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<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <title>The Political Graveyard: Politicians Killed in the Civil War</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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Marr — of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/FQ-lived.html">Fauquier County</a>, Va. Born in Warrenton, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/FQ-born.html">Fauquier County</a>, Va., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1825/05-27.html">May 27, 1825</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/ofc/seccn.html">Delegate to Virginia secession convention</a> from Fauquier County, 1861; died in office 1861; colonel in the Confederate Army during the Civil War. Killed by <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/gunshot.html">gunshot</a> in the early Civil War skirmish at Fairfax Court House, Fairfax County (now <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/ff-died.html">Fairfax</a>), Va., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1861/06-01.html">June 1, 1861</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/36.html">36 years, 5 days</a>). He was the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/first.html">first</a> Confederate officer to be killed in the war. Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/FQ-buried.html#cms03125">Warrenton Cemetery</a>, Warrenton, Va. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of John Marr and Catherine Inman (Horner) Marr.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/7784606">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> John N. Hughes (1831-1861) — of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/RN-lived.html">Randolph County</a>, Va. (now W.Va.). Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1831/index.html">1831</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/ofc/seccn.html">delegate to Virginia secession convention</a> from Randolph & Tucker counties, 1861. While serving as a civilian volunteer messenger for Confederate troops, he was mistakenly <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/gunshot.html">shot</a> and killed during the Battle of Rich Mountain, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/RN-died.html">Randolph County</a>, Va (now W.Va.), <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1861/07-11.html">July 11, 1861</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/30.html">about 30 years</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/RN-buried.html#cms07447">Beverly Cemetery</a>, Beverly, W.Va. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1851/">1851</a> to Sarah A. Howell.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/113233674">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Francis Stebbins Bartow (1816-1861) — also known as Francis S. Bartow — of Georgia. Born in Savannah, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/CT-born.html">Chatham County</a>, Ga., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1816/09-06.html">September 6, 1816</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Georgia</a> 1st District, 1856; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/ofc/seccn.html">delegate to Georgia secession convention</a>, 1861; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/ofc/cpdel.html">Delegate from Georgia to the Confederate Provisional Congress</a>, 1861; died in office 1861; colonel in the Confederate Army during the Civil War. Slaveowner. Killed by <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/gunshot.html">rifle shot</a>, while rallying his men on the Henry House Hill, during the first battle of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/ma-died.html">Manassas</a>, Va., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1861/07-21.html">July 21, 1861</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/44.html">44 years, 318 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/CT-buried.html#cms00502">Laurel Grove North Cemetery</a>, Savannah, Ga. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Theodosius Bartow and Frances Louisa (Stebbins) Bartow; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1844/04-18.html">April 18, 1844</a>, to Louisa Green Berrien (daughter of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/berl-berrien.html#658.10.35">John Macpherson Berrien</a>); first cousin twice removed of Theodosia Bartow (who married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/burr.html#748.36.81">Aaron Burr</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political families: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0001.html">Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family</a> of Connecticut and New York; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0065.html">Tallmadge-Floyd family</a> of New York; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0094.html">Burr-Alston-Wilson-Ballard family</a> of Charleston, South Carolina; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0364.html">Edwards-Davenport-Thompson-Hooker family</a> of Connecticut; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0560.html">Cornell-Schilplin-Washburn-Burr family</a> of New York; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-1063.html">Berrien-Burr-Bartow-Biddle family</a> of Pennsylvania; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0134.html">Hamlin-Bemis family</a> of Bangor, Maine (subsets of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/BW.html">Bartow County, Ga.</a> is named for him.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">The <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-cities.html">city</a> of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/FL/PK-names.html">Bartow, Florida</a>, is <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a>.  — The <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-cities.html">town</a> of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/JF-names.html">Bartow, Georgia</a>, is <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a>.  — The <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-cities.html">community</a> of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/PO-names.html">Bartow, West Virginia</a>, is <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a>.  — Bartow <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-schools.html">Elementary School</a> (now Otis J. Brock Elementary School), in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IN/VI-names.html">Savannah, Georgia</a>, was formerly <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a>.  — The World War II <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-ships.html">Liberty ship</a> SS Francis S. Bartow (built 1944 at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/CT-names.html">Savannah, Georgia</a>; scrapped 1971) was <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a>.</li> </td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis S. Bartow">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/6004341">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Richard Hanson Weightman (1816-1861) — of New Mexico. Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DC/wa-born.html">Washington</a>, D.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1816/12-28.html">December 28, 1816</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NM/ofc/cgdel.html">Delegate to U.S. Congress from New Mexico Territory</a>, 1851; colonel in the Confederate Army during the Civil War. Killed while commanding troops at the battle of Wilson's Creek, near Republic, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MO/GR-died.html">Greene County</a>, Mo., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1861/08-10.html">August 10, 1861</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/44.html">44 years, 225 days</a>). Original interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MO/GR-buried.html#cms05190">Wilson's Creek Battlefield</a>, Near Republic, Greene County, Mo.; reinterment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MO/GR-buried.html#cms05104">Springfield National Cemetery</a>, Springfield, Mo. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Married to Susan Bradford Coxe.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=W000255">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=411423">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/7873952">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Benjamin Johnson Brown (d. 1861) — of Missouri. Member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MO/ofc/stsen.html">Missouri state senate</a>, 1850; colonel in the Confederate Army during the Civil War. Killed in the battle of Wilson's Creek, near Republic, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MO/GR-died.html">Greene County</a>, Mo., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1861/08-10.html">August 10, 1861</a>. Original interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MO/GR-buried.html#cms05190">Wilson's Creek Battlefield</a>, Near Republic, Greene County, Mo.; reinterment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MO/GR-buried.html#cms05104">Springfield National Cemetery</a>, Springfield, Mo. </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Edward Dickinson Baker (1811-1861) — also known as Edward D. Baker — of Springfield, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IL/SG-lived.html">Sangamon County</a>, Ill.; Galena, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IL/JD-lived.html">Jo Daviess County</a>, Ill.; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/sf-lived.html">San Francisco</a>, Calif.; Oregon City, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OR/CL-lived.html">Clackamas County</a>, Ore. Born in London, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/ED-born.html">England</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1811/02-24.html">February 24, 1811</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IL/ofc/sthse.html">Illinois state house of representatives</a>, 1837-40; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IL/ofc/stsen.html">Illinois state senate</a>, 1841-45; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IL/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Illinois</a>, 1845-46, 1849-51 (7th District 1845-46, 6th District 1849-51); resigned 1846; colonel in the U.S. Army during the Mexican War; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OR/ofc/ussen.html">U.S. Senator from Oregon</a>, 1860-61; died in office 1861; general in the Union Army during the Civil War. Killed in battle at Balls Bluff, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/LO-died.html">Loudoun County</a>, Va., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1861/10-21.html">October 21, 1861</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/50.html">50 years, 239 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/sf-buried.html#cms01128">San Francisco National Cemetery</a>, San Francisco, Calif. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1831/04-27.html">April 27, 1831</a>, to Mary A. Lee.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OR/BA.html">Baker County, Ore.</a> is named for him.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">The <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-cities.html">city</a> of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OR/BA-names.html">Baker City, Oregon</a>, is <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a>.  — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-forts.html">Fort</a> Baker (previously, Lime Point Military Reservation; renamed Fort Baker in 1897; now part of Golden Gate National <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-parks.html">Recreation Area</a>), in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/MR-names.html">Marin County, California</a>, is <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a>.  — Baker <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-road.html">Street</a>, in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/sf-names.html">San Francisco, California</a>, is <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a>.</li> </td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=B000059">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=401064">Govtrack.us page</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Josiah McNair Anderson (1807-1861) — also known as Josiah M. Anderson — of Fairview, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TN/WI-lived.html">Williamson County</a>, Tenn. Born near Pikeville, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TN/BD-born.html">Bledsoe County</a>, Tenn., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1807/11-29.html">November 29, 1807</a>. Whig. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TN/ofc/sthse.html">Tennessee state house of representatives</a>, 1833-37; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TN/ofc/stsen.html">Tennessee state senate</a>, 1843-49; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TN/ofc/sspkr.html">Speaker of the Tennessee State Senate</a>, 1843-45, 1847-49; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TN/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Tennessee</a> 3rd District, 1849-51. Slaveowner. Just after having made a secession <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/meetings.html">speech</a>, was <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/stabbing.html">stabbed</a> and killed, Looneys Creek, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TN/MR-died.html">Marion County</a>, Tenn., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1861/11-08.html">November 8, 1861</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/53.html">53 years, 344 days</a>). Interment <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TN/SQ-buried.html#cms05625">a private or family graveyard</a>, Sequatchie County, Tenn. