I have been RoadTrippin' Thru History on Alban C. Stimers, a Chief Engineer in the Union Navy, especially in regards to the USS Monitor and many other monitors. It all started with an article about his great-great granddaughter who had a watch given him by the president of the United States in thanks for his work on monitors.
Then, I wrote about him. The other day I found that he was buried at Cypress Hill Cemetery in Brooklyn, New York. Whenever I find where a person is buried I go to that cemetery site and look to see if any other people of note or interest are buried there as well.
This is all part of my RoadTrippin' Through History that I do in my blogs. I start off with one story and keep looking to see where the story might take me.
In the next post I will write about some interesting people I found buried at Cypress Hill Cemetery. Two of them was a well-known actress from the 1930s and a baseball player who broke the MLB Color Barrier.
--Old B-R'er
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