintendent of the U.S. Naval Academy from 1925 to 1928 and commander of the Battle Fleet from 1929 to 1930. posted by: Don.Morfe location: Maryland date approved: 7/9/2020 last visited: never |
 view gallery | Charles L. Melson - Annapolis MD in Grave of a Famous Person US Navy Vice Admiral (3 Star). He served as the Superintendent of the US Naval Academy at Annapolis, Maryland and the 33rd president of the Naval War College at Newport, Rhode Island. posted by: Don.Morfe location: Maryland date approved: 7/9/2020 last visited: never |
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