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Calvary Cemetery</a> <li><b>Wheeling</b> <a href="cms03416">Mt. Wood Cemetery</a> </ul> <p> <hr> <span style="font-size:16pt;"><b><a name="cms01617">Stone Church Cemetery</a></b></span><br> Elm Grove, Ohio County, West Virginia <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>Lewis Steenrod (1810-1862)</b> — of Virginia. Born in Virginia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1810/index.html">1810</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Virginia</a>, 1839-45 (19th District 1839-41, 21st District 1841-43, 15th District 1843-45); member of Virginia state legislature, 1850. Slaveowner. Died in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1862/index.html">1862</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/52.html">about 52 years</a>). Interment at Stone Church Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>See also</i> <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=S000843">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=410307">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 Paull (1818-1875)</b> — of Wheeling, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/OH-lived.html">Ohio County</a>, W.Va. Born in Ohio, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1818/07-06.html">July 6, 1818</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/ofc/wheeling.html#4">Mayor of Wheeling, Va.</a>, 1855; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/ofc/spjd.html">judge of West Virginia supreme court of appeals</a>, 1873-75; died in office 1875. Died <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1875/05-11.html">May 11, 1875</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/56.html">56 years, 309 days</a>). Interment at Stone Church Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Relatives:</i> Son of George Paull and Elizabeth (Woods) Paull; married to Jane Ann Fry and Eliza Jane Ott.</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> "He giveth his beloved sleep."</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/78835461">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>Daniel Cruger (1780-1843)</b> — of Bath, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ST-lived.html">Steuben County</a>, N.Y. Born in Sunbury, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/NR-born.html">Northumberland County</a>, Pa., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1780/12-22.html">December 22, 1780</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/newspaper.html">Newspaper publisher</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">lawyer</a>; major in the U.S. Army during the War of 1812; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/asmbly.html">New York state assembly</a>, 1813-16, 1826 (Allegany and Steuben counties 1813-16, Steuben County 1826); <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/spkr.html">Speaker of the New York State Assembly</a>, 1816; postmaster at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/bath.html#3">Bath, N.Y.</a>, 1815-17, 1821-22; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from New York</a> 20th District, 1817-19; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ST-officials.html">Steuben County District Attorney</a>, 1818-21. Slaveowner. Died in Wheeling, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/OH-died.html">Ohio County</a>, Va (now W.Va.), <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1843/07-12.html">July 12, 1843</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/62.html">62 years, 202 days</a>). Interment at Stone Church Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Relatives:</i> Married to Lydia (Boggs) Shepherd.</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=C000954">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=403066">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel Cruger">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/7617993">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/politicalgraveyard/8412464763/"><img src="https://politicalgraveyard.com/thumb/379/80.28.jpg" width=70 height=100 border=0 alt="John T. Carter"></a></td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>John Thomas Carter (1878-1946)</b> — also known as <b>John T. Carter</b> — of Elm Grove, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/OH-lived.html">Ohio County</a>, W.Va. Born near Wheeling, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/OH-born.html">Ohio County</a>, W.Va., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1878/04-24.html">April 24, 1878</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawenforcement.html">Deputy sheriff</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/banking.html">banker</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/ofc/sthse.html">West Virginia state house of delegates</a> from Ohio County, 1929-32; justice of the peace. <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/knights-pythias.html">Knights of Pythias</a>. Died in Wheeling, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/OH-died.html">Ohio County</a>, W.Va., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1946/12-30.html">December 30, 1946</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/68.html">68 years, 250 days</a>). Interment at Stone Church Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Relatives:</i> Son of Arthur Emery Carter and Sara Alma (Hervey) Carter; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1907/02-28.html">February 28, 1907</a>, to Laura Hand; married to Sara May Dimmack.</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>Image source:</i> West Virginia Blue Book 1929</span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <br clear="all"> <hr> <span style="font-size:16pt;"><b><a name=" ">Short Creek Methodist Church Cemetery</a></b></span><br> West Liberty, Ohio County, West Virginia <br> See also <a href="http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=cr&CRid=79872&">Findagrave page</a> for this location. <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"><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/politicalgraveyard/8413558472/"><img src="https://politicalgraveyard.com/thumb/757/24.02.jpg" width=70 height=112 border=0 alt="Milton McColloch"></a></td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>Milton McColloch (1874-1972)</b> — of Wheeling, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/OH-lived.html">Ohio County</a>, W.Va. Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/OH-born.html">Ohio County</a>, W.Va., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1874/06-29.html">June 29, 1874</a>. Republican. <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 Ohio County, 1921-22, 1925-30. 