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=A000199">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=400854">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josiah M. Anderson">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/7191294">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Benjamin Franklin Terry (1821-1861) — also known as Frank Terry — Born in Russellville, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/LO-born.html">Logan County</a>, Ky., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1821/02-18.html">February 18, 1821</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/farmer.html">Planter</a>; in 1844, he was <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/attempts.html">attacked</a> by two rebellious slaves with knives and axes; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/railroading.html">railroad builder</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/ofc/seccn.html">delegate to Texas secession convention</a>, 1861; colonel in the Confederate Army during the Civil War. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/gunshot.html">Shot</a> and killed in action while leading Terry's Texas Rangers at the battle of Woodsonville (also called Rowlett's Station), in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/HT-died.html">Hart County</a>, Ky., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1861/12-17.html">December 17, 1861</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/40.html">40 years, 302 days</a>). Original interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/FB-buried.html#cms05841">a private or family graveyard</a>, Fort Bend County, Tex.; reinterment in 1880 at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/HR-buried.html#cms01598">Glenwood Cemetery</a>, Houston, Tex. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Presumably named for: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/franklin.html#370.29.47">Benjamin Franklin</a></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Joseph Royal Terry and Sarah David (Smith) Terry; brother of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/terry.html#535.15.15">David Smith Terry</a>; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1841/10-12.html">October 12, 1841</a>, to Mary Bingham.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political family: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/11276.html">Runnels-Terry family</a> of Houston, Texas.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/TR.html">Terry County, Tex.</a> is named for him.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/6839175">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Alfred Robb (d. 1862) — of Clarksville, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TN/MY-lived.html">Montgomery County</a>, Tenn. Democrat. Delegate to Democratic National Convention from Tennessee, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1860/TN.html">1860</a>; colonel in the Confederate Army during the Civil War. Mortally wounded in the battle of Fort Donelson, Tennessee, and died soon after, in Clarksville, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TN/MY-died.html">Montgomery County</a>, Tenn., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1862/index.html">1862</a>. Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TN/MY-buried.html#cms01134">Greenwood Cemetery</a>, Clarksville, Tenn. </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> George W. Johnson (1811-1862) — of Georgetown, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/SC-lived.html">Scott County</a>, Ky. Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1811/index.html">1811</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/ofc/seccn.html">delegate to Kentucky secession convention</a>, 1861; Confederate Governor of Kentucky, 1861-62. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/gunshot.html">Shot</a> during a Civil War battle, and died soon after, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1862/index.html">1862</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/51.html">about 51 years</a>). Interment <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/SC-buried.html#cms07739">somewhere</a> in Georgetown, Ky. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Father of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/johnson4.html#497.07.79">Henry V. Johnson</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political family: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/17350.html">Johnson family</a> of Georgetown, Kentucky.</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> Felix Kirk Zollicoffer (1812-1862) — also known as Felix K. Zollicoffer — of Nashville, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TN/DA-lived.html">Davidson County</a>, Tenn. Born in Bigbyville, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TN/MU-born.html">Maury County</a>, Tenn., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1812/05-19.html">May 19, 1812</a>. Member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TN/ofc/stsen.html">Tennessee state senate</a>, 1849; fought a pistol <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/duel-participants.html">duel</a> with rival editor John L. Martin, in Nashville, Tenn., 1852; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TN/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Tennessee</a> 8th District, 1853-59; general in the Confederate Army during the Civil War. Slaveowner. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/gunshot.html">Shot</a> and killed in a Civil War battle near Mill Springs, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/WY-died.html">Wayne County</a>, Ky., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1862/01-19.html">January 19, 1862</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/49.html">49 years, 245 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TN/DA-buried.html#cms00217">Nashville City Cemetery</a>, Nashville, Tenn.; cenotaph at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/PU-buried.html#cms07875">Zollicoffer Park Cemetery</a>, Near Nancy, Pulaski County, Ky. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=Z000012">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=412005">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/8954">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Benjamin McCulloch (1811-1862) — also known as Ben McCulloch — of Texas. Born <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1811/11-11.html">November 11, 1811</a>. Member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/ofc/trlg.html">Texas Republic Congress</a>, 1839; general in the Confederate Army during the Civil War. Killed in the Civil War at Pea Ridge, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/AR/BE-died.html">Benton County</a>, Ark., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1862/03-07.html">March 7, 1862</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/50.html">50 years, 116 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/TV-buried.html#cms01455">Texas State Cemetery</a>, Austin, Tex. <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"><a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/MU.html">McCulloch County, Tex.</a> is named for him.</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> Albert Sidney Johnston (1803-1862) — of Texas. Born in Washington, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/MA-born.html">Mason County</a>, Ky., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1803/02-02.html">February 2, 1803</a>. Served in the U.S. Army during the Black Hawk War; served in the Texas Army during the Texas War of Independence; wounded in a <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/duel-participants.html">duel</a> with Texas Gen. Felix Huston, Februay 7, 1837; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/ofc/rswar.html">Texas Republic Secretary of War</a>, 1838-40; general in the Confederate Army during the Civil War. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/gunshot.html">Shot</a> and killed while leading his forces at the Battle of Shiloh, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TN/HD-died.html">Hardin County</a>, Tenn., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1862/04-06.html">April 6, 1862</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/59.html">59 years, 63 days</a>). He was the highest-ranking officer on either side killed during the war. Original interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/LA/OR-buried.html#cms02289">St. Louis Cemetery No. 1</a>, New Orleans, La.; reinterment in 1867 at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/TV-buried.html#cms01455">Texas State Cemetery</a>, Austin, Tex.; statue at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/TV-buried.html# ">South Mall</a>, University of Texas, Austin, Tex. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Dr. John Johnston and Abigail (Harris) Johnston; half-brother of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/johnson-johnston.html#833.00.32">Josiah Stoddard Johnston</a>; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1829/">1829</a> to Henrietta Preston (sister of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/preston.html#242.74.27">William Preston</a>); married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1843/">1843</a> to Eliza Griffin; grandfather of Henrietta Preston Johnston (who married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/tucker.html#900.20.06">Henry St. George Tucker</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political families: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0012.html">Harrison-Randolph-Marshall-Cabell family</a> of Virginia; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-1352.html">Johnston-Preston family</a> of Kentucky and Virginia (subsets of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Politician named for him: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lehmann-lemp.html#118.59.71">Albert S. J. Lehr</a> </td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert Sidney Johnston">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://www.nndb.com/people/252/000050102">NNDB dossier</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/4334">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Clark L. Owen (1808-1862) — of Texas. Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/SH-born.html">Shelby County</a>, Ky., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1808/index.html">1808</a>. Served in the Texas Army during the Texas War of Independence; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/ofc/trsn.html">Texas Republic Senate</a> from District of Matagorda, Jackson and Victoria, 1841-42; served in the Confederate Army during the Civil War. Killed at the battle of Shiloh, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TN/HD-died.html">Hardin County</a>, Tenn., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1862/04-06.html">April 6, 1862</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/53.html">about 53 years</a>). Burial location unknown. </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> W. H. L. Wallace (d. 1862) — of Ottawa, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IL/LS-lived.html">La Salle County</a>, Ill. Republican. Delegate to Republican National Convention from Illinois, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1856/IL.html">1856</a>; general in the Union Army during the Civil War. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/gunshot.html">Shot</a> and killed while leading troops at the Civil War battle of Shiloh near Pittsburg Landing, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TN/HD-died.html">Hardin County</a>, Tenn., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1862/04-06.html">April 6, 1862</a>. Interment <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IL/LS-buried.html#cms05753">a private or family graveyard</a>, La Salle County, Ill. </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Barton Samuel Kyle (1825-1862) — also known as Barton S. Kyle — of Troy, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OH/MI-lived.html">Miami County</a>, Ohio. Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OH/MI-born.html">Miami County</a>, Ohio, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1825/04-07.html">April 7, 1825</a>. Republican. Delegate to Republican National Convention from Ohio, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1856/OH.html">1856</a>; served in the Union Army during the Civil War. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/masons.html">Freemasons</a>. Killed at the battle of Shiloh, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TN/HD-died.html">Hardin County</a>, Tenn., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1862/04-06.html">April 6, 1862</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/36.html">36 years, 364 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OH/MI-buried.html#cms07390">Rose Hill Cemetery</a>, Troy, Ohio. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Samuel Thomas Kyle and Mary Kay (Bell) Kyle; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1851/05-08.html">May 8, 1851</a>, to Margaret Jane McNabb; father of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kurvink-kyros.html#411.30.49">Thomas Barton Kyle</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/15571326">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Adley Hogan Gladden (1810-1862) — also known as A. H. Gladden — of Columbia, Richland District (now <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/RI-lived.html">Richland County</a>), S.C. Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1810/index.html">1810</a>. Whig. Postmaster at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/ofc/columbia.html#2">Columbia, S.C.