[Future resting place of writer Gore Vidal, Petworth's Rock Creek Cemetery, by Joseph Martin]
In April, 1994, the day after he attended the funeral in Arlington Cemetery of his half-sister, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Gore Vidal visited Rock Creek Cemetery to choose a final resting place for himself and his life partner, Harold Auster.
The site they chose is near the memorial to Clover Adams, the wife of writer Henry Adams whom Vidal admired.
Vidal came to Rock Creek Cemetery last month, on February 16, to bury the remains of Harold Auster.
Joseph Martin.
wikipedia says half sister isn't quite right:
Jacqueline Lee Bouvier was born into New York society, the eldest daughter of John Vernou Bouvier III (1891-1957), a playboy stockbroker of French descent, and his wife, Janet Norton Lee (1906-1989), a bank president's daughter. Her maternal great-grandfather, a potato-famine Irish immigrant, was a superintendent of New York City public schools, though Janet Lee Bouvier preferred to tell people that he was a Maryland-born veteran of the United States Civil War. Her parents divorced when she was young and her mother remarried the wealthy Hugh D. Auchincloss, who had previously been married to the mother of novelist Gore Vidal.
Posted by: dave s | March 22, 2005 at 02:42 PM