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NEBRASKA

BASSETT - NEB - Kid Wade was a horse thief and all around bad man who rode with Doc Middleton's outlaw gang terrorizing northern Nebraska and the Dakota's. In 1883, Wade escaped from prison, a posse captured him in Iowa and returned him here Bassett where angry townsmen took matters into their own hands. On the night of February 8, 1884, Wade was dragged from the jail, and lynched.

BENNETT, NEB - On January 27, 1958, while a 200-man posse searched the country side here for mass killer Charles Starkweather and his girlfriend Caril Fugate, a local farmer found two bodies in a storm cellar near August Meyer's farm outside Bennet. Seventeen-year-old Robert Jensen and his sixteen-year-old girlfriend Carol King, had both been shot in the head. King had been raped before she was killed. Meyer was found inside his house, his head had been torn apart by a shotgun blast. All three had been murdered by Starkweather. The young high school sweethearts were buried in the town cemetery.

BERLIN, NEB - A tornado wiped out the town on March, 25, 1913.

BIG SPRINGS, NEB - The Sam Bass gang robbed a train near here of $60,000 on September 19, 1877.

BOYS TOWN, NEB - Murderer Charles Manson once lived here in Boys Town. His incorrigible thieving, and his surly troublesome manner had him in trouble most of the time and he was asked to leave.

* Father Flanagan, founder of Boys Town is buried here in the Dowd Chapel.

BROWNVILLE, NEB - Jesse James once hung out here at the Lone Tree Saloon on Main St.

BURCHARD, NEB - Silent screen comedian Harold Lloyd was born here in 1893.

CHADRON, NEB - Outlaw George "Flat Nose" Curry grew up on a farm near here. He later became a member of Butch Cassidy's Wild Bunch in the late 1890s.

CRAWFORD, NEB - Indian Chief Crazy Horse was killed here during a struggle oin September 5, 1877 at nearby Fort Robinson. He was wounded by a soldier's bayonet while an Indian held his arms.

ELBA, NEB - Hall of Fame pitcher Grover Cleveland Alexander was born here in 1887.

ELMWOOD, NEB - Hall of Fame pitcher Grover Cleveland Alexander, is buried here in Elmwood Cemetery.

FAIRBURY, NEB - Ma Barker and Alvin Karpis robbed the bank here of $151,000 in 1932.

FILLEY, NEB - Actor Robert Taylor (Arlington Spangler Brugh) was born here in 1911.

GERING, NEB - Charles Starkweather was held here in jail after his capture on January 30, 1958. He wrote a confession on the wall in his cell which included a drawing of a heart with an arrow through it, and the name Charles Starkweather and Caril Fugate.

GRAND ISLAND, NEB - Actor Henry Fonda was born here in 1905.

HASTINGS, NEB - Kool Aid was invented here. The building in which the first Kool Aid was made was Bob's Electric in 1998. The Hastings Museum has Kool-Aid memorabilia.

HOMER, NEB - James Capone came here to Homer in 1919 and worked as a house painter and paper hanger. People knew him as Richard Hart and did not know that he was Al Capone's brother. A few years later he was elected town Marshall. He soon became known as "Two-Gun" Hart, because he carried a gun strapped to each hip, and with either hand could shoot the cap off of a beer bottle at a hundred feet. But he was caught stealing merchandise from the stores in town and was fired. In 1940, his family was notified that the long-lost brother was living here in Homer. He was broke, had only one eye, a wife and four sons, and was on relief. The Capone family sent him a check every month to help him out. When James Capone (or Richard Hart) died here in 1952, he was totally blind.

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LINCOLN, NEB - Charles Starkweather, 17, and his girlfriend, Caril Fugate, 14, terrorized the plains states for a week in 1958 when they went on a murder rampage. The killing spree started here in Lincoln when Starkweather killed a service station attendant, Caril's parents and her two-year-old sister at their home at 924 Belmont, and a Lincoln businessman. The pair then left Lincoln and traveled west.

* Charles Starkweather was electrocuted here in the Nebraska State Penitentiary at midnight June24, 1959.

* Wyuka Cemetery

36th & O Sts.

Charles Starkweather, mass killer.

Gordon McRae, singer.

* Gangster Gus Winkler and six other men robbed the Lincoln National Bank here at 12th & O Streets of almost $3 million on September 17, 1930. Several months later, Winkler, an associate of Al Capone, was found dead on a Chicago street. He had been murdered gangland-style with a shotgun. The Lincoln National Bank was demolished in 1976.

* Actress Sandy Dennis is buried here in Lincoln Memorial Park Cemetery, in Mausoleum #3, Wall A, Col.1C. She was born in Hastings in 1937.

* William Jennings Bryan lived here from 1902 to 1917. His home is still here at 4900 Sumner.

* Actress Pauline Bush (1886) and former Los Angeles mayor Sam Yorty were born here.

MYRA VALLEY, NEB - A blizzard here on January 12, 1888, trapped teacher Minnie Freeman and her students in their little sod schoolhouse. When the storm blew in the school's windows and tore off the roof, Minnie decided to make a run for safety. She tied here thirteen young students to one another and led them into the howling 45-mile-an-hour wind and snow to a house about a mile away. Minnie became famous across the nation as the heroine of what became known as the "School children's Storm." Grade schoolers as far away as Boston wrote essays in her honor, and because of the newspaper stories of her exploit, she received over 80 marriage proposals. The song "Thirteen Were Saved," was inspired by Minnie' account of the ordeal.

NEBRASKA CITY, NEB - Abolitionist, John Brown, hid runaway slaves in the cellar of an old log cabin here on 19th Street in the 1850s. Known as John Brown's Cave, the cellar had a tunnel that led to Table Creek. Brown was later executed for leading the raid on a government armory in Harper's Ferry, West Virginia on October 16, 1859.

* J Sterling Morton, founder of Arbor Day founded Arbor Day here in 1872. His 1855, 52-room mansion is still here in Arbor Lodge Street Historical Park.

NORFOLK, NEB - Johnny Carson grew up here.

NORTH PLATTE, NEB - Ten-year-old Glenn Miller and his family moved here in 1913. They moved in 1915.

* Buffalo Bill Cody lived here in 1870.

OGALLALA, NEB - In 1883, Charlie Reed, a gunslinger, rustle and drifter, shot and killed a man named Dumas here in a saloon. Reed was hanged by an angry mob.

OMAHA, NEB - Fred Astaire, Gerald Ford, Montgomery Clift, Marlon Brando, Malcolm X, Nick Nolte, and Paula Zahn were born here.

RED CLOUD, NEB - Writer Willa Cather was raised here. She wrote "O'Pioneers." The home she lived in is still here at 3rd and Cedar. Tours are available.

