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<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <title>The Political Graveyard: Kanawha County, W.Va.</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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Olivet Cemetery</a> <li>Charleston <a href="#cms08248">Mountain View Memorial Park</a> <li>Charleston <a href="#cms08850">Pennington Cemetery</a> <li>Charleston <a href="#cms10615">St. Matthews Columbarium</a> <li>Charleston <a href="#cms00301">Spring Hill Cemetery</a> <li>Cross Lanes <a href="#cms07126">Tyler Mountain Memory Gardens</a> <li>Dunbar <a href="#cms08350">Grandview Memorial Park</a> <li>Elkview <a href="#cms08648">Given Cemetery</a> <li>St. Albans <a href="#cms08464">Unknown location</a> <li>St. Albans <a href="#cms09954">Bangor Cemetery</a> <li>St. Albans <a href="#cms04603">Cunningham Memorial Park</a> <li>St. Albans <a href="#cms02423">Teay's Hill Cemetery</a> <li>South Charleston <a href="#cms03406">Sunset Memorial Park</a> <li>Spring Hill <a href="#cms00845">Spring Hill Cemetery</a> </ul> <hr> <a name="cms06597">Unknown Locations</a> Charleston, Kanawha County, West Virginia <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 Edward Hodges (1892-1968) — also known as Charles E. Hodges — of Morgantown, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/MN-lived.html">Monongalia County</a>, W.Va. Born in Huntington, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/CA-born.html">Cabell County</a>, W.Va., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1892/09-27.html">September 27, 1892</a>. Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during World War I; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/newspaper.html">newspaperman</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/ofc/stsen.html">West Virginia state senate</a> 11th District, 1931-38; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/ofc/snpr.html">President of the West Virginia State Senate</a>, 1935-38. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/presbyterian.html">Presbyterian</a>. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/masons.html">Freemasons</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/phi-kappa-psi.html">Phi Kappa Psi</a>. Died in Charleston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/KA-died.html">Kanawha County</a>, W.Va., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1968/05-01.html">May 1, 1968</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/75.html">75 years, 217 days</a>). Interment somewhere. <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 Edward Hodges and Mary Amelia (Hayes) Hodges; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1926/04-03.html">April 3, 1926</a>, to Florence Kirkland Conant.</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> R. P. DeVan — of Charleston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/KA-lived.html">Kanawha County</a>, W.Va. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/ofc/charleston.html">Mayor of Charleston, W.Va.</a>, 1931-35. Interment somewhere. </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> C. Lance Marshall (died c.1974) — of Mt. Hope, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/FA-lived.html">Fayette County</a>, W.Va. Democrat. Member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/ofc/sthse.html">West Virginia state house of delegates</a> from Fayette County; elected 1928; alternate delegate to Democratic National Convention from West Virginia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1936/WV.html">1936</a>. Died about 1974. Interment somewhere. </td></tr> </table> <hr> <a name="cms09783">Bnai Israel Cemetery</a> Charleston, Kanawha County, West Virginia <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> Paul John Kaufman (1920-1980) — also known as Paul J. Kaufman — of Charleston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/KA-lived.html">Kanawha County</a>, W.Va. Born in Charleston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/KA-born.html">Kanawha County</a>, W.Va., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1920/03-16.html">March 16, 1920</a>. Democrat. Served in the U.S. Coast Guard during World War II; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">lawyer</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/ofc/stsen.html">West Virginia state senate</a> 8th District, 1961-68; delegate to Democratic National Convention from West Virginia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1972/WV.html">1972</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1976/WV.html">1976</a>; candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from West Virginia</a> 3rd District, 1974. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/jewish.html">Jewish</a>. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/aba.html">American Bar Association</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/lions.html">Lions</a>. Died <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1980/12-28.html">December 28, 1980</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/60.html">60 years, 287 days</a>). Interment at Bnai Israel 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 Sydney J. Kaufman and Sylvia (Miller) Kaufman; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1951/05-31.html">May 31, 1951</a>, to Rose Jean Levinson; father of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kaufman.html#386.99.32">Tod Joseph Kaufman</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/91531596">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> Simon Hirsch Galperin Jr. (1931-2007) — also known as Si Galperin, Jr. — of Charleston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/KA-lived.html">Kanawha County</a>, W.Va. Born in Charleston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/KA-born.html">Kanawha County</a>, W.Va., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1931/08-05.html">August 5, 1931</a>. Democrat. Served in the U.S. Navy during the Korean conflict; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/realestate.html">real estate business</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/ofc/sthse.html">West Virginia state house of delegates</a> from Kanawha County, 1967-70; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/ofc/stsen.html">West Virginia state senate</a> 17th District, 1971-82; delegate to Democratic National Convention from West Virginia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1976/WV.html">1976</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/jewish.html">Jewish</a>. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/izaak-walton-league.html">Izaak Walton League</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/bnai-brith.html">B'nai B'rith</a>. Died, from complications of a <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/stroke.html">stroke</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/2007/06-17.html">June 17, 2007</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/75.html">75 years, 316 days</a>). Interment at Bnai Israel 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 Simon H. Galperin and Fannie (Lavenstein) Galperin; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1958/06-18.html">June 18, 1958</a>, to Rose Marie Rogers; married to Maureen Supcoe.</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/107761724">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <hr> <a name="cms09955">Davis Park</a> Charleston, Kanawha County, West Virginia <table width=100% align="left" cellpadding=5> <tr><td colspan=2>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> Henry Gassaway Davis (1823-1916) — also known as Henry G. Davis — of Piedmont, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/ML-lived.html">Mineral County</a>, W.Va. Born near Woodstock, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MD/HO-born.html">Howard County</a>, Md., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1823/11-16.html">November 16, 1823</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/railroading.html">Railroad promoter</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/ofc/sthse.html">West Virginia state house of delegates</a> from Hampshire County, 1866; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/ofc/stsen.html">West Virginia state senate</a> 10th District, 1869-71; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/ofc/ussen.html">U.S. Senator from West Virginia</a>, 1871-83; delegate to Democratic National Convention from West Virginia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1872/WV.html">1872</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1880/WV.html">1880</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1904/WV.html">1904</a> (member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1904/committees.html">Platform and Resolutions Committee</a>), <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1912/WV.html">1912</a>; candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/offices/pres-vp.html">Vice President of the United States</a>, 1904. Died in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DC/wa-died.html">Washington</a>, D.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1916/03-11.html">March 11, 1916</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/92.html">92 years, 116 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/RN-buried.html#cms00192">Maplewood Cemetery</a>, Elkins, W.Va.; statue at Davis Park. <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 Caleb Davis and Louisa Warfield (Brown) Davis; brother of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/davis8.html#112.18.51">Thomas Beall Davis</a>; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1853/">1853</a> to Katherine Ann Salome 'Kate' Bantz; father of Hallie D. Davis (who married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/eliphaz-ellerbee.html#665.88.30">Stephen Benton Elkins</a>); grandfather of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/eliphaz-ellerbee.html#321.69.77">Davis Elkins</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/10387.html">Elkins-Davis family</a> of Elkins, West Virginia.</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 <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-cities.html">town</a> of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/TU-names.html">Davis, West Virginia</a>, is <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=D000103">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=403239">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry G. Davis">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://www.nndb.com/people/273/000206652">NNDB dossier</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <hr> <a name="cms01490">Mt. Olivet Cemetery</a> Charleston, Kanawha County, West Virginia <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 Edward Kenna (1848-1893) — also known as John E. Kenna — of Charleston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/KA-lived.html">Kanawha County</a>, W.Va. Born near St. Albans, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/KA-born.html">Kanawha County</a>, Va. (now W.Va.), <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1848/04-10.html">April 10, 1848</a>. Democrat. Served in the Confederate Army during the Civil War; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">lawyer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/KA-officials.html">Kanawha County Prosecuting Attorney</a>, 1872-77; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from West Virginia</a> 3rd District, 1877-83; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/ofc/ussen.html">U.S. Senator from West Virginia</a>, 1883-93; died in office 1893. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/catholic.html">Catholic</a>. Died in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DC/wa-died.html">Washington</a>, D.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1893/01-11.html">January 11, 1893</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/44.html">44 years, 276 days</a>). Interment at Mt. Olivet 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 Edward Kenna and Margery (Lewis) Kenna; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1870/">1870</a> to Rosa Quigg; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1876/">1876</a> to Anna Benninghaus; father of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kendig-kennard.html#138.25.17">Joseph Norris Kenna</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=K000099">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=406267">Govtrack.us page</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <hr> <a name="cms08248">Mountain View Memorial Park</a> Charleston, Kanawha County, West Virginia <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 Boone Dawson (1897-1975) — also known as D. Boone Dawson — of Charleston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/KA-lived.html">Kanawha County</a>, W.Va. Born in Sissonville, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/KA-born.html">Kanawha County</a>, W.Va., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1897/09-12.html">September 12, 1897</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/ofc/charleston.html">mayor of Charleston, W.Va.</a>, 1935-47; defeated, 1947; candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/ofc/gov.html">Governor of West Virginia</a>, 1940, 1944; Republican candidate for Presidential Elector for West Virginia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/ofc/pr1960-election.html">1960</a>; delegate to Republican National Convention from West Virginia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1972/WV.html">1972</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/baptist.html">Baptist</a>. