Ashford, Emmett Littleton 'Ash' b. November 23, 1914 d. March 1, 1980 Major League Baseball umpire. He was the first African-American to umpire a major league baseball game. After toiling in the minor leagues for 14 years, mostly in the Pacific Coast League, he was promoted to the majors for the 1966 season when he was 51 years old. During his brief five-year career he umpired the 1967 All-Star Game and the 1970 World Series. In an interview in Ebony magazine he called working the World Series the culmination of a lifelong dream. Ashford was known for his...[Read More] (Bio by: Jdrhook) Lakewood Cemetery, Cooperstown, Otsego County, New York, USA
Davidson, Andrew b. February 12, 1844 Civil War Congressional Medal of Honor Recipient. Citation: One of the first to enter the enemy's works, where, after his colonel, major, and one-third the company officers had fallen, he gallantly assisted in rallying and saving the remnant of the command. Battle of the Crater. Petersburg VA, July 30, 1864. (Bio by: Erik Lander) Lakewood Cemetery, Cooperstown, Otsego County, New York, USA
Nelson, Samuel b. November 10, 1792 d. December 13, 1873 Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court. Born in Hebron, New York, he graduated from Middlebury College, Vermont, at the age of 15 and began a successful law career in his twenties. In 1821, he was the youngest delegate to serve in the New York state constitutional convention and was appointed as a judge to the US Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit in 1823. He was serving as chief justice of the New York Supreme Court, when President John Tyler appointed him a Justice seat on...[Read More] (Bio by: John "J-Cat" Griffith) Lakewood Cemetery, Cooperstown, Otsego County, New York, USA
b. November 23, 1914 d. March 1, 1980
