Have you ever visited the grave sites of well known people?

[terrya]

Several years ago, I visited a friend of mine in Washington, D.C and while there, we visited Arlington National Cemetery. It was quite nice...we got to see the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier and the graves of John F. Kennedy, Robert Kennedy and Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis.

I was just curious if anyone else has visited the grave sites of well known people.

[Bunny]

1. I remember visiting JFK's grave.

I must have been about six-seven years old, and his loss was still pretty fresh. Aside from that, I don't think I've seen anyone else's grave.

[Pendrench]

2. Yes - here are a few that I've been to:

George Washington
FDR
James Monroe
John Tyler
John Wilkes Booth
Edgar Allan Poe
Andrew Carnegie
James Fenimore Cooper
Washington Irving
Jefferson Davis

There are probably a few more, but I can't think of them right now.

I haven't been to Arlington (yet!) but I'd love to some day.

Tim

[taterguy]

3. I visited Blackbeard's death site

Difficult to tell where the exact spot is since he died on the water but this is the general area

[LostinVA]

4. Yes -- I climbed over a fence to see William & Dorothy Wordsworth

[johnnie]

5. Elvis

That's all I remember.

[Theres-a]

40. Yes

What a famous grave it is.I suppose if we're only going to visit one famous grave,why not go for the full pilgrimage?We went in 96.....people were still walking past the grave crying.

[ScreamingMeemie]

6. Those are the same that I visited, along with Audie Murphy's.

The Kennedy site really took my breath away.

[Beausoir]

7. Charles Lindbergh. On Maui.

Quite possibly the most beautiful place on earth. On a windswept cliff overlooking the sea.

[Left Is Write]

8. I drove slowly past where Ed Gein is buried, but I didn't stop.

I believe his grave is unmarked, anyway.

[KenHodson]

10. No shit, don't stop!

[yy4me]

9. Best place for famous people, Pere La chaise cemetery, Paris

Not only are there hundreds of famous people there, including Jim Morrison, but the architecture is fantastic.
In a separate trip, we visited the American cemetery in Hamm, Luxembourg, where you will see the grave of WWII General George Paton. The cemetery itself is beautiful and leaves you with a sense of sadness.

[terrya]

11. If I visit Paris, that's on my to see list.

The graves of Oscar Wilde, Gertrude Stein, Proust...as well as Jim Morrison. I've heard it's a beautiful cemetery.

[onecent]

12. When I was a kid in the 50's my mother and I went to Daniel Boone's

grave and I took about 10 pictures of it.

Wow, hadn't thought about it in years.

[jobycom]

13. I visit the State Cemetery here in Austin sometimes. Plus LBJ's grave.

LBJ is buried on his ranch near Fredericksburg, TX, so it's part of the tour.

The State Cemetery here in Austin has several famous graves. Ralph Yarborough, John Connally, Stephen F Austin.

Been to a few others, but can't think of them. One of my history professors loved graveyards, and got me hooked on them. You can learn the history of a community more quickly walking through a graveyard than visiting a library. You can tell when the town was founded, when it flourished, when it was poor or wealthy, what religion people were, when disease or famine came through. Fascinating and sobering places, graveyards.

[BOSSHOG]

14. Admiral Mike Boorda - USN CNO

committed suicide in 1996 waiting for a reporter to interview him regarding devices he may or may not have deserved which he wore on his uniform. I truly appreciated Admiral Boorda being a Sailor's Admiral. A few years after his death I made it a point to find his grave at Arlington. He has a small unassuming headstone far from the big monuments. He is buried next to a Hospital Corpsmen Second Class (E-5) who died in Vietnam. Very powerful visit for me.

And one can visit Marie Louveau's grave(s) in New Orleans. I think she has about a half dozen.

[bicentennial_baby]

15. Yes, in Paris

Sartre, Gainsbourg, Piaf, Morrison, Degas, Zola...And many, many others :)

[Rosie1223]

16. Wild Bill Hickock

Ben Franklin, Elvis, Abe Lincoln, JFK

[regularguy]

17. Walt Whitman

On nice days I take a longer walk to the train that goes by the cemetery in Camden (NJ) where ol' Walt is buried. One day I stopped in to say yo. I didn't get any sort vibe or anything, but I still thought it was cool to be at the grave of the 'Leaves of Grass' dude!

[JVS]

18. Abe Lincoln, Karl Marx, U.S. Grant, Martin Luther, JFK

[skygazer]

19. Not on purpose

But the cemetery at Trinity Church in NYC has some beautiful old graves - Alexander Hamilton is there. I can't recall who else.

I love cemeteries, the older the better.