RULO, NEB - Jesse James lived here in 1865 while recuperating from wounds he received in the Civil War.

SIDNEY, NEB - After leaving the U.S. Cavalry in 1877, legendary lawman, Billy Breckenridge became a train brakeman, then a storekeeper here in Sidney. In 1928, at age 82, Breakenridge published his famous book of the old West, "Helldorado," which made him rich and even more famous than when he hunted outlaws in Arizona.

ST. PAUL, NEB - Hall of Fame Pitcher Grover Cleveland Alexander died here in 1950.

TEKAMAH, NEB - Cowboy actor Everett "Hoot" Gibson was born here in 1892.

TRYON, NEB - Five-year-old Glenn Miller and his family moved here in 1909 into a sod house. They lived here until 1915 when they moved to North Platte.

WAHOO, NEB - Movie produce Darryl F. Zanuck was born here in 1902.

WINNEBAGO, NEB - Hall of Fame pitcher George "Chief" Johnson was born here in 1887.

YORK, NEB - Caril Fugate, girlfriend and accomplice of mass killer Charles Starkweather, served her sentence here at the Nebraska Prison for Women. She was released in 1976 and moved to St. John's, Michigan. She was 32-years-old.

* Movie director Fred Niblo (Fredrico Nobile) was born here in 1874.

NEVADA

AURORA, NEV - "Three-Fingered" Jack McDowell ran a saloon here in Aurora, a place where beatings, mayhem, and murder were the norm. After a man named Sears was murdered in McDowell's saloon, a law-abiding Aurora citizen threatened to tell the local authorities the identities of the killers, one of which was McDowell. The killers took quick action and cut the throat of the would-be informer and then threw his body into the muddy street. So incensed were the town citizens, that they formed a vigilante group and attacked McDowell's saloon on February 5, 1864, and hanged McDowell and the three other killers from hastily constructed gallows on Main Street. Now a ghost town, Aurora is east of Bridgeport, California.

* Mark Twain worked a gold mine claim here in 1862.

ELKO, NEV - The first entertainer to play a gambling hotel in Nevada was Ted Lewis and his orchestra. They were paid $12,000 for eight days at the Commercial Hotel here in 1942. Bing Crosby owned a ranch near here in the 1940s and 1950s.

ELY, NEV - Pat Nixon, wife of President Richard Nixon was born here in 1912.

EUREKA, NEV - In the winter of 1888, storekeeper, Phil Paroni was put on trial for rape. When a grand jury declared him innocent, a mob, dissatisfied with the verdict, stripped Paroni to the waist, covered him with hot tar and shredded paper, then sent him down the railroad tracks, his hands tied behind his back with orders not to return. Paroni did return to Eureka a few years later and served as the county commissioner.

* Eureka claims to have more cemeteries than any other small town in America. There are nine separate cemeteries: Indian, Chinese, Masonic, Catholic, Jewish, Protestant, one for the rich, and one for those who died from contagious diseases.

FALLON, NEV - For almost 250 miles between Fallon and Ely, is a stretch of highway barely touched by civilization. It lives up to it's billing as America's loneliest highway. Following the route of the Pony Express of the 1860s, US-50 takes you past the remains of Pony Express stations, hidden caves with prehistoric petroglyphs, and the lonely grave of the three little Le Beau sisters. In 1865, as the Le Beau family was crossing the desert in a wagon train, the three little Le Beau sisters, Jennie 9, Louise, 6, and Emma, 3, all died of diphtheria within three days of each other. They were buried in a single grave at the foot of Sand Mountain.

In 1940, a cloudburst washed away the grave and the remains of the girls. The skeletons of Jennie and Louise were found on a salt flat a year later by two men. They reburied the remains and erected a new cross. The remains of three-year-old Emma were never found. The lonely grave is located about 175 yards north of Highway 50 and about 25 miles east of Fallon.

GOLDFIELD, NEV - Wyatt Earp owned a saloon here in 1905.

* Virgil Earp, brother of Wyatt died here in 1906. He was working here as a prospector and lived with is wife Allie.

* Local bar owner, Tex Rickard, staged a lightweight championship fight here in1906, between Joe Gans and Battling Nelson. 10,000 people packed the town to see Gans win in 42 rounds, after Nelson hit Gans, a black man, with a deliberate blow to the groin. Rickard, whose old house is still standing, owned the Northern Saloon and its 80 bartenders.

* Former heavyweight champion Jack Dempsey once worked here as a bartender in the Goldfield Hotel. He fought Johnny Sudenberg here in 1915 under the name "Kid Blackie." The 200-room hotel is still here

* Actor Ben Alexander, co-star of TV's "Dragnet," was born here in 1911.

HARNEY, NEV - A train wreck killed 24 people here on August 12, 1939.

HAWTHORNE, NEV - Gangster "Baby Face" Nelson once hid out here in a cottage near Walker Lake in the 1930s.

JIGGS, NEV - Murderer Perry Smith was born here on October 27, 1928 when the town was called Huntington. Smith was hanged for the murder of the Clutter family in Kansas. The best selling book "In Cold Blood" told about the murders.

JOHNNIE, NEV - It has been reported that outlaw Butch Cassidy ran a western curiosity shop here until 1937.

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LAS VEGAS, NEV - Boxer Sonny Liston is buried here in Paradise Gardens Cemetery. His death in 1970 was attributed to narcotics.

* Palm Mortuary Mausoleum

1325 N. Main St.

Totie Fields, comedienne.

Redd Foxx, comedian.

Chic Johnson, comedy partner of Ole Olsen.

Russ Morgan, band leader.

Ole Olsen, comedy partner of Chic Johnson.

* Actress Carole Lombard was killed in a plane on Table Mountain, 35 miles southeast of Las Vegas on January 16, 1942.

* A fire at the MGM Grand Hotel on November 21, 1980, killed 84 people.

MARRIETTA, NEV - The 20-mule team borax company was founded here.

MIDAS, NEV - Charles Stoneham, one time owner of he New York Giants, and Boxer Jack Dempsey once owned mines here in this ghost town.

OSCEOLA, NEV - Nevada's largest gold nugget was found here in 1876.

PIOCHE, NEV - When the town prostitute and do-gooder, Virginia Marlotte died here in the 1880s, she was given the biggest funeral in the town's history. Her ephitat read: "Here lies the body of Virginia Marlotte, she was born a virgin and died a harlot. For eighteen years she preserved her virginity. That's a damned good record for this vicinity." She is buried here in Boothill Cemetery along with over 100 killers who rest in "Murderers Row."

PRIMM, NEV - The 1934 Ford in which Bonnie and Clyde were killed, is on display here in Whiskey Pete's Casino. In 1997, Whiskey Pete's paid $85,000 for the light blue, bullet-ridden, bloodstained shirt that Barrow was wearing when he was killed. The shirt is also on display in the casino.

