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Lives remembered, and the companions who shared them.

In Memory of
May Flora Washburn
November 7, 1947 - January 31, 2025 - Bridgewater, NY
Ahead of her time and the most unique in her way of thinking. Her ambitions were always beyond her surroundings and above her peers. We miss...
In Memory of
Seaman First Class Gerald "Bud" Dwyer
May 14, 1924 - February 10, 2010 - Clark Mills, NY
A permanent member of the greatest generation, Bud served his country with honor and his community with dedication. May he always and foreve...
In Memory of
Annie Jump Cannon
1863 - 1941 - Dover, Delaware, United States
She classified more stars than anyone who has ever lived, and the system she built is still the one astronomers use. It is not named after h...
In Memory of
Bass Reeves
1838 - 1910 - Muskogee, Oklahoma, United States
Every account of Bass Reeves reaches the same number: more than three thousand arrests. It is on the statues, in the encyclopedias, and in e...
In Memory of
Bessie Coleman
January 26, 1892 - April 30, 1926 - Atlanta, Texas, United States
No American flight school would take her, so she learned French. Bessie Coleman was born on 26 January 1892, the daughter of George and Sus...
In Memory of
Clara Brown
1800 - 1885 - Denver, Colorado, United States
She was sold away from her husband and three of her children at auction, and she spent the next forty-seven years looking for one of them. ...
In Memory of
Corporal Freddie Stowers
1896 - September 28, 1918 - Sandy Springs, South Carolina, United States
The paperwork was filed in 1918. The medal was pinned in 1991. He had been dead for seventy-three years. Freddie Stowers was born in Sandy ...
In Memory of
Dr. Susan La Flesche Picotte
June 17, 1865 - September 18, 1915 - Walthill, Nebraska, United States
She came home from medical school to be the only doctor for more than twelve hundred people spread across hundreds of square miles, and she ...
In Memory of
Figure, called Justin Morgan
1789 - 1821 - Randolph, Vermont, United States
Every Morgan horse alive descends from one stallion, and nobody can prove who his father was. He was foaled in West Springfield, Massachuse...
In Memory of
Garrett Augustus Morgan
March 4, 1877 - July 27, 1963 - Cleveland, Ohio, United States
He had six years of school. He held the patent on the thing that got the men out. Garrett Augustus Morgan was born on 4 March 1877, sometim...
In Memory of
Homer Plessy
March 17, 1863 - March 1, 1925 - New Orleans, Louisiana, United States
His name is on one of the worst decisions the Supreme Court ever handed down, and no photograph of him is known to exist. Homer Plessy was ...
In Memory of
Ida Lewis
February 25, 1842 - October 24, 1911 - Newport, Rhode Island, United States
She did the lighthouse keeper's job for twenty-two years before anyone gave her the title. Idawalley Zoradia Lewis was born in Newport, Rho...
In Memory of
Isaac Burns Murphy
1861 - 1896 - Lexington, Kentucky, United States
Isaac Burns Murphy won forty-four percent of the races he rode. That figure appears on his gravestone marker, in every encyclopedia, and in ...
In Memory of
Lily
April 2014 - Waterville, New York, United States
Stay Gold
In Memory of
Madam C. J. Walker
1867 - 1919 - Indianapolis, Indiana, United States
She was born on a plantation in Delta, Louisiana on 23 December 1867, to Owen and Minerva Breedlove, who had both been enslaved on that grou...
In Memory of
Mary Fields
1832 - December 5, 1914 - Cascade, Montana, United States
She was about sixty years old when she took the job, and she never missed a day. Mary Fields was born into slavery in Hickman County, Tenne...
In Memory of
Owney, the Railway Mail Dog
1888 - June 11, 1897 - Albany, New York, United States
A stray terrier fell asleep on a pile of mailbags in the Albany post office around 1888, and spent the next nine years riding the trains. R...
In Memory of
Raven
July 28, 2008 - September 30, 2025 - Chesterfield, VA, United States
Sir Raven Fluffy Butt was a very caring companion.
In Memory of
Richard and Mildred Loving
1958 - 1967 - Central Point, Virginia, United States
They were arrested in their own bedroom for being married to each other. It took nine years and the Supreme Court to undo it, and all they h...
In Memory of
Sequoyah
1770 - 1843 - Sallisaw, Oklahoma, United States
He could not read. Not English, not anything. There was nothing to read in his own language, because his own language had never been written...
In Memory of
Sergeant Alvin C. York
1887 - 1964 - Pall Mall, Tennessee, United States
He tried not to go. Alvin Cullum York was from Pall Mall, Tennessee, in the Cumberland foothills — a place with more hollows than roads. He...
In Memory of
Standing Bear
1829 - 1908 - Niobrara, Nebraska, United States
In 1879 a federal court in Omaha was asked to decide whether a Native American was a person. It had never been settled. Standing Bear was a...
In Memory of
Stubby
1917 - March 16, 1926 - New Haven, Connecticut, United States
A stray wandered onto the Yale Bowl field in the summer of 1917 while the 102nd Infantry was drilling there, and went to France in a soldier...
In Memory of
The Delany Family of Raleigh
1858 - Raleigh, North Carolina, United States
A man born into slavery in 1858 raised ten children on a college campus, and two of his daughters lived long enough to tell the whole story ...
In Memory of
The Hubbell Family of Ganado
1878 - 1967 - Ganado, Arizona, United States
One family stood behind the same counter for eighty-nine years, and it is still a working trading post. John Lorenzo Hubbell was born at Pa...
In Memory of
The Sager Children
1844 - Walla Walla, Washington, United States
Seven children crossed the plains in 1844. In twenty-six days they lost both parents, and the wagon train raised them the rest of the way. ...
In Memory of
Thomas Blind Tom Wiggins
1849 - 1908 - Columbus, Georgia, United States
He was born blind and enslaved in Harris County, Georgia, and by the time he was eight years old other people were making money out of him. ...
In Memory of
Wendell Scott
August 29, 1921 - December 23, 1990 - Danville, Virginia, United States
He won the race, and the man who finished second was flagged the winner, and it took fifty-eight years for the trophy to reach his family. ...

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