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<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <title>The Political Graveyard: Kent County, Del.</title> <meta name="description" content="A database of political history and cemeteries, with brief biographical entries for 338,260 U.S. political figures, living and dead, from the 1700s to the present."> <meta name="keywords" content="political biography history genealogy cemeteries politics candidates congress senators legislators governors politicians biographies ancestors mayors birthplace geography elections"> <meta name="author" content="Lawrence Kestenbaum"> <script type="text/javascript"> var _gaq = _gaq || []; _gaq.push(['_setAccount', 'UA-7383562-1']); _gaq.push(['_trackPageview']); (function() { var ga = document.createElement('script'); ga.type = 'text/javascript'; ga.async = true; ga.src = ('https:' == document.location.protocol ? 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Born near Middletown, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/NC-born.html">New Castle County</a>, Del., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1849/06-29.html">June 29, 1849</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/merchant.html">Merchant</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/ofc/gov.html">Governor of Delaware</a>, 1901-05; delegate to Republican National Convention from Delaware, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1904/DE.html">1904</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/quaker.html">Quaker</a>. Died in Camden, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/KE-died.html">Kent County</a>, Del., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1926/09-01.html">September 1, 1926</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/77.html">77 years, 64 days</a>). Interment at Camden Friends Meeting House Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of John Hunn (1818-1894; abolitionist) and Mary Jenkins (Swallow) Hunn; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1874/11-11.html">November 11, 1874</a>, to Sarah Cowgill Emerson.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://www.nga.org/governor/john-hunn/">National Governors Association biography</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John Hunn (governor)">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/7367703">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Image source: State of Delaware</td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Ralph Waldo Emerson (1892-1963) — also known as Ralph W. Emerson — of Wyoming, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/KE-lived.html">Kent County</a>, Del. Born in Wyoming, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/KE-born.html">Kent County</a>, Del., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1892/03-06.html">March 6, 1892</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/fruit-produce.html">Fruit broker</a>; delegate to Republican National Convention from Delaware, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1940/DE.html">1940</a> (member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1940/committees.html">Committee on Permanent Organization</a>); <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/ofc/trea.html">Delaware state treasurer</a>; elected 1950. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/quaker.html">Quaker</a>. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/odd-fellows.html">Odd Fellows</a>. Died in Delaware, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1963/02-10.html">February 10, 1963</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/70.html">70 years, 341 days</a>). Interment at Camden Friends Meeting House Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Pennell Emerson and Martha Emma (Stevens) Emerson; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1915/09-12.html">September 12, 1915</a>, to Mary Justine Chambers.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/11276875">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Charles du Pont Ridgely (1878-1966) — of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/KE-lived.html">Kent County</a>, Del. Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/KE-born.html">Kent County</a>, Del., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1878/01-19.html">January 19, 1878</a>. Republican. Member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/ofc/stsen.html">Delaware state senate</a> from Kent County 3rd District, 1923-26. Died in Wyoming, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/KE-died.html">Kent County</a>, Del., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1966/index.html">1966</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/88.html">about 88 years</a>). Interment at Camden Friends Meeting House Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Ella (Madden) Ridgely and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ridge-riggin.html#292.63.17">Daniel M. Ridgely</a>; married to Helene Marjorie Rudolph; father of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ridge-riggin.html#632.88.05">Henry Johnson Ridgely</a>; great-grandson of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ridge-riggin.html#051.52.04">Henry Moore Ridgely</a>; great-grandnephew of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ridge-riggin.html#656.34.46">Nicholas Greenberry Ridgely</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political families: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-1825.html">Ridgely family</a> of Dover, Delaware; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-1063.html">DuPont-Bayard family</a> of Wilmington, Delaware (subsets of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/5093755">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <hr> <a name=" ">Odd Fellows Cemetery</a> Camden, Kent County, Delaware See also <a href="http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=cr&CRid=231979&">Findagrave page</a> for this location. <table width=100% align="left" cellpadding=5> <tr><td colspan=2>Politicians buried here:</td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Joseph Allen Frear Jr. (1903-1993) — also known as J. Allen Frear, Jr. — of Dover, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/KE-lived.html">Kent County</a>, Del. Born in Rising Sun, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/KE-born.html">Kent County</a>, Del., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1903/03-07.html">March 7, 1903</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/banking.html">Banker</a>; president, Kent General <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/hospital-biz.html">Hospital</a>, 1947-51; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Delaware, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1948/DE.html">1948</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1952/DE.html">1952</a> (member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1952/committees.html">Committee on Permanent Organization</a>), <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1956/DE.html">1956</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1960/DE.html">1960</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/ofc/ussen.html">U.S. Senator from Delaware</a>, 1949-61; member, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, 1961-63; Democratic candidate for Presidential Elector for Delaware, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/ofc/pr1972-election.html">1972</a>. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/am-legion.html">American Legion</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/farm-bureau.html">Farm Bureau</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/masons.html">Freemasons</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/knights-templar.html">Knights Templar</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/shriners.html">Shriners</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/rotary.html">Rotary</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/sigma-nu.html">Sigma Nu</a>. Died <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1993/01-15.html">January 15, 1993</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/89.html">89 years, 314 days</a>). Interment at Odd Fellows Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Joseph Frear and Clara (Lowber) Frear; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1933/02-11.html">February 11, 1933</a>, to Esther Viola Schauer.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=F000356">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=404303">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J. Allen Frear, Jr.">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://www.nndb.com/people/673/000121310">NNDB dossier</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/7745755">Find-A-Grave memorial</a> — <a href="https://www.ourcampaigns.com/CandidateDetail.html?CandidateID=29118">OurCampaigns candidate detail</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Walton H. Simpson (1912-1993) — of Camden, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/KE-lived.html">Kent County</a>, Del. Born <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1912/02-20.html">February 20, 1912</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/construction.html">Construction business</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lumber.html">lumber dealer</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/ofc/stsen.html">Delaware state senate</a> from Kent County 3rd District, 1959-64; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/ofc/sos.html">secretary of state of Delaware</a>, 1971-72. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/methodist.html">Methodist</a>. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/rotary.html">Rotary</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/elks.html">Elks</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/odd-fellows.html">Odd Fellows</a>. Died, in Kent General <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/misc-hospitals.html">Hospital</a>, Dover, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/KE-died.html">Kent County</a>, Del., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1993/05-06.html">May 6, 1993</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/81.html">81 years, 75 days</a>). Interment at Odd Fellows Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Married to Anna Lee Morris.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/28313118">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Thomas Webber Jakes (1867-1945) — also known as Thomas W. Jakes — of Wilmington, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/NC-lived.html">New Castle County</a>, Del. Born in Wyoming, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/KE-born.html">Kent County</a>, Del., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1867/04-01.html">April 1, 1867</a>. Prohibition candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/ofc/gov.html">Governor of Delaware</a>, 1944. Died, from <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/kidney.html">chronic interstitial nephritis</a>, in Wilmington, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/NC-died.html">New Castle County</a>, Del., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1945/11-18.html">November 18, 1945</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/78.html">78 years, 231 days</a>). Interment at Odd Fellows Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/jacobsen-jalbert.html#780.75.84">John Thomas Jakes</a> and Mary B. (Townsend) Jakes; married to Elizabeth Mary Saxton; first cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/alexandre-allee.html#657.38.76">James Frank Allee Jr.</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political family: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/39634.html">Allee-Jakes family</a> of Dover, Delaware.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/46943709">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"><img src="https://politicalgraveyard.com/thumb/840/76.90.jpg" width=70 height=107 border=0 alt="Roger A. Davis"></td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Roger Alfred Davis (1889-1967) — also known as Roger A. Davis — of Hartly, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/KE-lived.html">Kent County</a>, Del. Born in Delaware, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1889/03-02.html">March 2, 1889</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/food.html">Grocer</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/ofc/sthse.html">Delaware state house of representatives</a> from Kent County 4th District, 1931-32, 1953-54; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">arrested</a>, in April 1954, by Maryland State Police, on U.S. Route 50, and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">charged</a> with <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/intoxication.html">drunk</a> and reckless <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/traffic.html">driving</a>, as well as <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/other-crimes.html">disorderly conduct</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">jailed</a> overnight, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">pleaded guilty</a>, and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">fined</a>. Died in Hartly, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/KE-died.html">Kent County</a>, Del., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1967/12-06.html">December 6, 1967</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/78.html">78 years, 279 days</a>). Interment at Odd Fellows Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Robert Alfred Davis and Sarah Ann (Jones) Davis; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1918/">1918</a> to Hannah Boulden Kirk; father of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/davis7.html#002.03.43">Roger Elmer Davis</a>; third cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/rodgers-rodriguez.html#748.87.16">Daniel Rodney</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/rodgers-rodriguez.html#353.98.71">Caleb Rodney</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political family: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-1836.html">Rodney family</a> of Delaware (subset of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/104092093">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Image source: Wilmington (Del.) News Journal, December 27, 1930</td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> John Thomas Jakes (1833-1899) — also known as John T. Jakes — of Wyoming, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/KE-lived.html">Kent County</a>, Del. Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/KE-born.html">Kent County</a>, Del., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1833/11-28.html">November 28, 1833</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/merchant.html">Merchant</a>; alternate delegate to Republican National Convention from Delaware, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1876/DE.html">1876</a>. Died in Wilmington, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/NC-died.html">New Castle County</a>, Del., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1899/07-25.html">July 25, 1899</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/65.html">65 years, 239 days</a>). Interment at Odd Fellows Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Nancy Jakes and Thomas W. Jakes; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1855/">1855</a> to Mary B. Townsend; father of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/jacobsen-jalbert.html#880.60.97">Thomas Webber Jakes</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political family: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/39634.html">Allee-Jakes family</a> of Dover, Delaware.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/46942341">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Reynolds Clough (1875-1918) — of Dover, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/KE-lived.html">Kent County</a>, Del. Born in Delaware, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1875/05-10.html">May 10, 1875</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Delaware, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1912/DE.html">1912</a> (member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1912/committees.html">Committee on Rules and Order of Business</a>). Died, from <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/pneumonia.html">pneumonia</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/influenza.html">influenza</a>, in Dover, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/KE-died.html">Kent County</a>, Del., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1918/10-15.html">October 15, 1918</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/43.html">43 years, 158 days</a>). Interment at Odd Fellows Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Frances Smith (Reynolds) Clough and William L. Clough; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1905/11-16.html">November 16, 1905</a>, to Ethel Riggs; first cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/rodgers-rodriguez.html#748.87.16">Daniel Rodney</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/rodgers-rodriguez.html#353.98.71">Caleb Rodney</a>; first cousin four times removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/rodgers-rodriguez.html#451.32.49">Caesar Rodney</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/rodgers-rodriguez.html#883.76.62">Thomas Rodney</a>; second cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/rodgers-rodriguez.html#370.66.49">George Brydges Rodney</a>; second cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/rodgers-rodriguez.html#986.89.46">Caesar Augustus Rodney</a>; third cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/rodgers-rodriguez.html#366.79.90">John Henry Rodney</a>; third cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/rodgers-rodriguez.html#087.68.52">Thomas McKean Rodney</a>; fourth cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/laxalt-leadbetter.html#760.59.60">Caleb Rodney Layton</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political family: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-1836.html">Rodney family</a> of Delaware (subset of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/103607188">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Henry Johnson Ridgely (1913-1990) — also known as Henry J. Ridgely — of Dover, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/KE-lived.html">Kent County</a>, Del. Born in Camden, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/KE-born.html">Kent County</a>, Del., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1913/11-17.html">November 17, 1913</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; served in the U.S. Navy during World War II; delegate to Republican National Convention from Delaware, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1952/DE.html">1952</a> (member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1952/committees.html">Committee on Rules and Order of Business</a>), <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1956/DE.html">1956</a> (alternate). Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/sigma-nu.html">Sigma Nu</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/am-jud-soc.html">American Judicature Society</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/aba.html">American Bar Association</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/sons-am-rev.html">Sons of the American Revolution</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/vfw.html">Veterans of Foreign Wars</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/am-legion.html">American Legion</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/odd-fellows.html">Odd Fellows</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/grange.html">Grange</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/masons.html">Freemasons</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/knights-templar.html">Knights Templar</a>. Died, from <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/kidney.html">kidney failure</a>, in Kent General <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/misc-hospitals.html">Hospital</a>, Dover, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/KE-died.html">Kent County</a>, Del., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1990/09-10.html">September 10, 1990</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/76.html">76 years, 297 days</a>). Interment at Odd Fellows Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ridge-riggin.html#649.54.42">Charles du Pont Ridgely</a> and Helene Marjorie (Rudolph) Ridgely; grandson of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ridge-riggin.html#292.63.17">Daniel M. Ridgely</a>; second great-grandson of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ridge-riggin.html#051.52.04">Henry Moore Ridgely</a>; second great-grandnephew of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ridge-riggin.html#656.34.46">Nicholas Greenberry Ridgely</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political families: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-1825.html">Ridgely family</a> of Dover, Delaware; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-1063.html">DuPont-Bayard family</a> of Wilmington, Delaware (subsets of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Stanley C. Mikell (1915-1997) — of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/KE-lived.html">Kent County</a>, Del. Born <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1915/03-23.html">March 23, 1915</a>. Republican. Member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/ofc/sthse.html">Delaware state house of representatives</a> from Kent County 5th District, 1947-48. Died <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1997/10-18.html">October 18, 1997</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/82.html">82 years, 209 days</a>). Interment at Odd Fellows Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/129352221">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td colspan=2>Other politicians who have (or had) monuments here:</td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> William Richbell Allaband (1847-1926) — also known as William R. Allaband — of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/KE-lived.html">Kent County</a>, Del. Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1847/index.html">1847</a>. Member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/ofc/sthse.html">Delaware state house of representatives</a> from Kent County, 1887-88. Died in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1926/index.html">1926</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/79.html">about 79 years</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MD/PG-buried.html#cms00507">Fort Lincoln Cemetery</a>, Brentwood, Md.; cenotaph at Odd Fellows Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Married to Mary Kinney and Florence Belle Weaver.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/35000896">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <hr> <a name="cms00380">Christ Church Cemetery</a> State & Water Sts. Dover, Kent County, Delaware <table width=100% align="left" cellpadding=5> <tr><td colspan=2>Politicians buried here:</td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Caesar Rodney (1728-1784) — of Delaware. Born in Dover, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/KE-born.html">Kent County</a>, Del., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1728/10-07.html">October 7, 1728</a>. Member of Delaware state legislature, 1762; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/ofc/spju.html">justice of Delaware state supreme court</a>, 1769; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/ofc/ccdel.html">Delegate to Continental Congress from Delaware</a>, 1774; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/offices/founders.html">signer, Declaration of Independence</a>, 1776; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/ofc/pres.html">President of Delaware</a>, 1778-81. Died <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1784/06-26.html">June 26, 1784</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/55.html">55 years, 263 days</a>). Original interment in private or family graveyard; reinterment at Christ Church Cemetery; memorial monument at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DC/wa-buried.html# ">Constitution Gardens</a>, Washington, D.C. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Ceasar Rodney and Elizabeth Maude (Crawford) Rodney; brother of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/rodgers-rodriguez.html#883.76.62">Thomas Rodney</a>; uncle of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/rodgers-rodriguez.html#986.89.46">Caesar Augustus Rodney</a>; granduncle of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/rodgers-rodriguez.html#087.68.52">Thomas McKean Rodney</a>; first cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/rodgers-rodriguez.html#748.87.16">Daniel Rodney</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/rodgers-rodriguez.html#353.98.71">Caleb Rodney</a>; first cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/rodgers-rodriguez.html#370.66.49">George Brydges Rodney</a>; first cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/rodgers-rodriguez.html#366.79.90">John Henry Rodney</a>; first cousin four times removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/laxalt-leadbetter.html#760.59.60">Caleb Rodney Layton</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/clippert-clynick.html#829.34.98">Reynolds Clough</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political families:Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=R000376">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=409346">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://www.nga.org/governor/caesar-rodney/">National Governors Association biography</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caesar Rodney">Wikipedia article</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Nicholas Greenberry Ridgely (1762-1830) — also known as Nicholas Ridgely — of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/KE-lived.html">Kent County</a>, Del. Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MD/AA-born.html">Anne Arundel County</a>, Md., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1762/09-30.html">September 30, 1762</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/ofc/attygn.html">Delaware state attorney general</a>, 1790-1801; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/ofc/chan.html">chancellor of Delaware court of chancery</a>, 1801-30; died in office 1830. Died in Dover, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/KE-died.html">Kent County</a>, Del., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1830/04-01.html">April 1, 1830</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/67.html">67 years, 183 days</a>). Interment at Christ Church Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Ann (Moore) Ridgely and Dr. Charles Greenberry Ridgely; brother of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ridge-riggin.html#051.52.04">Henry Moore Ridgely</a>; granduncle of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ridge-riggin.html#292.63.17">Daniel M. Ridgely</a>; great-granduncle of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ridge-riggin.html#649.54.42">Charles du Pont Ridgely</a>; second great-granduncle of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ridge-riggin.html#632.88.05">Henry Johnson Ridgely</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political family: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-1825.html">Ridgely family</a> of Dover, Delaware (subset of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/4361">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"><img src="https://politicalgraveyard.com/thumb/837/44.73.jpg" width=70 height=113 border=0 alt="Willard Saulsbury, Sr."></td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Willard Saulsbury Sr. (1820-1892) — of Georgetown, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/SU-lived.html">Sussex County</a>, Del. Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/KE-born.html">Kent County</a>, Del., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1820/06-02.html">June 2, 1820</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/ofc/attygn.html">Delaware state attorney general</a>, 1850-55; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/ofc/ussen.html">U.S. Senator from Delaware</a>, 1859-71; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Delaware, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1860/DE.html">1860</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1864/DE.html">1864</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/ofc/chan.html">chancellor of Delaware court of chancery</a>, 1873-92; died in office 1892. Slaveowner. Died in Dover, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/KE-died.html">Kent County</a>, Del., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1892/04-06.html">April 6, 1892</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/71.html">71 years, 309 days</a>). Interment at Christ Church Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Brother of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/sarig-saunder.html#490.79.55">Gove Saulsbury</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/sarig-saunder.html#654.40.59">Eli May Saulsbury</a>; father of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/sarig-saunder.html#781.53.85">Willard Saulsbury Jr.</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political family: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10991.html">Saulsbury family</a> of Dover, Delaware.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=S000074">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=409586">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willard Saulsbury, Sr.">Wikipedia article</a></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Image source: Wilmington (Del.) Morning News, April 7, 1892</td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> John Middleton Vining (1758-1802) — also known as John Vining; Jack Vining — of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/KE-lived.html">Kent County</a>, Del. Born in Dover, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/KE-born.html">Kent County</a>, Del., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1758/12-23.html">December 23, 1758</a>. Member of Delaware state legislature, 1780; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/ofc/ccdel.html">Delegate to Continental Congress from Delaware</a>, 1780; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Delaware</a> at-large, 1789-93; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/ofc/stsen.html">Delaware state senate</a> from Kent County, 1793, 1800-02; died in office 1802; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/ofc/ussen.html">U.S. Senator from Delaware</a>, 1793-98. Slaveowner. Died in Wilmington, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/NC-died.html">New Castle County</a>, Del., February, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1802/index.html">1802</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/43.html">43 years, 0 days</a>). Interment at Christ Church Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">The World War II <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-ships.html">Liberty ship</a> SS John Vining (built 1942 at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/LA/OR-names.html">New Orleans, Louisiana</a>; scrapped 1960) was <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a>.</li> </td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=V000104">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=411159">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John M. Vining">Wikipedia article</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Charles Laymen Terry Jr. (1900-1970) — also known as Charles L. Terry, Jr. — of Dover, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/KE-lived.html">Kent County</a>, Del. Born in Camden, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/KE-born.html">Kent County</a>, Del., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1900/09-17.html">September 17, 1900</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Delaware, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1936/DE.html">1936</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1968/DE.html">1968</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/ofc/sos.html">secretary of state of Delaware</a>, 1937-38; superior court judge in Delaware, 1938-62; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/ofc/spju.html">justice of Delaware state supreme court</a>, 1962-64; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/ofc/spcj.html">chief justice of Delaware state supreme court</a>, 1963-64; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/ofc/gov.html">Governor of Delaware</a>, 1965-69; defeated, 1968. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/episcopalian.html">Episcopalian</a>. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/phi-sigma-kappa.html">Phi Sigma Kappa</a>. Died in Dover, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/KE-died.html">Kent County</a>, Del., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1970/02-06.html">February 6, 1970</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/69.html">69 years, 142 days</a>). Interment at Christ Church Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Charles Laymen Terry and Elizabeth B. (Maxson) Terry; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1924/06-30.html">June 30, 1924</a>, to Jessica Irby.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://www.nga.org/governor/charles-l-terry/">National Governors Association biography</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles L. Terry Jr.">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://www.nndb.com/people/869/000051716">NNDB dossier</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/7367727">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Henry Moore Ridgely (1779-1847) — also known as Henry M. Ridgely — of Dover, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/KE-lived.html">Kent County</a>, Del. Born in Dover, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/KE-born.html">Kent County</a>, Del., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1779/08-06.html">August 6, 1779</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/banking.html">banker</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Delaware</a> at-large, 1811-15; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/ofc/sos.html">secretary of state of Delaware</a>, 1817-27; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/ofc/ussen.html">U.S. Senator from Delaware</a>, 1827-29. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/episcopalian.html">Episcopalian</a>. Slaveowner. Died in Dover, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/KE-died.html">Kent County</a>, Del., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1847/08-06.html">August 6, 1847</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/68.html">68 years, 0 days</a>). Interment at Christ Church Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Ann (Moore) Ridgely and Dr. Charles Greenberry Ridgely; brother of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ridge-riggin.html#656.34.46">Nicholas Greenberry Ridgely</a>; married to Sarah 'Sally' Banning; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1842/">1842</a> to Sarah Ann Comegys; father of Ann Ridgely (who married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/dupont.html#248.98.41">Charles Irénée du Pont</a>); grandfather of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ridge-riggin.html#292.63.17">Daniel M. Ridgely</a>; great-grandfather of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ridge-riggin.html#649.54.42">Charles du Pont Ridgely</a>; second great-grandfather of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ridge-riggin.html#632.88.05">Henry Johnson Ridgely</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political family: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-1825.html">Ridgely family</a> of Dover, Delaware (subset of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=R000245">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=409221">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry M. Ridgely">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/7504187">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Willard Saulsbury Jr. (1861-1927) — of Wilmington, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/NC-lived.html">New Castle County</a>, Del. Born in Georgetown, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/SU-born.html">Sussex County</a>, Del., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1861/04-17.html">April 17, 1861</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/banking.html">banker</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/DE.html">Delaware Democratic state chair</a>, 1900-06; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Delaware, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1904/DE.html">1904</a> (member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1904/committees.html">Platform and Resolutions Committee</a>; member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1904/committees.html">Committee to Notify Presidential Nominee</a>), <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1908/DE.html">1908</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1912/DE.html">1912</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/DE.html">Democratic National Committee from Delaware</a>, 1908-20; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/ofc/ussen.html">U.S. Senator from Delaware</a>, 1913-19; defeated, 1918. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/episcopalian.html">Episcopalian</a>. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/sons-am-rev.html">Sons of the American Revolution</a>. Died in Wilmington, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/NC-died.html">New Castle County</a>, Del., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1927/02-20.html">February 20, 1927</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/65.html">65 years, 309 days</a>). Interment at Christ Church Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/sarig-saunder.html#837.44.73">Willard Saulsbury Sr.</a>; nephew of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/sarig-saunder.html#490.79.55">Gove Saulsbury</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/sarig-saunder.html#654.40.59">Eli May Saulsbury</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political family: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10991.html">Saulsbury family</a> of Dover, Delaware.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=S000073">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=409585">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willard Saulsbury, Jr.">Wikipedia article</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> William Du Hamel Denney (1873-1953) — also known as William D. Denney — of Dover, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/KE-lived.html">Kent County</a>, Del. Born near Dover, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/KE-born.html">Kent County</a>, Del., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1873/03-31.html">March 31, 1873</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/insurance.html">Insurance business</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/ofc/sthse.html">Delaware state house of representatives</a> from Kent County 2nd District, 1905-06; delegate to Republican National Convention from Delaware, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1908/DE.html">1908</a> (alternate), <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1924/DE.html">1924</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1928/DE.html">1928</a> (member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1928/committees.html">Committee on Permanent Organization</a>); served in the U.S. Army during World War I; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/ofc/gov.html">Governor of Delaware</a>, 1921-25; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/DE.html">Delaware Republican state chair</a>, 1926-28. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/episcopalian.html">Episcopalian</a>. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/am-legion.html">American Legion</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/masons.html">Freemasons</a>. Died in the Veterans Administration <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/misc-hospitals.html">Hospital</a>, Elsmere, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/NC-died.html">New Castle County</a>, Del., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1953/11-21.html">November 21, 1953</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/80.html">80 years, 235 days</a>). Interment at Christ Church Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of William Denney and Anna (du Hamel) Denney; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1917/10-27.html">October 27, 1917</a>, to Alice Godwin.