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/oes.html">Order of the Eastern Star</a>. Died in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/OH-died.html">Ohio County</a>, W.Va., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1972/index.html">1972</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/98.html">about 98 years</a>). Interment at Short Creek Methodist Church Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Relatives:</i> Son of Abram Innskeep McColloch and Rebecca Jane (North) McColloch; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1896/">1896</a> to Lillian M. Emsley.</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/111883210">Find-A-Grave memorial</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>Image source:</i> West Virginia Blue Book 1929</span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <br clear="all"> <hr> <span style="font-size:16pt;"><b><a name="cms07559">Unknown Location</a></b></span><br> Wheeling, Ohio County, West Virginia <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>Charles Lee Spillers (b. 1901)</b> — also known as <b>C. Lee Spillers</b> — of Wheeling, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/OH-lived.html">Ohio County</a>, W.Va. Born in Russellville, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/AR/PO-born.html">Pope County</a>, Ark., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1901/08-06.html">August 6, 1901</a>. Democrat. Served in the U.S. Marine Corps during World War I; <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> 1st District, 1935-36; resigned 1936; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/OH-officials.html">Ohio County Prosecuting Attorney</a>, 1937; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/ofc/usatty.html">U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of West Virginia</a>, 1947-51; candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from West Virginia</a> 1st District, 1956. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/presbyterian.html">Presbyterian</a>. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/masons.html">Freemasons</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>Relatives:</i> Son of Dr. Henry Franklin Spillers and Lula (Shinn) Spillers; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1933/12-02.html">December 2, 1933</a>, to Elizabeth Reymann.</span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <br clear="all"> <hr> <span style="font-size:16pt;"><b><a name="cms01315">Elm Grove Cemetery</a></b></span><br> Wheeling, Ohio County, West Virginia <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>George Western Thompson (1806-1888)</b> — also known as <b>George W. Thompson</b> — of Wheeling, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/OH-lived.html">Ohio County</a>, Va. (now W.Va.). Born in Ohio, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1806/index.html">1806</a>. Democrat. Postmaster at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/ofc/wheeling.html#5">Wheeling, Va.</a>, 1838-41; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/ofc/usatty.html">U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Virginia</a>, 1848-50; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Virginia</a> 15th District, 1851-52. Died in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1888/index.html">1888</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/82.html">about 82 years</a>). Interment at Elm Grove 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=T000201">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=410780">Govtrack.us page</a></span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <br clear="all"> <hr> <span style="font-size:16pt;"><b><a name="cms01129">Greenwood Cemetery</a></b></span><br> 1526 National Road <br> Wheeling, Ohio County, West Virginia <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>Lewis Baker (1832-1899)</b> — of Wheeling, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/OH-lived.html">Ohio County</a>, W.Va.; St. Paul, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MN/RA-lived.html">Ramsey County</a>, Minn. Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OH/BE-born.html">Belmont County</a>, Ohio, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1832/11-11.html">November 11, 1832</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/newspaper.html">Newspaper editor</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/ofc/stsen.html">West Virginia state senate</a> 1st District, 1871-72; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/ofc/snpr.html">President of the West Virginia State Senate</a>, 1872; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/WV.html">West Virginia Democratic state chair</a>, 1872-76; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/WV.html">Democratic National Committee from West Virginia</a>, 1884-88; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/MN.html">Minnesota Democratic state chair</a>, 1892; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Minnesota, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1892/MN.html">1892</a>; U.S. Minister to <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/CR-diplomats.html ">Costa Rica</a>, 1893-97; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/EL-diplomats.html ">Salvador</a>, 1893-97; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/NC-diplomats.html ">Nicaragua</a>, 1893-97. Died, from <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/pernicious-anemia.html">pernicious anemia</a>, in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DC/wa-died.html">Washington</a>, D.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1899/04-30.html">April 30, 1899</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/66.html">66 years, 170 days</a>). Interment at Greenwood 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 Ruth Fordyce (sister of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/forde-forlenza.html#021.71.60">Samuel Wesley Fordyce</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>See also</i> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis Baker (politician)">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://history.state.gov/departmenthistory/people/baker-lewis ?">U.S. State Dept career summary</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>Alexander Hillyard Caldwell (1774-1839)</b> — also known as <b>Alexander Caldwell</b> — of Westville, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/JF-lived.html">Jefferson County</a>, Pa.; Wheeling, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/OH-lived.html">Ohio County</a>, Va. (now W.Va.). Born in New Jersey, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1774/11-01.html">November 1, 1774</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/ofc/usdjud.html">U.S. District Judge for the Western District of Virginia</a>, 1825-39; died in office 1839. Died in Wheeling, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/OH-died.html">Ohio County</a>, Va (now W.Va.), <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1839/04-01.html">April 1, 