</a>, 1841-45; colonel in the U.S. Army during the Mexican War; general in the Confederate Army during the Civil War. Wounded at the Battle of Shiloh and died a few days later, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1862/04-12.html">April 12, 1862</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/51.html">about 51 years</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/AL/MO-buried.html#cms00460">Magnolia Cemetery</a>, Mobile, Ala. </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Louis Powell Harvey (1820-1862) — also known as Louis P. Harvey — of Shopiere, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WI/RO-lived.html">Rock County</a>, Wis. Born in East Haddam, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/MI-born.html">Middlesex County</a>, Conn., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1820/07-22.html">July 22, 1820</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WI/ofc/cncn.html">Delegate to Wisconsin state constitutional convention</a>, 1847; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WI/ofc/stsen.html">Wisconsin state senate</a>, 1854-58; delegate to Republican National Convention from Wisconsin, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1856/WI.html">1856</a> (member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1856/committees.html">Credentials Committee</a>); <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WI/ofc/sos.html">secretary of state of Wisconsin</a>, 1860-62; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WI/ofc/gov.html">Governor of Wisconsin</a>, 1862; died in office 1862. While on a trip to inspect Wisconsin troops after the battle of Shiloh, during the Civil War, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/falls.html">fell</a> off a boat and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/drowning.html">drowned</a> in the Tennessee River, near Pittsburg Landing, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TN/HD-died.html">Hardin County</a>, Tenn., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1862/04-19.html">April 19, 1862</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/41.html">41 years, 271 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WI/DA-buried.html#cms00116">Forest Hill Cemetery</a>, Madison, Wis. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://www.nga.org/governor/louis-powell-harvey/">National Governors Association biography</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Robert Eden Scott (1808-1862) — also known as Robert E. Scott — of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/FQ-lived.html">Fauquier County</a>, Va. Born in Warrenton, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/FQ-born.html">Fauquier County</a>, Va., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1808/04-23.html">April 23, 1808</a>. Member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/ofc/sthse.html">Virginia state house of delegates</a>, 1835-42, 1845-52; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/ofc/cncn3.html">delegate to Virginia state constitutional convention</a>, 1850-51; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/ofc/seccn.html">delegate to Virginia secession convention</a> from Fauquier County, 1861; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/ofc/cpdel.html">Delegate from Virginia to the Confederate Provisional Congress</a>, 1861-62. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/gunshot.html">Shot</a> and killed, in a Civil War skirmish with a band of Union deserters, in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/FQ-died.html">Fauquier County</a>, Va., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1862/05-03.html">May 3, 1862</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/54.html">54 years, 10 days</a>). Interment <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/FQ-buried.html#cms04952">a private or family graveyard</a>, Fauquier County, Va. </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> George Taliaferro Ward (c.1810-1862) — also known as George T. Ward — of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/FL/LO-lived.html">Leon County</a>, Fla. Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/FA-born.html">Fayette County</a>, Ky., about 1810. Whig. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/FL/ofc/trcn.html">Member Florida territorial council</a>, 1833-34; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/FL/ofc/cncn1.html">delegate to Florida state constitutional convention</a> from Leon County, 1838-39; candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/FL/ofc/cgdel.html">Delegate to U.S. Congress from Florida Territory</a>, 1841; candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/FL/ofc/gov.html">Governor of Florida</a>, 1852; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/FL/ofc/seccn.html">delegate to Florida secession convention</a>, 1861; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/FL/ofc/cpdel.html">Delegate from Florida to the Confederate Provisional Congress</a>, 1861-62; candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/FL/ofc/ccsen.html">Senator from Florida in the Confederate Congress</a>, 1861; colonel in the Confederate Army during the Civil War. Slaveowner. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/gunshot.html">Shot</a> and killed while leading his regiment in the Civil War battle at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/wb-died.html">Williamsburg</a>, Va., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1862/05-05.html">May 5, 1862</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/52.html">about 52 years</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/wb-buried.html#cms04306">Episcopal Cemetery</a>, Williamsburg, Va. </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> William High Keim (1813-1862) — also known as William H. Keim — of Reading, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/BE-lived.html">Berks County</a>, Pa. Born near Reading, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/BE-born.html">Berks County</a>, Pa., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1813/06-13.html">June 13, 1813</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/ofc/reading.html">Mayor of Reading, Pa.</a>, 1848-49; defeated (Whig), 1847; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania</a> 8th District, 1858-59; general in the Union Army during the Civil War. Died in the military service at Harrisburg, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/DA-died.html">Dauphin County</a>, Pa., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1862/05-18.html">May 18, 1862</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/48.html">48 years, 339 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/BE-buried.html#cms00046">Charles Evans Cemetery</a>, Reading, Pa. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/keene-keister.html#214.25.60">Benneville de Benneville Keim</a> and Mary Hottenstein (High) Keim; nephew of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/keene-keister.html#374.76.53">George de Benneville Keim (1778-1852)</a>; first cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/keene-keister.html#267.85.61">George May Keim</a>; first cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/keene-keister.html#487.27.20">George de Benneville Keim (1831-1893)</a>; first cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/keene-keister.html#751.64.26">George de Benneville Keim (born 1884)</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political family: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10587.html">Keim family</a> of Reading, Pennsylvania.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=K000051">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=406221">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/5894607">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Robert Hopkins Hatton (1826-1862) — of Tennessee. Born in Steubenville, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OH/JF-born.html">Jefferson County</a>, Ohio, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1826/11-02.html">November 2, 1826</a>. Member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TN/ofc/sthse.html">Tennessee state house of representatives</a>, 1855; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TN/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Tennessee</a> 5th District, 1859-61; general in the Confederate Army during the Civil War. Slaveowner. Killed in the Battle of Seven Pines, near Richmond (<a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/ZZ-died.html">unknown county</a>), Va., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1862/05-31.html">May 31, 1862</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/35.html">35 years, 210 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TN/WL-buried.html#cms01965">Cedar Grove Cemetery</a>, Lebanon, Tenn. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=H000349">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=405218">Govtrack.us page</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Sydenham Moore (1817-1862) — of Greensboro, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/AL/HA-lived.html">Hale County</a>, Ala. Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TN/RU-born.html">Rutherford County</a>, Tenn., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1817/05-25.html">May 25, 1817</a>. Democrat. State court judge in Alabama, 1840; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/AL/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Alabama</a> 4th District, 1857-61; defeated, 1855; colonel in the Confederate Army during the Civil War. Slaveowner. Died from wounds received in the Battle of Seven Pines, Virginia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1862/05-31.html">May 31, 1862</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/45.html">45 years, 6 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/AL/HA-buried.html#cms01279">Greensboro Cemetery</a>, Greensboro, Ala. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=M000918">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=407890">Govtrack.us page</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> William McPherson McIntosh (1815-1862) — of Georgia. Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/EL-born.html">Elbert County</a>, Ga., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1815/02-14.html">February 14, 1815</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/farmer.html">planter</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/ofc/sthse.html">Georgia state house of representatives</a>, 1846-47; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/ofc/stsen.html">Georgia state senate</a>, 1855-56; candidate for Presidential Elector for Georgia; general in the Confederate Army during the Civil War. Died from <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/gunshot.html">gunshot wounds</a> received at the Civil War battle at Garnett's Farm, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/HC-died.html">Henrico County</a>, Va., June, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1862/index.html">1862</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/47.html">47 years, 0 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/EL-buried.html#cms08435">Heard Cemetery</a>, Elberton, Ga. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1842/01-27.html">January 27, 1842</a>, to Maria Louisa Allen (daughter of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/allen8.html#641.24.69">Singleton Walthall Allen</a>; aunt by marriage of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/adams9.html#759.54.41">Willis B. Adams</a>); father of Jessie McIntosh (who married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/haver-hawkesworth.html#519.81.16">Peyton M. Hawes</a>) and Anna Cassandra McIntosh (who married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/walkinlawton-wall.html#351.75.40">Budd Clay Wall</a>); grandfather of Julia May Cade (who married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/haver-hawkesworth.html#118.01.70">Albert Sidney Hawes</a>); great-grandfather of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/haver-hawkesworth.html#373.99.29">Peyton Samuel Hawes</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political family: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/12798.html">Heard family</a> of Elberton, Georgia.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/7191313">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Samuel Watson Black (1816-1862) — also known as Samuel W. Black — of Pittsburgh, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/AL-lived.html">Allegheny County</a>, Pa.; Nebraska City, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NE/OT-lived.html">Otoe County</a>, Neb. Born in Pittsburgh, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/AL-born.html">Allegheny County</a>, Pa., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1816/09-03.html">September 3, 1816</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; colonel in the U.S. Army during the Mexican War; candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania</a>, 1852; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NE/ofc/tsju.html">justice of Nebraska territorial supreme court</a>, 1857-59; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NE/ofc/trgv.html">Governor of Nebraska Territory</a>, 1859-61; colonel in the Union Army during the Civil War. Killed in battle at Gaines Mill (now part of Mechanicsville), <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/HV-died.html">Hanover County</a>, Va., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1862/06-27.html">June 27, 1862</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/45.html">45 years, 297 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/AL-buried.html#cms00535">Allegheny Cemetery</a>, Pittsburgh, Pa. </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Stephen Fowler Hale (1816-1862) — of Alabama. Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/AR/CT-born.html">Crittenden County</a>, Ark., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1816/01-31.html">January 31, 1816</a>. Member of Alabama state legislature, 1843, 1857-61; served in the U.S. Army during the Mexican War; candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/AL/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Alabama</a> 4th District, 1853; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/AL/ofc/cpdel.html">Delegate from Alabama to the Confederate Provisional Congress</a>, 1861-62; colonel in the Confederate Army during the Civil War. Mortally wounded during the battle of Seven Pines, and died at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/rm-died.html">Richmond</a>, Va., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1862/07-18.html">July 18, 1862</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/46.html">46 years, 168 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/AL/GR-buried.html#cms04263">Mesopotamia Cemetery</a>, Eutaw, Ala. </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> John Taylor Hughes (1817-1862) — of Missouri. Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/WD-born.html">Woodford County</a>, Ky., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1817/07-25.html">July 25, 1817</a>. Member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MO/ofc/sthse.html">Missouri state house of representatives</a>, 1854; colonel in the Confederate Army during the Civil War. While leading his troops, was killed in battle at Independence, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MO/JA-died.html">Jackson County</a>, Mo., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1862/08-11.html">August 11, 1862</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/45.html">45 years, 17 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MO/JA-buried.html#cms00905">Woodlawn Cemetery</a>, Independence, Mo. </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Isaac Ingalls Stevens (1818-1862) — also known as Isaac I. Stevens — of Washington. Born in North Andover, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MA/ES-born.html">Essex County</a>, Mass., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1818/03-25.html">March 25, 1818</a>. Major in the U.S. Army during the Mexican War; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WA/ofc/trgv.html">Governor of Washington Territory</a>, 1853-57; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WA/ofc/cgdel.html">Delegate to U.S. Congress from Washington Territory</a>, 1857-61; general in the Union Army during the Civil War. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/gunshot.html">Shot</a> and killed at the Civil War battle of Chantilly, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/FX-died.html">Fairfax County</a>, Va., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1862/09-01.html">September 1, 1862</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/44.html">44 years, 160 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/NE-buried.html#cms01071">Island Cemetery</a>, Newport, R.I.; memorial monument at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/FX-buried.html# ">Ox Hill Battlefield Park</a>, Fairfax County, Va. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Cousin *** of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/stevens2.html#805.82.89">Charles Abbot Stevens</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/stevens6.html#928.66.70">Moses Tyler Stevens</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political family: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/11057.html">Stevens-Woodhull family</a> of New York City, New York.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Stevens counties in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MN/SV.html">Minn.</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WA/ST.html">Wash.</a> are named for him.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-forts.html">Fort</a> Stevens (established 1863; decomissioned 1947; now a <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-parks.html">state park</a>) in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OR/CA-names.html">Warrenton, Oregon</a>, was <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a>.  — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-forts.html">Fort</a> Stevens (active during the Civil War, 1861-65; site now a <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-parks.html">park</a>) in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DC/wa-names.html">Washington, D.C.</a>, was <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a>.  — The <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-cities.html">city</a> (and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-water.html">lake</a>) of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WA/SN-names.html">Lake Stevens, Washington</a>, is <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a>.  — The <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-cities.html">town</a> of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MT/RA-names.html">Stevensville, Montana</a>, is <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a>.  — Stevens <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-mountains.html">Peak</a> (6,838 feet), in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ID/SH-names.html">Shoshone County, Idaho</a>, is <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a>.  — Stevens <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-mountains.html">Peak</a> (5,372 feet), in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ID/BI-names.html">Bingham County, Idaho</a>, is <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a>.  — Upper Stevens <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-water.html">Lake</a>, and Lower Stevens <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-water.html">Lake</a>, in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ID/SH-names.html">Shoshone County, Idaho</a>, are <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a>.  — The Stevens Hall <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-buildings.html">dormitory</a>, at Washington State <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-colleges.html">University</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WA/WI-names.html">Pullman, Washington</a>, is <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a>.  — Isaac I. Stevens <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-schools.html">Elementary School</a> (opened 1906, expanded 1928, renovated and reopened 2001), in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WA/KI-names.html">Seattle, Washington</a>, is <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a>.  — Stevens <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-schools.html">Middle School</a>, in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WA/CA-names.html">Port Angeles, Washington</a>, is <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a>.  — Stevens <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-schools.html">Junior High School</a> (now Middle School), in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WA/FR-names.html">Pasco, Washington</a>, is <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a>.  — The World War II <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-ships.html">Liberty ship</a> SS Isaac I. Stevens (built 1943 at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OR/MU-names.html">Portland, Oregon</a>; scrapped 1967) was <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a>.</li> </td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Epitaph: "Who gave to the service of his country a quick and comprehensive mind, a warm and generous heart, a firm will, and a strong arm, and who fell while rallying his command, with the flag of the Republic in his dying grasp, at the battle of Chantilly, Va."</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=S000881">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=410343">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac Stevens">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/21358">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Books about Isaac Ingalls Stevens: Joseph Taylor Hazard, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0832300594/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0832300594&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Companion of Adventure: A Biography of Isaac Ingalls Stevens, First Governor of Washington</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> John Hugh Means (1812-1862) — of Buckhead, Fairfield District (now Old Buckhead, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/FA-lived.html">Fairfield County</a>), S.C. Born in Fairfield District (now <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/FA-born.html">Fairfield County</a>), S.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1812/08-18.html">August 18, 1812</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/farmer.html">Planter</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/ofc/gov.html">Governor of South Carolina</a>, 1850-52; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/ofc/seccn.html">delegate to South Carolina secession convention</a> from Fairfield, 1860-62; died in office 1862; colonel in the Confederate Army during the Civil War. Mortally wounded in the Second Battle of Bull Run (Second Manassas), and died a few days later, in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/PW-died.html">Prince William County</a>, Va., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1862/09-01.html">September 1, 1862</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/50.html">50 years, 14 days</a>). Interment <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/FA-buried.html# ">a private or family graveyard</a>, Fairfield County, S.C.; cenotaph at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/RI-buried.html#cms03032">First Presbyterian Churchyard</a>, Columbia, 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">See also <a href="https://www.nga.org/governor/john-hugh-means/">National Governors Association biography</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/65291203">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Thornton Fleming Brodhead (1822-1862) — also known as Thornton F. Brodhead — of Pontiac, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/OA-lived.html">Oakland County</a>, Mich.; Detroit, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/WY-lived.html">Wayne County</a>, Mich. Born in South Newmarket, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NH/RO-born.html">Rockingham County</a>, N.H., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1822/09-22.html">September 22, 1822</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; served in the U.S. Army during the Mexican War; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/ofc/stsen.html">Michigan state senate</a>, 1850; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Michigan, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1852/MI.html">1852</a>; postmaster at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/ofc/detroit.html#2">Detroit, Mich.</a>, 1853-57; colonel in the Union Army during the Civil War. Gravely injured in the Second Battle of Bull Run, and died soon after in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/ax-died.html">Alexandria</a>, Va., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1862/09-02.html">September 2, 1862</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/39.html">39 years, 345 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/WY-buried.html#cms00088">Elmwood Cemetery</a>, Detroit, Mich. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/brockson-bronrott.html#501.13.17">John Brodhead</a> and Mary (Dodge) Brodhead; married to Archange Macomb.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/7294921">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> George Watson Pratt (1830-1862) — also known as George W. Pratt — of Kingston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/UL-lived.html">Ulster County</a>, N.Y. Born in Prattsville, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/GR-born.html">Greene County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1830/04-18.html">April 18, 1830</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/leather.html">Leather manufacturer</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/stsen.html">New York state senate</a> 10th District, 1858-59; colonel in the Union Army during the Civil War. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/gunshot.html">Shot</a> and wounded at the Second Battle of Bull Run, Va., August 30, 1862, and died as a result, in Albany, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/AL-died.html">Albany County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1862/09-11.html">September 11, 1862</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/32.html">32 years, 146 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/AL-buried.html#cms00001">Albany Rural Cemetery</a>, Menands, N.Y. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/pratt.html#399.44.38">Zadock Pratt</a> and Abigail (Watson) Pratt; brother of Julia Harriet Pratt (who married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ingersoll.html#236.98.89">Colin Macrae Ingersoll</a>); married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1855/">1855</a> to Anna Attwood Tibbs; uncle of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ingersoll.html#539.12.14">George Pratt Ingersoll</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political family: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0001.html">Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family</a> of Connecticut and New York (subset of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George W. Pratt">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/6029810">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> John Basil Lamar (1812-1862) — also known as John B. Lamar — of Macon, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/BB-lived.html">Bibb County</a>, Ga. Born in Milledgeville, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/BD-born.html">Baldwin County</a>, Ga., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1812/11-05.html">November 5, 1812</a>. Democrat. Member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/ofc/sthse.html">Georgia state house of representatives</a>, 1837; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Georgia</a> at-large, 1843; served in the Confederate Army during the Civil War. Slaveowner. Mortally wounded in the battle at Cramptons Gap, Frederick County (part now in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MD/WA-died.html">Washington County</a>), Md., and died the following day, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1862/09-15.html">September 15, 1862</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/49.html">49 years, 314 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/BB-buried.html#cms00292">Rose Hill Cemetery</a>, Macon, Ga. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=L000029">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=406539">Govtrack.us page</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Lawrence O'Bryan Branch (1820-1862) — also known as Lawrence O'B. Branch — of Raleigh, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/WK-lived.html">Wake County</a>, N.C. Born in Enfield, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/HL-born.html">Halifax County</a>, N.