I don’t visit cemeteries except for at funerals, but often look up graves of people from history I find of interest at the website Find A Grave.
Find A Grave - Millions of Cemetery Records
A relative of mine on my mother’s side... John “Old Smoke” Morrissey. He was the Heavyweight Boxing Champion of the world in 1858. Leader of the Dead Rabbits gang of New York, and later in life became a NY Congressman and Senator (We don’t talk much about him in the family because he was a democrat
). His family was the Tipperary Morrisseys and my mother's were the Galway Morrisseys. The counties laid north and south of each other. Although the two Morrissey clans were related there was never any love lost between them.
John Morrissey was one-half of one of America’s legendary blood feuds. His arch enemy was William “Bill The Butcher” Poole, founder of the street gang the Bowery Boys, and also a butcher and boxer. (Poole was the inspiration for the character Bill The Butcher in Martin Scorsese's 2002 film Gangs of New York)
Two of Morrissey's gang members, Lew Baker and Jim Turner, shot and fatally wounded Bill the Butcher at a saloon on Broadway in 1855, following Morrisey's loss to Poole in a boxing match eight months earlier. Morrissey and Baker were indicted for the murder, but the charges were dropped after three trials resulting in hung juries.
Saint Peters Cemetery, Troy, New York
Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, New York
LOL. Poole was anything but a 'true American.'
And I recently found out Jane Mansfield is buried just a few miles north of me.