Find A Grave - Dukes County

Belushi, John b. January 24, 1949 d. March 5, 1982
Actor. Comedian. Born John Adam Belushi in Chicago to Albanian immigrant parents. As a boy, his family moved to Wheaton, where John played on the high school football team and was homecoming king. He attended the University of Wisconsin at Whitewater where he co-founded an acting troupe. Belushi then auditioned for and won a spot with Chicago's famous Second City ensemble. In 1973 John moved to New York City and landed a role off-Broadway in National Lampoon's "Lemmings". The part led to a job...[Read More] (Bio by: Iola)
Cause of death: Overdose of cocaine and heroin
Chilmark Cemetery, Chilmark, Dukes County, Massachusetts, USA
Plot: At the entrance of the cemetery.
Blackwell, Emily b. October 8, 1826 d. September 7, 1910
Physician and medical educator. As her elder sister Elizabeth did before her Emily Blackwell would also choose a medical career. Blackwell began her studies in 1848 under Dr. John Davis, demonstrator of anatomy at the Medical College of Cincinnati, but would encounter difficulty gaining admission to a medical college on account of her gender. After refusal by eleven medical schools--including her sister's alma mater Geneva College--Emily Blackwell was able to enter Rush Medical College in...[Read More] (Bio by: Kim H.)
Chilmark Cemetery, Chilmark, Dukes County, Massachusetts, USA
Buchwald, Art (Arthur) b. October 20, 1925 d. January 17, 2007
Humorist, Journalist and Author. He is best remembered for his long running political satire and commentary column that he wrote for the Washington Post newspaper. He won a Pulitzer Prize for outstanding commentary in 1982. Born Arthur Buchwald in Mount Vernon, New York, he was the son of a drapery salesman. Soon after he was born, his mother was committed to an insane asylum. Unable to care for the Art and his three sisters alone, his father abandoned the four children during the early...[Read More] (Bio by: Kit and Morgan Benson)
Cause of death: Kidney failure
West Chop Cemetery, Tisbury, Dukes County, Massachusetts, USA
Cornell, Katharine b. February 16, 1893 d. June 9, 1974
Actress. She was born in Berlin. Her family moved to the U.S. and she was raised in Buffalo New York. She married Guthrie McClintic in 1921 and they lived together until his death in 1961. However, it was well known in theatrical circles that the relationship was platonic as both were involved with others of their own sex. McClintic was a director and often directed Ms. Cornell. She was a brillant stage actress during the 1930's and 40's. Alexander Woolcott called her "The 1st Lady of the...[Read More] (Bio by: Ellen Gardner)
Tisbury Village Cemetery, Tisbury, Dukes County, Massachusetts, USA
Cowan, Louis G. b. 1910 d. November 18, 1976
Television and Radio Personality. Cowan was the executive producer and producer for the television shows, "The Quiz Kids" from 1949 to 1951, "Down You Go" from 1951 to 1956, and "Ask Me Another" in 1952. He also created the $64 Thousand Dollar Question television series. In 1958 Cowan resigned his CBS leadership following a scandal about his conduct of television game shows. He died on November 18, 1976, in an apartment fire in New York City.
Chilmark Cemetery, Chilmark, Dukes County, Massachusetts, USA
Dunnock, Mildred b. January 25, 1901 d. July 5, 1991
Actress. She began her career on the theatre stage and made her film debut in "Life Begins" (1932). She was twice nominated for an Academy Award, each in the Best Supporting Actress category, "Death of a Salesman" (1951) and "Baby Doll" (1956). Her other credits included "The Corn is Green" (1945), "Viva Zapata!" (1952), "The Trouble With Harry" (1955), "Peyton Place" (1957), "The Nun's Story" (1959), "Sweet Bird of Youth" (1962) and "7 Women" (1966). She died of natural causes at the age of 90...[Read More] (Bio by: John "J-Cat" Griffith)
Lamberts Cove Cemetery, West Tisbury, Dukes County, Massachusetts, USA
Hellman, Lillian b. June 20, 1905 d. June 30, 1984
Playwright. Born in New Orleans to Max and Julia Hellman. Attended both New York University and Columbia University. She began her literary career reviewing books for the "New York Herald Tribune" and had some short stories published. Married to playwright Arthur Kober (1925-1932). In 1930 she moved to Hollywood where she reviewed movie scripts for MGM. She also met author Dashiell Hammett and would have an intimate relationship with him until his death. Hammett maintained Lillian was the...[Read More] (Bio by: Nan)
Chilmark Cemetery, Chilmark, Dukes County, Massachusetts, USA
Rebello, Chris b. August 8, 1963 d. November 30, 2000
Child Actor. Born in Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts, he was eleven when he won the part of Mike Brody, son of the police chief played by Roy Scheider, when the film "Jaws" was made on the island in 1974. It was to be his only screen appearance. He graduated from Martha's Vineyard Regional High School in 1981 where he had excelled in varsity football, baseball, and basketball. He returned to his high school as a coach, working with the football program, leading his team to a place in the...[Read More] (Bio by: Iola)
Cause of death: Heart attack
Sacred Heart Cemetery, Oak Bluffs, Dukes County, Massachusetts, USA
Styron Jr., William Clark b. June 11, 1925 d. November 1, 2006
Author. Best known for the award-winning novel "Sophie's Choice", which detailed a non-Jewish Holocaust survivor from Poland, he was awarded the 1968 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for his work "The Confessions of Nat Turner." His other works included "A Tidewater Morning," a collection of fiction pieces, a book of essays, "This Quiet Dust," and the best-selling memoir "Darkness Visible," in which he recalled nearly taking his own life.
Cause of death: Pneumonia
West Chop Cemetery, Tisbury, Dukes County, Massachusetts, USA
Wallace, Mike (Myron Leon) b. May 9, 1918 d. April 7, 2012
Journalist. Best known for his hardnosed interview style and determination to get to the bottom of stories, he was a fixture on the long-running weekly TV series "60 Minutes" from the inception in 1968 until his retirement in 2008. Myron Leon Wallace was born to Russian-Jewish immigrants in New England, his father was a wholesale grocer and insurance broker he attended the same elementary school as John F. Kennedy in Brookline, Massachusetts. He enrolled at the University of Michigan where he...[Read More] (Bio by: C.S.)
West Chop Cemetery, Tisbury, Dukes County, Massachusetts, USA

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