RACHEL, NEV - The desolate desert area near here is so famous for UFO sightings that Nevada has renamed a section of Highway 375, "Extraterrestrial Highway." It is located between Tonopah and Las Vegas, 20 miles north of Groom Lake, where the Air Force runs its secret military operations called "Area 51," on the Nellis Range Complex. It extends from Tonopah to Highway #93, southeast of Rachel..

RENO, NEV - Dat-So-La-Lee, the last of the great Washoe Indian basket weavers, is buried here in the Indian Cemetery south of town. The fame of her baskets spread to both coasts and samples of her art are in the big museums of America. Her masterpiece "Migration" was valued at $10,000 in the 1940s. She died in 1925, at age 90, and was buried here with her last basket, for which, unfinished she had been offered $1,100.

* Outlaw "Baby Face" Nelson once lived here in an apartment at 126 Caliente Street in January of 1933.

RHYOLITE, NEV - The silent movie "The Airmail," starring Billie Dove, Warner Baxter, and Douglas Fairbanks Jr. was filmed here in 1924. Rhyolite is now a ghost town.fi

SEARCHLIGHT, NEV - The former ranch of actress Clara Bow and her husband Rex Bell, former Nevada Lt. Governor, was located here seven miles outside Searchlight.

TONAPAH, NEV - Murderess Barbara Graham once worked here in the hospital as a nurses aide in 1948. She died in California's gas chamber for the Burbank murder of Mrs. Monihan. Susan Hayward starred in the 1958 film, "I Want to Live," the story of Barbara Graham.

* Wyatt Earp opened the Northern Saloon here on January 1, 1902.

* Howard Hughes and Jean Peters got married here in the courthouse in 1957.

UNIONVILLE, NEV - Mark Twain once prospected for gold here. His old cabin is still standing.

VERDI, NEV - The "Big Jack" Davis gang committed the first train robbery in the west near here on November 5, 1870. They got away with $40,000. Verdi is west of Reno.

VIRGINIA CITY, NEV - Julia Bulette opened a house prostitution here in 1861 with one girl - herself. She became so popular that she rode in the Fourth of July parade and was made an honorary member of the local fire department. They even gave her a fire helmut with the #1 on it. On January 20, 1867, Julia was found strangled in her home here at the corner of Union and D streets, her jewels and furs were missing. On the day of her funeral, every mine in the area shut down, and 16 carriages filled with the town's leading men followed the hearse to the cemetery. Several weeks later, John Millan was arrested for her murder.

While awaiting trial, Virginia City wives treated him like a hero, bringing him cakes and wine in jail. Found guilty, he was sentenced to hang. Crowds gathered from all over the state to watch Millan die on the gallows that were constructed one mile outside town. Julia was buried in the outcast Flowery Cemetery, and her killer was buried in Virginia City's Catholic Cemetery.

* Grace Fanshaw, 25,a local prostitute, killed herself by drinking laudanum (a solution of opium and alcohol) in a red light district house of prostitution at 26 So. D Street in the 1870s.

* Samuel Clemons worked as a reporter here on the local newspaper. He began to use the name of Mark Twain as a pen name at that time.

WARM SPRINGS, NEV - Outlaw Jack Davis was shot and killed here in 1872 while trying to rob a Wells Fargo stage.

WASHOE CITY, NEV - In 1864, Mr. and Mrs. Sandy Bowers, owners of the Comstock mine, one of the richest in the world, built their 16-room mansion here at a cost of $407,000. After Bowers died at age 35, his widow lost their fortune and the mansion. Mrs. Bowers died here while working as a housekeeper for the new owners of the mansion. The Bowers' and their daughter Persia are buried in a tiny hollow behind the mansion. Washoe City is 10 miles north of Carson City, east of highway 429.

WINNEMUCCA, NEV - Butch Cassidy, the Sundance Kid, and the Wild Bunch robbed the First National Bank here of $32,000 on September 9, 1900.

NEW HAMPSHIRE

CONCORD, N. HAMP - President Franklin Pierce is buried here in Old North Cemetery.

JAFFREY CENTER, N. HAMP - Author Willa Cather is buried here in the Old Burying Ground Cemetery

MOULTONBOROUGH, N. HAMP - Actor Claude Rains is buried here in Red Hill Cemetery.

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NEWMARK, N. HAMP - Emma Borden, sister of Lizzie Borden, died here in her home that was located on Main St. near the railroad tracks.

NEWPORT, N. HAMP - Sarah Josepha Hale was born here in 1788. She wrote "Mary Had a Little Lamb while living here in 1830. She also suggested in 1846 that Thanksgiving should be national holiday..

NORTH HAMPTON, N. HAMP - Poet Ogden Nash is buried here in Little River Cemetery.

NEW JERSEY

ATLANTIC CITY, N. JER - The streets of Atlantic City were used on the game Monopoly.

* Alvin "Shipwreck " Kelly set a world's record of 49 days for sitting on top of a flag pole here in 1930.

BELLEVILLE, N. JER - Singer Sarah Vaughn is buried here in Glendale Cemetery.

BURLINGTON, N. JER - Captain James "Don't Give Up the Ship" Lawrence was born here at 459 So. High St.

CAMDEN, N. JER - Walt Whitman died here in his home at 330 Mickle St. in 1892. He is buried here in Harleigh Cemetery at Haddon Ave. and Vesper Blvd. in a tomb that he designed himself.

ENGLEWOOD, N. JER - Boxer James J. Braddock is buried here in Mount Carmel Cemetery

FLEMINGTON, N. JER - The trial of kidnapper Bruno Hauptmann was held here in the courthouse in 1932. He was executed for murdering Charles Lindbergh Jr.

FORT LEE, N. JER - Movies were made here long before there was a Hollywood. Several hundred movies were filmed here in the Universal Studios from 1903 to 1917. D.W. Griffith, Mary Pickford, the Barrymore's and Gish's starred in films produced here. A print shop occupies the only building left from the studio that was located at Main and Linwood. Apartments cover most of the site.

HOBOKEN, N. JER - Frank Sinatra was born here at 415 Monroe Street. The old wooden building burned down in 1967, and a small archway is the only thing that remains today. There are no Sinatra memorials in town except a sidewalk star near the site. The family later lived at 841 Garden St. in 1939. Sinatra's first singing job was at the Union Club at 600 Hudson in 1935.

* Aaron Burr mortally wounded Alexander Hamilton here in a duel on July 11, 1804. A maker marks the site on Hudson Blvd. in a small park at the edge of the Palisades. It was here on the same spot three years earlier, that Hamilton's son Phillip was killed in a duel.

