Find A Grave - Alaska

Bartlett, Edward Lewis b. April 20, 1904 d. December 11, 1968
US Senator. Elected as a Senator from Alaska to the United States Senate, serving from 1959 until his death in office in 1968. (Bio by: Erik Lander)
Northern Lights Memorial Cemetery, Fairbanks, Fairbanks North Star Borough, Alaska, USA
Bondsteel, James Leroy b. July 18, 1947 d. April 9, 1987
Vietnam War Congressional Medal Of Honor Recipient. Served as a Staff Sergeant, U.S. Army, Company A, 2d Battalion, 2d Infantry, 1st Infantry Division. Citation reads:For conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity in action at the risk of his life above and beyond the call of duty. S/Sgt. Bondsteel distinguished himself while serving as a platoon sergeant with Company A, near the village of Lang Sau. Company A was directed to assist a friendly unit which was endangered by intense fire from a North...[Read More] (Bio by: John "J-Cat" Griffith)
Fort Richardson National Cemetery, Fort Richardson, Anchorage Borough, Alaska, USA
Plot: H-19
Brady, John Green b. May 25, 1848 d. December 17, 1918
Alaska Territorial Governor. Graduate of Yale University in 1874 and Union Theological Seminary in 1877. He served three terms as Territorial Governor of Alaska, from 1897 to 1906. As governor, he pursued Native Alaskan civil rights. He was forced to resign in 1906 due to his alleged involvement with the Reynolds-Alaska Development Company. He was later exonerated. (Bio by: Mr. Denardo)
Sitka National Cemetery, Sitka, Sitka Borough, Alaska, USA
Plot: H-4
Dimond, Anthony Joseph b. November 30, 1881 d. May 28, 1953
US Congressman. Served as a Member of the Alaska Territorial Senate from 1923 to 1926, 1929 to 1932, Delegate to the United States Congress from Alaska Territory from 1933 to 1945, Delegate to the Democratic National Convention from Alaska Territory, in 1936, and 1940, and District Judge from 1945 to 1953. (Bio by: K)
Anchorage Memorial Park Cemetery, Anchorage, Anchorage Borough, Alaska, USA
Johnson, Ada Blackjack b. May 10, 1898 d. May 29, 1983
American Explorer. The press dubbed her "the Heroine of Wrangel Island," after her rescue from the desolate artic island on August 23, 1923. An Inuit woman from the village of Solomon, just outside of Nome, Alaska, Ada was a widow with a small child and in desperate need of money when she agreed to be the seamstress for an expedition of four explorers to Wrangel Island, located 87 miles off the coast of Siberia. The island is so far north that it only receives sunlight during the months of...[Read More] (Bio by: Lisa S)
Anchorage Memorial Park Cemetery, Anchorage, Anchorage Borough, Alaska, USA
Juneau, Joe b. 1836 d. 1899
Joe Juneau was a Canadian miner and prospector and co-founder, with Richard Harris, of Juneau. Along with Harris, his partner, and guided by Chief Kowee, Juneau made Alaska's first major gold discovery around 1880 and helped the city of Juneau (originally named Harrisburg) become the hard rock gold capital of the world. The city, re-named for Joe Juneau, has been the center of government in Alaska since 1906. Juneau continued his travels on to Dawson, Yukon Territory, during the Klondike...[Read More] (Bio by: Stew Thornley)
Evergreen Cemetery, Juneau, Juneau Borough, Alaska, USA
Plot: Right side of walking path, in from Martin Road
Laurence, Sydney Mortimer b. October 14, 1865 d. September 12, 1940
Artist. Fames for painting and photographing the Alaskan wilderness. Struggling and needing money, he decided in 1904, at the age of 38, to try the hard life of a pioneer prospector and joined the crowd seeking gold and riches in Valdez, Alaska. He painted little in his first years in the territory, instead prospected for gold in summers and worked as a photographer in the winter. Between 1911 and 1914 he began to focus once again on his art. He moved from Valdez to the budding town of...[Read More] (Bio by: Paul S.)
Anchorage Memorial Park Cemetery, Anchorage, Anchorage Borough, Alaska, USA
Plot: Tract 10, Row 16, Lot 6
Marly, Anna b. October 30, 1917 d. February 16, 2006
Russian-French Singer and WWII Resistance figure. Born Anna Betoulinsky in St. Petersburg at the climax of the Russian Revolution, her parents -- members of the pre-war intelligentsia -- were arrested by the Bolsheviks in 1918. Her mother managed to talk her way out of the arrest, but when she saw her husband's name on a list of the executed she immediately sewed the family jewels into her clothes, packed up the girls and their nanny and headed for the Finnish border, only to find it had just...[Read More] (Bio by: Paul F. Wilson)
Palmer Pioneer Cemetery, Palmer, Matanuska-Susitna Borough, Alaska, USA
O'Hearn, Eileen b. November 8, 1913 d. September 22, 1992
Eileen O'Hearn was originally a pianist. She turned Film Star in Hollywood. She made ten Films in Hollywood. (Bio by: Rudi Polt)
Kodiak Cemetery, Kodiak, Kodiak Island Borough, Alaska, USA
Paddock, Charles William b. August 11, 1900 d. July 21, 1943
Olympic Track Athlete. He competed in the 1920, 1924, and 1928 Olympics. Won gold in the 100m dash and 4x100 relay. He was the first man to run 100 yards in under 10 seconds, setting a world record.