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://www.nga.org/governor/william-du-hamel-denney/">National Governors Association biography</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Richard Rolland Kenney (1856-1931) — also known as Richard R. Kenney — of Dover, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/KE-lived.html">Kent County</a>, Del. Born in Laurel, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/SU-born.html">Sussex County</a>, Del., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1856/09-09.html">September 9, 1856</a>. Democrat. Delegate to Democratic National Convention from Delaware, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1892/DE.html">1892</a> (member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1892/committees.html">Committee on Permanent Organization</a>), <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1900/DE.html">1900</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1904/DE.html">1904</a> (<a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1904/officers.html">Honorary Vice-President</a>; member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1904/committees.html">Committee to Notify Vice-Presidential Nominee</a>); <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/ofc/ussen.html">U.S. Senator from Delaware</a>, 1897-1901. Died in Dover, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/KE-died.html">Kent County</a>, Del., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1931/08-14.html">August 14, 1931</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/74.html">74 years, 339 days</a>). Interment at Christ Church Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=K000121">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=406287">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard R. Kenney">Wikipedia article</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> James Frank Allee (1857-1938) — also known as J. Frank Allee — of Dover, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/KE-lived.html">Kent County</a>, Del. Born in Dover, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/KE-born.html">Kent County</a>, Del., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1857/12-02.html">December 2, 1857</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/jeweler.html">Jeweler</a>; president, Bay State <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/utilities.html">Gas</a> Company of Delaware; president, Staten Island <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/masonry.html">Brick</a> Company; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/DE.html">Delaware Republican state chair</a>, 1886-96; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/ofc/stsen.html">Delaware state senate</a>, 1899-1903 (Kent County 1st District 1899-1900, Kent County 2nd District 1901-02, Kent County 3rd District 1903); resigned 1903; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/ofc/ussen.html">U.S. Senator from Delaware</a>, 1903-07; delegate to Republican National Convention from Delaware, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1904/DE.html">1904</a> (member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1904/committees.html">Credentials Committee</a>). <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/episcopalian.html">Episcopalian</a>. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/masons.html">Freemasons</a>. Died in Dover, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/KE-died.html">Kent County</a>, Del., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1938/10-12.html">October 12, 1938</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/80.html">80 years, 314 days</a>). Interment at Christ Church Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of James Francis Allee and Martha Jane (Day) Allee; brother of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/alexandre-allee.html#171.95.60">Douglass C. Allee</a>; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1882/01-18.html">January 18, 1882</a>, to Elizabeth 'Lizzie' Stevens; father of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/alexandre-allee.html#657.38.76">James Frank Allee Jr.</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political family: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/39634.html">Allee-Jakes family</a> of Dover, Delaware.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=A000110">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=400767">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J. Frank Allee">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/6860133">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> James Sykes (1725-1792) — of Dover, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/KE-lived.html">Kent County</a>, Del. Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/NC-born.html">New Castle County</a>, Del., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1725/index.html">1725</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/ofc/cncn.html">Delegate to Delaware state constitutional convention</a>, 1776; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/ofc/lgcn.html">Delaware state legislative council</a> from Kent County, 1776-77; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/ofc/ccdel.html">Delegate to Continental Congress from Delaware</a>, 1777. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/episcopalian.html">Episcopalian</a>. Died in Dover, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/KE-died.html">Kent County</a>, Del., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1792/04-04.html">April 4, 1792</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/66.html">about 66 years</a>). Interment at Christ Church Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Father of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/sword-szymczak.html#058.50.61">James Sykes Jr.</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=S001132">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=410583">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James Sykes (Continental Congress)">Wikipedia article</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> James Sykes Jr. (1761-1822) — of Dover, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/KE-lived.html">Kent County</a>, Del. Born in Dover, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/KE-born.html">Kent County</a>, Del., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1761/03-27.html">March 27, 1761</a>. Member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/ofc/stsen.html">Delaware state senate</a> from Kent County, 1794-96, 1798-1808; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/ofc/gov.html">Governor of Delaware</a>, 1801-02. Died in Dover, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/KE-died.html">Kent County</a>, Del., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1822/10-18.html">October 18, 1822</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/61.html">61 years, 205 days</a>). Interment at Christ Church Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/sword-szymczak.html#632.81.99">James Sykes</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://www.nga.org/governor/james-sykes/">National Governors Association biography</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James Sykes (governor)">Wikipedia article</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> William Henry Boyce (1855-1942) — also known as William H. Boyce — of Georgetown, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/SU-lived.html">Sussex County</a>, Del.; Dover, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/KE-lived.html">Kent County</a>, Del. Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/SU-born.html">Sussex County</a>, Del., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1855/11-28.html">November 28, 1855</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/teacher.html">School principal</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">lawyer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/SU-officials.html">Sussex County Recorder of Deeds</a>, 1881-86; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/SU-parties.html">chair of Sussex County Democratic Party</a>, 1893-97; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Delaware, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1896/DE.html">1896</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1924/DE.html">1924</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/ofc/sos.html">secretary of state of Delaware</a>, 1897; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/ofc/spju.html">justice of Delaware state supreme court</a>, 1897-1921; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Delaware</a> at-large, 1923-25; defeated, 1924. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/episcopalian.html">Episcopalian</a>. Died in Dover, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/KE-died.html">Kent County</a>, Del., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1942/02-06.html">February 6, 1942</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/86.html">86 years, 70 days</a>). Interment at Christ Church Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of James H. Boyce and Sarah J. (Otwell) Boyce; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1882/10-25.html">October 25, 1882</a>, to Emma E. Valliant.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=B000712">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=401673">Govtrack.us page</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> James Frank Allee Jr. (1884-1956) — also known as James F. Allee, Jr. — of Dover, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/KE-lived.html">Kent County</a>, Del. Born in Dover, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/KE-born.html">Kent County</a>, Del., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1884/12-14.html">December 14, 1884</a>. Member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/ofc/stsen.html">Delaware state senate</a> from Kent County 3rd District, 1919-22. Died <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1956/04-25.html">April 25, 1956</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/71.html">71 years, 133 days</a>). Interment at Christ Church Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/alexandre-allee.html#078.11.14">James Frank Allee</a> and Elizabeth 'Lizzie' (Stevens) Allee; nephew of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/alexandre-allee.html#171.95.60">Douglass C. Allee</a>; first cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/jacobsen-jalbert.html#880.60.97">Thomas Webber Jakes</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political family: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/39634.html">Allee-Jakes family</a> of Dover, Delaware.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/11900032">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Isabel Hope Jackson (1905-1977) — also known as Isabel Jackson; Isabel Hope Hughes — of Dover, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/KE-lived.html">Kent County</a>, Del. Born in Dover, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/KE-born.html">Kent County</a>, Del., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1905/07-17.html">July 17, 1905</a>. Republican. Delegate to Republican National Convention from Delaware, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1964/DE.html">1964</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/female.html">Female</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/episcopalian.html">Episcopalian</a>. Died <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1977/12-16.html">December 16, 1977</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/72.html">72 years, 152 days</a>). Interment at Christ Church Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Married to Harry Richardson Jackson.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/11915969">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <hr> <a name="cms01976">Lakeside Cemetery</a> 558 North State Street Dover, Kent County, Delaware See also <a href="http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=cr&CRid=104387&">Findagrave page</a> for this location. <table width=100% align="left" cellpadding=5> <tr><td colspan=2>Politicians buried here:</td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Josiah Oliver Wolcott (1877-1938) — also known as Josiah O. Wolcott — of Dover, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/KE-lived.html">Kent County</a>, Del. Born in Dover, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/KE-born.html">Kent County</a>, Del., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1877/10-31.html">October 31, 1877</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/ofc/attygn.html">Delaware state attorney general</a>, 1913-17; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/ofc/ussen.html">U.S. Senator from Delaware</a>, 1917-21; resigned 1921; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/DE.html">Democratic National Committee from Delaware</a>, 1920-21; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/ofc/chan.html">chancellor of Delaware court of chancery</a>, 1921-38; died in office 1938. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/methodist.html">Methodist</a>. Died in Dover, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/KE-died.html">Kent County</a>, Del., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1938/11-11.html">November 11, 1938</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/61.html">61 years, 11 days</a>). Interment at Lakeside Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/witherspoon-woldanski.html#522.31.73">James Lister Wolcott</a> and Mary Mills (Goodwin) Wolcott; married to Mary Rebecca Fooks; father of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/witherspoon-woldanski.html#055.26.68">Daniel Fooks Wolcott</a> and Josiah Oliver Wolcott (1912-1944; First Officer with the Merchant Marine during World War II, lost at sea when his tugboat capsized).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political family: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/35341.html">Wolcott family</a> of Dover, Delaware.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=W000669">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=411822">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josiah O. Wolcott">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/7473060">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Eli May Saulsbury (1817-1893) — also known as Eli Saulsbury — of Dover, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/KE-lived.html">Kent County</a>, Del. Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/KE-born.html">Kent County</a>, Del., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1817/12-29.html">December 29, 1817</a>. Democrat. Member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/ofc/sthse.html">Delaware state house of representatives</a>, 1853-54; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Delaware, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1864/DE.html">1864</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/ofc/ussen.html">U.S. Senator from Delaware</a>, 1871-89. Died in Dover, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/KE-died.html">Kent County</a>, Del., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1893/03-22.html">March 22, 1893</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/75.html">75 years, 83 days</a>). Interment at Lakeside Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of William Saulsbury and Margaret Ann (Smith) Saulsbury; brother of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/sarig-saunder.html#490.79.55">Gove Saulsbury</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/sarig-saunder.html#837.44.73">Willard Saulsbury Sr.</a>; uncle of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/sarig-saunder.html#781.53.85">Willard Saulsbury Jr.</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political family: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10991.html">Saulsbury family</a> of Dover, Delaware.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=S000072">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=409584">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eli M. Saulsbury">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/7472967">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> James Hurd Hughes (1867-1953) — also known as James H. Hughes — of Dover, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/KE-lived.html">Kent County</a>, Del. Born in Felton, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/KE-born.html">Kent County</a>, Del., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1867/01-14.html">January 14, 1867</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/ofc/ussen.html">U.S. Senator from Delaware</a>, 1937-43; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Delaware, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1940/DE.html">1940</a>. Died in Lewes, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/SU-died.html">Sussex County</a>, Del., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1953/08-29.html">August 29, 1953</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/86.html">86 years, 227 days</a>). Interment at Lakeside Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=H000926">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=405771">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James H. Hughes">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/6860097">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Harry Alden Richardson (1853-1928) — also known as Harry A. Richardson — of Dover, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/KE-lived.html">Kent County</a>, Del. Born in Camden, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/KE-born.html">Kent County</a>, Del., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1853/01-01.html">January 1, 1853</a>. Republican. Member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/ofc/stsen.html">Delaware state senate</a>, 1888; candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/ofc/gov.html">Governor of Delaware</a>, 1890; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/ofc/ussen.html">U.S. Senator from Delaware</a>, 1907-13; delegate to Republican National Convention from Delaware, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1908/DE.html">1908</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1912/DE.html">1912</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/baptist.html">Baptist</a>. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/soc-colonial-wars.html">Society of Colonial Wars</a>. Died in Dover, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/KE-died.html">Kent County</a>, Del., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1928/06-16.html">June 16, 1928</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/75.html">75 years, 167 days</a>). Interment at Lakeside Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Alden Bradford Richardson and Lucy Richardson; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1876/">1876</a> to Priscilla (Heverin) Walker.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=R000221">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=409197">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry A. Richardson">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/6860111">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> James Lister Wolcott (1840-1898) — also known as James L. Wolcott — of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/KE-lived.html">Kent County</a>, Del. Born in Delaware, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1840/02-05.html">February 5, 1840</a>. Democrat. Delegate to Democratic National Convention from Delaware, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1884/DE.html">1884</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/ofc/chan.html">chancellor of Delaware court of chancery</a>, 1892-95. Died in Dover, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/KE-died.html">Kent County</a>, Del., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1898/03-31.html">March 31, 1898</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/58.html">58 years, 54 days</a>). Interment at Lakeside Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Josiah Wolcott and Elizabeth (Dorman) Wolcott; married to Mary Mills Goodwin; father of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/witherspoon-woldanski.html#003.13.43">Josiah Oliver Wolcott</a>; grandfather of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/witherspoon-woldanski.html#055.26.68">Daniel Fooks Wolcott</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political family: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/35341.html">Wolcott family</a> of Dover, Delaware.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/7802661">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> William Comegys Paradee (1883-1957) — also known as William C. Paradee — of Magnolia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/KE-lived.html">Kent County</a>, Del. Born <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1883/07-09.html">July 9, 1883</a>. Democrat. Member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/ofc/sthse.html">Delaware state house of representatives</a> from Kent County 8th District, 1927-28, 1951-52; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/ofc/stsen.html">Delaware state senate</a> from Kent County 5th District, 1955-57; died in office 1957. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/methodist.html">Methodist</a>. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/masons.html">Freemasons</a>. Died, from a <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/heart.html">heart attack</a>, the day after an emergency <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/appendicitis.html">appendectomy</a>, in Kent General <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/misc-hospitals.html">Hospital</a>, Dover, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/KE-died.html">Kent County</a>, Del., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1957/01-11.html">January 11, 1957</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/73.html">73 years, 186 days</a>). Interment at Lakeside Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1905/">1905</a> to Sara A. Carson; married to Bertha Rogers.