1839</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/64.html">64 years, 151 days</a>). Interment at Greenwood 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> Son of James Caldwell and Elizabeth (Alexander) Caldwell; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1803/02-02.html">February 2, 1803</a>, to Eliza Jane Halsted; uncle of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/caldwell.html#139.24.20">Aquilla Bolton Caldwell</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>Carl George Bachmann (1890-1980)</b> — also known as <b>Carl G. Bachmann</b> — of Wheeling, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/OH-lived.html">Ohio County</a>, W.Va. Born in Wheeling, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/OH-born.html">Ohio County</a>, W.Va., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1890/05-14.html">May 14, 1890</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/OH-officials.html">Ohio County Prosecuting Attorney</a>, 1921-24; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from West Virginia</a> 1st District, 1925-33; defeated, 1934; delegate to Republican National Convention from West Virginia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1932/WV.html">1932</a> (alternate), <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1936/WV.html">1936</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/1956/WV.html">1956</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/OH-parties.html">chair of Ohio County Republican Party</a>, 1940; candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/ofc/ussen.html">U.S. Senator from West Virginia</a>, 1940; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/ofc/wheeling.html">mayor of Wheeling, W.Va.</a>, 1947-51; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/WV.html">West Virginia Republican State Executive Committee</a>, 1949-51. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/presbyterian.html">Presbyterian</a>. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/elks.html">Elks</a>. Died in Wheeling, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/OH-died.html">Ohio County</a>, W.Va., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1980/01-22.html">January 22, 1980</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/89.html">89 years, 253 days</a>). Interment at Greenwood 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> Son of Charles F. Bachmann and Sophia (Neuhard) Bachmann; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1914/07-14.html">July 14, 1914</a>, to Susan Smith; father of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bacha-backstrom.html#663.64.70">Charles F. Bachmann (1915-1983)</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>See also</i> <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=B000012">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=401018">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl G. Bachmann">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/7617870">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>Benjamin Stanton (1809-1872)</b> — of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OH/LG-lived.html">Logan County</a>, Ohio. Born in Mt. Pleasant, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OH/JF-born.html">Jefferson County</a>, Ohio, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1809/06-04.html">June 4, 1809</a>. Republican. Member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OH/ofc/stsen.html">Ohio state senate</a>, 1841-43; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OH/ofc/cncn2.html">delegate to Ohio state constitutional convention</a> from Logan County, 1850-51; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OH/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Ohio</a>, 1851-53, 1855-61 (4th District 1851-53, 8th District 1855-61); <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OH/ofc/ltgov.html">Lieutenant Governor of Ohio</a>, 1862-64; candidate for Presidential Elector for West Virginia. Died in Wheeling, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/OH-died.html">Ohio County</a>, W.Va., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1872/06-02.html">June 2, 1872</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/62.html">62 years, 364 days</a>). Interment at Greenwood 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=S000801">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=410267">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/7617839">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>Aquilla Bolton Caldwell (1814-1893)</b> — also known as <b>Aquilla B. Caldwell</b> — of Wheeling, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/OH-lived.html">Ohio County</a>, W.Va. Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/OH-born.html">Ohio County</a>, Va. (now W.Va.), <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1814/02-11.html">February 11, 1814</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/ofc/usatty.html">U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Virginia</a>, 1861-62; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/ofc/attygn.html">West Virginia state attorney general</a>, 1863-64, 1869-70. Died in Wheeling, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/OH-died.html">Ohio County</a>, W.Va., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1893/06-18.html">June 18, 1893</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/79.html">79 years, 127 days</a>). Interment at Greenwood 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> Son of Joseph Caldwell and Mary Roberts (Yarnall) Caldwell; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1846/05-14.html">May 14, 1846</a>, to Matilda Anne Travis Newman; nephew of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/caldwell.html#704.56.12">Alexander Hillyard Caldwell</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>See also</i> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aquilla B. Caldwell">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/14471492">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 Overton Pendleton (1851-1916)</b> — also known as <b>John O. Pendleton</b> — of Wheeling, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/OH-lived.html">Ohio County</a>, W.Va. Born in Wellsburg, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/BR-born.html">Brooke County</a>, Va. (now W.Va.), <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1851/07-04.html">July 4, 1851</a>. Democrat. Candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/ofc/stsen.html">West Virginia state senate</a>, 1886; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from West Virginia</a> 1st District, 1889-90, 1891-95; defeated, 1895. Died in Wheeling, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/OH-died.html">Ohio County</a>, W.Va., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1916/12-24.html">December 24, 1916</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/65.html">65 years, 173 days</a>). Interment at Greenwood 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> Son of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/pendleton.html#919.09.30">Joseph Henry Pendleton</a> and Margaret Campbell (Ewing) Pendleton; grandnephew of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ewing.html#538.19.16">Edwin Hickman Ewing</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ewing.html#692.90.09">Andrew Ewing</a>; great-grandnephew of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/pendleton.html#501.20.13">John Pendleton Jr.