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1820/11-28.html">November 28, 1820</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from North Carolina</a> 4th District, 1855-61; general in the Confederate Army during the Civil War. Slaveowner. Killed in the battle of Antietam, Sharpsburg, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MD/WA-died.html">Washington County</a>, Md., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1862/09-17.html">September 17, 1862</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/41.html">41 years, 293 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/WK-buried.html#cms01728">City Cemetery</a>, Raleigh, N.C. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Father of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/branch.html#230.61.82">William Augustus Blount Branch</a>; nephew of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/branch.html#433.58.63">John Branch Jr.</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political family: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10147.html">Branch family</a> of Enfield, North Carolina.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=B000764">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=401723">Govtrack.us page</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Allison Nelson (1822-1862) — of Atlanta, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/FU-lived.html">Fulton County</a>, Ga.; Meridian, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/BQ-lived.html">Bosque County</a>, Tex. Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/FU-born.html">Fulton County</a>, Ga., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1822/03-11.html">March 11, 1822</a>. Served in the U.S. Army during the Mexican War; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/ofc/sthse.html">Georgia state house of representatives</a>, 1849-53; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/ofc/atlanta.html">mayor of Atlanta, Ga.</a>, 1855; resigned 1855; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/ofc/sthse.html">Texas state house of representatives</a>, 1860; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/ofc/seccn.html">delegate to Texas secession convention</a>, 1861; general in the Confederate Army during the Civil War. Died, a war casualty, near Austin, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/AR/LO-died.html">Lonoke County</a>, Ark., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1862/10-07.html">October 7, 1862</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/40.html">40 years, 210 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/AR/PU-buried.html#cms00835">Mt. Holly Cemetery</a>, Little Rock, Ark. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of John B. Nelson.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allison Nelson">Wikipedia article</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> James Streshly Jackson (1823-1862) — of Kentucky. Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/FA-born.html">Fayette County</a>, Ky., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1823/09-27.html">September 27, 1823</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Kentucky</a> 2nd District, 1861; general in the Union Army during the Civil War. Slaveowner. Killed by <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/gunshot.html">rifle shot</a> in the Battle of Perryville, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/BY-died.html">Boyle County</a>, Ky., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1862/10-08.html">October 8, 1862</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/39.html">39 years, 11 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/CH-buried.html#cms00588">Riverside Cemetery</a>, Hopkinsville, Ky. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=J000019">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=405926">Govtrack.us page</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> William Sydney Wilson (1816-1862) — of Port Gibson, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MS/CI-lived.html">Claiborne County</a>, Miss. Born in Snow Hill, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MD/WO-born.html">Worcester County</a>, Md., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1816/11-07.html">November 7, 1816</a>. Democrat. Member of Mississippi state legislature, 1858-59, 1860-61; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Mississippi, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1860/MS.html">1860</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MS/ofc/cpdel.html">Delegate from Mississippi to the Confederate Provisional Congress</a>, 1861; major in the Confederate Army during the Civil War. Mortally wounded at the battle of Sharpsburg on September 17, 1862, and died <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1862/11-03.html">November 3, 1862</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/45.html">45 years, 361 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MD/WO-buried.html#cms03610">Makemie Memorial Presbyterian Churchyard</a>, Snow Hill, Md. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/wilson3.html#252.47.83">Ephraim King Wilson (1771-1834)</a>; brother of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/wilson3.html#042.27.03">Ephraim King Wilson (1821-1891)</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political family: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/11167.html">Wilson family</a> of Snow Hill, Maryland.</td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Thomas Reade Rootes Cobb (1823-1862) — also known as Thomas R. R. Cobb — of Georgia. Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/JF-born.html">Jefferson County</a>, Ga., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1823/04-10.html">April 10, 1823</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/ofc/cpdel.html">Delegate from Georgia to the Confederate Provisional Congress</a>, 1861-62; general in the Confederate Army during the Civil War. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/gunshot.html">Shot</a> and killed in the battle of Fredericksburg, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/ST-died.html">Stafford County</a>, Va., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1862/12-13.html">December 13, 1862</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/39.html">39 years, 247 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/CA-buried.html#cms00241">Oconee Hill Cemetery</a>, Athens, Ga. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of John Addison Cobb and Sarah Robinson (Rootes) Cobb; brother of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cobb.html#329.56.23">Howell Cobb (1815-1868)</a>; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1844/">1844</a> to Marion McHenry Lumpkin (daughter of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ludoricus-lunardi.html#118.73.06">Joseph Henry Lumpkin</a>; niece of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ludoricus-lunardi.html#856.82.84">Wilson Lumpkin</a>); father of Marion Birdie Cobb (who married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/smith6.html#997.75.90">Michael Hoke Smith</a>); nephew of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cobb.html#406.49.78">Howell Cobb (1772-1818)</a>; great-grandson of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lewis4.html#415.75.41">Howell Lewis</a>; great-grandnephew of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/smith5.html#529.95.51">John Smith</a>; first cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/jackson4.html#944.48.82">Henry Rootes Jackson</a>; second cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lewis6.html#668.97.58">Meriwether Lewis</a>; second cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/washington.html#466.36.08">George Washington</a>; third cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cremeans-crocheron.html#140.78.95">Thomas Leonidas Crittenden</a>; third cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/childress-chipley.html#936.30.30">Thomas Chilton</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/childress-chipley.html#627.20.50">William Parish Chilton</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/walker2.html#929.22.50">David Shelby Walker</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/childress-chipley.html#637.70.47">Joshua Chilton</a>; third cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/washington.html#209.13.59">Bushrod Washington</a>; third cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/dilweg-dionysius.html#337.45.37">Dracos Alexander Dimitry Jr.</a>; fourth cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/walker5.html#946.40.55">James David Walker</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/childress-chipley.html#568.72.52">Commodore Perry Chilton</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/walker2.html#336.61.00">David Shelby Walker Jr.</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/childress-chipley.html#596.91.98">Shadrach Chilton</a>; fourth cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/washington.html#778.51.30">John Thornton Augustine Washington</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/childress-chipley.html#006.59.80">Horace George Chilton</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/childress-chipley.html#159.25.40">Arthur Bounds Chilton</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political families: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0158.html">Pendleton-Lee family</a> of Maryland; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0045.html">Jackson-Lee family</a> (subsets of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Maxcy Gregg (1814-1862) — of Columbia, Richland District (now <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/RI-lived.html">Richland County</a>), S.C. Born in Columbia, Richland District (now <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/RI-born.html">Richland County</a>), S.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1814/08-01.html">August 1, 1814</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; major in the U.S. Army during the Mexican War; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/ofc/seccn.html">delegate to South Carolina secession convention</a> from Richland, 1860-62; general in the Confederate Army during the Civil War. During the Battle of Fredericksburg, he was <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/gunshot.html">shot</a> in the spine, mortally wounded, and died two days later, in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/fb-died.html">Fredericksburg</a>, Va., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1862/12-15.html">December 15, 1862</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/48.html">48 years, 136 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/RI-buried.html#cms01941">Elmwood Cemetery</a>, Columbia, 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">Relatives: Son of James Gregg and Cornelia Manning (Maxcy) Gregg.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maxcy Gregg">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/9072">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Jacob Babbitt (1809-1862) — of Bristol, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/BR-lived.html">Bristol County</a>, R.I. Born in Bristol, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/BR-born.html">Bristol County</a>, R.I., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1809/05-09.html">May 9, 1809</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/banking.html">Banker</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/cotton.html">cotton manufacturer</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/ofc/sthse.html">Rhode Island state house of representatives</a>, 1850; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Rhode Island, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1860/RI.html">1860</a>; major in the Union Army during the Civil War. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/gunshot.html">Shot</a> and wounded (in a "friendly fire" accident) during the Civil War battle of Fredericksburg, Va., and died ten days later, in Mansion House <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/misc-hospitals.html">Hospital</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/ax-died.html">Alexandria</a>, Va., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1862/12-23.html">December 23, 1862</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/53.html">53 years, 228 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/BR-buried.html#cms02529">Juniper Hill Cemetery</a>, Bristol, R.I. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Jacob Babbitt (1769-1850) and Bathsheba (Stoddard) Babbitt; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1826/10-07.html">October 7, 1826</a>, to Abby Eliza Briggs; first cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/b-babbush.html#051.78.02">Elijah Babbitt</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/b-babbush.html#075.94.92">George Henry Babbitt</a>; first cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/b-babbush.html#014.38.90">Francis Sanford Babbitt</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political families: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0072.html">Fairbanks-Adams family</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0304.html">Starkweather-Pendleton family</a> of Preston, Connecticut; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0495.html">Beakes-Greene-Witter family</a>; <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>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Epitaph: "Know this, if I fall, it will be in defense of our beloved Constitution."