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/7677354">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Wilson L. Cannon (d. 1905) — of Dover, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/KE-lived.html">Kent County</a>, Del. Member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/ofc/stsen.html">Delaware state senate</a>; elected 1858; alternate delegate to Republican National Convention from Delaware, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1868/DE.html">1868</a> (member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1868/committees.html">Committee on Permanent Organization</a>). Died, of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/pneumonia.html">pneumonia</a>, in Dover, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/KE-died.html">Kent County</a>, Del., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1905/02-09.html">February 9, 1905</a>. Interment at Lakeside Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Father of Annie Jump Cannon.</td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Douglass C. Allee (1859-1937) — of Dover, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/KE-lived.html">Kent County</a>, Del. Born in Dover, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/KE-born.html">Kent County</a>, Del., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1859/10-07.html">October 7, 1859</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/food.html">Cannery foreman</a>; postmaster at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/ofc/dover.html#2">Dover, Del.</a>, 1903-11; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/ofc/sthse.html">Delaware state house of representatives</a> from Kent County 5th District, 1923-24. Died in Dover, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/KE-died.html">Kent County</a>, Del., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1937/07-22.html">July 22, 1937</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/77.html">77 years, 288 days</a>). Interment at Lakeside Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of James Francis Allee and Martha Jane (Day) Allee; brother of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/alexandre-allee.html#078.11.14">James Frank Allee</a>; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1883/">1883</a> to Sallie Chipman; uncle of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/alexandre-allee.html#657.38.76">James Frank Allee Jr.</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political family: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/39634.html">Allee-Jakes family</a> of Dover, Delaware.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/7567781">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Daniel M. Ridgely (1854-1937) — of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/KE-lived.html">Kent County</a>, Del. Born in Delaware, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1854/10-03.html">October 3, 1854</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/farmer.html">Farmer</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/ofc/sthse.html">Delaware state house of representatives</a> from Kent County, 1891-92. Died near Dover, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/KE-died.html">Kent County</a>, Del., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1937/07-20.html">July 20, 1937</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/82.html">82 years, 290 days</a>). Interment at Lakeside Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Eugene Ridgely and Mary Ann (Mifflin) Ridgely; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1876/">1876</a> to Ella Madden; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1924/11-29.html">November 29, 1924</a>, to Mary E. Slaughter; father of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ridge-riggin.html#649.54.42">Charles du Pont Ridgely</a>; grandson of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ridge-riggin.html#051.52.04">Henry Moore Ridgely</a>; grandfather of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ridge-riggin.html#632.88.05">Henry Johnson Ridgely</a>; grandnephew of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ridge-riggin.html#656.34.46">Nicholas Greenberry Ridgely</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political family: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-1825.html">Ridgely family</a> of Dover, Delaware (subset of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"><img src="https://politicalgraveyard.com/thumb/455/61.59.jpg" width=70 height=113 border=0 alt="John M. Houston"></td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> John Mitchell Moore Houston (1879-1941) — also known as John M. Houston — of Dover, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/KE-lived.html">Kent County</a>, Del. Born in Delaware, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1879/07-15.html">July 15, 1879</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/food.html">Grocer</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/ofc/sthse.html">Delaware state house of representatives</a> from Kent County 5th District, 1913-14. Died in Dover, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/KE-died.html">Kent County</a>, Del., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1941/09-09.html">September 9, 1941</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/62.html">62 years, 56 days</a>). Interment at Lakeside Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/houston.html#984.76.21">John Mitchell Houston</a> and Addie (Hickman) Houston; married to Florence Wharton; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1920/06-16.html">June 16, 1920</a>, to Mary A. (Warrington) Morris; nephew of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/houston.html#084.46.35">Charles Bell Houston</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/houston.html#518.56.09">Henry Aydelotte Houston (1847-1925)</a>; first cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/houston.html#188.73.63">Henry Aydelotte Houston (1890-1979)</a>; first cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/houston.html#225.82.42">John Wallace Houston</a>; second cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/houston.html#314.20.39">Robert Griffith Houston</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political families: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-1533.html">Houston family</a> of Delaware; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-1977.html">Tunnell family</a> of Lewes, Delaware (subsets of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Image source: Wilmington (Del.) Morning News, January 30, 1913</td></tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <hr> <a name="cms03537">Methodist Cemetery</a> Dover, Kent County, Delaware <table width=100% align="left" cellpadding=5> <tr><td colspan=2>Politicians buried here:</td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> George Purnell Fisher (1817-1899) — also known as George P. Fisher — of Dover, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/KE-lived.html">Kent County</a>, Del.; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DC/wa-lived.html">Washington</a>, D.C. Born in Milford, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/SU-born.html">Sussex County</a>, Del., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1817/10-13.html">October 13, 1817</a>. Republican. Member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/ofc/sthse.html">Delaware state house of representatives</a>, 1843-44; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/ofc/sos.html">secretary of state of Delaware</a>, 1846; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/ofc/attygn.html">Delaware state attorney general</a>, 1855-60; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Delaware</a> at-large, 1861-63; defeated, 1862; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DC/ofc/spju.html">justice of District of Columbia supreme court</a>, 1863-70; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DC/ofc/usatty.html">U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia</a>, 1870-76; alternate delegate to Republican National Convention from Delaware, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1880/DE.html">1880</a>. Slaveowner. Died in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DC/wa-died.html">Washington</a>, D.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1899/02-10.html">February 10, 1899</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/81.html">81 years, 120 days</a>). Original interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DC/wa-buried.html#cms00803">Oak Hill Cemetery</a>, Washington, D.C.; reinterment at Methodist Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=F000147">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=404102">Govtrack.us page</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <hr> <a name="cms00487">Old Methodist or Whatcoat Cemetery</a> Dover, Kent County, Delaware <table width=100% align="left" cellpadding=5> <tr><td colspan=2>Politicians buried here:</td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Gove Saulsbury (1815-1881) — of Dover, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/KE-lived.html">Kent County</a>, Del. Born <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1815/05-29.html">May 29, 1815</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/physician.html">Physician</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/ofc/gov.html">Governor of Delaware</a>, 1865-71; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Delaware, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1876/DE.html">1876</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1880/DE.html">1880</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/methodist.html">Methodist</a>. Died <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1881/07-31.html">July 31, 1881</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/66.html">66 years, 63 days</a>). Interment at Old Methodist or Whatcoat Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Brother of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/sarig-saunder.html#654.40.59">Eli May Saulsbury</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/sarig-saunder.html#837.44.73">Willard Saulsbury Sr.</a>; uncle of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/sarig-saunder.html#781.53.85">Willard Saulsbury Jr.</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political family: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10991.html">Saulsbury family</a> of Dover, Delaware.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://www.nga.org/governor/gove-saulsbury/">National Governors Association biography</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gove Saulsbury">Wikipedia article</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Cornelius Parsons Comegys (1780-1851) — also known as Cornelius P. Comegys — of Delaware. Born <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1780/01-15.html">January 15, 1780</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/ofc/trea.html">Delaware state treasurer</a>, 1818-23, 1830-35; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/ofc/gov.html">Governor of Delaware</a>, 1837-41. Died <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1851/01-27.html">January 27, 1851</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/71.html">71 years, 12 days</a>). Interment at Old Methodist or Whatcoat Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://www.nga.org/governor/cornelius-parsons-comegys/">National Governors Association biography</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Nathaniel Barratt Smithers (1818-1896) — also known as Nathaniel B. Smithers — of Dover, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/KE-lived.html">Kent County</a>, Del. Born in Dover, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/KE-born.html">Kent County</a>, Del., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1818/10-08.html">October 8, 1818</a>. Republican. Delegate to Republican National Convention from Delaware, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1860/DE.html">1860</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1868/DE.html">1868</a> (member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1868/committees.html">Credentials Committee</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1868/speakers.html">speaker</a>), <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1880/DE.html">1880</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/ofc/sos.html">secretary of state of Delaware</a>, 1863; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Delaware</a> at-large, 1863-65; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/DE.html">Republican National Committee from Delaware</a>, 1866-68. Died in Dover, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/KE-died.html">Kent County</a>, Del., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1896/01-16.html">January 16, 1896</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/77.html">77 years, 100 days</a>). Interment at Old Methodist or Whatcoat Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=S000642">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=410116">Govtrack.us page</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <hr> <a name="cms00277">Old Presbyterian Cemetery</a> 316 South Governor's Avenue Dover, Kent County, Delaware See also <a href="http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=cr&CRid=1963747&">Findagrave page</a> for this location. <table width=100% align="left" cellpadding=5> <tr><td colspan=2>Politicians buried here:</td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> John Middleton Clayton (1796-1856) — also known as John M. Clayton — of Dover, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/KE-lived.html">Kent County</a>, Del.; New Castle, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/NC-lived.html">New Castle County</a>, Del. Born in Dagsboro, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/SU-born.html">Sussex County</a>, Del., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1796/07-24.html">July 24, 1796</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/ofc/sthse.html">Delaware state house of representatives</a> from Kent County, 1824; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/ofc/sos.html">secretary of state of Delaware</a>, 1826-28; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/ofc/ussen.html">U.S. Senator from Delaware</a>, 1829-36, 1845-49, 1853-56; resigned 1836, 1849; died in office 1856; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/ofc/spju.html">justice of Delaware state supreme court</a>, 1837-39; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/offices/cabinet.html">U.S. Secretary of State</a>, 1849-50. Slaveowner. Died in Dover, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/KE-died.html">Kent County</a>, Del., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1856/11-09.html">November 9, 1856</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/60.html">60 years, 108 days</a>). Interment at Old Presbyterian Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of James George Clayton and Sarah (Middleton) Clayton; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1822/09-13.html">September 13, 1822</a>, to Sally Ann Fisher; nephew of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/clayton.html#620.16.33">Joshua Clayton</a>; great-granduncle of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/buck.html#416.12.48">Clayton Douglass Buck</a>; first cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/clayton.html#406.70.80">Thomas Clayton</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political family: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-1063.html">DuPont-Bayard family</a> of Wilmington, Delaware (subset of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IA/CT.html">Clayton County, Iowa</a> is named for him.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">The World War II <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-ships.html">Liberty ship</a> SS John M. Clayton (built 1942 at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/LA-names.html">Terminal Island, California</a>; bombed 1945; repaired; renamed USS Harcourt; scrapped 1962) was originally <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a>.</li> </td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=C000496">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=402633">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John M. Clayton">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://www.nndb.com/people/567/000050417">NNDB dossier</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/6653482">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Thomas Clayton (1777-1854) — of Dover, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/KE-lived.html">Kent County</a>, Del. Born in Massey, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MD/KE-born.html">Kent County</a>, Md., July, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1777/index.html">1777</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/ofc/sthse.html">Delaware state house of representatives</a>, 1802-06, 1810, 1812-13; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/ofc/stsen.html">Delaware state senate</a>, 1808, 1808, 1821; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/ofc/sos.html">secretary of state of Delaware</a>, 1808-10; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/ofc/attygn.html">Delaware state attorney general</a>, 1810-15; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Delaware</a> at-large, 1815-17; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/ofc/ussen.html">U.S. Senator from Delaware</a>, 1824-27, 1837-47; common pleas court judge in Delaware, 1828; superior court judge in Delaware, 1832. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/presbyterian.html">Presbyterian</a>. Slaveowner. Died in New Castle, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/NC-died.html">New Castle County</a>, Del., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1854/08-21.html">August 21, 1854</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/77.html">77 years, 0 days</a>). Interment at Old Presbyterian Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/clayton.html#620.16.33">Joshua Clayton</a> and Rachel Bassett (McCleary) Clayton; married to Jeannette McComb (daughter of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/mcclurg-mcconkey.html#191.69.86">Eleazer McComb</a>); grandnephew of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/basset-bastin.html#280.36.75">Richard Bassett</a>; first cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/clayton.html#514.51.50">John Middleton Clayton</a>; first cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/buck.html#416.12.48">Clayton Douglass Buck</a>; second cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bay-bazzle.html#729.08.48">Richard Henry Bayard (1796-1868)</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bay-bazzle.html#459.41.40">James Asheton Bayard Jr.</a>; second cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bay-bazzle.html#827.27.04">Thomas Francis Bayard Sr.</a>; second cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bay-bazzle.html#814.07.63">Thomas Francis Bayard Jr.</a>; second cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bay-bazzle.html#449.01.75">Thomas Francis Bayard III</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bay-bazzle.html#379.41.92">Alexis Irenee du Pont Bayard</a>; second cousin four times removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bay-bazzle.html#804.11.34">Richard Henry Bayard (born c.1949)</a>; third cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/winterberg-wisdom.html#942.86.81">John Sluyter Wirt</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political families: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-1063.html">DuPont-Bayard family</a> of Wilmington, Delaware; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-1030.html">Livingston-Schuyler family</a> of New York (subsets of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=C000499">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=402636">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas Clayton">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/7504148">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Joseph Parsons Comegys (1813-1893) — also known as Joseph P. Comegys — of Dover, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/KE-lived.html">Kent County</a>, Del. Born near Dover, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/KE-born.html">Kent County</a>, Del., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1813/12-29.html">December 29, 1813</a>. Whig. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/ofc/sthse.html">Delaware state house of representatives</a>, 1842, 1848; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/ofc/ussen.html">U.S. Senator from Delaware</a>, 1856-57; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/ofc/spcj.html">chief justice of Delaware state supreme court</a>, 1876-93. Died in Dover, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/KE-died.html">Kent County</a>, Del., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1893/02-01.html">February 1, 1893</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/79.html">79 years, 34 days</a>). Interment at Old Presbyterian Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=C000656">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=402783">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph P. Comegys">Wikipedia article</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> James Caleb Boggs (1909-1993) — also known as J. Caleb Boggs — of Wilmington, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/NC-lived.html">New Castle County</a>, Del. Born in Cheswold, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/KE-born.html">Kent County</a>, Del., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1909/05-15.html">May 15, 1909</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; colonel in the U.S. Army during World War II; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Delaware</a> at-large, 1947-53; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/ofc/gov.html">Governor of Delaware</a>, 1953-60; delegate to Republican National Convention from Delaware, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1960/DE.html">1960</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/ofc/ussen.html">U.S. Senator from Delaware</a>, 1961-73; defeated, 1972. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/methodist.html">Methodist</a>. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/aba.html">American Bar Association</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/am-legion.html">American Legion</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/vfw.html">Veterans of Foreign Wars</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/kiwanis.html">Kiwanis</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/kappa-alpha-ord.html">Kappa Alpha Order</a>. Died in Wilmington, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/NC-died.html">New Castle County</a>, Del., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1993/03-26.html">March 26, 1993</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/83.html">83 years, 315 days</a>). Interment at Old Presbyterian Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Edgar J. Boggs and Lettie (Vaughan) Boggs; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1931/12-26.html">December 26, 1931</a>, to Elizabeth Muir.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=B000593">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=401561">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://www.nga.org/governor/james-caleb-boggs/">National Governors Association biography</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J. Caleb Boggs">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://www.nndb.com/people/858/000051705">NNDB dossier</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Charles Polk (1788-1857) — of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/KE-lived.html">Kent County</a>, Del. Born in Bridgeville, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/SU-born.html">Sussex County</a>, Del., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1788/11-15.html">November 15, 1788</a>. Member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/ofc/sthse.html">Delaware state house of representatives</a> from Kent County, 1824; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/ofc/gov.html">Governor of Delaware</a>, 1827-30, 1836-37. Died in Milford, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/KE-died.html">Kent County</a>, Del., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1857/10-27.html">October 27, 1857</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/68.html">68 years, 346 days</a>). Interment at Old Presbyterian Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Charles Polk (1740-1795) and Mary (Manlove) Polk; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1811/09-04.html">September 4, 1811</a>, to Mary Elizabeth Purnell; grandfather of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/poinier-polke.html#730.83.78">Albert Fawcett Polk</a>; third cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/poinier-polke.html#210.42.53">James Knox Polk</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/poinier-polke.html#937.03.47">Trusten Polk</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/poinier-polke.html#067.26.29">William Hawkins Polk</a>; third cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/dodge.html#657.22.93">Augustus Caesar Dodge</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/poinier-polke.html#540.84.48">Marshall Tate Polk</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/poinier-polke.html#769.93.45">Tasker Polk</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/poinier-polke.html#479.25.41">Richard Tyler Polk</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/poinier-polke.html#672.96.01">Edwin Fitzhugh Polk</a>; third cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/poinier-polke.html#181.41.38">Rufus King Polk</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/poinier-polke.html#632.78.03">Frank Lyon Polk</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political families: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-1787.html">Polk family</a> of Tennessee; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-2600.html">Polk family</a> of New York City, New York (subsets of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://www.nga.org/governor/charles-polk/">National Governors Association biography</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/7105437">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Martin Waltham Bates (1786-1869) — of Dover, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/KE-lived.html">Kent County</a>, Del. Born in Salisbury, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/LI-born.html">Litchfield County</a>, Conn., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1786/02-24.html">February 24, 1786</a>. Democrat. Member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/ofc/sthse.html">Delaware state house of representatives</a>, 1826; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/ofc/cncn.html">delegate to Delaware state constitutional convention</a>, 1852; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/ofc/ussen.html">U.S. Senator from Delaware</a>, 1857-59. Slaveowner. Died in Dover, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/KE-died.html">Kent County</a>, Del., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1869/01-01.html">January 1, 1869</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/82.html">82 years, 312 days</a>). Interment at Old Presbyterian Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Martin Bates and Catherine (Ball) Bates; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1811/04-29.html">April 29, 1811</a>, to Mary Hillyard.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=B000238">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=401233">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin W. Bates">Wikipedia article</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Jacob Stout (1764-1855) — of Delaware. Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1764/index.html">1764</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/ofc/gov.html">Governor of Delaware</a>, 1820-21. Died in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1855/index.html">1855</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/91.html">about 91 years</a>). Interment at Old Presbyterian Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://www.nga.org/governor/jacob-stout/">National Governors Association biography</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> John Brown Penington (1825-1902) — also known as John B. Penington — of Dover, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/KE-lived.html">Kent County</a>, Del. Born near New Castle, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/NC-born.html">New Castle County</a>, Del., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1825/12-20.html">December 20, 1825</a>. Democrat. Member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/ofc/sthse.html">Delaware state house of representatives</a>, 1857; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/ofc/attygn.html">Delaware state attorney general</a>, 1874-79; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Delaware</a> at-large, 1887-91. Died in Dover, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/KE-died.html">Kent County</a>, Del., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1902/06-01.html">June 1, 1902</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/76.html">76 years, 163 days</a>). Interment at Old Presbyterian Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=P000209">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=408612">Govtrack.us page</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td colspan=2>Other politicians who have (or had) monuments here:</td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Joshua Clayton (1744-1798) — of Delaware. Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MD/CE-born.html">Cecil County</a>, Md., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1744/07-20.html">July 20, 1744</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/physician.html">Physician</a>; served in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/ofc/trea.html">Delaware state treasurer</a>, 1786-89; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/ofc/pres.html">President of Delaware</a>, 1789-92; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/ofc/gov.html">Governor of Delaware</a>, 1793-96; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/ofc/ussen.html">U.S. Senator from Delaware</a>, 1798; died in office 1798. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/presbyterian.html">Presbyterian</a>. Died in Philadelphia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-died.html">Philadelphia County</a>, Pa., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1798/08-11.html">August 11, 1798</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/54.html">54 years, 22 days</a>). Original interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/NC-buried.html#cms07156">a private or family graveyard</a>, New Castle County, Del.; reinterment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MD/CE-buried.html#cms00017">Bethel Cemetery</a>, Chesapeake City, Md.; cenotaph at Old Presbyterian Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Eleanor (Edinfield) Clayton and James Clayton; married to Rachel (McCleary) Bassett (adoptive daughter of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/basset-bastin.html#280.36.75">Richard Bassett</a>); father of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/clayton.html#406.70.80">Thomas Clayton</a>; uncle of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/clayton.html#514.51.50">John Middleton Clayton</a>; second great-granduncle of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/buck.html#416.12.48">Clayton Douglass Buck</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political family: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-1240.html">Clayton family</a> of Dover, Delaware (subset of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=C000497">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=402634">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://www.nga.org/governor/joshua-clayton/">National Governors Association biography</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joshua Clayton">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/7412969">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <hr> <a name="cms03044">Presbyterian Church Cemetery</a> Dover, Kent County, Delaware <table width=100% align="left" cellpadding=5> <tr><td colspan=2>Politicians buried here:</td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> John Anthony Nicholson (1827-1906) — also known as John A. Nicholson — of Dover, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/KE-lived.html">Kent County</a>, Del. Born in Delaware, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1827/index.html">1827</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Delaware</a> at-large, 1865-69. Slaveowner. Died in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1906/index.html">1906</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/79.html">about 79 years</a>). Interment at Presbyterian Church Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=N000099">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=408184">Govtrack.us page</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <hr> <a name="cms02737">Presbyterian Churchyard</a> Dover, Kent County, Delaware <table width=100% align="left" cellpadding=5> <tr><td colspan=2>Politicians buried here:</td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> John Patten (1746-1800) — of Delaware. Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/KE-born.html">Kent County</a>, Del., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1746/04-26.html">April 26, 1746</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/ofc/ccdel.html">Delegate to Continental Congress from Delaware</a>, 1780; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Delaware</a> at-large, 1793-94, 1795-97. Died near Dover, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/KE-died.html">Kent County</a>, Del., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1800/12-26.html">December 26, 1800</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/54.html">54 years, 244 days</a>). Interment at Presbyterian Churchyard. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=P000108">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=408516">Govtrack.us page</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <hr> <a name=" ">Todds Chapel Cemetery</a> Farmington, Kent County, Delaware See also <a href="http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=cr&CRid=1980923&">Findagrave page</a> for this location. <table width=100% align="left" cellpadding=5> <tr><td colspan=2>Politicians buried here:</td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Charles M. Adams (1853-1899) — of Adamsville, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/KE-lived.html">Kent County</a>, Del. Born <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1853/11-14.html">November 14, 1853</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/merchant.html">Merchant</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/ofc/sthse.html">Delaware state house of representatives</a> from Kent County, 1897-98. Died in Adamsville, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/KE-died.html">Kent County</a>, Del., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1899/01-27.html">January 27, 1899</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/45.html">45 years, 74 days</a>). Interment at Todds Chapel Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/8571031">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <hr> <a name=" ">Hopkins Cemetery</a> Felton, Kent County, Delaware <table width=100% align="left" cellpadding=5> <tr><td colspan=2>Politicians buried here:</td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Samuel Carl Hughes (1860-1936) — also known as Samuel C. Hughes — of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/KE-lived.html">Kent County</a>, Del. Born in Harrington, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/KE-born.html">Kent County</a>, Del., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1860/11-28.html">November 28, 1860</a>. Member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/ofc/sthse.html">Delaware state house of representatives</a> from Kent County 6th District, 1903-04, 1929-30. Died in Felton, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/KE-died.html">Kent County</a>, Del., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1936/08-29.html">August 29, 1936</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/75.html">75 years, 275 days</a>). Interment at Hopkins Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Ebenezer Reed Hughes Hughes and Rebecca (Hurd) Hughes; married to Amy Ellender Longfellow.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/11287761">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <hr> <a name="cms00984">Barratt's Chapel Cemetery</a> 6416 Bay Road Near Frederica, Kent County, Delaware Founded 1780 See also <a href="http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=cr&CRid=1028202&">Findagrave page</a> for this location. <table width=100% align="left" cellpadding=5> <tr><td colspan=2>Politicians buried here:</td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> John Wood Hall (1817-1892) — also known as John W. Hall — of Frederica, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/KE-lived.html">Kent County</a>, Del. Born in Frederica, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/KE-born.html">Kent County</a>, Del., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1817/01-01.html">January 1, 1817</a>. Democrat. Delegate to Democratic National Convention from Delaware, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1864/DE.html">1864</a> (alternate), <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1876/DE.html">1876</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/ofc/stsen.html">Delaware state senate</a>, 1867-70, 1891-92; died in office 1892; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/ofc/gov.html">Governor of Delaware</a>, 1879-83. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/methodist.html">Methodist</a>. Died in Frederica, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/KE-died.html">Kent County</a>, Del., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1892/01-23.html">January 23, 1892</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/75.html">75 years, 22 days</a>). Interment at Barratt's Chapel Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of John Hall and Henrietta (Bowman) Hall; married to Caroline Warren.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://www.nga.org/governor/john-wood-hall/">National Governors Association biography</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John W. Hall">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/5094338">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> George Truitt (1756-1818) — of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/KE-lived.html">Kent County</a>, Del. Born in Felton, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/KE-born.html">Kent County</a>, Del., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1756/index.html">1756</a>. Member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/ofc/stsen.html">Delaware state senate</a> from Kent County, 1803-07; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/ofc/gov.html">Governor of Delaware</a>, 1808-11. Died in Felton, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/KE-died.html">Kent County</a>, Del., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1818/10-08.html">October 8, 1818</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/62.html">about 62 years</a>). Interment at Barratt's Chapel Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Married to Margaret Mary Hodgson.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://www.nga.org/governor/george-truitt/">National Governors Association biography</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George Truitt">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/7489270">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Jonathan Spencer Willis (1830-1903) — also known as Jonathan S. Willis — of Milford, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/SU-lived.html">Sussex County</a>, Del. Born in Oxford, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MD/TA-born.html">Talbot County</a>, Md., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1830/04-05.html">April 5, 1830</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Delaware</a> at-large, 1895-97; defeated, 1892. Died in Milford, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/SU-died.html">Sussex County</a>, Del., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1903/11-24.html">November 24, 1903</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/73.html">73 years, 233 days</a>). Interment at Barratt's Chapel Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=W000562">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=411718">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/7869484">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> James Hall Anderson (1878-1936) — of Dover, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/KE-lived.html">Kent County</a>, Del. Born in Milford, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/SU-born.html">Sussex County</a>, Del., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1878/11-12.html">November 12, 1878</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/ofc/ltgov.html">Lieutenant Governor of Delaware</a>, 1925-29. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/masons.html">Freemasons</a>. Died in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1936/index.html">1936</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/57.html">about 57 years</a>). Interment at Barratt's Chapel Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of James F. Anderson and Sarah G. (Hall) Anderson; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1907/09-17.html">September 17, 1907</a>, to Blanche V. Brown.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/26482012">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Elwood Franklin Melson Sr. (1890-1980) — also known as Elwood F. Melson, Sr. — of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/SU-lived.html">Sussex County</a>, Del. Born in Selbyville, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/SU-born.html">Sussex County</a>, Del., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1890/11-25.html">November 25, 1890</a>. Member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/ofc/sthse.html">Delaware state house of representatives</a> from Sussex County 6th District, 1923-24; family court judge in Delaware, 1946-64. Died in Wilmington, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/NC-died.html">New Castle County</a>, Del., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1980/11-20.html">November 20, 1980</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/89.html">89 years, 361 days</a>). Interment at Barratt's Chapel Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of William Handy Melson and Mary Martha (Dukes) Melson; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1908/">1908</a> to Laura Montgomery Buckson; father of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/mellette-memorial.html#660.29.19">Elwood Franklin Melson Jr.</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/30490371">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> John Boone Jester (1895-1938) — also known as John B. Jester — of High Point, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/NC-lived.html">New Castle County</a>, Del. Born in Felton, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/KE-born.html">Kent County</a>, Del., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1895/04-12.html">April 12, 1895</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Delaware, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1936/DE.html">1936</a>. Died <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1938/08-22.html">August 22, 1938</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/43.html">43 years, 132 days</a>). Interment at Barratt's Chapel Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of John Green Jester and Laura (Boone) Jester; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1926/12-29.html">December 29, 1926</a>, to Amy Catherine Hughes.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/13043274">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <hr> <a name=" ">Hollywood Cemetery</a> Harrington, Kent County, Delaware <table width=100% align="left" cellpadding=5> <tr><td colspan=2>Politicians buried here:</td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Wilbur E. Jacobs (1882-1956) — of Harrington, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/KE-lived.html">Kent County</a>, Del. Born near Harrington, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/KE-born.html">Kent County</a>, Del., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1882/09-02.html">September 2, 1882</a>. Democrat. Member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/ofc/stsen.html">Delaware state senate</a> from Kent County 4th District, 1929-32; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/ofc/aud.html">Delaware state auditor</a>; elected 1944. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/methodist.html">Methodist</a>. Died <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1956/07-12.html">July 12, 1956</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/73.html">73 years, 314 days</a>). Interment at Hollywood Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/11384247">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Jehu Fleming Camper (1897-1989) — also known as Jehu F. Camper — of Harrington, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/KE-lived.html">Kent County</a>, Del. Born in Harrington, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/KE-born.html">Kent County</a>, Del., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1897/10-10.html">October 10, 1897</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/postal.html">Mail carrier</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/autoservice.html">service station owner</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/ofc/sthse.html">Delaware state house of representatives</a> from Kent County 9th District, 1949-50; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/ofc/stsen.html">Delaware state senate</a> from Kent County 4th District, 1953-56. Died in Delaware, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1989/01-14.html">January 14, 1989</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/91.html">91 years, 96 days</a>). Interment at Hollywood Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of William T. Camper and Elma (Morris) Camper; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1918/">1918</a> to Lillian Marie Short.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/120218333">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> J. Will Powell (1853-1934) — of Harrington, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/KE-lived.html">Kent County</a>, Del. Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1853/index.html">1853</a>. Republican. Member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/ofc/sthse.html">Delaware state house of representatives</a> from Kent County 9th District, 1903-04; alternate delegate to Republican National Convention from Delaware, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1920/DE.html">1920</a>. Died in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1934/index.html">1934</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/81.html">about 81 years</a>). Interment at Hollywood Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/11399139">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <hr> <a name=" ">Hartly Methodist Church Cemetery</a> Hartly, Kent County, Delaware <table width=100% align="left" cellpadding=5> <tr><td colspan=2>Politicians buried here:</td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Roger Elmer Davis (1920-1993) — also known as Roger E. Davis — of Hartly, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/KE-lived.html">Kent County</a>, Del. Born in Newark, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/NC-born.html">New Castle County</a>, Del., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1920/03-20.html">March 20, 1920</a>. Republican. Candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/ofc/sthse.html">Delaware state house of representatives</a> from Kent County 4th District, 1946. Died in Hartly, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/KE-died.html">Kent County</a>, Del., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1993/11-04.html">November 4, 1993</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/73.html">73 years, 229 days</a>). Interment at Hartly Methodist Church Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/davis7.html#840.76.90">Roger Alfred Davis</a> and Hannah (Kirk) Davis; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1945/">1945</a> to Margaret Christina McKenzie Mowatt.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political families:Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/5096529">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <hr> <a name=" ">Little Creek Friends Meetinghouse Cemetery</a> Little Ceek, Kent County, Delaware See also <a href="http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=cr&CRid=104370&">Findagrave page</a> for this location. <table width=100% align="left" cellpadding=5> <tr><td colspan=2>Politicians buried here:</td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Daniel Mifflin Wilson (1856-1943) — also known as D. Mifflin Wilson — of Dover, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/KE-lived.html">Kent County</a>, Del. Born <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1856/10-04.html">October 4, 1856</a>. Republican. Republican candidate for Presidential Elector for Delaware, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/ofc/pr1912-election.html">1912</a>; delegate to Republican National Convention from Delaware, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1916/DE.html">1916</a> (alternate), <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1924/DE.html">1924</a> (alternate), <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1928/DE.html">1928</a> (member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1928/committees.html">Committee to Notify Vice-Presidential Nominee</a>), <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1932/DE.html">1932</a>. Died <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1943/02-14.html">February 14, 1943</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/86.html">86 years, 133 days</a>). Interment at Little Creek Friends Meetinghouse Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Thomas W. Wilson and Sophia Wilson.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/86414707">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <hr> <a name="cms05140">Christ Episcopal Churchyard</a> Milford, Kent County, Delaware <table width=100% align="left" cellpadding=5> <tr><td colspan=2>Politicians buried here:</td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> William Tharp (1803-1865) — of Delaware. Born <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1803/11-27.html">November 27, 1803</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/ofc/gov.html">Governor of Delaware</a>, 1847-51; defeated, 1844. Died <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1865/01-01.html">January 1, 1865</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/61.html">61 years, 35 days</a>). Interment at Christ Episcopal Churchyard. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Grandfather of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/watson9.html#263.53.19">William Tharp Watson</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://www.nga.org/governor/william-tharp/">National Governors Association biography</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> William Burton (1789-1866) — of Milford, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/SU-lived.html">Sussex County</a>, Del. Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/SU-born.html">Sussex County</a>, Del., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1789/10-16.html">October 16, 1789</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/physician.html">Physician</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/SU-officials.html">Sussex County Sheriff</a>, 1830-34; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/ofc/gov.html">Governor of Delaware</a>, 1859-63; defeated, 1854. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/episcopalian.html">Episcopalian</a>. Died in Milford, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/SU-died.html">Sussex County</a>, Del., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1866/08-05.html">August 5, 1866</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/76.html">76 years, 293 days</a>). Interment at Christ Episcopal Churchyard. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Married to Eliza Sorden and Ann C. Hill.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://www.nga.org/governor/william-burton/">National Governors Association biography</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William Burton (governor)">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/7105298">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Peter Foster Causey (1801-1871) — also known as Peter F. Causey — of Milford, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/SU-lived.html">Sussex County</a>, Del. Born near Bridgeville, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/SU-born.html">Sussex County</a>, Del., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1801/01-11.html">January 11, 1801</a>. Whig. Delegate to Whig National Convention from Delaware, 1839; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/ofc/gov.html">Governor of Delaware</a>, 1855-59; defeated, 1846, 1850. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/methodist.html">Methodist</a>. Died in Milford, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/SU-died.html">Sussex County</a>, Del., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1871/02-15.html">February 15, 1871</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/70.html">70 years, 35 days</a>). Interment at Christ Episcopal Churchyard. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Married to Maria Williams; father of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/catron-cavanagh.html#555.60.45">William Frederick Causey</a>; uncle of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/poinier-polke.html#937.03.47">Trusten Polk</a>; grandfather of Elizabeth Williams (who married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/vaile-valentin.html#824.42.87">Ruby Ross Vale</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political family: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-1789.html">Polk family</a> of Delaware (subset of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://www.nga.org/governor/peter-foster-causey/">National Governors Association biography</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <hr> <a name=" ">Milford Community Cemetery</a> Milford, Kent County, Delaware <table width=100% align="left" cellpadding=5> <tr><td colspan=2>Politicians buried here:</td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Walter J. Hoey (1903-1981) — of Milford, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/SU-lived.html">Sussex County</a>, Del. Born <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1903/07-12.html">July 12, 1903</a>. Democrat. Member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/ofc/sthse.html">Delaware state house of representatives</a> from Sussex County 1st District, 1951-54; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/ofc/stsen.html">Delaware state senate</a>, 1955-66 (Sussex County 1st District 1955-64, 16th District 1965-66); alternate delegate to Democratic National Convention from Delaware, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1956/DE.html">1956</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1968/DE.html">1968</a>. Died <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1981/06-26.html">June 26, 1981</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/77.html">77 years, 349 days</a>). Interment at Milford Community Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/80586539">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <hr> <a name="cms00243">Odd Fellows Cemetery</a> Walnut Street Milford, Kent County, Delaware See also <a href="http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=cr&CRid=1963823&">Findagrave page</a> for this location. <table width=100% align="left" cellpadding=5> <tr><td colspan=2>Politicians buried here:</td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Joseph Haslet (c.1769-1823) — of Delaware. Born about 1769. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/ofc/gov.html">Governor of Delaware</a>, 1811-14, 1823; died in office 1823. Died <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1823/06-20.html">June 20, 1823</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/54.html">about 54 years</a>). Original interment <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/SU-buried.html#cms05168">somewhere</a> in Cedar Creek, Del.; reinterment in 1916 at Odd Fellows Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://www.nga.org/governor/joseph-haslet/">National Governors Association biography</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/7489295">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Daniel Rogers (1754-1806) — of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/SU-lived.html">Sussex County</a>, Del. Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/AC-born.html">Accomack County</a>, Va., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1754/01-03.html">January 3, 1754</a>. Member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/ofc/stsen.html">Delaware state senate</a> from Sussex County, 1793-97, 1802-06; died in office 1806; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/ofc/gov.html">Governor of Delaware</a>, 1797-99. Died in Milford, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/SU-died.html">Sussex County</a>, Del., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1806/02-02.html">February 2, 1806</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/52.html">52 years, 30 days</a>). Interment at Odd Fellows Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://www.nga.org/governor/daniel-rogers/">National Governors Association biography</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel Rogers (politician)">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/7447873">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> William Tharp Watson (1849-1917) — also known as William T. Watson — of Milford, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/SU-lived.html">Sussex County</a>, Del. Born in Milford, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/SU-born.html">Sussex County</a>, Del., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1849/06-22.html">June 22, 1849</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/banking.html">Banker</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/ofc/stsen.html">Delaware state senate</a> from Kent County, 1893-95; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/ofc/gov.html">Governor of Delaware</a>, 1895-97. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/episcopalian.html">Episcopalian</a>. Died in Milford, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/SU-died.html">Sussex County</a>, Del., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1917/04-14.html">April 14, 1917</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/67.html">67 years, 296 days</a>). Interment at Odd Fellows Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Grandson of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/terryll-thaxton.html#226.85.75">William Tharp</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://www.nga.org/governor/william-tharp-watson/">National Governors Association biography</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/7880703">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> John Williams Causey (1841-1908) — also known as John W. Causey — of Milford, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/KE-lived.html">Kent County</a>, Del. Born in Milford, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/KE-born.html">Kent County</a>, Del., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1841/09-19.html">September 19, 1841</a>. Democrat. Member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/ofc/stsen.html">Delaware state senate</a>, 1875-77; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Delaware, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1884/DE.html">1884</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1892/DE.html">1892</a> (member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1892/committees.html">Credentials Committee</a>); U.S. Collector of Internal Revenue for Delaware, 1885-87; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Delaware</a> at-large, 1891-95. Died in Milford, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/KE-died.html">Kent County</a>, Del., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1908/10-01.html">October 1, 1908</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/67.html">67 years, 12 days</a>). Interment at Odd Fellows Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=C000257">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=402401">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/7871688">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> James Rush Lofland (1823-1894) — also known as James R. Lofland — of Milford, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/KE-lived.html">Kent County</a>, Del. Born in Milford, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/KE-born.html">Kent County</a>, Del., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1823/11-02.html">November 2, 1823</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/ofc/cncn.html">Delegate to Delaware state constitutional convention</a>, 1853; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/ofc/sos.html">secretary of state of Delaware</a>, 1855-59; delegate to Republican National Convention from Delaware, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1868/DE.html">1868</a> (alternate), <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1872/DE.html">1872</a> (delegation chair), <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1876/DE.html">1876</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1880/DE.html">1880</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Delaware</a> at-large, 1873-75; defeated, 1874. Slaveowner. Died in Milford, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/KE-died.html">Kent County</a>, Del., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1894/02-10.html">February 10, 1894</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/70.html">70 years, 100 days</a>). Interment at Odd Fellows Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=L000398">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=406889">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/7537031">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Harry Ennis Mayhew (1906-1972) — also known as Harry E. Mayhew — of Milford, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/KE-lived.html">Kent County</a>, Del. Born in Milford, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/SU-born.html">Sussex County</a>, Del., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1906/04-16.html">April 16, 1906</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/trucking.html">Trucking business</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/coal-ice-fuel.html">coal and ice dealer</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/ofc/sthse.html">Delaware state house of representatives</a> from Kent County 10th District, 1955-58; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/ofc/spkr.html">Speaker of the Delaware State House of Representatives</a>, 1957-58; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/ofc/stsen.html">Delaware state senate</a> from Kent County 5th District, 1959-62; alternate delegate to Democratic National Convention from Delaware, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1960/DE.html">1960</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/methodist.html">Methodist</a>. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/masons.html">Freemasons</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/scottish-rite-masons.html">Scottish Rite Masons</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/tall-cedars.html">Tall Cedars of Lebanon</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/shriners.html">Shriners</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/rotary.html">Rotary</a>. Suffered a <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/heart.html">heart attack</a> while he and his wife were <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/in-cars.html">driving</a> home from Wilmington, and was dead on arrival at Kent General <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/misc-hospitals.html">Hospital</a>, Dover, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/KE-died.html">Kent County</a>, Del., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1972/07-21.html">July 21, 1972</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/66.html">66 years, 96 days</a>). Interment at Odd Fellows Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Delilah Ann 'Lida' (Deputy) Mayhew and James Henry Mayhew; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1928/07-28.html">July 28, 1928</a>, to Frances Abbott; third cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/dentlinger-derousse.html#773.04.44">Harry Marshall Deputy</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/dentlinger-derousse.html#117.67.28">Willard Francis Deputy</a>; fourth cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/dentlinger-derousse.html#388.16.91">Delmar E. Deputy</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political family: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/39637.html">Deputy family</a> of Milford, Delaware.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/44273775">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Willard Francis Deputy (1877-1938) — also known as Willard F. Deputy — of Wilmington, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/NC-lived.html">New Castle County</a>, Del. Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/SU-born.html">Sussex County</a>, Del., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1877/04-28.html">April 28, 1877</a>. Member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/ofc/stsen.html">Delaware state senate</a> from Sussex County 3rd District, 1927-30; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/ofc/wilmington.html#4">U.S. Collector of Internal Revenue at Wilmington, Delaware</a>, 1936. Died in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/SU-died.html">Sussex County</a>, Del., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1938/09-09.html">September 9, 1938</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/61.html">61 years, 134 days</a>). Interment at Odd Fellows Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of James Henry Deputy and Sallie (Lofland) Deputy; brother of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/dentlinger-derousse.html#773.04.44">Harry Marshall Deputy</a>; married to Pearl E. Lowe; third cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/dentlinger-derousse.html#388.16.91">Delmar E. Deputy</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/mayall-maynadier.html#755.83.49">Harry Ennis Mayhew</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political family: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/39637.html">Deputy family</a> of Milford, Delaware.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/13081794">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> George William Marshall (1854-1915) — also known as George W. Marshall — of Milford, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/KE-lived.html">Kent County</a>, Del. Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/SU-born.html">Sussex County</a>, Del., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1854/08-31.html">August 31, 1854</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/physician.html">Physician</a>; delegate to Republican National Convention from Delaware, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1904/DE.html">1904</a> (alternate), <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1912/DE.html">1912</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/ofc/stsen.html">Delaware state senate</a> from Kent County 5th District, 1911-14. Died, from <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/diabetes.html">diabetes</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/kidney.html">interstitial nephritis</a>, in Milford, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/KE-died.html">Kent County</a>, Del., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1915/04-18.html">April 18, 1915</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/60.html">60 years, 230 days</a>). Interment at Odd Fellows Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of William Marshall and Hester Angelina (McColley) Marshall; married to Mary Louise Donnell.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/44110807">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Sylvester John Abbott (1852-1923) — also known as S. John Abbott — of Milford, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/KE-lived.html">Kent County</a>, Del. Born in Milford, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/KE-born.html">Kent County</a>, Del., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1852/03-23.html">March 23, 1852</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/fruit-produce.html">Fruit</a> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/farmer.html">grower</a>; organizer of the C. D. Abbott & Company <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/merchant.html">department store</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/banking.html">banker</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/ofc/stsen.html">Delaware state senate</a> from Kent County 5th District, 1899-1902. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/episcopalian.html">Episcopalian</a>. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/masons.html">Freemasons</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/shriners.html">Shriners</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/tall-cedars.html">Tall Cedars of Lebanon</a>. Died, from <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/kidney.html">chronic nephritis</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/kidney.html">uremia</a>, in Milford, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/SU-died.html">Sussex County</a>, Del., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1923/08-24.html">August 24, 1923</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/71.html">71 years, 154 days</a>). Interment at Odd Fellows Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of William Wilson Abbott and Mary Catherine (Purnell) Abbott; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1887/10-20.html">October 20, 1887</a>, to Rosalie Nicholls.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/12163449">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Harry Marshall Deputy (1876-1962) — also known as Harry M. Deputy — of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/SU-lived.html">Sussex County</a>, Del. Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/SU-born.html">Sussex County</a>, Del., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1876/01-18.html">January 18, 1876</a>. Member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/ofc/stsen.html">Delaware state senate</a> from Sussex County 1st District, 1927-30. Died in Delaware, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1962/08-24.html">August 24, 1962</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/86.html">86 years, 218 days</a>). Interment at Odd Fellows Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of James Henry Deputy and Sallie (Lofland) Deputy; brother of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/dentlinger-derousse.html#117.67.28">Willard Francis Deputy</a>; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1905/">1905</a> to Margaret Lee Ross; third cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/dentlinger-derousse.html#388.16.91">Delmar E. Deputy</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/mayall-maynadier.html#755.83.49">Harry Ennis Mayhew</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political family: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/39637.html">Deputy family</a> of Milford, Delaware.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/13077494">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> William Virden Sipple (1847-1926) — also known as William V. Sipple — of Milford, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/SU-lived.html">Sussex County</a>, Del. Born in Delaware, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1847/10-22.html">October 22, 1847</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/masonry.html">Stonecutter</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/masonry.html">marble dealer</a>; postmaster at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/ofc/milford.html#2">Milford, Del.</a>, 1898-1903. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/methodist.html">Methodist</a>. Died, from <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/pneumonia.html">pneumonia</a>, in Orlando, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/FL/OR-died.html">Orange County</a>, Fla., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1926/03-17.html">March 17, 1926</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/78.html">78 years, 146 days</a>). Interment at Odd Fellows Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Mary Berry (Virden) Sipple and Thomas Sipple; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1874/05-28.html">May 28, 1874</a>, to Ruth Anna Holland.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/80230092">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Lavinus Austin (1855-1936) — of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/KE-lived.html">Kent County</a>, Del. Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1855/index.html">1855</a>. Member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/ofc/sthse.html">Delaware state house of representatives</a> from Kent County 10th District, 1903-04. Died in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1936/index.html">1936</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/81.html">about 81 years</a>). Interment at Odd Fellows Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/12171102">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Blanche Reed Bennett (1895-1977) — also known as Blanche R. Bennett; Blanche May Reed — of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/SU-lived.html">Sussex County</a>, Del. Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/SU-born.html">Sussex County</a>, Del., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1895/05-19.html">May 19, 1895</a>. Republican. Candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/ofc/sthse.html">Delaware state house of representatives</a> from Sussex County 1st District, 1950. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/female.html">Female</a>. Died in Milford, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/SU-died.html">Sussex County</a>, Del., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1977/07-09.html">July 9, 1977</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/82.html">82 years, 51 days</a>). Interment at Odd Fellows Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Daughter of Charles Erasmus Reed and Lillie May (Dodd) Reed; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1917/">1917</a> to Elmer Crerar Bennett.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/12211061">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <hr> <a name="cms05136">Duck Creek Presbyterian Churchyard</a> Smyrna, Kent County, Delaware <table width=100% align="left" cellpadding=5> <tr><td colspan=2>Politicians buried here:</td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> John Clark (1761-1821) — of Delaware. Born <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1761/02-01.html">February 1, 1761</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/ofc/gov.html">Governor of Delaware</a>, 1817-20. Died <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1821/08-14.html">August 14, 1821</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/60.html">60 years, 194 days</a>). Interment at Duck Creek Presbyterian Churchyard. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://www.nga.org/governor/john-clark/">National Governors Association biography</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <hr> <a name="cms01424">Episcopal Cemetery</a> Smyrna, Kent County, Delaware <table width=100% align="left" cellpadding=5> <tr><td colspan=2>Politicians buried here:</td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> William Temple (1814-1863) — of Smyrna, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/KE-lived.html">Kent County</a>, Del. Born in Maryland, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1814/02-28.html">February 28, 1814</a>. Democrat. Member of Delaware state legislature, 1844; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/ofc/gov.html">Governor of Delaware</a>, 1846-47; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Delaware</a> at-large, 1863; died in office 1863. Slaveowner. Died <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1863/05-28.html">May 28, 1863</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/49.html">49 years, 89 days</a>). Interment at Episcopal Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=T000120">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=410702">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://www.nga.org/governor/william-temple/">National Governors Association biography</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <hr> <a name="cms03523">Glenwood Cemetery</a> Smyrna, Kent County, Delaware Founded 1861 See also <a href="http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=cr&CRid=224638&">Findagrave page</a> for this location. <table width=100% align="left" cellpadding=5> <tr><td colspan=2>Politicians buried here:</td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> John Henry Hoffecker (1827-1900) — also known as John H. Hoffecker — of Smyrna, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/KE-lived.html">Kent County</a>, Del. Born near Smyrna, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/KE-born.html">Kent County</a>, Del., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1827/09-12.html">September 12, 1827</a>. Republican. Delegate to Republican National Convention from Delaware, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1876/DE.html">1876</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1884/DE.html">1884</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1888/DE.html">1888</a> (alternate); member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/ofc/sthse.html">Delaware state house of representatives</a> from Kent County, 1889-90; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/ofc/spkr.html">Speaker of the Delaware State House of Representatives</a>, 1889; Union Republican candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/ofc/gov.html">Governor of Delaware</a>, 1896; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Delaware</a> at-large, 1899-1900; died in office 1900. Slaveowner. Died in Smyrna, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/KE-died.html">Kent County</a>, Del., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1900/06-16.html">June 16, 1900</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/72.html">72 years, 277 days</a>). Interment at Glenwood Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Father of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hodgkins-hoffer.html#749.53.08">Walter Oakley Hoffecker</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=H000680">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=405533">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John H. Hoffecker">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/7871726">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"><a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=4WgfAQAAMAAJ&pg=PT57"><img src="https://politicalgraveyard.com/thumb/535/23.07.jpg" width=70 height=102 border=0 alt="Levin Irving Handy"></a></td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Levin Irving Handy (1861-1922) — also known as L. Irving Handy — of Newark, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/NC-lived.html">New Castle County</a>, Del. Born in Berlin, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MD/WO-born.html">Worcester County</a>, Md., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1861/12-24.html">December 24, 1861</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/teacher.html">School teacher and principal</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/KE-officials.html">Kent County Superintendent of Free Schools</a>, 1887-90; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">lawyer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/DE.html">Delaware Democratic state chair</a>, 1892-96; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/newspaper.html">newspaper</a> editorial <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/writing.html">writer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/faculty.html">lecturer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Delaware</a> at-large, 1897-99; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Delaware, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1900/DE.html">1900</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1904/DE.html">1904</a> (member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1904/committees.html">Committee on Rules and Order of Business</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1904/speakers.html">speaker</a>), <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1908/DE.html">1908</a>; candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/ofc/attygn.html">Delaware state attorney general</a>, 1904. Died in Wilmington, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/NC-died.html">New Castle County</a>, Del., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1922/02-03.html">February 3, 1922</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/60.html">60 years, 41 days</a>). Interment at Glenwood Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Rev. William Collins Handy and Marie (Breckinridge) Handy; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1887/01-25.html">January 25, 1887</a>, to Mary Corbit Bell; nephew of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/breckinridge.html#891.83.83">Robert Jefferson Breckinridge Jr.