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/am-legion.html">American Legion</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/phi-alpha-delta.html">Phi Alpha Delta</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/elks.html">Elks</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/moose.html">Moose</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/lions.html">Lions</a>. Dead on arrival at Charleston General <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/misc-hospitals.html">Hospital</a>, Charleston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/KA-died.html">Kanawha County</a>, W.Va., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1975/09-15.html">September 15, 1975</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/78.html">78 years, 3 days</a>). Interment at Mountain View Memorial Park. <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">Presumably named for: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/pols-named-for-famous.html">Daniel Boone</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">Relatives: Son of Daniel Summers Dawson and Mary Lillie (Aultz) Dawson; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1923/12-24.html">December 24, 1923</a>, to Clyde Elizabeth 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/5566084">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/politicalgraveyard/8412469805/"><img src="https://politicalgraveyard.com/thumb/497/65.04.jpg" width=70 height=100 border=0 alt="Walter S. Hallanan"></a></td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Walter Simms Hallanan (1890-1962) — also known as Walter S. Hallanan — of Charleston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/KA-lived.html">Kanawha County</a>, W.Va. Born in Huntington, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/CA-born.html">Cabell County</a>, W.Va., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1890/04-29.html">April 29, 1890</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/newspaper.html">Newspaper reporter</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/newspaper.html">newspaper editor</a>; private secretary to Gov. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hatfield.html#391.57.29">Henry Hatfield</a>, 1913-17; West Virginia State Tax Commissioner, 1917-23; president, Plymouth <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/oilgas.html">Oil</a> Company; Republican Presidential Elector for West Virginia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/ofc/pr1920-meeting.html">1921</a> (voted for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/harding.html#424.80.17">Warren G. Harding</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/coolidge.html#826.74.23">Calvin Coolidge</a>); member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/ofc/stsen.html">West Virginia state senate</a> 8th District, 1927-30; delegate to Republican National Convention from West Virginia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1928/WV.html">1928</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1932/WV.html">1932</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1936/WV.html">1936</a> (member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1936/committees.html">Credentials Committee</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1936/speakers.html">speaker</a>), <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1940/WV.html">1940</a> (member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1940/committees.html">Arrangements Committee</a>; member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1940/committees.html">Credentials Committee</a>), <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1944/WV.html">1944</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1948/WV.html">1948</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1952/WV.html">1952</a> (<a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1952/officers.html">Temporary Chair</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1952/speakers.html">speaker</a>), <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1956/WV.html">1956</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1960/WV.html">1960</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/WV.html">Republican National Committee from West Virginia</a>, 1928-62; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/index.html">Vice-Chair of Republican National Committee</a>, 1940-44. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/methodist.html">Methodist</a>. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/elks.html">Elks</a>. Died in Charleston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/KA-died.html">Kanawha County</a>, W.Va., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1962/12-28.html">December 28, 1962</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/72.html">72 years, 243 days</a>). Interment at Mountain View Memorial Park. <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 Dr. Thomas Burton Hallanan and Martha (Blake) Hallanan; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1911/">1911</a> to Mary Imogene Burns; father of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/halla-halsell.html#858.35.37">Elizabeth Virginia Hallanan</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/127403624">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: West Virginia Blue Book 1929</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 Thurlow Weed Brotherton (1892-1961) — also known as W. T. Brotherton; "Suey" — of Charleston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/KA-lived.html">Kanawha County</a>, W.Va. Born in Goldtown, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/JA-born.html">Jackson County</a>, W.Va., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1892/09-04.html">September 4, 1892</a>. Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during World War I; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/merchant.html">merchant</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/farmer.html">farmer</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/ofc/sthse.html">West Virginia state house of delegates</a> from Kanawha County, 1935-40; delegate to Democratic National Convention from West Virginia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1948/WV.html">1948</a> (alternate), <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1952/WV.html">1952</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1956/WV.html">1956</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1960/WV.html">1960</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/methodist.html">Southern Methodist</a>. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/masons.html">Freemasons</a>. Died <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1961/12-17.html">December 17, 1961</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/69.html">69 years, 104 days</a>). Interment at Mountain View Memorial Park. <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">Presumably named for: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/weclew-weekes.html#930.88.30">Thurlow Weed</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">Relatives: Married to Kathryn Slack; father of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/brookshire-brough.html#438.97.29">William Thurlow Weed Brotherton 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/160320629">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> Joel Ferree Bedell Jr. (1905-1992) — also known as J. F. Bedell, Jr.; "Free" — of Charleston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/KA-lived.html">Kanawha County</a>, W.Va. Born in Charleston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/KA-born.html">Kanawha County</a>, W.Va., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1905/07-20.html">July 20, 1905</a>. Democrat. Public affairs representative, Humble <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/oilgas.html">Oil and Refining</a> Company; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/ofc/sthse.html">West Virginia state house of delegates</a> from Kanawha County, 1961-66; defeated, 1966. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/presbyterian.html">Presbyterian</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/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>. Died <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1992/09-12.html">September 12, 1992</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/87.html">87 years, 54 days</a>). Interment at Mountain View Memorial Park. <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 Joel Ferree Bedell and Cora W. (Kiger) Bedell; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1924/09-06.html">September 6, 1924</a>, to Dorothy Jane Courtney.</td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/politicalgraveyard/8413564958/"><img src="https://politicalgraveyard.com/thumb/518/13.09.jpg" width=70 height=107 border=0 alt="Edward Calderwood"></a></td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Edward Calderwood (1884-1946) — of Charleston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/KA-lived.html">Kanawha County</a>, W.Va. Born near Malden, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/KA-born.html">Kanawha County</a>, W.Va., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1884/12-27.html">December 27, 1884</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/banking.html">Banker</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/oilgas.html">oil and gas business</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/ofc/sthse.html">West Virginia state house of delegates</a> from Kanawha County, 1929-30. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/presbyterian.html">Presbyterian</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/scottish.html">Scottish</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/english.html">English</a> ancestry. 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/shriners.html">Shriners</a>. Died in Charleston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/KA-died.html">Kanawha County</a>, W.Va., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1946/01-07.html">January 7, 1946</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/61.html">61 years, 11 days</a>). Interment at Mountain View Memorial Park. <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 B. Calderwood and Anna (Wilkinson) Calderwood.</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: West Virginia Blue Book 1929</td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/politicalgraveyard/8413559018/"><img src="https://politicalgraveyard.com/thumb/604/55.22.jpg" width=70 height=109 border=0 alt="Harold S. Mathews"></a></td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Harold Schuyler Mathews (1882-1947) — also known as Harold S. Mathews — of Charleston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/KA-lived.html">Kanawha County</a>, W.Va. Born in Philadelphia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-born.html">Philadelphia County</a>, Pa., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1882/06-01.html">June 1, 1882</a>. Republican. Member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/ofc/sthse.html">West Virginia state house of delegates</a> from Kanawha County, 1925-30. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/elks.html">Elks</a>. Died <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1947/02-02.html">February 2, 1947</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/64.html">64 years, 246 days</a>). Interment at Mountain View Memorial Park. <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 MacGregor Mathews and Elizabeth Boyd 'Bessie' (Thompson) Mathews; married to Irene Taylor.</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/159935551">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: West Virginia Blue Book 1929</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> Dale George Casto (1900-1958) — also known as Dale G. Casto — of Charleston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/KA-lived.html">Kanawha County</a>, W.Va. Born in Ripley, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/JA-born.html">Jackson County</a>, W.Va., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1900/09-24.html">September 24, 1900</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; delegate to Democratic National Convention from West Virginia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1940/WV.html">1940</a>; Democratic candidate for Presidential Elector for West Virginia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/ofc/pr1956-election.html">1956</a>. Died in Charleston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/KA-died.html">Kanawha County</a>, W.Va., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1958/08-22.html">August 22, 1958</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/57.html">57 years, 332 days</a>). Interment at Mountain View Memorial Park. <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 Hiram Johnson Casto and Anna Eliza 'Lide' (Cowen) Casto; married to Virginia M. Johnson; second cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/castleberry-catone.html#181.18.99">Boyd Cleo Casto</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/castleberry-catone.html#033.58.66">Ronald H. Casto</a>; second cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/castleberry-catone.html#141.11.27">A. Dale Casto</a>; third cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/castleberry-catone.html#839.82.96">Dorr Clayton Casto II</a>; third cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/castleberry-catone.html#285.94.36">Carroll W. Casto</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/23080.html">Casto family</a> of West Virginia.</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/93566418">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <hr> <a name="cms08850">Pennington Cemetery</a> Charleston, Kanawha County, West Virginia See also <a href="http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=cr&CRid=2367849&">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> Robert Dennis Pennington (1929-2006) — also known as Robert D. Pennington — of Charleston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/KA-lived.html">Kanawha County</a>, W.Va. Born <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1929/04-29.html">April 29, 1929</a>. Democrat. Democratic candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/ofc/charleston.html">mayor of Charleston, W.Va.</a>, 1967, 1971 (primary). Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/lions.html">Lions</a>. Died <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/2006/12-19.html">December 19, 2006</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/77.html">77 years, 234 days</a>). Interment at Pennington 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/70534649">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <hr> <a name="cms10615">St. Matthews Columbarium</a> 40 Norwood Road Charleston, Kanawha County, West Virginia See also <a href="http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=cr&CRid=1985608&">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> William Thurlow Weed Brotherton Jr. (1926-1997) — also known as W. T. Brotherton, Jr. — of Charleston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/KA-lived.html">Kanawha County</a>, W.Va. Born in Charleston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/KA-born.html">Kanawha County</a>, W.Va., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1926/04-17.html">April 17, 1926</a>. Democrat. Served in the U.S. Navy during World War II; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">lawyer</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/ofc/sthse.html">West Virginia state house of delegates</a> from Kanawha County, 1953-64; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/ofc/stsen.html">West Virginia state senate</a> 17th District, 1965-80; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/ofc/spjd.html">judge of West Virginia supreme court of appeals</a>, 1985-. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/methodist.html">Methodist</a>; later <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/episcopalian.html">Episcopalian</a>. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/kappa-alpha-ord.html">Kappa Alpha Order</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/phi-alpha-delta.html">Phi Alpha Delta</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/am-legion.html">American Legion</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/lions.html">Lions</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/aba.html">American Bar Association</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/masons.html">Freemasons</a>. Died in Charleston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/KA-died.html">Kanawha County</a>, W.Va., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1997/04-06.html">April 6, 1997</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/70.html">70 years, 354 days</a>). <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/plcrem.html">Cremated</a>; ashes interred at St. Matthews Columbarium. <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">Presumably named for: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/weclew-weekes.html#930.88.30">Thurlow Weed</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">Relatives: Son of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/brookshire-brough.html#611.87.80">William Thurlow Weed Brotherton</a> and Kathryn (Slack) Brotherton; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1950/06-17.html">June 17, 1950</a>, to Ann Jourdan Caskey.</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/131927107">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <hr> <a name="cms00301">Spring Hill Cemetery</a> Charleston, Kanawha County, West Virginia <table width=100% align="left" cellpadding=5> <tr><td colspan=2>Politicians buried here:</td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"><a href="https://www.wvencyclopedia.org/media/10131"><img src="https://politicalgraveyard.com/thumb/491/52.60.jpg" width=70 height=112 border=0 alt="George W. Atkinson"></a></td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> George Wesley Atkinson (1845-1925) — also known as George W. Atkinson — of Wheeling, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/OH-lived.html">Ohio County</a>, W.Va.; Charleston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/KA-lived.html">Kanawha County</a>, W.Va. Born near Charleston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/KA-born.html">Kanawha County</a>, Va. (now W.Va.), <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1845/06-29.html">June 29, 1845</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/postal.html">Postmaster</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">lawyer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/WV.html">West Virginia Republican state chair</a>, 1884-88; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from West Virginia</a> 1st District, 1890-91; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/ofc/gov.html">Governor of West Virginia</a>, 1897-1901; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/ofc/usatty.html">U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of West Virginia</a>, 1901-05; delegate to Republican National Convention from West Virginia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1904/WV.html">1904</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/offices/judicial.html#f">Judge of U.S. Court of Claims</a>, 1905-16. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/masons.html">Freemasons</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/knights-templar.html">Knights Templar</a>. Died in Charleston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/KA-died.html">Kanawha County</a>, W.Va., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1925/04-04.html">April 4, 1925</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/79.html">79 years, 279 days</a>). Interment at Spring Hill 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 Atkinson and Miriam (Rader) Atkinson; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1868/12-03.html">December 3, 1868</a>, to Ellen Eagan; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1897/06-24.html">June 24, 1897</a>, to Myra H. Camden; father of Florence Miriam Atkinson (who married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/aviata-ayer.html#831.50.72">Samuel Brashear Avis</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=A000330">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=400979">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://www.nga.org/governor/george-wesley-atkinson/">National Governors Association biography</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George W. Atkinson">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/7618842">Find-A-Grave memorial</a> — <a href=" http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/308">West Virginia Encyclopedia</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: West Virginia Encyclopedia</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 Eli Clark (1869-1950) — also known as Walter E. Clark — of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DC/wa-lived.html">Washington</a>, D.C.; Alaska; Charleston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/KA-lived.html">Kanawha County</a>, W.Va. Born in Ashford, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/WI-born.html">Windham County</a>, Conn., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1869/01-07.html">January 7, 1869</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/newspaper.html">Newspaper reporter</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/AK/ofc/digv.html">Governor of Alaska District</a>, 1909-12; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/AK/ofc/trgv.html">Governor of Alaska Territory</a>, 1912-13; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/newspaper.html">newspaper editor</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/presbyterian.html">Presbyterian</a> or <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/congregationalist.html">Congregationalist</a>. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/chi-psi.html">Chi Psi</a>. Died of a <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/heart.html">heart attack</a>, in a <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/misc-hospitals.html">hospital</a> at Charleston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/KA-died.html">Kanawha County</a>, W.Va., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1950/02-04.html">February 4, 1950</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/81.html">81 years, 28 days</a>). Interment at Spring Hill 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 Oren Andrus Clark and Emily Jeannette (Jones) Clark; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1898/06-15.html">June 15, 1898</a>, to Lucy Harrison Norvell; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1929/">1929</a> to Juliet Staunton.</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.nndb.com/people/987/000054825">NNDB dossier</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/25512989">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> Alban Goshorn Snyder (1877-1954) — also known as Alban G. Snyder — of West Virginia. Born in Charleston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/KA-born.html">Kanawha County</a>, W.Va., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1877/11-05.html">November 5, 1877</a>. U.S. Vice & Deputy Consul in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/CL-consuls.html ">Ciudad Porfirio Diaz</a>, 1899-1901; U.S. Consul General in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/CO-consuls.html ">Bogotá</a>, 1903-06; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/AR-consuls.html ">Buenos Aires</a>, 1906-09; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/PM-consuls.html ">Panama</a>, 1909-20; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/SG-consuls.html ">Singapore</a>, 1920; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/NO-consuls.html ">Christiania</a>, 1921-22; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/NO-consuls.html ">Oslo</a>, as of 1926. Died in a <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/misc-hospitals.html">hospital</a> at St. Petersburg, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/FL/PI-died.html">Pinellas County</a>, Fla., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1954/01-26.html">January 26, 1954</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/76.html">76 years, 82 days</a>). Interment at Spring Hill 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/snyder.html#668.45.23">Charles Philip Snyder</a> and Jane Adelia (Goshorn) Snyder; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1911/09-16.html">September 16, 1911</a>, to Evelyn Schuber.</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/156073411">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> Cornelius Clarkson Watts (1848-1930) — also known as Cornelius C. Watts — of Charleston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/KA-lived.html">Kanawha County</a>, W.Va. Born <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1848/04-23.html">April 23, 1848</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/ofc/attygn.html">West Virginia state attorney general</a>, 1881-85; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/ofc/usatty.html">U.S. Attorney for West Virginia</a>, 1886-89, 1893; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/ofc/stsen.html">West Virginia state senate</a> 9th District, 1891-94; candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/ofc/gov.html">Governor of West Virginia</a>, 1896. Died in Charleston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/KA-died.html">Kanawha County</a>, W.Va., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1930/05-28.html">May 28, 1930</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/82.html">82 years, 35 days</a>). Interment at Spring Hill Cemetery. </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/politicalgraveyard/8412475475/"><img src="https://politicalgraveyard.com/thumb/122/87.20.jpg" width=70 height=107 border=0 alt="John H. Hatcher"></a></td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> John Henry Hatcher (1875-1950) — also known as John H. Hatcher — of Beckley, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/RA-lived.html">Raleigh County</a>, W.Va.; Charleston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/KA-lived.html">Kanawha County</a>, W.Va. Born in Bland, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/BL-born.html">Bland County</a>, Va., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1875/06-29.html">June 29, 1875</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/ofc/beckley.html">mayor of Beckley, W.Va.</a>, 1903; circuit judge in West Virginia for the 10th Judicial Circuit, 1921-24; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/ofc/spjd.html">judge of West Virginia supreme court of appeals</a>, 1924-40; defeated, 1940. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/methodist.html">Methodist</a>. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/phi-delta-phi.html">Phi Delta Phi</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/masons.html">Freemasons</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/shriners.html">Shriners</a>. Died <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1950/06-20.html">June 20, 1950</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/74.html">74 years, 356 days</a>). Interment at Spring Hill 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 Wilson Cary Hatcher and Anne (Bulman) Hatcher; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1900/04-12.html">April 12, 1900</a>, to Leona Lyle Bowman.</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: West Virginia Blue Book 1929</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> Adam Brown Littlepage (1859-1921) — also known as Adam B. Littlepage — of Charleston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/KA-lived.html">Kanawha County</a>, W.Va. Born near Charleston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/KA-born.html">Kanawha County</a>, Va. (now W.Va.), <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1859/04-14.html">April 14, 1859</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/ofc/stsen.html">West Virginia state senate</a> 8th District, 1907-10; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from West Virginia</a>, 1911-13, 1915-19 (3rd District 1911-13, 1915-17, 6th District 1917-19); defeated, 1912. Died, from <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/kidney.html">uremia</a> brought about by <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/kidney.html">nephritis</a>, in Charleston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/KA-died.html">Kanawha County</a>, W.Va., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1921/06-29.html">June 29, 1921</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/62.html">62 years, 76 days</a>). Interment at Spring Hill 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 Adam Brown Dickinson Littlepage and Rebecca (Wood) Littlepage; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1884/04-08.html">April 8, 1884</a>, to Eva Collett.</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=L000358">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=406850">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/7618852">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 Philip Snyder (1847-1915) — also known as Charles P. Snyder — of Charleston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/KA-lived.html">Kanawha County</a>, W.Va. Born in Charleston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/KA-born.html">Kanawha County</a>, Va. (now W.Va.), <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1847/06-09.html">June 9, 1847</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/ofc/charleston.html">mayor of Charleston, W.Va.