HOPEWELL, N. JER - Aviator Charles Lindbergh's baby son was kidnapped from the Lindbergh home on West Brand St. here on March 1. 1932. The boy's body was found on May 13, one mile east of town near Princeton Ave in the Sourland Mountains.

LAKEHURST, N. JER - The German Zeppelin Hindenburg burned here on May 7, 1937 and killed 37 people.

LAMBERTVILLE, N JER - General George Washington had his headquarters here in the John Holcomb house at 60 Bridge St.

LARISON'S CORNER, N. JER - The Rockefeller family plot is located here in the United Presbyterian Church Cemetery. the oldest grave is that of Johann Peter Rockefeller who came from Germany in 1723,

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MAHAW, N. JER - Poet Joyce Kilmer wrote "Trees" while living here in his cottage on the Hill.

MENLO PARK, N. JER - Thomas E. Edison made the first incandescent light bulb here in his lab. A memorial tower marks the site.

MORRISTOWN, N. JER - General George Washington and Martha lived at 230 Moriss Ave. in 1779-80.

* Colonel Ichabod Crane is buried here in the Presbyterian Cemetery

NEWARK, N. JER - A wave of mass hysteria swept the country on October 30, 1938, when actor Orson Wells broadcast a dramatization of H.G. Wells'"War of the Worlds" on the radio that warned citizens that creatures from Mars had landed just outside Newark and were going to attack the town with gas. In a single block at Heddon Terrace and Hawthorne, more than twenty families rushed out of their houses with wet handkerchiefs and towels over their faces to flee from what they believed was to be a gas raid.

NUTLEY, N. JER - Gracious living queen, Martha Stewart (Kostyra) was born and raised here.

ORANGE, N. JER -

* Rosedale Cemetery

Samuel Colgate, founder of Colgate-Palmolive Peet Co., in Section 41, Lot 2.

Wilfred Funk. of Funk & Wagnall dictionary.

Andrew Graham, he invented shorthand.

Henry Judd Grey, murderer and lover of Evelyn Nesbit.

Huntington Hartford, Founder of A&P grocery chain.

George Huntington Hartford, founder of A&P grocery chain.

Frederick Johnson, founder of Johnson & Johnson Pharmaceuticals. In Oak Section, Lot 1.

Robert Johnson, inventor of the Band-Aid.

Frederick Kilmer, father of Joyce Kilmer, and chemist with Johnson & Johnson where he developed Johnson's baby powder.

Joyce Kilmer, poet. Author of the poem "Trees." He was killed in WWI.

Stetson, manufacturer of the Stetson hat.

Upjohn family. Founders of the Upjohn Pharmaceutical Co.

PARAMUS, N. JER - Comedian Joe E. Lewis is buried here in Cedar Park Cemetery.

PRINCETON, N. JER -

* Princeton Cemetery

Aaron Burr, duelist is buried near his parents.

Grover Cleveland, former president.

Ruth Cleveland, thirteen-year-old daughter of Grover. The Baby Ruth candy bar is named after her.

Jose Menendez. He was killed by his sons, Lyle and Erik in Beverly Hills.

Kitty Menendez. She was killed by her sons, Lyle and Erik in Beverly Hills.

John Henry O'Hara, writer.

TRENTON, N. JER - Pauline Joseph Ann Holton, young daughter of Joseph Bonaparte, former king of Spain, and his mistress, Annette Savage, is buried here in the Michaels Protestant Episcopal Church Cemetery at 140 No. Warren.

* Annette Savage lived here on Bow Hill, south of Lalor Street, between Bunting and Reegar Ave in 1785.

* Paul Whiteman, orchestra leader is buried here in the First Presbyterian Church of Ewing Cemetery.

WEST ORANGE, N. JER - The lab where inventor Thomas E. Edison, worked in up until his death in 1931, remains here much as he left it on Main and Lakeside Ave. His 29-room home on his Glenmount Estate is located in Llewellyn Park. Edison and his wife Mini are buried behind the home.

* Vincent Diauon, 27-year-old gunman, listed as one of the most-sought public enemies was shot and killed here by police on June 16, 1935, in the crowded bar of the fashionable Mayfair Country Club atop Eagle Rock.

NEW MEXICO

ALMA, N. MEX - Alma was once the headquarters for Butch Cassidy's "Wild Bunch."

* Katherine McCarty, mother of Billy the Kid, moved here in March 1873 after she married William Antrum. Antrim owned a blacksmith shop in town where Billy hung out

ALAMAGORDO, N. MEX - The first Atomic bomb was detonated here on July 16, 1945 at the White Sands proving grounds.

* "Ham," the first Chimp in space, and "Minnie," another space chimp, are buried here at the Space center.

* The former Hollingsworth Air force Base is now being used as a German Luftwaffe air base.

CAPITAN, N. MEX - Smokey the Bear is buried near here in the Lincoln National forest.

CARLSBAD, N. MEX - The first underground storage site for nuclear waste opened 16 miles east of Carlsbad. The waste will remain radioactive for 240,000 years.

CIMARRON, N. MEX - David Crockett, a town bully and grandson of the famous Davy Crockett, killed three black soldiers here in the St. James Saloon in 1876. Crockett was shot to death here on September 30, 1876 by the sheriff after he created a disturbance. He was buried here in Cimarron.

* Outlaw Clay Allison shot and killed gunslinger Chuck Colbert here in the Clifton House Inn on January 7, 1874. Colbert was buried behind the Clifton House..

* Clay Allison helped lynch Cruz Vega here on October 30, 1875.

* On October 7, 1870, when Charles Kennedy was found guilty of killing travelers in his home in Elizabethtown, a mob hanged him in a slaughterhouse here. Clay Allison, cut off Kennedy's head, put it in a sack and carried here to Cimarron where he dumped it on the bar in Henry Lambert's Saloon. Later, someone stuck it on the corral fence at the St. James Hotel where it remained for months and eventually mummified.

CLAYTON, N. MEX - Train robber and outlaw, "Black Jack" Ketchum, whose gang wrought havoc in this area in the 1890s, was hanged here for robbing a train. The hangman had improperly fixed the rope around his neck and the weights on his legs so that Ketchum went through the trap door at such a terrific speed that he head was ripped off, spin wildly, and rolled toward the spectators at the foot of the gallows. It was one of he most grisly executions on record. Ketchum's head was sewn back on and he was buried here in the Clayton Cemetery.

CLOVIS, N. MEX - Rock and Roll star, Buddy Holly, recorded his hit songs, "That'll Be the Day," and "Peggy Sue" here in Noman Petty's Studio at 1313 W. Seventh St. in 1957.