</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/13021396">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Ebenezer Allen (1804-1863) — of Orono, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/PE-lived.html">Penobscot County</a>, Maine; Galveston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/GV-lived.html">Galveston County</a>, Tex. Born in Newport, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NH/SU-born.html">Sullivan County</a>, N.H., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1804/04-08.html">April 8, 1804</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/ofc/rssta.html">Texas Republic Secretary of State</a>, 1844-45, 1845-46; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/ofc/ratgn.html">Attorney General of the Texas Republic</a>, 1844-45; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/ofc/attygn.html">Texas state attorney general</a>, 1850-52; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/railroading.html">railroad promoter</a>; served in the Confederate Army during the Civil War. Died in the Civil War in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/rm-died.html">Richmond</a>, Va., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1863/index.html">1863</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/59.html">about 59 years</a>). Burial location unknown. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of David Allen and Hannah (Wilcox) Allen; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1833/">1833</a> to Sylvina Morse.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">The <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-cities.html">city</a> of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/CO-names.html">Allen, Texas</a>, is <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a>.</li> </td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ebenezer Allen (Texas politician)">Wikipedia article</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Thomas B. Monroe Jr. (died c.1863) — of Lexington, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/FA-lived.html">Fayette County</a>, Ky. Born in Frankfort, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/FR-born.html">Franklin County</a>, Ky. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/ofc/sos.html">Secretary of state of Kentucky</a>, 1859-61; major in the Confederate Army during the Civil War. Killed in the Confederate service during the Civil War, about 1863. Burial location unknown. </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Josiah Gale (1828-1863) — of Galesburg, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IL/KX-lived.html">Knox County</a>, Ill. Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1828/index.html">1828</a>. Democrat. Postmaster at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IL/ofc/galesburg.html#2">Galesburg, Ill.</a>, 1858-61. Died in the military service, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1863/index.html">1863</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/35.html">about 35 years</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IL/KX-buried.html#cms00852">Hope Cemetery</a>, Galesburg, Ill. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of George Washington Gale and Harriet (Selden) Gale; brother of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/galbreath-gall.html#579.68.44">William Selden Gale</a>; grandson of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/selden.html#336.27.05">Charles Selden</a>; granduncle of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/galbreath-gall.html#905.19.02">George Candee Gale</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political family: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/37968.html">Gale-Selden family</a> of Galesburg, Illinois.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/96204777">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> John M. Wimer (1810-1863) — of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MO/sl-lived.html">St. Louis</a>, Mo. Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/AH-born.html">Amherst County</a>, Va., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1810/05-08.html">May 8, 1810</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MO/ofc/saintlouis.html">Mayor of St. Louis, Mo.</a>, 1843-44, 1857-58; postmaster at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MO/ofc/saintlouis.html#2">St. Louis, Mo.</a>, 1845-49; served in the Confederate Army during the Civil War. Killed in action at Hartville, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MO/WI-died.html">Wright County</a>, Mo., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1863/01-11.html">January 11, 1863</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/52.html">52 years, 248 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MO/sl-buried.html#cms00391">Bellefontaine Cemetery</a>, St. Louis, Mo. </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> James Reily (1811-1863) — of Texas. Born in Hamilton, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OH/BU-born.html">Butler County</a>, Ohio, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1811/07-03.html">July 3, 1811</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; major in the Texas Army during the Texas War of Independence; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/ofc/rhse.html">Texas Republic House of Representatives</a>, 1840-41; Texas Republic Minister to the United States, 1841-42; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/ofc/sthse.html">Texas state house of representatives</a>, 1853-54; U.S. Consul in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/RU-consuls.html ">St. Petersburg</a>, as of 1856; colonel in the Confederate Army during the Civil War. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/presbyterian.html">Presbyterian</a>; later <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/episcopalian.html">Episcopalian</a>. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/masons.html">Freemasons</a>. Slaveowner. Killed in the Battle of Camp Bisland, on Bayou Teche, near Franklin, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/LA/SY-died.html">St. Mary Parish</a>, La., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1863/04-14.html">April 14, 1863</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/51.html">51 years, 285 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/FA-buried.html#cms00359">Lexington Cemetery</a>, Lexington, Ky. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of John Reily and Nancy (Hunter) Reily; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1834/03-04.html">March 4, 1834</a>, to Ellen Hart Ross (grandniece of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/clarken-claytee.html#084.40.12">Henry Clay</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political family: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0020.html">Clay family</a> of Kentucky (subset of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Robert Lafayette Crawford (1825-1863) — of Lancaster, Lancaster District (now <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/1825/index.html">1825</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/ofc/seccn.html">Delegate to South Carolina secession convention</a> from Lancaster, 1860-62; served in the Confederate Army during the Civil War. Killed at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/sf-died.html">Suffolk</a>, Va., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1863/04-20.html">April 20, 1863</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/37.html">about 37 years</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/LN-buried.html#cms03737">Old First Presbyterian Church Graveyard</a>, Lancaster, S.C. </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> H. G. Berry (1824-1863) — of Rockland, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/KX-lived.html">Knox County</a>, Maine. Born <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1824/08-27.html">August 27, 1824</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/ofc/rockland.html">Mayor of Rockland, Maine</a>, 1856; general in the Union Army during the Civil War. Killed in battle at Chancellorville, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/SP-died.html">Spotsylvania County</a>, Va., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1863/05-03.html">May 3, 1863</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/38.html">38 years, 249 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ME/KX-buried.html#cms02459">Achorn Cemetery</a>, Rockland, Maine. </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Randal William McGavock (1826-1863) — of Nashville, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TN/DA-lived.html">Davidson County</a>, Tenn. Born in Nashville, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TN/DA-born.html">Davidson County</a>, Tenn., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1826/08-10.html">August 10, 1826</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TN/ofc/nashville.html">Mayor of Nashville, Tenn.</a>, 1858-59; colonel in the Confederate Army during the Civil War. Killed in battle near Raymond, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MS/HI-died.html">Hinds County</a>, Miss., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1863/05-12.html">May 12, 1863</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/36.html">36 years, 275 days</a>). Entombed at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TN/DA-buried.html#cms00355">Mt. Olivet Cemetery</a>, Nashville, Tenn. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Jacob McGavock and Louisa Caroline (Grundy) McGavock; married to Seraphina Deery (who later married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/trelease-trimarchi.html#958.21.69">Connally Findlay Trigg</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/petitpren-pettis.html#554.77.78">Augustus Herman Pettibone</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political families: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0001.html">Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family</a> of Connecticut and New York; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0012.html">Harrison-Randolph-Marshall-Cabell family</a> of Virginia (subsets of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/7192212">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> William Barksdale (1821-1863) — of Columbus, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MS/LO-lived.html">Lowndes County</a>, Miss. Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TN/RU-born.html">Rutherford County</a>, Tenn., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1821/08-21.html">August 21, 1821</a>. Served in the U.S. Army during the Mexican War; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MS/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Mississippi</a>, 1853-61 (at-large 1853-55, 3rd District 1855-61); general in the Confederate Army during the Civil War. Slaveowner. Killed in battle at Gettysburg, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/AD-died.html">Adams County</a>, Pa., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1863/07-02.html">July 2, 1863</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/41.html">41 years, 315 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MS/HI-buried.html#cms00477">Greenwood Cemetery</a>, Jackson, Miss. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Nancy Harvey (Lester) Barksdale and William Barksdale (1787-1834); brother of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/barkett-barlett.html#960.86.08">Ethelbert Barksdale</a>; second cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/barkett-barlett.html#394.69.46">George Annesley Barksdale</a>; second cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/barkett-barlett.html#459.91.67">William Randolph Barksdale</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/barkett-barlett.html#172.47.56">Champe Terrell Barksdale</a>; second cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/barkett-barlett.html#994.71.62">Alfred Dickinson Barksdale</a>; third cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/barkett-barlett.html#820.32.29">Allen Arnold Barksdale</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/barkett-barlett.html#064.33.18">Randolph Hunter Barksdale</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political family: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10076.html">Barksdale family</a> of Virginia.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=B000147">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=401149">Govtrack.us page</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Eliakim Sherrill (1813-1863) — of Shandaken, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/UL-lived.html">Ulster County</a>, N.Y. Born in Greenville, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/UL-born.html">Ulster County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1813/02-16.html">February 16, 1813</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from New York</a> 10th District, 1847-49; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/stsen.html">New York state senate</a> 10th District, 1854-55; colonel in the Union Army during the Civil War. Mortally wounded by <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/gunshot.html">gunshot</a> in battle, and died the next day, at Gettysburg, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/AD-died.html">Adams County</a>, Pa., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1863/07-04.html">July 4, 1863</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/50.html">50 years, 138 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/OT-buried.html#cms01765">Washington Street Cemetery</a>, Geneva, N.Y. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Married to Emily Eldridge; grandfather of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/sherman.html#254.92.00">Carrie Babcock Sherman</a> (who married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/sherman.html#082.27.33">James Schoolcraft Sherman</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political family: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0306.html">Schoolcraft-Sherman family</a> of New York (subset of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-mountains.html">Mount</a> Sherill, in the Catskill Mountains, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/GR-names.html">Greene County, New York</a>, is <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a>.