Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,888 - Lawyers, Guns & Money

Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,888 - Lawyers, Guns & Money

This is the grave of Franklin Sanborn. Born in 1831 in Hampton Falls, New Hampshire, Sanborn should have died at the age of two. He was struck by lightning. Whether he remembered the experience, I don’t know, but for the rest of his life, he claimed he could change the world since he survived that. An unusual kid to the say the least, he read a lot of newspapers as a kid and at the age of 9, he declared himself an abolitionist to his family, who…