</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/breckinridge.html#685.82.03">William Campbell Preston Breckinridge</a>; grandson of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/breckinridge.html#913.15.69">Robert Jefferson Breckinridge</a>; grandnephew of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/breckinridge.html#446.25.19">Joseph Cabell Breckinridge (1788-1823)</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/preston.html#453.47.09">William Campbell Preston</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/preston.html#081.09.35">John Smith Preston</a>; great-grandson of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/breckinridge.html#809.50.86">John Breckinridge</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/preston.html#983.64.79">Francis Smith Preston</a>; great-grandnephew of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/preston.html#086.13.03">James Patton Preston</a>; second great-grandson of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/preston.html#916.93.84">William Preston</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/campbell9.html#257.81.17">William Campbell</a>; second great-grandnephew of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cabana-cadwalader.html#775.20.26">William Cabell</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/henry.html#071.73.66">Patrick Henry</a>; first cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/breckinridge.html#923.46.15">Desha Breckinridge</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/breckinridge.html#447.87.63">Henry Skillman Breckinridge</a>; first cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/breckinridge.html#923.82.77">John Cabell Breckinridge</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/porter7.html#715.43.49">Peter Augustus Porter (1827-1864)</a>; first cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/breckinridge.html#019.25.10">James Douglas Breckinridge</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cabana-cadwalader.html#794.87.46">Benjamin William Sheridan Cabell</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/mcdowell.html#709.27.32">James McDowell</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/fleury-flye.html#530.19.72">John Buchanan Floyd</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/fleury-flye.html#944.84.18">George Rogers Clark Floyd</a>; first cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cabana-cadwalader.html#973.19.38">William Cabell Jr.</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cabana-cadwalader.html#439.27.42">William Henry Cabell</a>; second cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/breckinridge.html#139.90.75">Joseph Cabell Breckinridge (1844-1906)</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/breckinridge.html#179.74.78">Clifton Rodes Breckinridge</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/porter7.html#905.50.52">Peter Augustus Porter (1853-1925)</a>; second cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/harrison.html#656.69.21">Carter Henry Harrison</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cabana-cadwalader.html#372.07.63">William Lewis Cabell</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cabana-cadwalader.html#448.18.40">George Craighead Cabell</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/castleberry-catone.html#535.97.29">John Breckinridge Castleman</a>; second cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/southall-spain.html#229.37.23">Valentine Wood Southall</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cabana-cadwalader.html#038.07.47">Frederick Mortimer Cabell</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/garland.html#243.84.03">Samuel Meredith Garland (1802-1880)</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cabana-cadwalader.html#045.17.96">Edward Carrington Cabell</a>; third cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cabana-cadwalader.html#823.76.27">Benjamin Earl Cabell</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/harrison.html#988.40.79">Carter Henry Harrison II</a>; third cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/leech-lehlbach.html#966.21.11">John William Leftwich</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/southall-spain.html#906.59.34">Stephen Valentine Southall</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cabana-cadwalader.html#230.79.50">Earle Cabell</a>; third cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/carroll.html#569.76.27">Daniel Carroll</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/carroll.html#667.25.10">Charles Carroll of Carrollton</a>; fourth cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/garland.html#630.56.44">Samuel Meredith Garland (1861-1945)</a>; fourth cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/mereness-merola.html#677.00.36">Reuben Handy Meriwether</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political families: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-1182.html">Cabell-Breckinridge family</a> of Virginia; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-1083.html">Breckinridge-Preston-Harrison-Richardson family</a> of Virginia (subsets of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=H000156">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=405038">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/7871710">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Image source: Autobiographies and Portraits of the President, Cabinet, etc. (1899)</td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Walter Oakley Hoffecker (1854-1934) — also known as Walter O. Hoffecker — of Smyrna, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/KE-lived.html">Kent County</a>, Del. Born in Smyrna, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/KE-born.html">Kent County</a>, Del., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1854/09-20.html">September 20, 1854</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Delaware</a> at-large, 1900-01; delegate to Republican National Convention from Delaware, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1904/DE.html">1904</a> (alternate), <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1908/DE.html">1908</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1920/DE.html">1920</a> (alternate). Died in Smyrna, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/KE-died.html">Kent County</a>, Del., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1934/01-23.html">January 23, 1934</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/79.html">79 years, 125 days</a>). Interment at Glenwood Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hodgkins-hoffer.html#011.86.75">John Henry Hoffecker</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=H000681">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=405534">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/7871741">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> William H. Baggs (1827-1908) — of Smyrna, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/KE-lived.html">Kent County</a>, Del. Born in Maryland, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1827/03-03.html">March 3, 1827</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/clothing.html">Tailor</a>; postmaster at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/ofc/smyrna.html#2">Smyrna, Del.</a>, 1852-53, 1875-85; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/ofc/sthse.html">Delaware state house of representatives</a> from Kent County 1st District, 1905-08; died in office 1908. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/methodist.html">Methodist</a>. Died in Smyrna, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/KE-died.html">Kent County</a>, Del., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1908/01-05.html">January 5, 1908</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/80.html">80 years, 308 days</a>). Interment at Glenwood Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1867/01-24.html">January 24, 1867</a>, to Sarah E. 'Sallie' Collins.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/11160948">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Warren Walter Rich (1863-1916) — also known as Warren W. Rich — of Hamilton, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/MA-lived.html">Madison County</a>, N.Y.; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DC/wa-lived.html">Washington</a>, D.C. Born in Hamilton, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/MA-born.html">Madison County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1863/09-18.html">September 18, 1863</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; U.S. Consular Agent in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/OX-consuls.html ">Salina Cruz</a>, 1907-08; U.S. Vice & Deputy Consul in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/OX-consuls.html ">Salina Cruz</a>, 1908-14; U.S. Vice Consul in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/OX-consuls.html ">Salina Cruz</a>, as of 1916. Died, from <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/tuberculosis.html">tuberculosis</a>, in Delaware, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1916/08-17.html">August 17, 1916</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/52.html">52 years, 334 days</a>). Interment at Glenwood Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Warren Rich and Caroline Rich; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1896/11-19.html">November 19, 1896</a>, to Katherine Clement Tschuy; second cousin four times removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/paine.html#379.70.27">Robert Treat Paine</a>; third cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/sternberg-steunenberg.html#468.49.89">Lemuel Stetson</a>; third cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kidder-kilbourne.html#632.14.15">James Kilbourne</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political families:Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/11244249">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <hr> <a name="cms00541">Odd Fellows Cemetery</a> Smyrna, Kent County, Delaware <table width=100% align="left" cellpadding=5> <tr><td colspan=2>Politicians buried here:</td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Franklin Brockson (1865-1942) — of Delaware. Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/NC-born.html">New Castle County</a>, Del., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1865/08-06.html">August 6, 1865</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/teacher.html">School teacher and principal</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">lawyer</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/ofc/sthse.html">Delaware state house of representatives</a> from Kent County 3rd District, 1909-10; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Delaware</a> at-large, 1913-15; defeated, 1914. Died in Clayton, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/KE-died.html">Kent County</a>, Del., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1942/03-16.html">March 16, 1942</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/76.html">76 years, 222 days</a>). Interment at Odd Fellows Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=B000853">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=401810">Govtrack.us page</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> William Clifford Pryor (1894-1984) — also known as Clifford Pryor — of Blackbird, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/NC-lived.html">New Castle County</a>, Del.; Smyrna, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/KE-lived.html">Kent County</a>, Del. Born in Delaware, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1894/09-24.html">September 24, 1894</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/construction.html">Carpenter</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/farmer.html">farmer</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/ofc/sthse.html">Delaware state house of representatives</a> from New Castle County 15th District, 1933-34; defeated, 1942; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/ofc/stsen.html">Delaware state senate</a> from New Castle County 7th District, 1955-58. Died, from <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/heart.html">heart disease</a>, in Smyrna, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/KE-died.html">Kent County</a>, Del., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1984/05-29.html">May 29, 1984</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/89.html">89 years, 248 days</a>). Interment at Odd Fellows Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/67220621">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Ernest Victor Blendt (1903-1953) — also known as Ernest V. Blendt — of Smyrna, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/KE-lived.html">Kent County</a>, Del. Born in Delaware, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1903/05-18.html">May 18, 1903</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/farmer.html">Farmer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/banking.html">bank director</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/ofc/sthse.html">Delaware state house of representatives</a> from Kent County 1st District, 1941-42, 1953; died in office 1953; candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/ofc/stsen.html">Delaware state senate</a> from Kent County 1st District, 1942. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/methodist.html">Methodist</a>. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/lions.html">Lions</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/odd-fellows.html">Odd Fellows</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/grange.html">Grange</a>. Died, in Delaware <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/misc-hospitals.html">Hospital</a>, Wilmington, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/NC-died.html">New Castle County</a>, Del., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1953/08-04.html">August 4, 1953</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/50.html">50 years, 78 days</a>).e. Interment at Odd Fellows Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Harry George Blendt and Mary Jane (Workman) Blendt; brother of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bleakley-blews.html#332.00.43">George Michael Blendt</a>; married to Beulah Schneider; uncle of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bleakley-blews.html#039.12.72">Carlton Blendt Jr.</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political family: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/39815.html">Blendt family</a> of Smyrna, Delaware.</td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> George Michael Blendt (1895-1972) — also known as George M. Blendt — of Smyrna, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/KE-lived.html">Kent County</a>, Del. Born in Smyrna, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/KE-born.html">Kent County</a>, Del., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1895/09-18.html">September 18, 1895</a>. Democrat. Member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/ofc/sthse.html">Delaware state house of representatives</a> from Kent County 1st District, 1949-50. Died in Wilmington, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/NC-died.html">New Castle County</a>, Del., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1972/07-28.html">July 28, 1972</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/76.html">76 years, 314 days</a>). Interment at Odd Fellows Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Harry George Blendt and Mary Jane (Workman) Blendt; brother of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bleakley-blews.html#825.15.69">Ernest Victor Blendt</a>; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1918/09-25.html">September 25, 1918</a>, to Hazel Ford; uncle of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bleakley-blews.html#039.12.72">Carlton Blendt Jr.</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political family: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/39815.html">Blendt family</a> of Smyrna, Delaware.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/15728734">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Carlton Blendt Jr. (1928-2005) — of Townsend, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/NC-lived.html">New Castle County</a>, Del. Born in Powell, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WY/PA-born.html">Park County</a>, Wyo., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1928/11-15.html">November 15, 1928</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/dairy.html">Dairy</a> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/farmer.html">farmer</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/ofc/sthse.html">Delaware state house of representatives</a>, 1961-66 (New Castle County 15th District 1961-64, 23rd District 1965-66). <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/presbyterian.html">Presbyterian</a>. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/grange.html">Grange</a>. Died in Delaware, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/2005/01-22.html">January 22, 2005</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/76.html">76 years, 68 days</a>). Interment at Odd Fellows Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Carlton Lee Blendt and Margaret M. (Harris) Blendt; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1948/09-26.html">September 26, 1948</a>, to Betty Regener; nephew of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bleakley-blews.html#332.00.43">George Michael Blendt</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bleakley-blews.html#825.15.69">Ernest Victor Blendt</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political family: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/39815.html">Blendt family</a> of Smyrna, Delaware.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/10370126">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <hr> <a name="cms01630">Presbyterian Cemetery</a> Smyrna, Kent County, Delaware <table width=100% align="left" cellpadding=5> <tr><td colspan=2>Politicians buried here:</td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Presley Spruance (1785-1863) — of Smyrna, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/KE-lived.html">Kent County</a>, Del. Born in Delaware, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1785/index.html">1785</a>. Whig. Member of Delaware state legislature, 1820; delegate to Whig National Convention from Delaware, 1839; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/ofc/ussen.html">U.S. Senator from Delaware</a>, 1847-53. Slaveowner. Died in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1863/index.html">1863</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/78.html">about 78 years</a>). Interment at Presbyterian Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=S000760">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=410227">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presley Spruance">Wikipedia article</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <hr> <a name="cms00825">St. Peter's Cemetery</a> Smyrna, Kent County, Delaware <table width=100% align="left" cellpadding=5> <tr><td colspan=2>Politicians buried here:</td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Thomas Collins (1732-1789) — of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/KE-lived.html">Kent County</a>, Del. Born in Duck Creek (now Smyrna), <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/KE-born.html">Kent County</a>, Del., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1732/index.html">1732</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/farmer.html">Planter</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/ofc/lgcn.html">Delaware state legislative council</a> from Kent County, 1776-82; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/ofc/pres.html">President of Delaware</a>, 1786-89; died in office 1789. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/episcopalian.html">Episcopalian</a>. Died in Duck Creek (now Smyrna), <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/KE-died.html">Kent County</a>, Del., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1789/03-29.html">March 29, 1789</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/56.html">about 56 years</a>). Interment at St. Peter's Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://www.nga.org/governor/thomas-collins/">National Governors Association biography</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas Collins (governor)">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/7447826">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> James Williams (1825-1899) — of Kenton, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/KE-lived.html">Kent County</a>, Del.; Smyrna, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/KE-lived.html">Kent County</a>, Del. Born in Philadelphia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-born.html">Philadelphia County</a>, Pa., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1825/08-04.html">August 4, 1825</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/farmer.html">Farmer</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/ofc/sthse.html">Delaware state house of representatives</a>, 1856, 1862; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/ofc/stsen.html">Delaware state senate</a>, 1866, 1871, 1891-92; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Delaware, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1872/DE.html">1872</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1880/DE.html">1880</a> (<a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1880/officers.html">Convention Vice-President</a>), <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1884/DE.html">1884</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DE/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Delaware</a> at-large, 1875-79. 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