</a>; second great-grandnephew of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/pendleton.html#914.34.65">Edmund Pendleton</a>; first cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/pendleton.html#405.60.08">Nathaniel Pendleton</a>; second cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/pendleton.html#213.12.63">William Barret Pendleton</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/watt-wattles.html#549.42.99">Harvey Watterson</a>; second cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/pendleton.html#617.96.54">Philip Clayton Pendleton</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/pendleton.html#553.69.40">Edmund Henry Pendleton</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/pendleton.html#102.85.12">Nathanael Greene Pendleton</a>; second cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/pendry-penniman.html#782.20.92">John Penn</a>; third cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/johnson4.html#400.69.26">Henry Gaines Johnson</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/pendleton.html#364.87.98">John Strother Pendleton</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/pendleton.html#801.68.68">Albert Gallatin Pendleton</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/pendleton.html#349.23.41">Philip Coleman Pendleton</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/pendleton.html#031.41.28">George Hunt Pendleton</a>; third cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/maddock-magerman.html#015.69.29">James Madison</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/maddock-magerman.html#765.25.89">William Taylor Madison</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/taylor9.html#681.60.97">Zachary Taylor</a>; fourth cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/pendleton.html#897.05.79">Francis Key Pendleton</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/pendleton.html#828.94.61">Charles Rittenhouse Pendleton</a>; fourth cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/chertov-childers.html#449.26.42">Coleby Chew</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/talcott-talley.html#653.94.15">Sidney Fletcher Taliaferro</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/10001-0158.html">Pendleton-Lee family</a> of Maryland (subset 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>See also</i> <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=P000205">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=408608">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/7617890">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>Alfred Caldwell Jr. (1847-1925)</b> — Born in Wheeling, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/OH-born.html">Ohio County</a>, Va. (now W.Va.), <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1847/07-14.html">July 14, 1847</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> 1st District, 1875-77; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/ofc/attygn.html">West Virginia state attorney general</a>, 1885-93. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/presbyterian.html">Presbyterian</a>. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/elks.html">Elks</a>. Died in Wheeling, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/OH-died.html">Ohio County</a>, W.Va., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1925/03-11.html">March 11, 1925</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/77.html">77 years, 240 days</a>). Interment at Greenwood 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> Son of Martha (Baird) Caldwell and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/caldwell.html#025.47.83">Alfred Caldwell</a>; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1871/">1871</a> to Laura Ellen Goshorn; grandson of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/caldwell.html#146.59.32">James Caldwell</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/44434.html">Caldwell family</a> of Wheeling, West Virginia.</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/71225702">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>Chester Dorman Hubbard (1814-1891)</b> — also known as <b>Chester D. Hubbard</b> — of Wheeling, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/OH-lived.html">Ohio County</a>, W.Va. Born in Hamden, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/NH-born.html">New Haven County</a>, Conn., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1814/11-25.html">November 25, 1814</a>. Republican. Member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/ofc/sthse.html">Virginia state house of delegates</a>, 1852-53; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/ofc/seccn.html">delegate to Virginia secession convention</a> from Ohio County, 1861; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/ofc/stsen.html">West Virginia state senate</a> 1st District, 1863-64; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from West Virginia</a> 1st District, 1865-69; delegate to Republican National Convention from West Virginia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1880/WV.html">1880</a>. Died in Wheeling, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/OH-died.html">Ohio County</a>, W.Va., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1891/08-23.html">August 23, 1891</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/76.html">76 years, 271 days</a>). Interment at Greenwood 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> Son of Dana Hubbard and Asenath (Dorman) Hubbard; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1842/09-29.html">September 29, 1842</a>, to Sarah Pallister; father of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hubbard.html#721.57.81">William Pallister Hubbard</a>; great-grandfather of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hubbard.html#518.31.50">Chester R. Hubbard</a>; fifth great-grandson of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/leszynski-levi.html#006.57.84">John Leverett</a>; sixth great-grandson of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/wyche-wyvell.html#768.80.29">George Wyllys</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hayford-haynsworth.html#862.54.10">John Haynes</a>; second cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/pinkerton-pittoni.html#138.34.76">Timothy