</a>, 1872-74; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/KA-officials.html">Kanawha County Prosecuting Attorney</a>, 1876-84; delegate to Democratic National Convention from West Virginia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1880/WV.html">1880</a> (<a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1880/officers.html">Convention Vice-President</a>); <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from West Virginia</a> 3rd District, 1883-89; criminal court judge in West Virginia, 1890-96; U.S. Consul in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/CL-consuls.html ">Ciudad Porfirio Diaz</a>, 1897-1901. Died in Vineland, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/CU-died.html">Cumberland County</a>, N.J., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1915/08-21.html">August 21, 1915</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/68.html">68 years, 73 days</a>). Interment at Spring Hill 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 David C. Snyder and Lucinda C. (Brawley) Snyder; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1875/11-25.html">November 25, 1875</a>, to Jane Adelia Goshorn; father of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/snyder.html#967.51.17">Alban Goshorn Snyder</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=S000665">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=410138">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/7618880">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 Holt Gaines (1864-1951) — also known as Joseph H. Gaines — of Charleston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/KA-lived.html">Kanawha County</a>, W.Va. Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DC/wa-born.html">Washington</a>, D.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1864/09-03.html">September 3, 1864</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/ofc/usatty.html">U.S. Attorney for West Virginia</a>, 1897-1901; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from West Virginia</a> 3rd District, 1901-11; delegate to Republican National Convention from West Virginia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1920/WV.html">1920</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1924/WV.html">1924</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1928/WV.html">1928</a> (member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1928/committees.html">Committee on Rules and Order of Business</a>), <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1932/WV.html">1932</a>. Died in Montgomery, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/FA-died.html">Fayette County</a>, W.Va., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1951/04-12.html">April 12, 1951</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/86.html">86 years, 221 days</a>). Interment at Spring Hill 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 Theophilus Gaines and Ariadne (Stockton) Gaines; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1898/11-23.html">November 23, 1898</a>, to Marjorie Lewis Gentry.</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=G000008">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=404385">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 Henry Brown (1818-1900) — also known as James H. Brown — of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/KA-lived.html">Kanawha County</a>, W.Va. Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/CA-born.html">Cabell County</a>, Va. (now W.Va.), <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1818/12-25.html">December 25, 1818</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/ofc/spjd.html">Judge of West Virginia supreme court of appeals</a>, 1863-70. Died in Charleston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/KA-died.html">Kanawha County</a>, W.Va., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1900/10-28.html">October 28, 1900</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/81.html">81 years, 307 days</a>). Interment at Spring Hill 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 Benjamin 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/18676672">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 Huling (1844-1918) — also known as James H. Huling — of Charleston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/KA-lived.html">Kanawha County</a>, W.Va. Born in Williamsport, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/LY-born.html">Lycoming County</a>, Pa., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1844/03-24.html">March 24, 1844</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lumber.html">Lumber business</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/ofc/charleston.html">mayor of Charleston, W.Va.</a>, 1884-88; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from West Virginia</a> 3rd District, 1895-97. Died in Charleston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/KA-died.html">Kanawha County</a>, W.Va., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1918/04-23.html">April 23, 1918</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/74.html">74 years, 30 days</a>). Interment at Spring Hill 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=H000938">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=405783">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James Hall Huling">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/7618804">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> Samuel Augustine Miller (1819-1890) — also known as Samuel A. Miller — of Charleston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/KA-lived.html">Kanawha County</a>, Va. (now W.Va.). Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/SH-born.html">Shenandoah County</a>, Va., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1819/10-16.html">October 16, 1819</a>. Major in the Confederate Army during the Civil War; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/ofc/ccrep.html">Representative from Virginia in the Confederate Congress</a>, 1863-65; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/ofc/sthse.html">West Virginia state house of delegates</a> from Kanawha County, 1875. Died in Parkersburg, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/WO-died.html">Wood County</a>, W.Va., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1890/11-19.html">November 19, 1890</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/71.html">71 years, 34 days</a>). Interment at Spring Hill 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/1845/07-27.html">July 27, 1845</a>, to Helen M. Quarrier.</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://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel Augustine Miller">Wikipedia article</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/politicalgraveyard/7764007968/"><img src="https://politicalgraveyard.com/thumb/719/36.23.jpg" width=70 height=108 border=0 alt="J. Hornor Davis II"></a></td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> James Hornor Davis II (1904-1963) — also known as J. Hornor Davis II — of Charleston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/KA-lived.html">Kanawha County</a>, W.Va. Born in Clarksburg, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/HA-born.html">Harrison County</a>, W.Va., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1904/01-29.html">January 29, 1904</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/ofc/sthse.html">West Virginia state house of delegates</a> from Kanawha County, 1935-36, 1943-52, 1955-58; candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/ofc/charleston.html">mayor of Charleston, W.Va.</a>, 1935; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/KA-parties.html">chair of Kanawha County Democratic Party</a>, 1940-41; candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/ofc/ussen.html">U.S. Senator from West Virginia</a>, 1952; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/ofc/stsen.html">West Virginia state senate</a> 8th District, 1959-62. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/episcopalian.html">Episcopalian</a>. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/elks.html">Elks</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/rotary.html">Rotary</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/lions.html">Lions</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/aba.html">American Bar Association</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/am-jud-soc.html">American Judicature Society</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/sons-am-rev.html">Sons of the American Revolution</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/theta-delta-chi.html">Theta Delta Chi</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/phi-beta-kappa.html">Phi Beta Kappa</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/phi-alpha-delta.html">Phi Alpha Delta</a>. Died in Mountain Lake Park, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MD/GA-died.html">Garrett County</a>, Md., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1963/08-07.html">August 7, 1963</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/59.html">59 years, 190 days</a>). Interment at Spring Hill 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 Edward Rezin Davis and Garnett Amelia (Hornor) Davis; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1927/09-28.html">September 28, 1927</a>, to Martha Lillian Maxwell; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1942/06-06.html">June 6, 1942</a>, to Mary Eolyne Graham; father of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/davis5.html#012.05.54">James Hornor Davis III</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/107762981">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: West Virginia Blue Book 1951</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> Benjamin Wilson Byrne (1820-1903) — also known as Benjamin W. Byrne — of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/BX-lived.html">Braxton County</a>, Va. (now W.Va.); <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/KA-lived.html">Kanawha County</a>, W.Va. Born in Burnsville, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/BX-born.html">Braxton County</a>, Va. (now W.Va.), <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1820/05-16.html">May 16, 1820</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/ofc/seccn.html">Delegate to Virginia secession convention</a> from Braxton, Nicholas, Clay & Webster counties, 1861; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/ofc/spsc.html">West Virginia superintendent of schools</a>, 1873-77; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/ofc/stsen.html">West Virginia state senate</a> 9th District, 1883-86. Died in Charleston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/KA-died.html">Kanawha County</a>, W.Va., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1903/09-12.html">September 12, 1903</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/83.html">83 years, 119 days</a>). Interment at Spring Hill 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 B. Byrne and Anne (Haymond) Byrne.</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/18776990">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> Elbert Edson Caldwell (1875-1950) — also known as Elbert E. Caldwell — of Charleston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/KA-lived.html">Kanawha County</a>, W.Va. Born in Cheshire, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OH/GA-born.html">Gallia County</a>, Ohio, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1875/06-04.html">June 4, 1875</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/printing.html">Printer</a>; candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/ofc/ussen.html">U.S. Senator from West Virginia</a>, 1934. Died in Charleston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/KA-died.html">Kanawha County</a>, W.Va., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1950/06-18.html">June 18, 1950</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/75.html">75 years, 14 days</a>). Interment at Spring Hill 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 Smith Caldwell and Amanda Irene (Caldwell) Caldwell; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1903/05-20.html">May 20, 1903</a>, to Antha Belle Graham.</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/93019399">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"><img src="https://politicalgraveyard.com/thumb/865/39.08.jpg" width=70 height=105 border=0 alt="Daniel Mayer"></td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Daniel Mayer (1837-1910) — of Charleston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/KA-lived.html">Kanawha County</a>, W.Va. Born in Nierstein, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/GR-born.html">Germany</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1837/01-06.html">January 6, 1837</a>. Naturalized U.S. citizen; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/physician.html">physician</a>; served in the Union Army during the Civil War; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">lawyer</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/ofc/sthse.html">West Virginia state house of delegates</a> from Kanawha County, 1889-90; U.S. Consul in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/AR-consuls.html ">Buenos Aires</a>, 1897-1905. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/german.html">German</a> ancestry. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/odd-fellows.html">Odd Fellows</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/elks.html">Elks</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/masons.html">Freemasons</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/grand-army-republic.html">Grand Army of the Republic</a>. Died, from <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/kidney.html">uremia</a>, in the Jewish <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/misc-hospitals.html">Hospital</a>, Cincinnati, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OH/HA-died.html">Hamilton County</a>, Ohio, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1910/05-20.html">May 20, 1910</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/73.html">73 years, 134 days</a>). Entombed in mausoleum at Spring Hill 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/157502288">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: Beckley Messenger, May 20, 1910</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 Eugene Dana (1844-1923) — of Charleston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/KA-lived.html">Kanawha County</a>, W.Va. Born in Cherry Valley, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/OG-born.html">Otsego County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1844/08-14.html">August 14, 1844</a>. Republican. Delegate to Republican National Convention from West Virginia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1896/WV.html">1896</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1900/WV.html">1900</a>; postmaster at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/ofc/charleston.html#3">Charleston, W.Va.