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<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <title>The Political Graveyard: Barren County, Ky.</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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Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/AB-born.html">Albemarle County</a>, Va., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1773/10-21.html">October 21, 1773</a>. Democrat. Member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/ofc/sthse.html">Kentucky state house of representatives</a>, 1809-11; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/ofc/stsen.html">Kentucky state senate</a>, 1816-20, 1824-27; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Kentucky</a> 10th District, 1827-31. Slaveowner. Died in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/BN-died.html">Barren County</a>, Ky., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1838/index.html">1838</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/64.html">about 64 years</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"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>See also</i> <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=Y000002">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=411936">Govtrack.us page</a></span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <br clear="all"> <hr> <span style="font-size:16pt;"><b><a name="cms06511">Private or family graveyards</a></b></span><br> Barren County, Kentucky <br> <table width=100% align="left" cellpadding=5> <tr><td colspan=2><span style="font-size:14pt;">Politicians buried here:</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>James Green Hardy (1795-1856)</b> — also known as <b>James G. Hardy</b> — of Kentucky. Born in Virginia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1795/index.html">1795</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/ofc/ltgov.html">Lieutenant Governor of Kentucky</a>, 1855-56; died in office 1856. Died <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1856/07-16.html">July 16, 1856</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/61.html">about 61 years</a>). Interment in a private or family graveyard. </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>Simeon Buford, Sr. (1756-1835)</b> — of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/BN-lived.html">Barren County</a>, Ky.; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/WR-lived.html">Warren County</a>, Ky. Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/CP-born.html">Culpeper County</a>, Va., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1756/12-19.html">December 19, 1756</a>. Served in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/farmer.html">farmer</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/ofc/sthse.html">Kentucky state house of representatives</a>, 1801-03; a founder of the Kentucky <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/pro-sports.html">horse racing</a> industry. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/french.html">French</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/english.html">English</a> ancestry. Died in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1835/index.html">1835</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/78.html">about 78 years</a>). Interment in a private or family graveyard. <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 John Buford and Judith (Early) Buford; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1777/">1777</a> to Margaret Kirtley; father of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/buffum-bulloch.html#242.44.37">John Buford, Sr.</a>; grandfather of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/buffum-bulloch.html#118.78.61">Thomas Jefferson Buford</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/buffum-bulloch.html#997.59.33">James Monroe Buford</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/15737.html">Buford family</a> of Rock Island, Illinois.</span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <br clear="all"> <hr> <span style="font-size:16pt;"><b><a name="cms01974">Glasgow Cemetery</a></b></span><br> 303 Leslie Avenue <br> Glasgow, Barren County, Kentucky <br> <table width=100% align="left" cellpadding=5> <tr><td colspan=2><span style="font-size:14pt;">Politicians buried here:</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>Joseph Horace Lewis (1824-1904)</b> — of Kentucky. Born near Glasgow, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/BN-born.html">Barren County</a>, Ky., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1824/10-29.html">October 29, 1824</a>. Democrat. Member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/ofc/sthse.html">Kentucky state house of representatives</a>, 1850; general in the Confederate Army during the Civil War; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Kentucky</a> 3rd District, 1870-73; defeated, 1857; state court judge in Kentucky, 1874. Slaveowner. Died <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1904/07-06.html">July 6, 1904</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/79.html">79 years, 251 days</a>). Interment at Glasgow 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"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>See also</i> <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=L000289">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=406786">Govtrack.us page</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>Andrew Jackson Clements (1832-1913)</b> — also known as <b>A. J. Clements</b> — of Tennessee. Born in Clementsville, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TN/CY-born.html">Clay County</a>, Tenn., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1832/12-23.html">December 23, 1832</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/physician.html">Physician</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TN/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Tennessee</a> 3rd District, 1861-63; member of Tennessee state legislature, 1870. Died, of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/pneumonia.html">pneumonia</a>, in Central State Hospital (a <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/asylum.html">mental hospital</a> where he was confined due to <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/dementia.html">senility</a>), Lakeland, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/JF-died.html">Jefferson County</a>, Ky., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1913/11-07.html">November 7, 1913</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/80.html">80 years, 319 days</a>). Interment at Glasgow 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"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Presumably named for:</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/jackson1.html#174.79.95">Andrew Jackson</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>Relatives:</i> Son of Christopher Clements and Mary Clements.</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=C000505">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=402641">Govtrack.us page</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>James Montgomery Richardson (1858-1925)</b> — of Glasgow, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/BN-lived.html">Barren County</a>, Ky. Born in Alabama, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1858/index.html">1858</a>. Democrat. Delegate to Democratic National Convention from Kentucky, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1896/KY.html">1896</a>; member of Kentucky state legislature, 1890; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Kentucky</a> 3rd District, 1905-07. Died in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1925/index.html">1925</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/67.html">about 67 years</a>). Interment at Glasgow 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"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>See also</i> <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=R000223">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=409199">Govtrack.us page</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>Franklin Gorin (1798-1877)</b> — of Kentucky. Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/BN-born.html">Barren County</a>, Ky., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1798/05-03.html">May 3, 1798</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Kentucky</a> 3rd District, 1874. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/first.html">First</a> white child born in Barren County; one-time owner of Mammoth Cave. Died <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1877/12-10.html">December 10, 1877</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/79.html">79 years, 221 days</a>). Interment at Glasgow Cemetery. </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>Paul S. York</b> — of Glasgow, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/BN-lived.html">Barren County</a>, Ky. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/physician.html">Physician</a>; delegate to Republican National Convention from Kentucky, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1940/KY.html">1940</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1948/KY.html">1948</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1952/KY.html">1952</a> (member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1952/committees.html">Committee on Rules and Order of Business</a>). Interment at Glasgow Cemetery. </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>Dora Shirley Terry</b> — also known as <b>Dorinda Shirley</b>; <b>Mrs. Nat D. Terry</b> — of Glasgow, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/BN-lived.html">Barren County</a>, Ky. Democrat. Alternate delegate to Democratic National Convention from Kentucky, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1920/KY.html">1920</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/female.html">Female</a>. Interment at Glasgow 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"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Relatives:</i> Married to Nathaniel Duncan Terry.</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>Carl Collins Howard</b> — also known as <b>C. C. Howard</b> — of Glasgow, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/BN-lived.html">Barren County</a>, Ky. Democrat. Delegate to Democratic National Convention from Kentucky, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1940/KY.html">1940</a>. 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