Cause of death: Military plane crash
Sitka National Cemetery, Sitka, Sitka Borough, Alaska, USA
Page, Dorothy G. d. November 16, 1989
Sports Figure. Considered to be the "Mother of the Iditarod Sled Dog Race", she inspired the 1049 mile race from Anchorage to Nome. She was the Honorary Musher for Iditarod 25, and was a 4 term Wasilla City Councilwoman and 2 term Mayor of Wasilla (1986 to 1987). (Bio by: Bill Fikes Jr)
Aurora Wasilla Cemetery, Wasilla, Matanuska-Susitna Borough, Alaska, USA
Plot: in the north center of the old part
Parks, George Alexander b. May 29, 1883 d. May 11, 1984
Alaska Territorial Governor. He graduated from the Colorado School of Mines in 1906 and worked as a mining engineer in the western United States, Canada, Mexico and Canada before settling in Alaska in 1907. From 1908 to 1926 he served in several federal government positions, including Mineral Examiner, Head of the United States Land Office, and Assistant Supervisor of Public Lands Surveys. He served as an United States Army Engineer officer during World War I. In 1925 he was appointed Governor...[Read More] (Bio by: Bill McKern)
Evergreen Cemetery, Juneau, Juneau Borough, Alaska, USA
Post, Wiley [cenotaph] b. November 22, 1899 d. August 15, 1935
Pioneer Aviator. Began his career in the early 1920s as a barnstormer pilot, often performing as a parachute jumper. He lost an eye, but learned to fly in spite of that handicap, and was always seen with his distinctive black eye patch. Gained fame as an arial racer in the early 1930s, winning the Bendix Trophy while flying in his signature airplane "Winne Mae". Twice completed a single plane round-the-world flight (in 1931, he did it in 8 days, 16 hours, in 1933 he bettered his mark by doing...[Read More] (Bio by: Russ Dodge)
Will Rogers-Wiley Post Memorial, Barrow, North Slope Borough, Alaska, USA
Red Rock, Princess Wah Nese b. 1913 d. 1988
Singer, Actress. She was the daughter of the last chief of the Ojibway Totem Tribe of Canada. She appeared in the 1992 movie "The Last of the Mohicans". She also performed professionally as a soprano with the Saint Louis Opera Company. In 1944 she sang at the White House for President Franklin D. Roosevelt's inauguration. (Bio by: Mr. Denardo)
Angelus Memorial Park, Anchorage, Anchorage Borough, Alaska, USA
Rogers, Will [cenotaph] b. November 4, 1879 d. August 15, 1935
Humorist, Actor, Author. His most famous quote, "I never met a man I didn't like." William Penn Adair Rogers was born on November 4, 1879, in Indian Territory, Cherokee Nation that would later would become known as Oolagah, Oklahoma. His father, Clem Rogers, was a successful rancher. As a boy, Will was taught the lariat by a former slave and became an expert rider and roper. He would later star in wild west shows and vaudeville around the world on the strengths learned on his father's ranch...[Read More] (Bio by: Iola)
Cause of death: Plane Crash
Will Rogers-Wiley Post Memorial, Barrow, North Slope Borough, Alaska, USA
Roosevelt, Kermit b. October 10, 1889 d. June 4, 1943
Explorer, Soldier, Businessman, and Author. He was the second child of former President Theodore Roosevelt and his second wife, Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt. After attending an Episcopalian college preparatory school, Groton, in Groton, Massachusetts, he completed a four year course at Harvard in two and a half years. After his freshman year he accompanied his father on a safari to Africa. In 1913 to1914 he accompanied his father on an expedition to South America to explore the River of Doubt...[Read More] (Bio by: Tom Todd)
Cause of death: Suicide
Fort Richardson National Cemetery, Fort Richardson, Anchorage Borough, Alaska, USA
Smith, Jefferson Randolph 'Soapy' b. 1860 d. July 8, 1898
Western Folk Figure, Crime Figure. A native of Georgia, he became known as the "King of the Frontier Con Men" for his many bunko swindles inflicted upon unwary victims all across the American west. He earned the sobriquet of "Soapy" by way of his most infamous swindle, "the Prize Package Soap Sell Swindle", in which, through slight-of-hand, he falsely wrapped money, ranging up to a $100 bill, inside the soap wrappers, and mixed them with pre-wrapped cakes of soap containing no money. He sold...[Read More] (Bio by: Jeff Smith)
Skagway Town Cemetery, Skagway, Skagway-Hoonah-Angoon (CA), Alaska, USA
Sonihat, Chief b. 1855 d. 1912
Chief - He was the chief of the Haida Indians from the Queen Charlotte Islands. After this Native American tribe had lost almost 90 percent of their population to European diseases such as small pox and measles, Christianity was forced upon them being told by Russian Orthodox and other Christian missionaries that Christianity was the only way for the the people to survive. Chief Sonihat relented and became a christian and the remainder of the tribe followed. What is left of the Haida Natives...[Read More] (Bio by: Donald Greyfield)
Haida Indian Cemetery, Kasaan, Prince of Wales-Outer Ketchikan Census Area, Alaska, USA
Plot: Chief's plot
Swineford, Alfred P. b. September 14, 1836 d. October 26, 1909
Governor of Alaska District from 1885 to 1889, and Member of the Michigan State House of Representatives in 1871. (Bio by: K)
Evergreen Cemetery, Juneau, Juneau Borough, Alaska, USA
Troy, John Weir b. October 31, 1868 d. May 2, 1942
Governor of Alaska Territory. He was educated in Callam County, became a reporter for his uncle's newspaper, the Port Townsend Argus, and later published and edited his own paper, the Port Angeles Weekly Democratic Leader. From 1889 to 1892 he was Deputy County Auditor and Deputy County Clerk. He became County Auditor in 1892 and served until 1897. That year he went to Alaska to report on the gold rush for a Seattle newspaper and also became manager of a Skagway pack train service. While living...[Read More] (Bio by: Bill McKern)
Evergreen Cemetery, Juneau, Juneau Borough, Alaska, USA
Plot: Elks Lodge Section

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