</li> </td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=S000351">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=409847">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eliakim Sherrill">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/5844781">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Langdon Cheves Jr. (1814-1863) — Born in Pennsylvania, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1814/index.html">1814</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/engineer.html">Engineer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/ofc/seccn.html">delegate to South Carolina secession convention</a> from St. Peter's, 1860-62; served in the Confederate Army during the Civil War. Hit by a <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/gunshot.html">shell</a>, and killed, while defending the Confederate-held battery on Morris Island, Charleston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/CH-died.html">Charleston County</a>, S.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1863/07-10.html">July 10, 1863</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/49.html">about 49 years</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/CH-buried.html#cms00368">Magnolia Cemetery</a>, Charleston, 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">Relatives: Son of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/chertov-childers.html#334.73.45">Langdon Cheves</a> and Mary Elizabeth (Dulles) Cheves; married to Charlotte Lorain McCord; granduncle of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/haskell.html#363.18.50">Lewis Wardlaw Haskell</a>; first cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/dukes-dunblazier.html#594.09.65">John Foster Dulles</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/dukes-dunblazier.html#661.62.14">Allen Welsh Dulles</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political family: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0001.html">Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family</a> of Connecticut and New York (subset of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/10652930">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> James Johnston Pettigrew (1828-1863) — also known as J. Johnston Pettigrew — of Charleston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/CH-lived.html">Charleston County</a>, S.C. Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/TY-born.html">Tyrrell County</a>, N.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1828/07-04.html">July 4, 1828</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/ofc/sthse.html">South Carolina state house of representatives</a>, 1856; general in the Confederate Army during the Civil War. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/french.html">French Huguenot</a> ancestry. Mortally wounded at the Battle of Gettysburg, and died soon after at Bunker Hill, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/BE-died.html">Berkeley County</a>, W.Va., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1863/07-17.html">July 17, 1863</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/35.html">35 years, 13 days</a>). Original interment <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/WK-buried.html# ">somewhere</a> in Raleigh, N.C.; reinterment in 1865 at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/TY-buried.html# ">Pettigrew Family Cemetery</a>, Tyrrell County, N.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">Pettigrew Hall (built 1912), a <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-buildings.html">building</a> at the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-colleges.html">University</a> of North Carolina, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/OR-names.html">Chapel Hill, North Carolina</a>, is <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a>.  — The World War II <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-ships.html">Liberty ship</a> SS James J. Pettigrew (built 1942 at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/NH-names.html">Wilmington, North Carolina</a>; scrapped 1960) was <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a>.</li> </td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J. Johnston Pettigrew">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/11050">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Robert Ludwell Yates Peyton (1822-1863) — of Missouri. Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/LO-born.html">Loudoun County</a>, Va., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1822/02-08.html">February 8, 1822</a>. Member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MO/ofc/stsen.html">Missouri state senate</a>, 1858; colonel in the Confederate Army during the Civil War; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MO/ofc/cpdel.html">Delegate from Missouri to the Confederate Provisional Congress</a>, 1862; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MO/ofc/ccsen.html">Senator from Missouri in the Confederate Congress</a>, 1862-63; died in office 1863. Died, apparently of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/malaria.html">malaria</a> contracted while while defending Vicksburg, in Bladon Springs, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/AL/CC-died.html">Choctaw County</a>, Ala., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1863/09-03.html">September 3, 1863</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/41.html">41 years, 207 days</a>). Burial location unknown. </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Hans Christian Heg (1829-1863) — of Wisconsin. Born in Lierbyen, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/NO-born.html">Norway</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1829/12-21.html">December 21, 1829</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/forty-niners.html">Went to California for the 1849 Gold Rush</a>; abolitionist; Wisconsin state prison commissioner, elected 1859; colonel in the Union Army during the Civil War. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/scandinavian.html">Norwegian</a> ancestry. Suffered wounds in battle, and died the next day, at Chickamauga, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/WL-died.html">Walker County</a>, Ga., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1863/09-20.html">September 20, 1863</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/33.html">33 years, 273 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WI/RA-buried.html#cms06071">Norway Lutheran Cemetery</a>, Wind Lake, Wis.; statue at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WI/DA-buried.html# ">State Capitol Grounds</a>, Madison, Wis. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Even Heg and Sigrid (Kallerud) Heg; married to Gunhild Einong.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Heg Memorial <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-parks.html">Park</a>, in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WI/RA-names.html">Wind Lake, Wisconsin</a>, is <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a>.  — The World War II <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-ships.html">Liberty ship</a> SS Hans Heg (built 1944 at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/CC-names.html">Richmond, California</a>; scrapped 1961) was <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a>.</li> </td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans Christian Heg">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/7489797">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Benjamin Hardin Helm (1831-1863) — also known as Ben Hardin Helm — Born in Bardstown, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/NE-born.html">Nelson County</a>, Ky., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1831/06-02.html">June 2, 1831</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/ofc/sthse.html">Kentucky state house of representatives</a>, 1855-56; declined appointment as paymaster of the Union Army; general in the Confederate Army during the Civil War. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/gunshot.html">Shot</a> during the Battle of Chickamauga, and died soon after, Chickamauga, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/WL-died.html">Walker County</a>, Ga., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1863/09-21.html">September 21, 1863</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/32.html">32 years, 111 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/HA-buried.html# ">Helm Cemetery</a>, Near Elizabethtown, Hardin County, Ky. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/helm.html#891.01.53">John Larue Helm</a> and Lucinda Barbour (Hardin) Helm; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1856/">1856</a> to <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/helm.html#563.34.51">Emilie Pariet Todd</a> (half-sister-in-law of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lincoln.html#848.31.47">Abraham Lincoln</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/edwards6.html#527.37.13">Ninian Wirt Edwards</a>; sister-in-law of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/dawson.html#705.45.25">Nathaniel Henry Rhodes Dawson</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political families: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0083.html">Lincoln-Lee family</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0153.html">Walker-Helm-Lincoln-Brown family</a> of Kentucky; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0337.html">Edwards-Cook family</a> (subsets of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/8925">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Thomas Ruffin (1820-1863) — of Goldsboro, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/WY-lived.html">Wayne County</a>, N.C. Born in Louisburg, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/FR-born.html">Franklin County</a>, N.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1820/09-09.html">September 9, 1820</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from North Carolina</a> 2nd District, 1853-61; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/ofc/cpdel.html">Delegate from North Carolina to the Confederate Provisional Congress</a>, 1861-62; colonel in the Confederate Army during the Civil War. Slaveowner. Mortally wounded in a cavalry fight before the Battle of Bristoe Station, and died <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/captivity.html">while a prisoner of war</a>, at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/ax-died.html">Alexandria</a>, Va., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1863/10-13.html">October 13, 1863</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/43.html">43 years, 34 days</a>). Interment <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/FR-buried.html#cms04948">a private or family graveyard</a>, Franklin County, N.C. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Distant cousin *** of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ruble-ruggero.html#778.36.29">Thomas Ruffin (1787-1870)</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political family: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/11086.html">Ruffin-Thomas family</a> of North Carolina.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=R000499">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=409458">Govtrack.us page</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Francis M. Rotch (c.1822-1863) — of Morris, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/OG-lived.html">Otsego County</a>, N.Y. Born about 1822. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/farmer.html">Farmer</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/stsen.html">New York state senate</a> 20th District, 1860-61; colonel in the Union Army during the Civil War. Contracted an <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/other-diseases.html">unspecified disease</a> while with the Army of the Potomac during the Civil War, and died from it about a year later, in Morris, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/OG-died.html">Otsego County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1863/11-28.html">November 28, 1863</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/41.html">about 41 years</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/OG-buried.html#cms05443">Hillington Cemetery</a>, Morris, N.Y. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Francis Rotch.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/48415951">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Henry Marchmore Shaw (1819-1864) — also known as Henry M. Shaw — of Indiantown (now Shawboro), <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/CI-lived.html">Currituck County</a>, N.C. Born in Newport, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/NE-born.html">Newport County</a>, R.I., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1819/11-20.html">November 20, 1819</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/physician.html">Physician</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from North Carolina</a> 1st District, 1853-55, 1857-59; colonel in the Confederate Army during the Civil War. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/scotch-irish.html">Scotch-Irish</a> ancestry. Slaveowner. While assembling with other Confederate troops for an expedition, he was <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/gunshot.html">shot</a> and killed, near New Bern, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/CR-died.html">Craven County</a>, N.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1864/02-01.html">February 1, 1864</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/44.html">44 years, 73 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/CI-buried.html#cms01784">Shawboro Cemetery</a>, Shawboro, N.C. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of John Allen Shaw and Betty (Marchmore) Shaw.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=S000308">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=409806">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/7191811">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Franklin Gaillard (1829-1864) — of Columbia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/RI-lived.html">Richland County</a>, S.C. Born in Pineville, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/BE-born.html">Berkeley County</a>, S.