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Meet hundreds of Northeast Ohio's most interesting permanent residents. This entertaining guide describes more than 150 cemeteries and memorials, the final resting place of celebrities, villains, heroes, inventors, tycoons, and just plain folks. Their stories range from strange disasters to noble achievements--and just about everything in between. Come stroll among the markers and meet ... Royalty, including ""Polka King"" Frankie Yankovic, ""True Queen of the Gypsies"" Lizzie Ely, and ""Prince of Pickpockets"" Louie Finkelstein ""World's Strongest Man"" Stanley Radwan, who once bit in half a 5/8-inch-thick piece of steel ""International word sleuth"" David Guralnik, the editor who added ""ain't"" to the dictionary John Malvin, who arrived as a freed slave and became the first American ship owner to bring his vessel through the port of Cleveland Aviatrix Mildred Natalie Stinaff, who set a record with 42 inside loops in 1930 and later died in her biplane The giant Captain Martin Van Buren Bates, discharged from the army because they couldn't find a uniform large enough to fit him Mob boss Angelo ""Big Angie"" Lonardo, who became the highest-ranking crime figure to testify on behalf of the federal government Dr. Robert Holbrook Smith, founder of Alcoholics Anonymous--twelve steps lead up to the entrance of his house Gertrude Anna Harrison, the country's first women's golf pro and inventor of the golf-ball-return machine ""World's richest man"" John D. Rockefeller, on whose 400,000-pound(!) monument visitors still place shiny new dimes Ray Chapman, the only major league baseball player killed by a pitch The ""Father of the American Christmas Tree"" ... the inventor of the traffic light ... Buffalo Bill's grandfather ... the relic bones of St. Christina ... And hundreds more!

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A valuable reference for those interested in local history or local genealogy, and includes addresses, phone numbers and where one can find the cemetery records.--April K. Helms Maple Heights Press (12/20/2007)

Get to know some of Cleveland's most famous permanent residents in Vigil's surprisingly charming guide . . . In addition to famous gravesites, Vigil has compiled a fascinating array of facts, from the oldest graves to burial customs and more. -- Book Reviewer The Plain Dealer

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Vicki Blum Vigil is a historical researcher with an interest in genealogy who enjoys discovering how the past affects the present. Through her books, seminars, and tours, she also enjoys showing others how to make discoveries of their own. A retired home and school counselor for the Euclid City Schools, she lives in Highland Heights, Ohio.

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