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Charles Curtis’ Grave
The final grave of this roadtrip is Vice President Charles Curtis, the first vice president with acknowledged non-European ancestry and the only one, so far, with a Native American tribal affiliation. His tombstone reads “Son of the Kanza Nation”. He … Continue reading
Dwight D. Eisenhower’s Grave
Turns out I didn’t need to buy that ticket after all. When I arrived yesterday in Abilene, Kansas, I swung by the Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Library and expected to be able to saunter up to his grave, take my … Continue reading
Gerald Ford’s Grave
My summer road trip has been disappointing in the lack of any new ancestral graves and I’ve barely made any progress on my genealogy so I thought I’d go for an easy win. I’ve been collecting Dead Presidents since my … Continue reading
Schuyler Colfax
Since I was sort of in the area and the libraries were closed on Sunday I drove up to South Bend to visit the grave of U.S. Vice President Schuyler Colfax who served under Ulysses Grant. It’s been a while … Continue reading
James S. Sherman
(Originally visited 23 August 1997.) The usual pattern for traveling to these graves is to find some reason to visit someone who happens to live near a grave or two. That way the people think I’m just being social, when, … Continue reading
Theodore Roosevelt
(Originally visited 16 December 1998, nearly sixteen years ago!) These pictures were taken on my second visit to Oyster Bay. The photos from my first visit never came out only because I gave the partially taken roll of film to … Continue reading
Levi P. Morton
(Originally visited 25 October 1998) Autumn in New England was made for Sunday drives. This Sunday the leaves were just past their peak color and many of them littered the sides of the road like the campaign signs for November’s … Continue reading
Chester Alan Arthur
(Originally visited 18 March 2000) The stories recorded in these pages almost always end at the grave site. However, on this journey the adventure began after I left Chester Arthur’s tomb in Albany Rural Cemetery. Finding the grave was relatively … Continue reading
Henry Wilson
(Originally visited 28 April 1998.) The winter of ’98 was one of the mildest in my experience in New England. Still, this Tuesday afternoon in late April was sweetened by my absence from the office. I’d been visiting a client … Continue reading
Bartholomew Barker, Poet 