COLUMBUS, N. MEX - On March 9, 1916, Mexican bandit Pancho Villa headed a band of 1,000 of his soldiers in an attack upon Columbus and nearby Furlong. Ten American civilians and eight soldiers were killed here. 142 Mexicans were killed at Camp Furlong.

DAWSON, N. MEX - On October 22, 1903, an explosion here in the Stag Canyon coal mine No. 2, killed 263 miners. It was the second worst mine disasters n U.S. history.

* On February 8, 1923, a fire in mine No. 1, of the Stage Canyon mine killed 125 miners. Dawson is near Koehler, southwest of Raton.

* Many of the miners who died in the coal mine explosions in 1903 and 1923 are buried here in the cemetery on the south side of town.

* Lizzie Seller, Dawson's most popular prostitute, was shot and killed here in the 1880s. Her body was shipped to Las Vegas, New Mexico for burial.

ELIZABETHTOWN, N. MEX - On October 7, 1870, outlaw Clay Allison brooded about a locally convicted murderer, Charles Kennedy, while drinking here in a saloon. He stirred up sentiment against Kennedy then led a lynch mob across the street to the jail., where they dragged him screaming from his cell. He was taken to a local slaughterhouse where he was lynched then his body was mutilated with huge knives used for butchering cattle. Allison then cut the body down, and using an ax, chopped Kennedy's head off and jammed it onto a pole. Allison then rode his horse all the way to Cimarron where he put the head on display on the bar of Henry Lambert's saloon.

FOLSOM, N. MEX - On July 11, 1899, "Black Jack" Ketchum and his gang robbed three Santa Fe trains at the Twin Mountain curve near Folsom of $30,000. In a gun battle here in Turkey Creek, the gang killed three lawmen before they escaped.

FORT SUMNER, N. MEX -Billy the Kid was shot and killed near here by Sheriff Pat Garrett on the Maxell Ranch on July 14, 1881. The 21-year-old killer was buried here on the ranch in a white shirt five sizes too big for him. He was later moved to the Fort Sumner Military Cemetery.

* Fort Sumner Military Cemetery -

Two miles east of town.

William "Billy the Kid" Bonney, outlaw. He was killed by Pat Garrett in Fort Sumner on July 14, 1881

Charlie Bowdre, outlaw pal of Billy the Kid. He was killed by Pat Garrett in Stinking Springs on December 21, 1881.

Tom O'Folliard, outlaw pal of Billy the Kid. He was killed by Pat Garrett in Fort Sumner on December 18, 1880.

FRISCO, N. MEX - In October 1884, a self-styled lawman, Elfego Baca, arrested a cowboy named McCarty here for shooting off his gun in a local saloon. When friends of the cowboy demanded that Baca release McCarty, he refused. When they threatened him, he opened fire on them, then took shelter in a Mexican hut, made of poles and mud. For 33 hours, the cowboys poured hundreds bullets into the hut, and threw dynamite at it, but Elfego held his ground. When Baca finally surrendered to the Sheriff, four cowboys were dead and eight were wounded. Baca never got a scratch.

Elfego went on to serve as deputy sheriff, sheriff, county sheriff, mayor of Socorro, school superintendent, and district attorney. He narrowly missed being elected governor. He died at age 80 in Albuquerque in 1945. In 1958, Walt Disney made the movie, "The Nine Lives of Elfego Baca." Frisco was located just outside Socorro.

GRANTS, N. MEX - In 1887, Indians robbed a Santa Fe train near here of $100,000. It was reported that the money had been buried under a juniper tree nearby. The stolen money has never been recovered.

KINGSTON, N. MEX - In the 1880s, town handyman, Ed Doheny grubbed for silver and did odd jobs at the mines here. Doheny later moved to Los Angeles, discovered oil, and became president of Sinclair Oil. Doheny Drive in Beverly Hills is named after him.

* Albert Fall, a miner, turned teacher, lived here in the 1880s. Fall later became Secretary of the Interior under President Warren G. Harding.

* George Hearst, father of William Randolph Hearst, owned a mine here in 1882.

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LAKE VALLEY, N. MEX - George Lufkin discovered the Bridal Chamber silver mine here in 1800. The mine yielded more than $3 million in silver. Lufkin died penniless and was buried here by the county.

LAS CRUCES, N. MEX - On February 29, 1908, Sheriff Pat Garrett, the man who shot Billy the Kid, was killed near here, four miles outside of town. While riding out to inspect some land with Jim "Deacon" Miller, and Carl Adamson, Garrett stopped the buggy to urinate beside the road. With his back to the two men, a bullet suddenly smashed through the back of his head and exited above the right eye. He spun around and another bullet tore into his stomach. A sign marks the spot where he was killed east of town on Highway 70. Garrett was buried in the Odd Fellows Cemetery here, but in 1957, his body was moved across he street and reburied in the northwest part of the Masonic Cemetery.

LAS VEGAS, N. MEX - Gunslinger Doc Holliday and his girlfriend "Big Nosed" Kate Elder, moved here in 1879 and opened a saloon on Center Street. Wyatt Earp followed him six months later.

* Butch Cassidy once worked as a bartender here in town.

* Bob Ford, the man who shot Jesse James, ran a saloon here in 1890.

* Lizzie Zeller was Dawson, New Mexico's most popular prostitute in the 1880s when she was shot and killed there. Her body was sent here for burial.

* In 1915, Tom Mix made several western movies here. In the 1960s and 70s, the films, "Easy Rider," "Charlie Siringo," and "Red Dawn" were made here.

LINCOLN, N. MEX - Billy the Kid ambushed and killed two sheriff deputies here on Main Street on April 1, 1878. Lincoln was Billy's hometown.

LOS ALAMOS, N. MEX - In the 1890s, Los Alamos was home to a vicious gang of Latin Americans called the "Forty Bandits," led by Vincente Silva. So shocking were Silva's crimes, that his name was a synonym for cruelty. In 1895, after Silva stabbed his wife to death here, five members of his gang shot and killed him. The 50-year-old Silva was buried here on May 19, 1895. Now a ghost town, Los Alamos is located on the Ruby Ranch, on Highway 85, north of Las Vegas near Sepello.

MESILLA, N. MEX - Billy the Kid was found guilty of murder here in an adobe building at the southeast corner of the Plaza in 1881, and was sentenced to hang. On April 18, 1881 Billy knocked out one of jail deputies and stole a gun from Pat Garrett's office. He shot and killed two deputies, stole a horse and escaped.

MOGOLLON, N. MEX - James Cooney, founder of Mogollon was killed here by Apache Indians on April 29, 1880. His mutilated body was entombed in a rock crypt at the mouth of Mineral Creek and sealed with ores from his mine.

* Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid once had their headquarters here.

