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October 17, 1989. Faye Della Copeland (née Wilson; August 4, 1921 – December 23, 2003) and Raymond W. Copeland (December 30, 1914 – October 19, 1993) became, at the ages of 69 and 76 respectively, the oldest couple ever sentenced to death in the United States. They were convicted of killing five drifters at their farm in Mooresville, Missouri.
Dr. John Boyle was convicted in a highly publicized trial for the murder of his wife, Noreen, on December 31, 1989. Their son, Landry, and daughter, Elizabeth, provided key insights; Landry recounted a scream and thump he heard, while Elizabeth, only three, described seeing her father hit her mother.
Mary Ann Todd Lincoln (December 13, 1818 – July 16, 1882 [1]) served as the First Lady of the United States from 1861 until the assassination of her husband, President Abraham Lincoln, in 1865. Mary Todd was born into a large and wealthy slave-owning family in Kentucky, although Mary never owned slaves and in her adulthood came to oppose ...
David Eric Grohl (/ ˈɡroʊl /; born January 14, 1969) is an American musician. He founded the rock band Foo Fighters, of which he is the lead singer, guitarist, and principal songwriter. From 1990 to 1994, he was the drummer of the grunge band Nirvana. In 1986, at age 17, Grohl joined the punk rock band Scream, replacing drummer Kent Stax.
2. Sherry Stringfield (born June 24, 1967) [1] is an American actress. She is best known for playing the role of Dr. Susan Lewis on the NBC medical drama ER, a role for which she received three Emmy Award nominations. Stringfield was a member of ER's original cast, but she quit the show during its third season, despite being contractually tied ...
Charles Carter was born to the former Elizabeth Landon Willis, the second wife of Robert Carter I, and likewise of the First Families of Virginia.His father was the richest man in Virginia in his lifetime, and so powerful based on his roles on the Governor's Council as well as land agent for the Northern Neck Proprietary and accumulated wealth that contemporaries nicknamed him "King Carter".
Virginia E. Johnson (born Mary Virginia Eshelman; February 11, 1925 – July 24, 2013) was an American sexologist and a member of the Masters and Johnson sexuality research team. [1] Along with her partner, William H. Masters , she pioneered research into the nature of human sexual response and the diagnosis and treatment of sexual dysfunctions ...
Mercer was born in 1759 at Marlborough plantation in Stafford County in the Colony of Virginia, to prominent lawyer, planter and investor in western lands John Mercer (1704–1768) and his second wife, the former Ann Roy (1729–1770), the daughter of Dr. Mungo Roy of Essex County, Virginia. His father John Mercer fathered 19 children by two ...