Pitkin</a>; fourth cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bradby-bradish.html#209.91.18">Edward Green Bradford</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/10001-0030.html">DuPont family</a> of Wilmington, Delaware; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0003.html">Livingston-Schuyler family</a> of New York; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0001.html">Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin 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>See also</i> <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=H000879">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=405725">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>William Pallister Hubbard (1843-1921)</b> — also known as <b>William P. Hubbard</b> — of Wheeling, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/OH-lived.html">Ohio County</a>, W.Va. Born in Wheeling, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/OH-born.html">Ohio County</a>, Va. (now W.Va.), <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1843/12-24.html">December 24, 1843</a>. Republican. Served in the Union Army during the Civil War; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/ofc/sthse.html">West Virginia state house of delegates</a> from Ohio County, 1881-82; candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/ofc/attygn.html">West Virginia state attorney general</a>, 1888; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from West Virginia</a> 1st District, 1907-11; defeated, 1890; delegate to Republican National Convention from West Virginia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1912/WV.html">1912</a>. Died in Wheeling, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/OH-died.html">Ohio County</a>, W.Va., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1921/12-05.html">December 5, 1921</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/77.html">77 years, 346 days</a>). Interment at Greenwood 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> Son of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hubbard.html#776.63.13">Chester Dorman Hubbard</a> and Sarah (Pallister) Hubbard; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1868/05-21.html">May 21, 1868</a>, to Anna Elizabeth Chamberlin; granduncle of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hubbard.html#518.31.50">Chester R. Hubbard</a>; sixth great-grandson of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/leszynski-levi.html#006.57.84">John Leverett</a>; seventh great-grandson of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/wyche-wyvell.html#768.80.29">George Wyllys</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hayford-haynsworth.html#862.54.10">John Haynes</a>; second cousin four times removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/pinkerton-pittoni.html#138.34.76">Timothy Pitkin</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/10001-0001.html">Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family</a> of Connecticut and New York; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0030.html">DuPont family</a> of Wilmington, Delaware; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0003.html">Livingston-Schuyler family</a> of New York; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0086.html">Dewey-Blaine-Coit-Huntington family</a> of Connecticut and Pennsylvania (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>See also</i> <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=H000891">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=405737">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>Robert White (1833-1915)</b> — of Romney, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/HM-lived.html">Hampshire County</a>, W.Va.; Wheeling, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/OH-lived.html">Ohio County</a>, W.Va. Born in Romney, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/HM-born.html">Hampshire County</a>, Va. (now W.Va.), <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1833/02-07.html">February 7, 1833</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; colonel in the Confederate Army during the Civil War; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/ofc/attygn.html">West Virginia state attorney general</a>, 1877-81; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/ofc/sthse.html">West Virginia state house of delegates</a>, 1885, 1891. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/presbyterian.html">Presbyterian</a>. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/un-confed-vets.html">United Confederate Veterans</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/sons-am-rev.html">Sons of the American Revolution</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/masons.html">Freemasons</a>. Died in Wheeling, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/OH-died.html">Ohio County</a>, W.Va., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1915/12-12.html">December 12, 1915</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/82.html">82 years, 308 days</a>). Interment at Greenwood 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> Son of John Baker White and Frances Ann (Streit) White; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1859/">1859</a> to Ellen E. Vass; great-grandnephew of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/white1.html#217.53.85">Alexander White</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/37798.html">White family</a> of Frederick County, Virginia.</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://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert White (attorney general)">Wikipedia article</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 Richard Adams (1895-1975)</b> — also known as <b>Jack R. Adams</b> — of Wheeling, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/OH-lived.html">Ohio County</a>, W.Va. Born in Wheeling, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/OH-born.html">Ohio County</a>, W.Va., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1895/08-10.html">August 10, 1895</a>. Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during World War I; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/ofc/sthse.html">West Virginia state house of delegates</a> from Ohio County, 1935-36, 1941-42, 1955-56, 1965-66; resigned 1936; defeated, 1942, 1956, 1960, 1966; colonel in the U.S. Army during World War II; candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/ofc/stsen.html">West Virginia state senate</a> 1st District, 1946; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/ofc/wheeling.html">mayor of Wheeling, W.Va.