One aspect of RoadTrippin' Thru History is that you see how many other things you can attach to your main story. Quite often, I find out where someone I'm writing about is buried and see if anyone else of interest is buried there.
Francis E. Warren's second wife, Clara Morgan Warren, remarried after his death. She married Albert Russel. Both she and he are buried at Lake View Cemetery in Cleveland, Ohio, where quite a few people of note are buried.
Some of them are:
Alan Freed, one of the early Rock and Roll deejays. Known as the "Father of Rock and Roll."
James Garfield, the 20th President of the United States.
Coburn Haskell, inventor of the modern golf ball.
John Hay, private secretary to Abraham Lincoln. Also U.S. Secretary of State.
Eliot Ness, the FBI agent who brought Al Capone to justice.
John D. Rockefeller, considered one of the wealthiest Americans of all time. Oil refining.
Carl B. Stokes, the first black mayor of Cleveland and the first black mayor of a major U.S. city.
Nate Thurmond, noted NBA player.
John White William, a founder of the chewing gum industry.
Alexander Winton, automotive pioneer. Winton cars.
Quite a few Union generals as well.
Over 100,000 burials are at this cemetery.
--Old Secesh