PINOS ALTOS, N. MEX - On September 22, 1861, 500 Apache Indians, led by Cochise, attacked the town. Three miners and 14 Indians were killed.

PLEASANTON, N. MEX - When U.S. troops pursued a band of Apaches near here in 1885, the Indians caught the soldiers in a triple cross-fire trap and killed them all.

* The U.S. troops killed by the Apaches were buried in a hillside cemetery on the WS Ranch about 18 miles further down the road from the massacre. The cemetery can be seen from the highway on Soldier Hill on the way to Pleasanton. Butch Cassidy and the Wild Bunch once worked as ranch hands here on the WS Ranch.

ROSWELL, N. MEX - An alien spaceship reportedly crashed near here in 1947 on the Corn Ranch. The site is now marked by a plaque.

SAN ANTONIO, N. MEX - Conrad Hilton, founder of he Hilton hotel chain, was born here in 1887. In the 1890s, his mother turned their home near the railroad station into a hotel. Ruins of the Hilton's home were at the corner of Sixth and Main in 1988.

* In 1945, scientists on the Manhattan Project, the code name for the Atom Bomb, frequented the Owl Bar & Grill here.

SAN CARLOS, N. MEX - The Apache Kid and his gang had a gunfight here in 1886 with Al Sieben and lawmen. The Kid was wounded in the leg but was able to escape.

SANTA FE, N. MEX - Among the row after row of 16,000 identical, snow-white, two-foot high headstones in the Santa Fe National Cemetery here, is a statue of Private Dennis O'Leary, who died on April , 1901, at Fort Wingate, New Mexico, a little known outpost. The statue is a carving of O'Leary in his Army uniform, seated, and leaning against a tree trunk. Legend has it that he was an unhappy soldier stationed at the lonely Fort Wingate. He is supposed to have carved the life-sized statue in his free time, even engraving the date of his death on it. According to the story, he wrote a suicide note describing the location of the carving, and asked that it be placed over his grave. Then he shot himself. Military records however, show that he died of TB. When the old fort was disbanded n 1911, O'Leary and 75 other soldiers were moved here.

* Katherine McCarty, 43, Billy the Kid's mother, married miner, William Antrim, here on March 1, 1873, in the First Presbyterian Church. Billy, 13, attended the ceremony. Billy and his mother moved here in 1864, where she ran a boarding house. They moved to Silver City in 1868.

SHAKESPEARE, N. MEX - When eight-year-old Emma Marble and her parents moved here from Virginia City, Nevada in 1882, she brought along a doll, about two and one-half feet tall, with arms and legs of cloth, a sawdust body, and a head of china. The doll was admired by everyone, especially seven-year-old Jane Hughes. Jane could not take her eyes off the doll and talked about it all the time.

When Jane fell ill a few weeks later, she constantly called for the doll. Jane's sister asked Emma if she could take the doll to Jane, offering a five dollar goldpiece for the favor. The request was gladly granted, and little Jane had her doll, but only for a short time -- she died a few days later. Jane was placed in a simple board coffin and was buried here in the town cemetery with the doll clutched tightly in her arms. Now a ghost town, Shakespeare is south of Lordsburg on private land. Tours are given on weekends.

* Outlaws Curly Bill Brocius and Jim Hughes, were hanged here from a rafter of the dining room of the Pioneer Hotel in 1891. (Wyatt Earp claimed that he shot and killed Brocius in 1882 in Mescal Springs, Arizona.)

* Billy the Kid once washed dishes here in the Stratford Hotel on Avon Street, the town's main street.

SILVER CITY, N. MEX - Billy the Kid lived here with his mother while a boy from 1868 to 1872. He worked in the Star Hotel washing dishes. His mother, Mrs. Katherine Antrim, ran a small boardinghouse in town. His mother died here of TB on September 16, 1874, and her funeral services were held in the house at the head of the Big Ditch. She as buried in Memory Lane Cemetery on the east side of town. The house is still there on the southwest corner of Broadway and Hudson.

* Billy the Kid killed his first man here in Dyer's Saloon at age 12, and escaped from his first jail here when he was 15.

* Mach 24, 1964, police officer Lonnie Zamora, while on patrol, spotted a space ship on the ground on California Street near the Municipal Airport. The UFO and its little men took off when he got close to the craft.

SOCORRO, N. MEX - The first Atomic Bomb was exploded 30 miles southeast of town on July 16, 1945. A monument marking ground zero stands at the Trinity blast site, 80 miles from Almagordo.

STINKING SPRINGS, N. MEX - On December 21, 1881, Sheriff Pat Garrett cornered Billy the Kid and his gang in a deserted farmhouse near here. During the shootout, Billy's friend, Charlie Bowdre was killed. Stinking Springs is located near La Lande, east of Fort Sumner.

TAOS, N. MEX - Governor Charles Bent was scalped alive and murdered here by Indians in his home, one block north of the Plaza, in 1847.

* Kit Carson and his wife Josefa, are buried here in the Kit Carson Memorial Cemetery, two blocks north of the Plaza.

* When D.H.Lawence, author of "Lady Chatterly's Lover," died in 1930, his wife buried his ashes on his ranch on the outskirts of town.

WHITE OAKS, N. MEX - Billy the Kid hung out here at Dedrick's livery stable and in the town's saloons. He celebrated his 21st birthday here in 1880.

NEW YORK

ALBANY, NY - Gangster Jack "Legs" Diamond was shot and killed here in a cheap rooming house at 67 Dove Street, on December 19, 1931, by two hired killers. Diamond was staying here with his wife and 10-year-old son in three rooms on the second floor.

* Nathan Pritikin, fitness crusader ,committed suicide here in 1985 with a straight razor in the Albany Medical Center where he was undergoing treatment for terminal leukemia.

AUBURN, NY - Leon Czolgosz, murderer is buried here in Fort Hill Cemetery at 19 Fort Street. He assassinated President McKinley. After he was electrocuted in 1901, prison officials poured acid on his body and coffin.

* Henry Wells, founder of Wells Fargo, is buried here in Oak Glen cemetery, at the end of Court St. east of Main.

BEACON, NY - Henry Fonda's first wife, Francis, killed herself here in the bathroom of their home on April 14, 1950. She slit her throat from ear to ear. She was the mother of Jane and Peter Fonda. She was cremated and her ashes are in the Ferndale Cemetery in Hartsdale.

BROCKPORT, NY -

* Salem Fields Cemetery

775 Jamaica Ave. Part of the Cypress Cemetery.

Benjamin Guggenheim. He squandered his share of the family fortune, and was on the Titanic when it sunk in 1912.

Meyer Guggenheim, founder of he family. he died in 1905.

Five other members of the Guggenheim family are buried here.