</a>, 1955-59. <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/farm-bureau.html">Farm Bureau</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/am-legion.html">American Legion</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/40-8.html">Forty and Eight</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/vfw.html">Veterans of Foreign Wars</a>. Died in November, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1975/index.html">1975</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/80.html">80 years, 0 days</a>). Interment at Greenwood 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> Son of Effie Russell (Updegraff) Adams and Archibald Lynn 'Archie' Adams; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1928/04-18.html">April 18, 1928</a>, to Helen McCoid; married to Frances Grant.</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/131084187">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"><img src="https://politicalgraveyard.com/thumb/168/18.27.jpg" width=70 height=111 border=0 alt="Jesse A. Bloch"></td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>Jesse Aaron Bloch (1879-1951)</b> — also known as <b>Jesse A. Bloch</b> — of Wheeling, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/OH-lived.html">Ohio County</a>, W.Va. Born in Wheeling, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/OH-born.html">Ohio County</a>, W.Va., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1879/11-02.html">November 2, 1879</a>. Republican. Vice-president, Bloch Brothers <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/tobacco.html">Tobacco</a> Co.; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/ofc/sthse.html">West Virginia state house of delegates</a> from Ohio County, 1913-16; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/ofc/stsen.html">West Virginia state senate</a> 1st District, 1919-22; alternate 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/1948/WV.html">1948</a>. Died in Wheeling, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/OH-died.html">Ohio County</a>, W.Va., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1951/01-17.html">January 17, 1951</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/71.html">71 years, 76 days</a>). Interment at Greenwood 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> Son of Samuel Simon Bloch and Bertha (Prager) Bloch; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1905/">1905</a> to Jessie Thornton Moffat.</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/143843572">Find-A-Grave memorial</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>Image source:</i> West Virginia Blue Book 1919</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 Ballentyne Taney (1839-1915)</b> — also known as <b>James B. Taney</b> — of Wheeling, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/OH-lived.html">Ohio County</a>, W.Va. Born in Newark, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/ES-born.html">Essex County</a>, N.J., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1839/12-11.html">December 11, 1839</a>. Served in the Union Navy during the Civil War; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/newspaper.html">newspaper editor</a>; U.S. Consul in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/UL-consuls.html ">Belfast</a>, 1893-96. Died in Wheeling, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/OH-died.html">Ohio County</a>, W.Va., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1915/05-20.html">May 20, 1915</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/75.html">75 years, 160 days</a>). Interment at Greenwood 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> Uncle of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/brewton-brigadier.html#741.97.61">Malcolm Taney Brice</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>See also</i> <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/121646592">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/politicalgraveyard/7764013124/"><img src="https://politicalgraveyard.com/thumb/571/05.93.jpg" width=70 height=111 border=0 alt="George F. Beneke"></a></td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>George F. Beneke (1914-2001)</b> — of Wheeling, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/OH-lived.html">Ohio County</a>, W.Va. Born in Wheeling, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/OH-born.html">Ohio County</a>, W.Va., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1914/01-09.html">January 9, 1914</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; served in the U.S. Navy during World War II; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/ofc/sthse.html">West Virginia state house of delegates</a> from Ohio County, 1947-56, 1967-68, 1971-74; defeated, 1940; resigned 1974; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/OH-parties.html">chair of Ohio County Republican Party</a>, 1961-63. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/lutheran.html">Lutheran</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>; <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/lambda-chi-alpha.html">Lambda Chi Alpha</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/phi-delta-phi.html">Phi Delta Phi</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/aba.html">American Bar Association</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/am-legion.html">American Legion</a>. Died <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/2001/09-11.html">September 11, 2001</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/87.html">87 years, 245 days</a>). Interment at Greenwood 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> Son of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/benedum-benito.html#940.26.52">George C. Beneke</a> and Nada C. (Peterson) Beneke; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1947/04-01.html">April 1, 1947</a>, to Sarah E. Emblen.</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/72013483">Find-A-Grave memorial</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>Image source:</i> West Virginia Blue Book 1951</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>Joseph Henry Pendleton (1827-1881)</b> — also known as <b>Joseph H. Pendleton</b> — of Wheeling, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/OH-lived.html">Ohio County</a>, Va. (now W.Va.). Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/LU-born.html">Louisa County</a>, Va., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1827/01-16.html">January 16, 1827</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/ofc/seccn.html">Delegate to Virginia secession convention</a> from Ohio County, 1861; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/ofc/sthse.html">Virginia state house of delegates</a>, 1863-65; major in the Confederate Army during the Civil War. Died in Wheeling, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/OH-died.html">Ohio County</a>, W.Va., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1881/02-02.html">February 2, 1881</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/54.html">54 years, 17 days</a>). Interment at Greenwood 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> Son of Joseph Winston Pendleton and Elizabeth Hawse (Goodwin) Pendleton; married to Margaret Campbell Ewing; father of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/pendleton.html#677.68.68">John Overton Pendleton</a>; grandnephew of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/pendleton.html#501.20.13">John Pendleton Jr.