Every metre we so much as advert a toe out of state , I ’ve put cemeteries on our travel itinerary . From garden - like expanses to overgrown kick hills , whether they ’re the final resting places of the well - know but not that significant or the important but not that well - known , I love them all . After realizing that there are a peck of taphophiles out there , I ’m finally put my archive of interesting gravestone to good use .
Though he was bear in Texas , President Dwight D. Eisenhower consider himself a Kansas man , through and through — his parents moved to the small Midwestern town of Abilene when Dwight was just 2 .
In fact , when he came home to visit his mother after WWII , Ike give a movingspeechthat credit Abilene with his wholesome upbringing :
Though Eisenhower could have been bury at Arlington National Cemetery or even in Gettysburg , he and Mamie decided that their final resting blank space would be in upright previous Abilene , population 6844 . And in 1967 , Eisenhower discharge a very of import and personal step in the process of constructing his own memorial . In 1921 , Ike and Mamie lose their three - yr - old Word , Doud Dwight ( “ Icky ” ) , to scarlet fever . Eisenhower after said he never recovered from the consequence , and it almost demolish his marriage . Though Icky had been inhume in Denver for 46 years , in 1967 , Eisenhower softly had his sonmovedto the construction in Abilene that he and Mamie had decided upon as their net resting place .
Two long time later , Eisenhower hurt from a heart fire — the last of several — and died on March 28 , 1969 . A military man until the end , the five - asterisk superior general was buried in his iconic light-green jacket and his family eschewed an expensive jewel casket for an$80soldier ’s coffin . After his body lie in state at the United States Capitol , a transverse - country train tripper returned him to his boyhood home of Abilene , Kansas — and his son . When Mamie passed away from a slash 10 years later , she make her position next to Ike and Icky at the Place of Meditation at the Eisenhower Library in Abilene .
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