</a>, 1904-09. Died, following a series of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/stroke.html">strokes of apoplexy</a>, in Keswick, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/AB-died.html">Albemarle County</a>, Va., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1923/08-23.html">August 23, 1923</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/79.html">79 years, 9 days</a>). Interment at Spring Hill 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/124702306">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 Sidney Laidley (1839-1917) — also known as William S. Laidley — of Charleston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/KA-lived.html">Kanawha County</a>, W.Va. Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/CA-born.html">Cabell County</a>, Va. (now W.Va.), <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1839/06-27.html">June 27, 1839</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/writing.html">historian</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/ofc/sthse.html">West Virginia state house of delegates</a> from Kanawha County, 1872-73. Died in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1917/index.html">1917</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/78.html">about 78 years</a>). Interment at Spring Hill 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/ladislas-lair.html#683.81.86">John Osborn Laidley</a>; brother of Amacetta Laidley (who married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/sullivant-summit.html#821.26.91">George William Summers</a>); uncle of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ladislas-lair.html#654.51.47">John B. Laidley</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/15202.html">Laidley family</a> of Cabell County, West Virginia.</td></tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <hr> <a name="cms07126">Tyler Mountain Memory Gardens</a> Cross Lanes, Kanawha County, West Virginia <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> Kenneth Keller Hall (1918-1999) — also known as K. K. Hall — of Madison, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/BO-lived.html">Boone County</a>, W.Va.; Charleston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/KA-lived.html">Kanawha County</a>, W.Va. Born in Greenview, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/BO-born.html">Boone County</a>, W.Va., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1918/02-24.html">February 24, 1918</a>. Democrat. Served in the U.S. Navy during World War II; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">lawyer</a>; mayor of Madison, W.Va., 1949-52; circuit judge in West Virginia for the 25th Judicial Circuit, 1953-68; defeated, 1968; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/ofc/usdjud.html">U.S. District Judge for the Southern District of West Virginia</a>, 1971-76; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/offices/us-ct-apps.html">Judge of U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit</a>, 1976-98; took senior status 1998. Died in Charleston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/KA-died.html">Kanawha County</a>, W.Va., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1999/07-08.html">July 8, 1999</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/81.html">81 years, 134 days</a>). Interment at Tyler Mountain Memory Gardens. <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 Jack Hall and Ruby G. Hall; married to Geraldine Faye Tabor.</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.fjc.gov/servlet/nGetInfo?jid=946&cid=999&ctype=na&instate=na">federal judicial profile</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/144469319">Find-A-Grave memorial</a> — <a href="https://www.fjc.gov/history/judges/hall-kenneth-keller">Biographical Directory of Federal Judges</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> Jesse S. Barker (1905-1977) — of Charleston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/KA-lived.html">Kanawha County</a>, W.Va. Born in Ashford, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/BO-born.html">Boone County</a>, W.Va., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1905/11-22.html">November 22, 1905</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/autoservice.html">Garage owner</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/autoservice.html">gasoline retailer</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/ofc/sthse.html">West Virginia state house of delegates</a> from Kanawha County, 1959-66, 1970; defeated, 1966, 1968; appointed 1970. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/methodist.html">Methodist</a>. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/un-comm-travelers.html">United Commercial Travelers</a>. Died <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1977/12-10.html">December 10, 1977</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/72.html">72 years, 18 days</a>). Interment at Tyler Mountain Memory Gardens. <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 Cumberland Barker and Bernie Myrtle (Atkins) Barker; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1937/03-14.html">March 14, 1937</a>, to Eleanor E. Baber.</td></tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <hr> <a name="cms08350">Grandview Memorial Park</a> Dunbar, Kanawha County, West Virginia <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> Homer W. Caldwell (1910-1971) — of Charleston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/KA-lived.html">Kanawha County</a>, W.Va. Born <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1910/06-22.html">June 22, 1910</a>. Republican. Member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/ofc/sthse.html">West Virginia state house of delegates</a> from Kanawha County, 1957-58; defeated, 1958. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/presbyterian.html">Presbyterian</a>. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/lions.html">Lions</a>. Died <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1971/03-23.html">March 23, 1971</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/60.html">60 years, 274 days</a>). Interment at Grandview Memorial Park. <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 Lucy Jane Dickerson.</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/41133665">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <hr> <a name="cms08648">Given Cemetery</a> Little Sandy Road Elkview, Kanawha County, West Virginia See also <a href="http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=cr&CRid=78462&">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> Leslie Emmett Given (1893-1962) — also known as Leslie E. Given — of Charleston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/KA-lived.html">Kanawha County</a>, W.Va. Born in Elkview, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/KA-born.html">Kanawha County</a>, W.Va., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1893/07-03.html">July 3, 1893</a>. Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during World War I; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">lawyer</a>; common pleas court judge in West Virginia, 1941-42; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/ofc/usatty.html">U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of West Virginia</a>, 1943-50; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/ofc/spjd.html">judge of West Virginia supreme court of appeals</a>, 1950-62; appointed 1950; died in office 1962. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/baptist.html">Baptist</a>. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/masons.html">Freemasons</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/moose.html">Moose</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/am-legion.html">American Legion</a>. Died in Charleston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/KA-died.html">Kanawha County</a>, W.Va., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1962/05-11.html">May 11, 1962</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/68.html">68 years, 312 days</a>). Interment at Given 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 Amos Given and Mary Lucy (Melton) Given; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1917/12-27.html">December 27, 1917</a>, to Bessie Frances Via.</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/5691008">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <hr> <a name="cms08464">Unknown Location</a> St. Albans, Kanawha County, West Virginia <table width=100% align="left" cellpadding=5> <tr><td colspan=2>Politicians buried here:</td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/politicalgraveyard/7764045798/"><img src="https://politicalgraveyard.com/thumb/934/45.20.jpg" width=70 height=100 border=0 alt="W. W. Trent"></a></td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> William Woodson Trent (1878-1960) — also known as W. W. Trent — of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/NI-lived.html">Nicholas County</a>, W.Va.; Charleston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/KA-lived.html">Kanawha County</a>, W.Va. Born near Summersville, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/NI-born.html">Nicholas County</a>, W.Va., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1878/01-31.html">January 31, 1878</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/teacher.html">School teacher and principal</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/ofc/spsc.html">West Virginia superintendent of schools</a>, 1933-37; defeated, 1920, 1924, 1956. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/baptist.html">Baptist</a>. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/kiwanis.html">Kiwanis</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/kappa-delta-pi.html">Kappa Delta Pi</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/phi-beta-kappa.html">Phi Beta Kappa</a>. Died in South Charleston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/KA-died.html">Kanawha County</a>, W.Va., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1960/06-15.html">June 15, 1960</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/82.html">82 years, 136 days</a>). Interment somewhere. <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 Wood Trent and Mary Agnes (McClung) Trent; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1909/08-05.html">August 5, 1909</a>, to Isabel Carmichael.</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: West Virginia Blue Book 1951</td></tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <hr> <a name="cms09954">Bangor Cemetery</a> St. Albans, Kanawha County, West Virginia Founded 1819 See also <a href="http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=cr&CRid=2196148&">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> America M. Baldwin (1835-1929) — also known as America M. Grant — of St. Albans, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/KA-lived.html">Kanawha County</a>, W.Va. Born in Kentucky, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1835/11-09.html">November 9, 1835</a>. Republican. Postmaster at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/ofc/saintalbans.html#3">St. Albans, W.Va.</a>, 1874-1910. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/female.html">Female</a>. Died in St. Albans, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/KA-died.html">Kanawha County</a>, W.Va., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1929/07-22.html">July 22, 1929</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/93.html">93 years, 255 days</a>). Interment at Bangor 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/137890917">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <hr> <a name="cms04603">Cunningham Memorial Park</a> St. Albans, Kanawha County, West Virginia <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 Mark Slack Jr. (1915-1980) — also known as John M. Slack, Jr. — of Charleston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/KA-lived.html">Kanawha County</a>, W.Va. Born in Charleston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/KA-born.html">Kanawha County</a>, W.Va., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1915/03-18.html">March 18, 1915</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from West Virginia</a>, 1959-80 (6th District 1959-63, 3rd District 1963-80); died in office 1980; delegate to Democratic National Convention from West Virginia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1960/WV.html">1960</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/presbyterian.html">Presbyterian</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/shriners.html">Shriners</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/elks.html">Elks</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/sons-am-rev.html">Sons of the American Revolution</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/exchange-club.html">Exchange Club</a>. Died in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/ax-died.html">Alexandria</a>, Va., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1980/03-17.html">March 17, 1980</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/64.html">64 years, 365 days</a>). Interment at Cunningham Memorial Park. <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 Mark Slack and Jennie (Gilchrist) Slack; married to Frances Jean Reid.</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=S000473">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=409963">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> Leonard I. Underwood (c.1917-1999) — of St. Albans, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/KA-lived.html">Kanawha County</a>, W.Va. Born about 1917. Democrat. Member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/ofc/sthse.html">West Virginia state house of delegates</a>, 1973-87; defeated, 1986; delegate to Democratic National Convention from West Virginia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1972/WV.html">1972</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1976/WV.html">1976</a> (alternate). <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/baptist.html">Baptist</a>. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/masons.html">Freemasons</a>. Died <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1999/04-09.html">April 9, 1999</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/82.html">about 82 years</a>). Interment at Cunningham Memorial Park. </td></tr> </table> <hr> <a name="cms02423">Teay's Hill Cemetery</a> St. Albans, Kanawha County, West Virginia <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 Edwin Chilton (1858-1939) — also known as William E. Chilton — of Charleston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/KA-lived.html">Kanawha County</a>, W.Va. Born in Colesmouth, Va. (now St. Albans, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/KA-born.html">Kanawha County</a>, W.Va.), <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1858/03-17.html">March 17, 1858</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/KA-officials.html">Kanawha County Prosecuting Attorney</a>, 1883-84; candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/ofc/stsen.html">West Virginia state senate</a>, 1886; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/WV.html">West Virginia Democratic state chair</a>, 1892-96; delegate to Democratic National Convention from West Virginia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1892/WV.html">1892</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/ofc/sos.html">secretary of state of West Virginia</a>, 1893-97; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/ofc/ussen.html">U.S. Senator from West Virginia</a>, 1911-17; defeated, 1916, 1924, 1934. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/masons.html">Freemasons</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/elks.html">Elks</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/woodmen.html">Woodmen</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/knights-pythias.html">Knights of Pythias</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/moose.html">Moose</a>. Died in Charleston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/KA-died.html">Kanawha County</a>, W.Va., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1939/11-07.html">November 7, 1939</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/81.html">81 years, 235 days</a>). Interment at Teay's Hill 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 Edwin Chilton and Mary Elizabeth (Wilson) Chilton; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1892/12-19.html">December 19, 1892</a>, to <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/childress-chipley.html#256.64.12">Mary Louise Tarr</a>; father of Joseph Eustace Chilton II and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/childress-chipley.html#508.48.10">William E. Chilton Jr.</a>; grandfather of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/childress-chipley.html#123.39.15">W. E. Chilton III</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/16858.html">Chilton #3 family</a> of Charleston, West Virginia.</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=C000360">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=402499">Govtrack.us page</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <hr> <a name="cms03406">Sunset Memorial Park</a> 4301 MacCorkle Avenue Southwest South Charleston, Kanawha County, West Virginia See also <a href="http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=cr&CRid=80048&">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"><img src="https://politicalgraveyard.com/thumb/607/05.80.jpg" width=70 height=108 border=0 alt="Chapman Revercomb"></td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> William Chapman Revercomb (1895-1979) — also known as Chapman Revercomb — of Charleston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/KA-lived.html">Kanawha County</a>, W.Va. Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/ct-born.html">Covington</a>, Va., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1895/07-20.html">July 20, 1895</a>. Republican. Served in the U.S. Army during World War I; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">lawyer</a>; Republican candidate for Presidential Elector for Virginia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/ofc/pr1920-election.html">1920</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/WV.html">West Virginia Republican State Executive Committee</a>, 1933-34; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/ofc/ussen.html">U.S. Senator from West Virginia</a>, 1943-49, 1956-59; defeated, 1948, 1958; delegate to Republican National Convention from West Virginia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1944/WV.html">1944</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1956/WV.html">1956</a> (<a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1956/officers.html">Honorary Vice-President</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1956/speakers.html">speaker</a>), <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1968/WV.html">1968</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1972/WV.html">1972</a>; candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/ofc/gov.html">Governor of West Virginia</a>, 1960. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/presbyterian.html">Presbyterian</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/phi-kappa-sigma.html">Phi Kappa Sigma</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/phi-delta-phi.html">Phi Delta Phi</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/delta-sigma-rho.html">Delta Sigma Rho</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/elks.html">Elks</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/moose.html">Moose</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/omicron-delta-kappa.html">Omicron Delta Kappa</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/rotary.html">Rotary</a>. Died in Charleston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/KA-died.html">Kanawha County</a>, W.Va., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1979/10-06.html">October 6, 1979</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/84.html">84 years, 78 days</a>). Interment at Sunset Memorial Park. <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/resa-reynold.html#724.35.90">George Anderson Revercomb</a>; married to <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/resa-reynold.html#892.39.68">Sara Venable Hughes</a>; father of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/resa-reynold.html#754.36.07">George Hughes Revercomb</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/12987.html">Revercomb family</a> of Charleston, West Virginia.</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=R000167">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=409144">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W. Chapman Revercomb">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/7619334">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: Who's Who in United States Politics (1950)</td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/politicalgraveyard/8413577806/"><img src="https://politicalgraveyard.com/thumb/219/73.75.jpg" width=70 height=107 border=0 alt="William G. Conley"></a></td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> William Gustavus Conley (1866-1940) — also known as William G. Conley — of Parsons, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/TU-lived.html">Tucker County</a>, W.Va.; Kingwood, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/PR-lived.html">Preston County</a>, W.Va.; Charleston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/KA-lived.html">Kanawha County</a>, W.Va. Born near Kingwood, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/PR-born.html">Preston County</a>, W.Va., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1866/01-08.html">January 8, 1866</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/teacher.html">School teacher</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/teacher.html">superintendent of schools</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">lawyer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/newspaper.html">newspaper editor</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/TU-officials.html">Tucker County Prosecuting Attorney</a>, 1896-1904; mayor, Parsons, W.Va., 1901-03; mayor, Kingwood, W.Va., 1906-08; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/ofc/attygn.html">West Virginia state attorney general</a>, 1908-13; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/ofc/gov.html">Governor of West Virginia</a>, 1929-33. <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-acad-pol-soc-sci.html">American Academy of Political and Social Science</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/phi-beta-kappa.html">Phi Beta Kappa</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/pi-gamma-mu.html">Pi Gamma Mu</a>; <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/shriners.html">Shriners</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/knights-pythias.html">Knights of Pythias</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/woodmen.html">Modern Woodmen of America</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/redmen.html">Redmen</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/odd-fellows.html">Odd Fellows</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/elks.html">Elks</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/rotary.html">Rotary</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/union-league.html">Union League</a>. Died <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1940/10-21.html">October 21, 1940</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/74.html">74 years, 287 days</a>). Interment at Sunset Memorial Park. <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 Maj. William Conley and Mary (Freeburn) Conley; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1892/07-14.html">July 14, 1892</a>, to Bertie Ison Martin.</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-gustavus-conley/">National Governors Association biography</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/42363931">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: West Virginia Blue Book 1929</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 Alexander MacCorkle (1857-1930) — also known as William A. MacCorkle — of Charleston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/KA-lived.html">Kanawha County</a>, W.Va. Born near Lexington, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/RB-born.html">Rockbridge County</a>, Va., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1857/05-07.html">May 7, 1857</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; prosecuting attorney; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/ofc/gov.html">Governor of West Virginia</a>, 1893-97; delegate to Democratic National Convention from West Virginia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1904/WV.html">1904</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/1912/WV.html">1912</a> (member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1912/committees.html">Credentials Committee</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1912/speakers.html">speaker</a>), <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1920/WV.html">1920</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1924/WV.html">1924</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/ofc/stsen.html">West Virginia state senate</a> 8th District, 1911-14; defeated, 1914. Died in Charleston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/KA-died.html">Kanawha County</a>, W.Va., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1930/09-24.html">September 24, 1930</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/73.html">73 years, 140 days</a>). Interment at Sunset Memorial Park. <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 MacCorkle and Mary (Morrison) MacCorkle; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1881/10-19.html">October 19, 1881</a>, to Isabelle Goshorn.</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-alexander-maccorkle/">National Governors Association biography</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/8751951">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=qFQNAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA288-IA1"><img src="https://politicalgraveyard.com/thumb/119/13.76.jpg" width=70 height=91 border=0 alt="Edward T. England"></a></td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Edward Theodore England (1869-1934) — also known as Edward T. England; E. T. England — of Logan, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/LO-lived.html">Logan County</a>, W.Va.; Charleston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/KA-lived.html">Kanawha County</a>, W.Va. Born in Gay, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/JA-born.html">Jackson County</a>, W.Va., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1869/09-29.html">September 29, 1869</a>. Republican. Member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/ofc/stsen.html">West Virginia state senate</a> 8th District, 1909-16; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/ofc/snpr.html">President of the West Virginia State Senate</a>, 1915; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/ofc/attygn.html">West Virginia state attorney general</a>, 1917-25; candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/ofc/gov.html">Governor of West Virginia</a>, 1924; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from West Virginia</a> 6th District, 1927-29; defeated, 1928. Died in Cleveland, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OH/CU-died.html">Cuyahoga County</a>, Ohio, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1934/09-09.html">September 9, 1934</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/64.html">64 years, 345 days</a>). Interment at Sunset Memorial Park. <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=E000180">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=403869">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward T. England">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/7618923">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: West Virginia Blue Book 1917</td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"><a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=qFQNAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA612-IA1"><img src="https://politicalgraveyard.com/thumb/485/84.08.jpg" width=70 height=100 border=0 alt="George Poffenbarger"></a></td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> George Poffenbarger (1861-1951) — of Point Pleasant, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/MS-lived.html">Mason County</a>, W.Va.; Charleston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/KA-lived.html">Kanawha County</a>, W.Va. Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/MS-born.html">Mason County</a>, Va. (now W.Va.), <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1861/11-24.html">November 24, 1861</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/teacher.html">School teacher</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/MS-officials.html">Mason County Sheriff</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">lawyer</a>; alternate delegate to Republican National Convention from West Virginia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1896/WV.html">1896</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/ofc/spjd.html">judge of West Virginia supreme court of appeals</a>, 1901-22; resigned 1922. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/presbyterian.html">Presbyterian</a>. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/sons-am-rev.html">Sons of the American Revolution</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/odd-fellows.html">Odd Fellows</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/masons.html">Freemasons</a>. Died in Charleston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/KA-died.html">Kanawha County</a>, W.Va., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1951/03-20.html">March 20, 1951</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/89.html">89 years, 116 days</a>). Interment at Sunset Memorial Park. <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 Clinton Poffenbarger and Mary (Lewis) Poffenbarger; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1894/05-10.html">May 10, 1894</a>, to <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/plunket-poilek.html#567.55.62">Olivia Nye Simpson</a>; father of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/plunket-poilek.html#634.16.03">Nathan Simpson Poffenbarger</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/plunket-poilek.html#956.07.37">Perry Simpson Poffenbarger</a>; third cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/plunket-poilek.html#107.44.26">Leonard Franklin Poffenbarger</a>; third cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/plunket-poilek.html#794.25.55">John T. Poffenbarger</a>; fourth cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/plunket-poilek.html#596.78.23">Noland I. Poffenberger</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/10001-2718.html">Poffenbarger family</a> of South Charleston and Charleston, West Virginia (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://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George Poffenbarger">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/73614602">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: West Virginia Blue Book 1917</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 Copenhaver (1898-1959) — also known as John T. Copenhaver — of Charleston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/KA-lived.html">Kanawha County</a>, W.Va. Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/KA-born.html">Kanawha County</a>, W.Va., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1898/01-02.html">January 2, 1898</a>. Republican. Republican candidate for Presidential Elector for West Virginia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/ofc/pr1948-election.html">1948</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/ofc/charleston.html">mayor of Charleston, W.Va.</a>, 1951-59; died in office 1959. Died in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/KA-died.html">Kanawha County</a>, W.Va., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1959/08-13.html">August 13, 1959</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/61.html">61 years, 223 days</a>). Interment at Sunset Memorial Park. <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/coots-corbly.html#385.05.12">John Thomas Copenhaver Jr.</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> Leonard Sidney Echols (1871-1946) — also known as Leonard S. Echols — of Charleston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/KA-lived.html">Kanawha County</a>, W.Va. Born in Madison, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/BO-born.html">Boone County</a>, W.Va., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1871/10-30.html">October 30, 1871</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/MS-officials.html">Mason County Prosecuting Attorney</a>, 1904-09; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from West Virginia</a> 6th District, 1919-23; defeated, 1922, 1924; postmaster at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/ofc/charleston.html#3">Charleston, W.Va.</a>, 1925-29. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/masons.html">Freemasons</a>. Died in Charleston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/KA-died.html">Kanawha County</a>, W.Va., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1946/05-09.html">May 9, 1946</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/74.html">74 years, 191 days</a>). Interment at Sunset Memorial Park. <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 George A. Echols and Cartha Grace (Atkins) Echols; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1913/03-27.html">March 27, 1913</a>, to Anne Campbell De Pue.</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=E000030">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=403725">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonard S. Echols">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/7619326">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/politicalgraveyard/8413577112/"><img src="https://politicalgraveyard.com/thumb/424/42.93.jpg" width=70 height=104 border=0 alt="William Cassius Cook"></a></td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> William Cassius Cook (1882-1947) — of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/MD-lived.html">McDowell County</a>, W.Va.; Princeton, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/MR-lived.html">Mercer County</a>, W.Va. Born in Windom, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/WY-born.html">Wyoming County</a>, W.Va., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1882/11-21.html">November 21, 1882</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/teacher.html">School teacher</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/MD-officials.html">McDowell County Superintendent of Schools</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/ofc/spsc.html">West Virginia superintendent of schools</a>, 1929-33; candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from West Virginia</a> 5th District, 1946. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/baptist.html">Baptist</a>. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/kiwanis.html">Kiwanis</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/elks.html">Elks</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/masons.html">Freemasons</a>. Died in Hinton, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/SU-died.html">Summers County</a>, W.Va., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1947/12-31.html">December 31, 1947</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/65.html">65 years, 40 days</a>). Interment at Sunset Memorial Park. <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/cook9.html#762.65.01">William Henry Harrison Cook</a> and Jane (Cooper) Cook; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1907/">1907</a> to Lula Stewart.</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/39733203">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: West Virginia Blue Book 1929</td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"><a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=qFQNAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA406-IA1"><img src="https://politicalgraveyard.com/thumb/716/47.86.jpg" width=70 height=104 border=0 alt="Houston G. Young"></a></td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Houston Goff Young (1882-1981) — also known as Houston G. Young — of Charleston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/KA-lived.html">Kanawha County</a>, W.Va. Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/HA-born.html">Harrison County</a>, W.Va., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1882/10-10.html">October 10, 1882</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/ofc/sos.html">secretary of state of West Virginia</a>, 1917-25; candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from West Virginia</a> 6th District, 1942. Died in January, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1981/index.html">1981</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/98.html">98 years, 0 days</a>). Interment at Sunset Memorial Park. <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 David Sylvester Young and Sarah A. (Pickens) Young; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1907/">1907</a> to Frances V. Chesney.</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: West Virginia Blue Book 1917</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 Harvey Farris (1922-1997) — also known as Joe H. Farris — of Charleston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/KA-lived.html">Kanawha County</a>, W.Va. Born in Charleston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/KA-born.html">Kanawha County</a>, W.Va., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1922/04-14.html">April 14, 1922</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/radiotv.html">Radio and television</a> personality; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/pro-sports.html">sports</a> announcer; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/ofc/sthse.html">West Virginia state house of delegates</a> from Kanawha County, 1991-97; died in office 1997. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/episcopalian.html">Episcopalian</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/arabic.html">Lebanese</a> ancestry. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/lions.html">Lions</a>. Found dead in a <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/hotels.html">hotel room</a> probably from <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/heart.html">cardiac arrythmia</a>, in Philadelphia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-died.html">Philadelphia County</a>, Pa., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1997/08-10.html">August 10, 1997</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/75.html">75 years, 118 days</a>). Interment at Sunset Memorial Park. <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 Lou Corey (sister-in-law of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/palmer-parillo.html#563.24.35">Mario J. Palumbo</a>; aunt of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/palmer-parillo.html#481.58.41">Corey Palumbo</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/14943.html">Palumbo-Corey family</a> of Charleston, West Virginia.</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 W. Carey (1926-1970) — of Charleston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/KA-lived.html">Kanawha County</a>, W.Va. Born in Charleston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/KA-born.html">Kanawha County</a>, W.Va., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1926/12-22.html">December 22, 1926</a>. Republican. Served in the U.S. Army during World War II; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/advertising.html">advertising business</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/ofc/sthse.html">West Virginia state house of delegates</a> from Kanawha County, 1957-58, 1963-64, 1967-68; defeated, 1958, 1960, 1964. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/presbyterian.html">Presbyterian</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/elks.html">Elks</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/kappa-alpha-ord.html">Kappa Alpha Order</a>. Killed, along with three others, in a <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/automobile.html">head-on collision</a> on U.S. Highway 60, Rand, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/KA-died.html">Kanawha County</a>, W.Va., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1970/05-03.html">May 3, 1970</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/43.html">43 years, 132 days</a>). Interment at Sunset Memorial Park. <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 Alfred James Warren 'Al' Carey and Esther J. (Schaeffer) Carey; brother of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/carey.html#304.51.77">Alfred James Carey</a>; married to Margaret Ingles 'Pat' Parrish.</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/176269440">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> Kelly L. Castleberry (1926-2002) — of South Charleston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/KA-lived.html">Kanawha County</a>, W.Va. Born in South Charleston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/KA-born.html">Kanawha County</a>, W.Va., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1926/01-17.html">January 17, 1926</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/realestate.html">Realtor</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/ofc/sthse.html">West Virginia state house of delegates</a> from Kanawha County, 1961-66; defeated, 1966; delegate to Democratic National Convention from West Virginia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1972/WV.html">1972</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1976/WV.html">1976</a>; candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/ofc/southcharleston.html">mayor of South Charleston, W.Va.</a>, 1975. <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/shriners.html">Shriners</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/jesters.html">Jesters</a>. Died in South Charleston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/KA-died.html">Kanawha County</a>, W.Va., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/2002/11-19.html">November 19, 2002</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/76.html">76 years, 306 days</a>). Interment at Sunset Memorial Park. <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 Thomas Castleberry and Thelma (Stover) Castleberry; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1945/10-27.html">October 27, 1945</a>, to Lorena Russe.