Our birth is nothing but our death begun, as tapers waste the moment they take fire.
 ~ Edward Young

I didn’t attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it.
                     ~  Mark Twain

From Presidents to the common man, from business leaders to the laborers, death does not discriminate.  Here the stories of some famous and infamous people living under the soil in Indiana.  Our featured resident:

John Dillinger
Public Enemy #1.

Other Stories:

• William Henry Harrison (d. 1841) & Benjamin Harrison (d. 1901)
  Section 13, Lot 57, Crown Hill Indianapolis
• Dr. Richard J. Gatling (d. 1903)
  Section 3, Lot 9, Crown Hill Indianapolis
• Edward Black (d. 1872)
  Section 16, Lot 148, Crown Hill Indianapolis
• James Whitcomb Riley (d. 1916)
  Section 61, Lot 1, Crown Hill Indianapolis
• Carl Fisher (d. 1934)
  Section 13, Lot 42, Crown Hill Indianapolis
• John Chapman (AKA Johnny Appleseed) (d. 1845)
  Johnny Appleseed Park, Fort Wayne
• Lyman S Ayres (d. 1896)
  Section 11, Lot 11, Crown Hill Indianapolis

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