The Grave of William Shakespeare, Statford-upon-Avon

Shakespeare’s grave is in Holy Trinity Church, in Stratford-upon-Avon. Shakespeare died on April 23, 1616, at the age of 52.

Inscription

GOOD FRIEND FOR JESUS' SAKE FORBEAR,
TO DIG THE DUST ENCLOSED HERE,
BLESSED BE THE MAN THAT SPARES THESE STONES,
AND CURSED BE HE THAT MOVES MY BONES.

THE GRAVE
OF THE POET
WILLIAM
SHAKESPEARE
1564-1616

The inscription is not an epitaph but a warning against the common practice of recycling graves after ten years to allow for new burials.

Shakespeare made no attempt to preserve his stage works for posterity, believing that plays were not "literature" worthy of print. Two of Shakespeare's longtime colleagues compiled Mr. William Shakespeare's Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies (1623), commonly known as the First Folio. It includes 18 previously unpublished plays (including Julius Caesar, Twelfth Night, Macbeth, Antony and Cleopatra, and The Tempest) that might otherwise have been lost. 

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Winchester Cathedral

                              Jane Austen is buried in Winchester Cathedral, Winchester, England.

In Memory of

JANE AUSTEN

youngest daughter of the late

Rev. GEORGE AUSTEN

formerly Rector of Steventon in this Count.

She departed this Life in the 18th of July 1817,

aged 41, after a long illness supported with

the patience and the hopes of a Christian.

The benevolence of her heart,

the sweetness of her temper, and

the extraordinary endowments of her mind

obtained the regard of all who knew her and

the warmest love of her intimate connections.

Their grief is in proportion to their affection

they know their loss to be irreparable,

but in their deepest affliction they are now consoled

by a firm though humble hope that her charity,

devotion, faith and purity, have rendered

her soul acceptable in the sight of her

REDEEMER.

Civil War Graves of Northern Virginia

The Last Veteran of the Battle of the Little Bighorn (Custer's Last Stand)?

 

Iron Hail

Wasu Maza (“Iron Hail”), who died in 1955 at the age of ninety six, was the last known Lakota Sioux survivor (and probably the last veteran from either side) of the Battle of the Little Bighorn.

Iron Hail was seventeen or eighteen on June 25, 1876, the day of battle.  After the battle he followed Sitting Bull across the border into Canada, later returning to South Dakota.

Iron Hail was present at the Wounded Knee Massacre (1890).  He was shot three times, twice in the back.  His mother, father, wife and infant child were all killed.

Iron Hail changed his name to Dewey Beard when he converted to Christianity.

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