</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/41500390">Find-A-Grave memorial</a> — <a href="https://www.ourcampaigns.com/CandidateDetail.html?CandidateID=225646">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> Livia Simpson Poffenbarger (1861-1937) — also known as Olivia Nye Simpson; Mrs. George Poffenbarger — of Point Pleasant, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/MS-lived.html">Mason County</a>, W.Va.; Charleston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/KA-lived.html">Kanawha County</a>, W.Va. Born in Pomeroy, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OH/MG-born.html">Meigs County</a>, Ohio, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1861/03-12.html">March 12, 1861</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/newspaper.html">Newspaper editor</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/writing.html">historian</a>; Republican Presidential Elector for West Virginia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/ofc/pr1924-meeting.html">1925</a> (voted for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/coolidge.html#826.74.23">Calvin Coolidge</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/davis-dawsey.html#465.98.04">Charles G. Dawes</a>). <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/female.html">Female</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/presbyterian.html">Presbyterian</a>. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/colonial-dames.html">Colonial Dames</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/dar.html">Daughters of the American Revolution</a>. Died in Charleston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/KA-died.html">Kanawha County</a>, W.Va., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1937/10-27.html">October 27, 1937</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/76.html">76 years, 229 days</a>). Interment at Sunset Memorial Park. <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 George Perry Simpson and Phoebe Almeda (Kennedy) Simpson; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1894/05-10.html">May 10, 1894</a>, to <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/plunket-poilek.html#485.84.08">George Poffenbarger</a>; mother of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/plunket-poilek.html#634.16.03">Nathan Simpson Poffenbarger</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/plunket-poilek.html#956.07.37">Perry Simpson Poffenbarger</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/10001-2718.html">Poffenbarger family</a> of South Charleston and Charleston, West Virginia (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://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Livia Simpson Poffenbarger">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/73615841">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> Nathan Simpson Poffenbarger (1898-1962) — also known as Nathan S. Poffenbarger — of Charleston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/KA-lived.html">Kanawha County</a>, W.Va.; Spring Hill, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/KA-lived.html">Kanawha County</a>, W.Va. Born in West Virginia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1898/08-04.html">August 4, 1898</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; alternate delegate to Republican National Convention from West Virginia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1948/WV.html">1948</a>. Died <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1962/07-19.html">July 19, 1962</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/63.html">63 years, 349 days</a>). Interment at Sunset Memorial Park. <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/plunket-poilek.html#567.55.62">Livia Simpson Poffenbarger</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/plunket-poilek.html#485.84.08">George Poffenbarger</a>; brother of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/plunket-poilek.html#956.07.37">Perry Simpson Poffenbarger</a>; fourth cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/plunket-poilek.html#107.44.26">Leonard Franklin Poffenbarger</a>; fourth cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/plunket-poilek.html#794.25.55">John T. Poffenbarger</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/10001-2718.html">Poffenbarger family</a> of South Charleston and Charleston, West Virginia (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/78186159">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> Grover Cleveland Robertson (1885-1976) — also known as Grover C. Robertson — of Charleston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/KA-lived.html">Kanawha County</a>, W.Va. Born in Kettle, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/RO-born.html">Roane County</a>, W.Va., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1885/08-08.html">August 8, 1885</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/physician.html">Physician</a>; served in the U.S. Army during World War I; alternate delegate to Democratic National Convention from West Virginia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1924/WV.html">1924</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/KA-parties.html">chair of Kanawha County Democratic Party</a>, 1941-49. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/baptist.html">Baptist</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/knights-pythias.html">Knights of Pythias</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/am-legion.html">American Legion</a>. Died <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1976/02-15.html">February 15, 1976</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/90.html">90 years, 191 days</a>). Interment at Sunset Memorial Park. <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">Presumably named for: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cleveland.html#531.34.01">Grover Cleveland</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">Relatives: Son of George W. Robertson and Delilah Elizabeth (Melton) Robertson; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1908/05-24.html">May 24, 1908</a>, to Hattie Mae Lytton.</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. Morris (1893-1981) — of Charleston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/KA-lived.html">Kanawha County</a>, W.Va. Born <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1893/03-07.html">March 7, 1893</a>. Republican. Republican candidate for Presidential Elector for West Virginia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/ofc/pr1940-election.html">1940</a>; alternate delegate to Republican National Convention from West Virginia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1952/WV.html">1952</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1956/WV.html">1956</a>. Died <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1981/04-26.html">April 26, 1981</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/88.html">88 years, 50 days</a>). Interment at Sunset Memorial Park. <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/90108251">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> Leonard Franklin Poffenbarger (1903-1983) — also known as L. F. Poffenbarger — of Dunbar, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/KA-lived.html">Kanawha County</a>, W.Va. Born in Maryland, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1903/12-17.html">December 17, 1903</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/ofc/stsen.html">West Virginia state senate</a> 8th District, 1950. Died in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/KA-died.html">Kanawha County</a>, W.Va., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1983/10-20.html">October 20, 1983</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/79.html">79 years, 307 days</a>). Interment at Sunset Memorial Park. <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 Albertus Poffenberger and Anna (Murray) Poffenberger; married to Virginia E. Jarrett; father of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/plunket-poilek.html#794.25.55">John T. Poffenbarger</a>; first cousin four times removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/dorsey.html#575.27.74">Andrew Dorsey</a>; first cousin five times removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/dorsey.html#122.58.99">Clement F. Dorsey</a>; second cousin four times removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/dorsey.html#568.12.92">Daniel Dorsey</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/dorsey.html#149.68.95">Thomas Beale Dorsey</a>; third cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/plunket-poilek.html#485.84.08">George Poffenbarger</a>; third cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/dorsey.html#284.23.04">Caleb Dorsey</a>; fourth cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/plunket-poilek.html#634.16.03">Nathan Simpson Poffenbarger</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/plunket-poilek.html#956.07.37">Perry Simpson Poffenbarger</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/10001-2718.html">Poffenbarger family</a> of South Charleston and Charleston, West Virginia (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/44570787">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> Perry Simpson Poffenbarger (1899-1997) — also known as Perry S. Poffenbarger — of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/KA-lived.html">Kanawha County</a>, W.Va. Born <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1899/11-24.html">November 24, 1899</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/ofc/sthse.html">West Virginia state house of delegates</a> from Kanawha County, 1960. Died <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1997/04-20.html">April 20, 1997</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/97.html">97 years, 147 days</a>). Interment at Sunset Memorial Park. <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/plunket-poilek.html#567.55.62">Livia Simpson Poffenbarger</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/plunket-poilek.html#485.84.08">George Poffenbarger</a>; brother of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/plunket-poilek.html#634.16.03">Nathan Simpson Poffenbarger</a>; married to Helen Reid Wood; fourth cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/plunket-poilek.html#107.44.26">Leonard Franklin Poffenbarger</a>; fourth cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/plunket-poilek.html#794.25.55">John T. Poffenbarger</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/10001-2718.html">Poffenbarger family</a> of South Charleston and Charleston, West Virginia (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/78186081">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> Alfred James Carey (1930-2008) — also known as Al J. Carey; "Pinky" — of Charleston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/KA-lived.html">Kanawha County</a>, W.Va.; South Charleston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/KA-lived.html">Kanawha County</a>, W.Va. Born in Charleston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/KA-born.html">Kanawha County</a>, W.Va., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1930/02-28.html">February 28, 1930</a>. Republican. Candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/ofc/stsen.html">West Virginia state senate</a> 17th District, 1972. Died, in CAMC Memorial <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/misc-hospitals.html">Hospital</a>, Charleston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/KA-died.html">Kanawha County</a>, W.Va., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/2008/05-21.html">May 21, 2008</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/78.html">78 years, 83 days</a>). Interment at Sunset Memorial Park. <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 Alfred James Warren 'Al' Carey and Esther J. (Schaeffer) Carey; brother of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/carey.html#327.96.81">Walter W. Carey</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/27012409">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <hr> <a name="cms00845">Spring Hill Cemetery</a> Spring Hill, Kanawha County, West Virginia <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 Brashear Avis (1872-1924) — of Charleston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/KA-lived.html">Kanawha County</a>, W.Va. Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/hb-born.html">Harrisonburg</a>, Va., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1872/02-19.html">February 19, 1872</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; served in the U.S. Army during the Spanish-American War; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from West Virginia</a> 3rd District, 1913-15; delegate to Republican National Convention from West Virginia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1916/WV.html">1916</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/episcopalian.html">Episcopalian</a>. Killed by <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/weather.html">lightning</a> in Charleston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/KA-died.html">Kanawha County</a>, W.Va., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1924/06-08.html">June 8, 1924</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/52.html">52 years, 110 days</a>). Interment at Spring Hill 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 Braxton D. Avis and Harriet Elizabeth (Wilson) Avis; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1899/12-06.html">December 6, 1899</a>, to Florence Miriam Atkinson (daughter of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/atkinson.html#491.52.60">George Wesley Atkinson</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=A000348">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=400999">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/7619137">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> </td> <td width=180 align="center" valign="center"> </td></tr></table> <hr> <table width=100%> <tr><td align="center"> "Enjoy the hospitable entertainment of a political graveyard." Henry L. 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