BUFFALO, NY - When Reuben John Smith died in 1899, he was buried here in Buffalo sitting in a new recliner chair of upholstered russet leather, with a checkerboard on his lap. Smith also ordered that he be dressed in a hat and warm coat, and that a key to his tomb be placed in his coat pocket.

* Forest Lawn Cemetery

1411 Delaware Ave

William George Fargo of Wells Fargo fame. He died in 1881.

Millard Fillmore, former president.

ELMIRA, NY - Writer Mark Twain is buried here in Woodlawn Cemetery, at 1200 Walnut. He is in the Langdon plot with his son-in-law, Otto Gabrilloitsch.

ELMONT, NY - Comedian Andy Kauffman is buried here in the Beth David Cemetery on Elmont Rd.

FARMINGDALE, NY -

* Pinelawn Cemetery

On Long Island Ave. and Welland Rd.

John Coltrane, musician.

Guy Lombardo, bandleader.

Roy Wilkins, black leader.

FERNCLIFF, NY - Kenesico Valhalla Cemetery When Ayn Rand O'Conner was buried here in 1982 next to her husband Frank, a photo of Frank was resting on her chest, and her gold wedding ring was on her finger, were it had been since Frank had placed it there in April of 1929. As her coffin was slowly lowered to take its place beside Frank's, each of the mourners dropped a flower on her casket.

HAWTHORNE, NY - Bess Houdini, wife of magician Harry Houdini Weiss, is buried here in the Gate of Heaven Cemetery in Section 48 184-10. She died in October of 1941 on a train near Needles, California on her way back to NewYork. She was 68. Though a plot next to Harry in New York City's Machpelah Cemetery had been planned for her, she could not be buried next to him because Machpelah is a Jewish cemetery, and Bess was a Catholic.

HYDE PARK, NY - Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt are buried here on the grounds of their former estate one mile south of the center of town on U.S. 9.

KINDERHOOK, NY - President Martin Van Buren is buried here in the Village Cemetery. He was born here on Hudson Street in 1782.

JAMESTOWN, NY - Lucille Ball's father Henry Durell Ball, 28, was buried here in Lakeview cemetery when Lucy was a little girl. When his coffin was lowered in the ground, little Lucy let out a blood-curdling scream and wouldn't stop until she was carried away. Lucy's grandparents, Freddy and Flora Belle Hunt, lived on Buffalo Street here in Jamestown, and are buried here in Lakeview Cemetery.

LEVITTOWN, NY - The nations's first planned suburban community was built here in 1947 on a potato field, by William Levitt. Available only to World War II veterans, the first of the 17,447 two-bedroom Levittown houses cost $6,990 with nearly no money down.

MONROE, NY - Cheesemaker Emil Frey created the cheeseburger here in the 1870s.

NEW ROCHELLE, NY - Eddie Foy, vaudeville comedian, is buried here in he Holy Sepulchre Cemetery at 66 Highland Ave.

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NORTH ELBA, NY - John Brown, abolitionist, is buried here on his former farm, off route 73, two miles south of Lake Placid. He led the party that dumped the tea at Harper's Ferry. He was hanged in 1859. A large boulder marks his grave.

* Singer Kate Smith is buried here in a small mausoleum in the North Elba Cemetery.

NORTH TARRYTOWN, NY - It was here in Sleepy Hollow that the legendary schoolmaster Ichabod Crane saw a headless horseman near the Old Dutch Church on the Albany Post Road.

* Sleepy Hollow Cemetery

540 No. Broadway, behind the Sleepy Hollow Dutch Reformed Church.

Major Edward Bowes, host of the Amateur Hour. He is in the Gideon section off Vernon Ave.

Andrew Carnegie, steel magnate. He is in the Hebron section off Dingle Rd.

Walter P. Chrysler, auto maker. In the mausoleum in the Altoona section on Chester Ave.

Washington Irving, author of "Rip Van Winkle, " and "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow." When a young boy he would play among the headstones here and listen to a black mill hand tell tales about a headless horseman. He is on Beekman Walk.

William Rockefeller, head of Standard Oil and brother of John D. His mausoleum cost $250,000 to build in 1922.

* Slaves were buried across the street.

* John D. Rockefeller and Nelson A. Rockefeller are buried here in the Rockefeller Family Cemetery on their Pocantico Hills estate on Route 9, outside town.

OYSTER BAY, NY - President Teddy Roosevelt is buried here in the Young's Cemetery on Cove Rd. His daughter, Carrow Roosevelt Derby and his 8-year-old grandson, Richard Derby Jr., are buried behind and down the slope from Teddy.

PAWLING, NY - Thomas E. Dewey, politician, is buried here in the mausoleum of the Pawling Cemetery on the west side of Route 22 in the village.

PINELAWN, NY - Ethel and Julius Rosenberg are buried here in Wellwood Cemetery on Wellwood Ave. on Long Island. They were executed as spies.

POUGHKEEPSIE, NY - Andrew and William Smith, creators of Smith Brothers cough drops are buried here in the Poughkeepsie Rural Cemetery at 342 South Ave.

ROCHESTER, NY - George Eastman, inventor of Kodak camera film, is buried here in the Eastman Memorial at the Lake Avenue entrance to Kodak Park.

* Actress Louise Brooks died here on August 8, 1985 in her apartment #307 on East Ave. Her ashes are in an urn in the Holy Sepulchre Cemetery here.

* Mt. Hope Cemetery

1133 Mt. Hope Ave.

Susan B. Anthony, pioneer advocate of equal rights for women. In Section C, off Linden Ave.

Jacob Meyer, inventor of the voting machine.

SAG HARBOR, NY - Architect Sanford White is buried here in the St. James Episcopal Church Graveyard at 490 Country Rd. on Long Island on Route 25A. He was shot and killed in 1906, in his studio above the Madison Square Garden in New York City, by Harry Thaw. Thaw was the husband of model Evelyn Nesbit, who was known as "The Girl on the Velvet Swing," and had also been the lover of White before her marriage to the jealous Thaw. He is in the west half of the horseshoe road, halfway back. .

SOUTHAMPTON, NY - Actor Gary Cooper is buried here in Sacred Heart Cemetery at 156 Hill St. His grave is marked by a rose-colored, three-ton boulder. He was moved here from Holy Cross Cemetery in Los Angeles in 1974.

STATEN ISLAND, NY - Colonel Ichabod Crane is buried here in the Asbury Church of the Nazerene Cemetery. He died in 1857.

* Cornelius Vanderbilt is buried here in the Moravian Cemetery on Todd Hill Rd., North of Richmond Rd. The Vanderbilt mausoleum is in the rear of the Cemetery.

