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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Peg
Entwistle (Millicent Lilian Entwistle)
was a Welsh-born stage actress and briefly a Hollywood film
actress, who achieved notoriety following her suicide.
- 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.
- 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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