Where Are Famous People Buried Trivia
Where Are Famous People Buried
Trivia is a online guide to more than 14 profiles of the lives, deaths, and final resting places of memorable figures
from sports, music, film, television, literature, politics, and more... The E-Alphabetical Listings
include:
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- Amelia Earhart was a noted American
aviation pioneer, and author. Earhart was the first woman to receive the
Distinguished Flying Cross, awarded for becoming the first aviatrix to
fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean.
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Morgan Earp
was the younger brother of Wyatt Earp, the famous
gunfighter. Morgan was involved in the gunfight at the O.K. Corral,
where he was wounded. His assassination in Tombstone was part of a wave
of vendetta killing in the southeastern Arizona Territory.
- Virgil Earp
was one of the men involved in the
Gunfight at the O.K. Corral in the Arizona Territory of the United
States. He spent his life in law enforcement, although ironically it is
his younger brother Wyatt Earp, who spent most of his life as a gambler,
who is better known in popular history as a western lawman.
- Warren Earp
Warren Earp
was the younger brother of Wyatt Earp,
Morgan Earp, Virgil Earp, James Earp, and Newton Earp. Like most of his
brothers he was a lawman in the American West. Following the vendetta
ride, Warren left Arizona for a time.
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Wyatt Earp
was an American farmer,
teamster, sometime buffalo hunter, officer of the law in various Western
frontier towns, gambler, saloon-keeper, miner, and boxing referee.
- Buddy Ebsen
was born Christian Rudolph Ebsen, Jr., in
Belleville, Illinois. He was a versatile American character actor and
dancer.
- Thomas Edison
was an American inventor and businessman who developed
many devices that greatly influenced life around the world, including
the phonograph and the long-lasting, practical electric light bulb.
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Dwight Eisenhower
Dwight
David "Ike" Eisenhower was a five-star general in the
United States Army and President of the United States from 1953 until
1961.
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Jack Elam
(William Scott Elam) was an American film actor best known for
his numerous roles as villains in Western films.
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William Ellery
was a signer of the United States Declaration of Independence as a
representative of Rhode Island. He was the first customs collector of
the port of Newport under the Constitution, serving there until his
death.
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Wild
Bill
Elliott (Gordon A. Nance) was an
American film actor. He specialized in playing the rugged heroes of
B-Westerns.
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Peg Entwistle
(Millicent Lilian Entwistle) was a
Welsh-born stage actress and briefly a Hollywood film actress, who
achieved notoriety following her suicide.
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Dale
Evans was the stage name of Frances Octavia Smith, a
writer, movie star, and singer-songwriter. She was the third wife of
singing cowboy Roy Rogers.
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Richard Ewell
was a career U.S. Army officer and a
Confederate general during the American Civil War. He achieved fame as a
senior commander under Stonewall Jackson and Robert E. Lee and fought
effectively through much of the war, but his legacy has been clouded by
controversies over his actions at the Battle of Gettysburg and at the
Battle of Spotsylvania Court House.
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Buck Ewing (Hall of Fame Baseball Player)
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