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Famous Graves You've Visited

WhatTheHeel?

WhatTheHeel?

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Halloween is coming up. Have you visited any burial sites for well-known people in history? While in Italy, we obviously saw a bunch, but being that I'm not one to go visit a grave site of anyone famous, I don't have many in the U.S.

While on a three week trip, some friends and I visited Elvis's grave (it was at the end of the Graceland tour) and Wild Bill Hickok/Calamity Jane (Boot Hill - Deadwood, SD.) Beyond that, I don't think I've been to any famous graves.
 
Been to too many to name but one close to home is Chang and Eng Bunker.
 
Duane Allman and Berry Oakley at Rose Hill cemetery in Macon, Georgia.
 
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WhatTheHeel? said:
Were those the Siamese twins? Isn't Andre the Giant buried in the same community? Ellerbe?
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The twins are buried at White Plains, NC right outside Mt. Airy, NC. I don’t have a clue where Andre is buried.
 
Thomas Jefferson
Robert E. Lee
Traveler (his horse)
Stonewall Jackson
Frances Bavier (Aunt Bee)
Kay Yow
 
tarheelinfl said:
Thomas Jefferson
Robert E. Lee
Traveler (his horse)
Stonewall Jackson
Frances Bavier (Aunt Bee)
Kay Yow
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They have a grave for Traveler? I never knew that! Isn't Jackson's amputated arm buried separately from his body? It was, I think, at one time.

By the way, regarding Duane and Berry's graves in Rose Hill, you can't get to them now like when I went there. They put-up a tall fence around them.

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heelmanwilm said:
I guess the unknown soldier in DC is prob the only grave i’ve ever visited.
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...and IMO this is the most impressive one you could ever visit. Just super impressive the way it is guarded, with precision, 24/7/365 for all time, regardless of weather. Very moving to see.
 
strummingram said:
They have a grave for Traveler? I never knew that! Isn't Jackson's amputated arm buried separately from his body? It was, I think, at one time.

By the way, regarding Duane and Berry's graves in Rose Hill, you can't get to them now like when I went there. They put-up a tall fence around them.

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Yes, there is a grave for Traveler and there is only one site for Stonewall
 
strummingram said:
You have to go to Chancellorsville to see the arm's stone.
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Yeah- I read the link. I've been to Chancellorsville too and didn't even know about it. Crazy that after the VMI indoctrination that this fact was not carved into stone in my brain.
 
I know this a big deal to some folks but I’ve never really understood it. Why would anyone want to visit the gravesite of someone you didn’t know and didn’t know you? I mean, I don’t even visit gravesites of people I know. I don’t like the idea of burial in general (cremation for me) and I would always prefer to remember someone in their living form than to have the gravesite be what I remember of them. I’ve always thought it strange for people to be enamored with gravesites of famous people. Can anyone shed some light on this?
 
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UNC71-00 said:
Well, I have been to Westminster Abbey, so lots of famous people there.
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Been there as well, I did find it interesting that you're walking over graves pretty much the entire time through there.

Also have been to several famous Revolutionary figures graves in various tours around Boston over the years.
 
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Terror Beard said:
I know this a big deal to some folks but I’ve never really understood it. Why would anyone want to visit the gravesite of someone you didn’t know and didn’t know you? I mean, I don’t even visit gravesites of people I know. I don’t like the idea of burial in general (cremation for me) and I would always prefer to remember someone in their living form than to have the gravesite be what I remember of them. I’ve always thought it strange for people to be enamored with gravesites of famous people. Can anyone shed some light on this?
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I'm a necrophiliac
 
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not famous, but .... we have a Civil War Captain buried in our backyard (William Bowling). I found his obituary from 1904, what an amazing life! at the time of his death he had 80 grandkids, 90 great grandkids and 3 great great grandkids and his family had been represented in every war the US had ever fought.
 
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bleeduncblue said:
not famous, but .... we have a Civil War Captain buried in our backyard (William Bowling). I found his obituary from 1904, what an amazing life! at the time of his death he had 80 grandkids, 90 great grandkids and 3 great great grandkids and his family had been represented in every war the US had ever fought.
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Cool.
 
For 8 years, I lived a block away from Trinity Church and the graveyard that holds Alexander Hamilton.
 
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