TROY, NY - Meatpacker Sam Wilson, is buried here in Oakwood Cemetery on Oakwood Ave. in the northwest part of the city. Wilson owned a slaughterhouse that supplied beef to the U.S. Amy in 1812, on which he stamped "U.S." When a soldier asked what the U.S. stood for, someone replied "Uncle Sam." A flag is raised and lowered by his grave every day.

TUXEDO PARK, NY - Emily Post, author of the best selling etiquette book is buried here in St. Mary's Cemetery, off Route 17, just inside the Tuxedo Park gate.

WEST POINT, NY - General George Armstrong Custer is buried here in the National Cemetery.

NORTH CAROLINA

BROGDEN, N. CAR - Actress Ava Gardner lived from age 2 to 13. Her old house is on the left side of the town's only intersection.

BURLINGTON, N. CAR - Baseball pitcher Tom Zachary is buried here in Alamance Memorial Park. He gave up Babe Ruth's 60th home run in 1927.

CHARLOTTE, N. CAR - Actor Randolph Scott is buried here in Elmwood Cemetery.

COVE CITY, N. CAR - Richard McCoy Jr. is buried here in the McCoy Family Cemetery on the McCoy Farm. McCoy is suspected of being the infamous D.B. Cooper. Cooper hijacked a 747 on November 13, 1974, and parachuted out over the state of Washington with $200,000. He was never seen again.

DURHAM, N. CAR - Benjamin and James Duke, tobacco magnates, are buried here in the Chapel at Duke University.

FERGUSON, N. CAR - Thomas, "Tom Dooley" Dula, Civil War figure, is buried here in the Tom Dooley Burial Spot.

FORT BRAGG, N. CAR - Dr. Jeffrey MacDonald killed his wife and two children here on December 17, 1970.

* Actress Martha Raye is buried here on the base.

GREENSBORO, N. CAR - On February 1, 1960, four black college students sat down at a "whites only" lunch counter here at a Woolworth store on south Elm Street. They refused to leave when asked. Within a week, the "st-in" spread across the south. In 1998, plans were underway to turn the empty Woolworth Store into a Civil Rights museum.

* Larry Edmunds, founder of the Larry Edmunds book shop in Hollywood, is buried here in Greensboro. He committed suicide in Hollywood on August 31, 1941.

KITTY HAWK, N. CAR - Wilbur and Orville Wright flew the first airplane here on December 17, 1903 on a sandy beach in the town of Killl Devil Hills, about four miles south of Kitty Hawk on U.S.158.

LUMBERTON, N. CAR - James Jordan, father of Michael Jordan, was shot and killed n July 23, 1993, as he slept in his car along a lonely road near here.

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NAGS HEAD, N. CAR - The ghost of Virginia Dare has been reportedly seen here. Virginia was the first white child be born in America.

NEW BERN, N. CAR - Caleb Bradham, inventor of Pepsi Cola, is buried here in Cedar Grove Cemetery.

PINEHURST, N. CAR - Minature golf was invented here in 1916.

PINEVILLE, N. CAR - Abraham Lincoln's mother, Nancy Hanks, went to school here.

MOCKSVILLE, N. CAR - Daniel Boones' parents are buried here.

SILER CITY, N. CAR - Actress Francis Bavier is buried here in Oakwood Cemetery. She was "Aunt Bea," on the Andy Griffith show.,

SMITHFIELD, N. CAR - Actress Ava Gardner is buried here in Sunset Memorial Park. Her family moved here when she was 14.

WHITE PLAINS, N. CAR - Siamese twins, Chang & Eng Bunker, are buried here at the White Plains Baptist Church.

NORTH DAKOTA

BISMARCK, N. DAK - Grant Marsh, pioneer ship captain on he Missouri River is buried here in St. Mary's Cemetery, between Hillview and Avenue D East, and 23rd and 26th. He captained the steamer "Far West" that carried the dead troops from Little Big Horn to Fort Lincoln He set a steamboat record for the distance, 54 hours.

FARGO, N. DAK - Polly Hamilton Keele, girlfriend of John Dillinger, was born and raised here. Polly, 26, was with Dillinger at the movies on the night he was shot and killed at the Biograph Theater in Chicago in 1934.

* Holy Cross Cemetery

Ken Hunt, baseball pitcher. Played with the California Angels.

Stan Kostka, football player. Played on the 1934 Minnesota Gophers national championship team.

Roger Maris, baseball Player. A New York Yankee, he held the home run record until Mark McQuire broke it in 1998. Roger grew up here in Fargo.

FORT YATES, N. DAK - Indian Chief Sitting Bull, was shot in the back of he head by Federal troops while resisting arrest here on December 15, 1890. He was orginally buried in Fort Hayes, but his remains were reburied here in 1954, on a hill here close to the spot where he was killed. Twenty tons of concrete were poured over the coffin to prevent it from being stolen. His death led to the massacre of the Sioux at wounded knee. His burial site is southwest of Fort Yates, west of Proposal Ave. and north of Yates St.

* Eight Indian policemen who were killed while arresting Sitting Bull, are buried here in the Catholic Cemetery.

GRAND FORKS, N. DAK - Singer Lynn Anderson was born here in 1947.

JAMESTOWN, N. DAK - Singer Peggy Lee was born here in 1920.

KULM, N. DAK - Actress Angie Dickinson was born here in 1931.

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MANDAN, N. DAK - General George A. Custer and his troops were stationed here at Fort McKeen (Fort Abraham) when he led them to the Little Big Horn massacre. The fort, now reconstructed, is six miles south of town, off Highway 1806.

MEDFORD, N. DAK - When Riley Luffsey, a young man around town, taunted the founder of Medora, The Marquis de Mortes in 1885, the Marquis shot and killed him. The Marquis, a Frenchman who was noted as being anti-Semitic and snobbish, was never arrested. Luffsey is buried here in the town cemetery.

MEDORA, N. DAK - Cowboy actor Tom Mix and Olive Stokes were married here in 1909.

SCRANTON, N. DAK - Former Secretary of State, William Christopher was born here in 1925.

SHAFER, N. DAK - In February of 1930, Charles Bannon slaughtered six members of the A. E. Haven family here on the Haven farm where he worked as a farm hand. After he buried the bodies in the barn, he continued to live on the farm for nine months. When the bodies were found, he was charged with murder. Before he could come to trial, Bannon was lynched by local citizens in February of 1931. Shafer is east of Watford City.

STRASSBERG, N. DAK - Bandleader Lawrence Welk was born here in 1903.

VALLEY CITY, N. DAK - Actress Ann Sothern was born here in 1912.

VELVA, N. DAK - Newsman Eric Severeid was born here in 1912.

WHITE EARTH, N. DAK - "Sammy," one of the murder victims of Winnie Ruth Judd was buried near here on the family wheat farm.

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