[Katina]

20. been to Babe Ruth's grave

and to Johnny Mercer's

[mark414]

21. emperor norton!

along with levi strauss, joe dimaggio, vince guaraldi, wyatt earp, and william randolph hearst.

those and many others all buried along the same stretch of road just south of San Fran in Colma.

[skygazer]

22. Whoops, I forgot Stonewall Jackson and Robert E. Lee

Silly me. :blush:

[AlCzervik]

23. does Westminster Abbey count? if so than yes.

[terrya]

36. Of course.

Isn't Dickens buried there, among others?

[AlCzervik]

37. yes, Chaucer and Tennyson as well.

It was an amazing place to visit.

[ironflange]

24. I've seen the graves in the Kremlin Wall

Stalin, Brezhnev, all those guys. I also saw Lenin's wax figure in the mausoleum. I saw Khruschev's grave, too, it was in a cemetery elsewhere. I remember seeing really cool and interesting grave markers there, people used a lot of imagination with them.

[Critters2]

25. My cousin is buried in the same cemetery as Lincoln, so

every time I go pay respects to my cousin, I go through Lincoln's tomb. nt

[stuntcat]

26. twice I went to Cemetery Pere lachaise

I didn't see all the ones there but I saw Edith Piaf and Oscar Wilde, and of course Morrison. I want to go back sometime with a map and find Chopin.
And I plan to go soon & find Edgar Allen Poe's grave, it's closeby in Baltimore, I found it on Find a Grave- http://www.findagrave.com/index.html You can enter a city and find who's there.

[swag]

27. Yeah, more than a few, including the ones you cited.

Most recently I revisited Edgar Allan Poe's grave in Baltimore.

I think I was in town for a wild all night party at the American Visionary Art Museum on that trip.

But I might have just been in Baltimore to stock up on Berger's Cookies.

[itsmesgd]

28. Graceland

[BuelahWitch]

29. I generally visit Hollywood Forever cemtery when I'm in LA

Rudolph Valentino, Douglas Fairbanks Sr. and Jr., Marion Davies and Tyrone Power, among others, are all buried there. Also went to Calvary Cemetary in East LA and found Ramon Novarro, Mabel Normand and Irene Dunne.
Then last spring I visited Burr Tillstrom's grave while in Chicago...

[femmocrat]

30. Yes, the Kennedys... plus, Stephen Foster and some other

famous 19th century figures who are buried in a cemetary in Pittsburgh (is it in Homestead?). My aunt took us there when I was a little girl and pointed out all the famous former Pittsburghers.

[bikebloke]

31. Bruce Lee

When I was living in Seattle, I found out I lived a block from him, so I strolled over. Karate nuts had tied their belts around his tombstone for good luck or something.

That jesus bloke. He's "buried" in a couple places in Jerusalem.

[momophile]

32. Jim Morrison and Bruce Goff as well as other architects

in Chicago. I accidently came upon Grace Kelly's grave in Monaco.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

33. Years ago, on family travels when I was a kid

we visited the graves of Abraham Lincoln and JFK.

Most recently, when I was in England, our tour bus driver took us on a last-minute detour to Winston Churchill's grave on the way back from Blenheim. It's a modest tombstone (coffin-sized, but flat) in an ordinary-looking churchyard.

[catmandu57]

34. Harry and Bess Truman

Buffalo bill Cody, and I wanted to go to Billy the Kid's grave in New Mexico, but didn't make it.

[Broken_Hero]

35. No, just civil war monuments, if that counts....nt

[Reverend_Smitty]

38. I've been through Arlington

so I've seen the graves of JFK and RFK. Also I've been to the Granary Burying Ground in Boston which has a ton of Revolutionary War era people buried there

[Burma Jones]

39. Sure...I grew up in the DC suburbs

Been all over Arlington. Sang at the National Cathedral a few times, Woodrow Wilson's tomb is there, a very nice simple tomb you can lean on. I fell into F.Scott Fitzgerald's Daughter's grave when showing a friend of mine his grave in Rockville, MD the night before his daughter's funeral. Been to Alexander Hamilton's, George Washington's, Thomas Jefferson's, Paul Revere, Sam Adams, John Hancock, Ben Franklin, etc etc etc...........

[SteppingRazor]

41. I was just up at Arlington a year ago...

for my grandpa's funeral, unfortunately.

Still, if you have to have a funeral, that's the way to go -- horse-drawn carriage, 21-guns and all that.

I saw JFK's grave as well. But, generally, I'm not much of a cemetery person. I'd rather avoid them until I have no choice but to stay in one.

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

42. Pedro II, Emperor of Brazil

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pedro_II_of_Brazil

[DrDan]

43. Kierkegaard

Hans Christian Anderson

[ChickMagic]

44. I went to the Texas State Cemetary

I saw Sam Houston's grave and Tom Landry's. There were others, but I don't remember.