</a>; great-grandnephew of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/pendleton.html#914.34.65">Edmund Pendleton</a>; first cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/pendleton.html#213.12.63">William Barret Pendleton</a>; first cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/pendleton.html#405.60.08">Nathaniel Pendleton</a>; second cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/pendleton.html#617.96.54">Philip Clayton Pendleton</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/pendleton.html#553.69.40">Edmund Henry Pendleton</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/pendleton.html#102.85.12">Nathanael Greene Pendleton</a>; second cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/pendry-penniman.html#782.20.92">John Penn</a>; third cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/johnson4.html#400.69.26">Henry Gaines Johnson</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/pendleton.html#364.87.98">John Strother Pendleton</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/pendleton.html#801.68.68">Albert Gallatin Pendleton</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/pendleton.html#349.23.41">Philip Coleman Pendleton</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/pendleton.html#031.41.28">George Hunt Pendleton</a>; third cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/maddock-magerman.html#015.69.29">James Madison</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/maddock-magerman.html#765.25.89">William Taylor Madison</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/taylor9.html#681.60.97">Zachary Taylor</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/pendleton.html#897.05.79">Francis Key Pendleton</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/pendleton.html#828.94.61">Charles Rittenhouse Pendleton</a>; third cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/talcott-talley.html#653.94.15">Sidney Fletcher Taliaferro</a>; fourth cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/chertov-childers.html#449.26.42">Coleby Chew</a>; fourth cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/pendleton.html#307.03.32">George Cassety Pendleton</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/garnet-garretson.html#543.31.18">James Benjamin Garnett</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/smith4.html#648.72.43">Hubbard T. Smith</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/pendleton.html#705.85.12">Charles M. Pendleton</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/pendleton.html#073.46.25">Daniel Micajah Pendleton</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/10001-0158.html">Pendleton-Lee family</a> of Maryland (subset 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>See also</i> <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/110102573">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 Ulrich (1871-1943)</b> — also known as <b>Honus Ulrich</b> — of Wheeling, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/OH-lived.html">Ohio County</a>, W.Va. Born in Sharon, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/ME-born.html">Mercer County</a>, Pa., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1871/06-14.html">June 14, 1871</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/metal.html">Steelworker</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/ofc/sthse.html">West Virginia state house of delegates</a> from Ohio County, 1927-32; defeated, 1934; alternate delegate to Republican National Convention from West Virginia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1932/WV.html">1932</a>. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/labor-unions.html">United Steelworkers of America</a>. Died in Wheeling, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/OH-died.html">Ohio County</a>, W.Va., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1943/05-20.html">May 20, 1943</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/71.html">71 years, 340 days</a>). Interment at Greenwood 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> Grandfather of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/karol-kauffman.html#203.62.10">Samuel J. Kasley</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>Malcolm Taney Brice (1876-1971)</b> — also known as <b>Malcolm T. Brice</b> — of Woodsdale (now part of Wheeling), <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/OH-lived.html">Ohio County</a>, W.Va.; Wheeling, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/OH-lived.html">Ohio County</a>, W.Va. Born in Wheeling, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/OH-born.html">Ohio County</a>, W.Va., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1876/12-28.html">December 28, 1876</a>. Democrat. U.S. Vice & Deputy Consul in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/UL-consuls.html ">Belfast</a>, 1895-99; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/newspaper.html">newspaper editor and publisher</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/ofc/sthse.html">West Virginia state house of delegates</a> from Ohio County, 1937-38. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/episcopalian.html">Episcopalian</a>. Died in Wheeling, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/OH-died.html">Ohio County</a>, W.Va., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1971/04-27.html">April 27, 1971</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/94.html">94 years, 120 days</a>). Interment at Greenwood 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> Son of Sylvester Laurence Brice and Mary Eleanor (Taney) Brice; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1903/">1903</a> to Nora A. Purdon; nephew of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/tallmadge-tannehill.html#534.28.74">James Ballentyne Taney</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>See also</i> <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/130393884">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>Eleanor Steber (1914-1990)</b> — of Manhattan, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-lived.html">New York County</a>, N.Y. Born in Wheeling, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/OH-born.html">Ohio County</a>, W.Va., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1914/07-17.html">July 17, 1914</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/music.html">Opera singer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1944 /speakers.html">performed</a>, Democratic National Convention, 1944. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/female.html">Female</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/presbyterian.html">Presbyterian</a>. Died, from <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/heart.html">congestive heart failure</a>, in the Attleboro <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/nursing-homes.html">Nursing Home</a>, Langhorne, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/BU-died.html">Bucks County</a>, Pa., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1990/10-03.html">October 3, 1990</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/76.html">76 years, 78 days</a>). Interment at Greenwood 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> Daughter of Ida Amelia (Nolte) Steber and William Charles Steber; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1938/09-25.html">September 25, 1938</a>, to Edwin Lee Bilby; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1957/12-29.html">December 29, 1957</a>, to Gordon Andrews.</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://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eleanor Steber">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://www.nndb.com/people/878/000206260">NNDB dossier</a> — <a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1682502">Internet Movie Database profile</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/11161797">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <br clear="all"> <hr> <span style="font-size:16pt;"><b><a name="cms04527">Mt. Calvary Cemetery</a></b></span><br> Wheeling, Ohio County, West Virginia <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>Andrew Charles Schiffler (1889-1970)</b> — also known as <b>A. C. Schiffler</b> — of Wheeling, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/OH-lived.html">Ohio County</a>, W.Va. Born in Wheeling, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/OH-born.html">Ohio County</a>, W.Va., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1889/08-10.html">August 10, 1889</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/OH-officials.html">Ohio County Prosecuting Attorney</a>, 1925-33; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from West Virginia</a> 1st District, 1939-41, 1943-45; defeated, 1940, 1944; 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/group/presbyterian.html">Presbyterian</a>. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/aba.html">American Bar Association</a>; <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/odd-fellows.html">Odd Fellows</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/knights-pythias.html">Knights of Pythias</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/elks.html">Elks</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/eagles.html">Eagles</a>. Died in Wheeling, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/OH-died.html">Ohio County</a>, W.Va., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1970/03-27.html">March 27, 1970</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/80.html">80 years, 229 days</a>). Interment at Mt. Calvary 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> Son of Andrew Schiffler and Emma Schiffler; married to Emma Muldrew.</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=S000126">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=409634">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>John Joseph Mathison (1892-1973)</b> — also known as <b>John J. Mathison</b> — of Wheeling, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/OH-lived.html">Ohio County</a>, W.Va. Born in West Virginia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1892/03-18.html">March 18, 1892</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/ofc/wheeling.html">Mayor of Wheeling, W.Va.</a>, 1938-43; postmaster at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/ofc/wheeling.html#3">Wheeling, W.Va.</a>, 1944-62. Died in Wheeling, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/OH-died.html">Ohio County</a>, W.Va., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1973/03-10.html">March 10, 1973</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/80.html">80 years, 357 days</a>). Interment at Mt. Calvary 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> Son of George Joseph Mathison and Annie (Nolan) Mathison.</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/116120770">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/politicalgraveyard/8412466515/"><img src="https://politicalgraveyard.com/thumb/731/71.57.jpg" width=70 height=100 border=0 alt="J. William Cummins"></a></td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>John William Cummins (1881-1965)</b> — also known as <b>J. William Cummins</b> — of Wheeling, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/OH-lived.html">Ohio County</a>, W.Va. Born in Wheeling, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/OH-born.html">Ohio County</a>, W.Va., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1881/07-24.html">July 24, 1881</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; served in the U.S. Army during World War I; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/ofc/sthse.html">West Virginia state house of delegates</a> from Ohio County, 1927-32, 1939-40; defeated, 1940. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/elks.html">Elks</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>. Died in Wheeling, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/OH-died.html">Ohio County</a>, W.Va., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1965/12-27.html">December 27, 1965</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/84.html">84 years, 156 days</a>). Interment at Mt. Calvary 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> Son of John William Cummins (1849-1931) and Annie (Campbell) Cummins; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1912/">1912</a> to Jean Welty.</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>Image source:</i> West Virginia Blue Book 1929</span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <br clear="all"> <hr> <span style="font-size:16pt;"><b><a name="cms03416">Mt. Wood Cemetery</a></b></span><br> Wheeling, Ohio County, West Virginia <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>Thomas Owen Edwards (1810-1876)</b> — of Ohio. Born in Williamsburg, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IN/WY-born.html">Wayne County</a>, Ind., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1810/03-29.html">March 29, 1810</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OH/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Ohio</a> 9th District, 1847-49. Died in Wheeling, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/OH-died.html">Ohio County</a>, W.Va., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1876/02-05.html">February 5, 1876</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/65.html">65 years, 313 days</a>). Interment at Mt. 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