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<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <title>The Political Graveyard: Royal Arch Masons, politicians, South Carolina</title> <meta name="description" content="A database of political history and cemeteries, with brief biographical entries for 320,919 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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A Abney</b> — of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/LA/BO-lived.html">Bossier Parish</a>, La. Born in South Carolina, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1817/06-28.html">June 28, 1817</a>. Member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/LA/ofc/stsen.html">Louisiana state senate</a>, 1850; served in the Confederate Army during the Civil War. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/methodist.html">Methodist</a>. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/masons.html">Freemasons</a>; <b>Royal Arch Masons</b>. Died <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1866/11-04.html">November 4, 1866</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/49.html">49 years, 129 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/LA/BO-buried.html#cms06105">Mt. Zion Cemetery</a>, Haughton, La. </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>Beckham Hilton Clyburn (1886-1961)</b> — of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/LN-lived.html">Lancaster County</a>, S.C. Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/LN-born.html">Lancaster County</a>, S.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1886/03-01.html">March 1, 1886</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/farmer.html">Farmer</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/ofc/stsen.html">South Carolina state senate</a> from Lancaster County, 1930-34. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/baptist.html">Baptist</a>. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/masons.html">Freemasons</a>; <b>Royal Arch Masons</b>; <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/jr-ord-un-am-mechanics.html">Junior Order</a>. Died in Kershaw, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/LN-died.html">Lancaster County</a>, S.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1961/08-21.html">August 21, 1961</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/75.html">75 years, 173 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/LN-buried.html#cms07226">Kershaw City Cemetery</a>, Kershaw, S.C. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Relatives:</i> Son of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/clippert-clynick.html#547.66.80">William Uriah Clyburn (1857-1917)</a> and Queen Alice (Hilton) Clyburn; brother of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/clippert-clynick.html#640.83.06">Charles Frank Clyburn</a>; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1908/10-14.html">October 14, 1908</a>, to Mary Gaston Jenkins; married to Edna Mae Harris; nephew of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/clippert-clynick.html#716.20.39">Benjamin Rutledge Clyburn</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/clippert-clynick.html#245.62.43">Thomas Franklin Clyburn</a>; uncle of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/clippert-clynick.html#857.85.45">William Uriah Clyburn (1920-2007)</a>; first cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/clippert-clynick.html#818.09.76">Lewis Marcellus Clyburn Jr.</a>; first cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/clippert-clynick.html#469.83.02">Lewis Lee Clyburn</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/williams8.html#199.80.01">Thomas Yancey Williams</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/williams2.html#971.74.29">David Reece Williams</a>; second cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/clippert-clynick.html#386.95.98">Lewis Craig Clyburn</a>; second cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/clippert-clynick.html#566.74.03">William Richard Clyburn</a>; third cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/clippert-clynick.html#786.03.20">Thornwell Howard Clyburn</a>.</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"> <i>Political family:</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/41921.html">Clyburn family</a> of South Carolina.</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>See also</i> <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/39434349">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></span></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> <b>John Stanyarne Wilson (1859-1928)</b> — also known as <b>Stanyarne Wilson</b> — of Spartanburg, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/SP-lived.html">Spartanburg County</a>, S.C.; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/rm-lived.html">Richmond</a>, Va. Born in Yorkville, York District (now York, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/YO-born.html">York County</a>), S.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1859/01-10.html">January 10, 1859</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/cotton.html">cotton goods manufacturer</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/ofc/sthse.html">South Carolina state house of representatives</a> from Spartanburg County, 1884-86, 1890-92; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/ofc/stsen.html">South Carolina state senate</a> from Spartanburg County, 1892-95; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from South Carolina</a> 4th District, 1895-1901; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/ofc/cncn6.html">delegate to South Carolina state constitutional convention</a> from Spartanburg County, 1895; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/SP-parties.html">chair of Spartanburg County Democratic Party</a>, 1896. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/episcopalian.html">Episcopalian</a>. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/masons.html">Freemasons</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/royal-select-masters.html">Royal and Select Masters</a>; <b>Royal Arch Masons</b>. Died in Spartanburg, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/SP-died.html">Spartanburg County</a>, S.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1928/02-14.html">February 14, 1928</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/69.html">69 years, 35 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/SP-buried.html#cms00960">Church of the Advent Cemetery</a>, Spartanburg, S.C. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Relatives:</i> Son of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/wilson9.html#271.98.57">William Blackburn Wilson</a> and Arrah Minerva (Lowry) Wilson; brother of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/wilson9.html#628.84.12">William Blackburn Wilson Jr.</a>; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1887/">1887</a> to Loulie Burris; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1896/11-25.html">November 25, 1896</a>, to Harriet Wilbour 'Hattie' Hazard (sister of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hayworth-heacock.html#882.71.53">Walter Hazard</a>).</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"> <i>Political families:</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-1215.html">Wilson family</a> of York, South Carolina; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0054.html">King-Hazard family</a> of Connecticut and New York (subsets of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Epitaph:</i> "Asleep In Jesus."</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>See also</i> <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=W000612">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=411767">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanyarne Wilson">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/23412730">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> </td> <td width=180 align="center" valign="center"> <script type="text/javascript"> </script> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script> </td></tr></table> <table width=100%> <td align="center" valign="center"> <script type="text/javascript"> </script> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script> </td></table> <table width=100%> <tr><td align="center"><span style="font-size:20pt;"> <span style="font-family:garamond,serif"> <i>"Enjoy the hospitable entertainment of a political graveyard."</i></span></span><br> <span style="font-size:8pt;">Henry L. 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