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1829/04-26.html">April 26, 1829</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/newspaper.html">Newspaper editor</a>; delegate to Democratic National Convention from South Carolina, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1860/SC.html">1860</a>; colonel in the Confederate Army during the Civil War. Killed in the Battle of the Wilderness, in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/OR-died.html">Orange County</a>, Va., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1864/05-06.html">May 6, 1864</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/35.html">35 years, 10 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/fb-buried.html#cms03206">Confederate Cemetery</a>, Fredericksburg, Va. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Thomas Gaillard and Marianne Gendron (Palmer) Gaillard; married to Catherine Cordes Porcher; first cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/gagliardi-gainer.html#065.97.31">Peter Charles Gaillard</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/snowbarger-snowfield.html#143.12.22">Peter Gaillard Snowden</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/gagliardi-gainer.html#181.43.81">Henry Augustus Gaillard</a>; first cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/gagliardi-gainer.html#384.71.75">John Gaillard</a>; first cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/stonebraker-stoughton.html#337.68.87">Thomas Porcher Stoney</a>; first cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/gagliardi-gainer.html#191.53.28">John Palmer Gaillard Jr.</a>; second cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hunt.html#669.18.10">Theodore Gaillard Hunt</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bondurant-boog.html#142.11.90">Peter Porcher Bonneau</a>; fourth cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/popiel-porteous.html#893.73.99">Francis James Porcher</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/miles.html#516.84.16">William Porcher Miles</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political family: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10236.html">Gaillard family</a> of Charleston, South Carolina.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/5990243">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> James Samuel Wadsworth (1807-1864) — also known as James S. Wadsworth — of New York. Born in Geneseo, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/LI-born.html">Livingston County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1807/10-30.html">October 30, 1807</a>. Republican. Candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/gov.html">Governor of New York</a>, 1862; general in the Union Army during the Civil War. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/skull-bones.html">Skull and Bones</a>. Died of wounds received in the Battle of the Wilderness, in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/SP-died.html">Spotsylvania County</a>, Va., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1864/05-08.html">May 8, 1864</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/56.html">56 years, 191 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/LI-buried.html#cms00879">Temple Hill Cemetery</a>, Geneseo, N.Y. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of James Wadsworth and Naomi (Wolcott) Wadsworth; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1834/05-11.html">May 11, 1834</a>, to Mary Craig Wharton; father of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/wadhams-waggy.html#618.50.78">Charles Frederick Wadsworth</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/wadhams-waggy.html#024.06.44">James Wolcott Wadsworth</a>; grandfather of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/wadhams-waggy.html#554.72.90">James Wolcott Wadsworth Jr.</a>; great-grandson of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/witherspoon-woldanski.html#075.86.53">Erastus Wolcott</a>; great-grandfather of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/wadhams-waggy.html#399.88.18">James Jermiah Wadsworth</a>; great-grandnephew of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/witherspoon-woldanski.html#701.74.56">Oliver Wolcott Sr.</a>; second great-grandson of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/witherspoon-woldanski.html#539.20.10">Roger Wolcott (1679-1767)</a>; second great-grandfather of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/sword-szymczak.html#355.70.49">James Wadsworth Symington</a>; first cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/witherspoon-woldanski.html#187.88.31">Edward Oliver Wolcott</a>; first cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/witherspoon-woldanski.html#426.84.67">Oliver Wolcott Jr.</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/griswold.html#247.44.62">Roger Griswold</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/witherspoon-woldanski.html#251.24.21">Frederick Wolcott</a>; second cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/pinkerton-pittoni.html#337.35.14">William Pitkin</a>; third cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/allen5.html#161.25.92">John William Allen</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/backus.html#614.71.17">Henry Titus Backus</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/witherspoon-woldanski.html#135.50.92">Christopher Parsons Wolcott</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/griswold.html#587.44.91">Matthew Griswold (1833-1919)</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/witherspoon-woldanski.html#693.25.42">Roger Wolcott (1847-1900)</a>; third cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/griswold.html#039.79.42">Gaylord Griswold</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/allen8.html#349.75.29">Samuel Clesson Allen</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ellsworth.html#026.38.52">Henry Leavitt Ellsworth</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ellsworth.html#601.47.35">William Wolcott Ellsworth</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/birdsall-biship.html#343.41.04">Eli Coe Birdsey (1799-1843)</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hall4.html#232.31.69">George Harrison Hall</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/witherspoon-woldanski.html#407.77.12">Alfred Wolcott</a>; third cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/griswold.html#429.16.41">Matthew Griswold (1714-1799)</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/pinkerton-pittoni.html#700.58.06">Daniel Pitkin</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/birdsall-biship.html#733.63.64">Eli Coe Birdsey (1843-1929)</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hall6.html#194.97.13">Lawson Wooding Hall</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/chandless-chapline.html#394.34.39">Selden Chapin</a>; third cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/chandless-chapline.html#551.55.56">Frederic Lincoln Chapin</a>; fourth cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/woodnutt-woodrum.html#484.35.05">Morris Woodruff</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/allen3.html#405.41.29">Elisha Hunt Allen</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/witherspoon-woldanski.html#146.55.91">George Washington Wolcott</a>; fourth cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hilla-hillhouse.html#488.74.68">James Hillhouse</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/duvall-dworzanski.html#542.62.04">Theodore Dwight</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/pinkerton-pittoni.html#138.34.76">Timothy Pitkin</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/sherman.html#727.36.22">Charles Robert Sherman</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/holcomb-holdaway.html#019.56.86">Edmund Holcomb</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/woodnutt-woodrum.html#019.97.99">George Catlin Woodruff</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/woodnutt-woodrum.html#902.99.23">Lewis Bartholomew Woodruff</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/blight-block.html#892.09.80">Albert Asahel Bliss</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/blight-block.html#667.78.73">Philemon Bliss</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/willison-wilshire.html#381.58.05">William Chapman Williston</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/allen9.html#323.38.79">William Fessenden Allen</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/chandless-chapline.html#246.73.90">Alfred Clark Chapin</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hale.html#248.53.38">Franklin Darius Hale</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/wadhams-waggy.html#450.24.75">Adrian Rowe Wadsworth, Sr.</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/allen3.html#232.62.06">Frederick Hobbes Allen</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/wadhams-waggy.html#136.91.59">Clarence Seymour Wadsworth</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political families: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0001.html">Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family</a> of Connecticut and New York; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0037.html">Morris-Ingersoll family</a> of New York and Connecticut; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0168.html">Conger-Hungerford family</a> of Connecticut and New York; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0003.html">Livingston-Schuyler family</a> of New York (subsets of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/5842258">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Charles Pinckney Brown (1823-1864) — of Charleston, Charleston District (now <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/CH-lived.html">Charleston County</a>), S.C. Born in South Carolina, May, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1823/index.html">1823</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/teacher.html">School teacher</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/ofc/seccn.html">delegate to South Carolina secession convention</a> from St. James, Goose Creek, 1860-62; served in the Confederate Army during the Civil War. Killed in battle at Drewrys Bluff, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/CF-died.html">Chesterfield County</a>, Va., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1864/05-14.html">May 14, 1864</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/41.html">about 41 years</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/CH-buried.html#cms00368">Magnolia Cemetery</a>, Charleston, 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">Relatives: Son of Sarah Elizabeth (Smith) Brown and Charles Tennent Brown; great-grandnephew of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lowndes.html#267.92.16">Rawlins Lowndes</a>; first cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lowndes.html#902.42.65">Thomas Lowndes</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lowndes.html#647.42.85">William Jones Lowndes</a>; first cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/boude-bowe.html#418.31.89">Elias Boudinot</a>; second cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/dousman-dovey.html#344.96.00">Volkert Petrus Douw</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/vann-vanvorhis.html#985.46.99">Jeremiah Van Rensselaer</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/vann-vanvorhis.html#986.83.99">Robert Van Rensselaer</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/vann-vanvorhis.html#846.85.53">Hendrick Kiliaen Van Rensselaer</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/vann-vanvorhis.html#159.84.16">Killian Killian Van Rensselaer</a>; third cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/gambrell-garcelon.html#749.66.51">Leonard Gansevoort</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/gambrell-garcelon.html#582.86.02">Leonard Gansevoort Jr.</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/vann-vanvorhis.html#474.51.31">Jacob Rutsen Van Rensselaer</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/schuyler.html#631.01.66">Philip Jeremiah Schuyler</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/mayall-maynadier.html#371.25.73">Burnet Rhett Maybank</a>; third cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/mayall-maynadier.html#104.12.31">Burnet Rhett Maybank Jr.</a>; fourth cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/schuyler.html#291.10.40">Philip Schuyler</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hamilton.html#279.13.10">James Alexander Hamilton</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/gambrell-garcelon.html#701.93.68">Peter Gansevoort</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political families: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0003.html">Livingston-Schuyler family</a> of New York; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-1232.html">VanRensselaer family</a> of Albany, New York (subsets of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/14154853">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Albert Gallatin Jenkins (1830-1864) — of Virginia. Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/CA-born.html">Cabell County</a>, Va. (now W.Va.), <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1830/11-10.html">November 10, 1830</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Virginia</a> 11th District, 1857-61; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/ofc/ccrep.html">Representative from Virginia in the Confederate Congress</a>, 1862; general in the Confederate Army during the Civil War. Slaveowner. Mortally wounded in the Battle of Cloyds Mountain, and died near Dublin, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/PU-died.html">Pulaski County</a>, Va., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1864/05-21.html">May 21, 1864</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/33.html">33 years, 193 days</a>). Original interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/PU-buried.html#cms03992">New Dublin Presbyterian Cemetery</a>, Dublin, Va.; reinterment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/CA-buried.html#cms00718">Spring Hill Cemetery</a>, Huntington, W.Va. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Presumably named for: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/galland-gallman.html#163.13.60">Albert Gallatin</a></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=J000081">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=405984">Govtrack.us page</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Henry Clark Gilbert (1818-1864) — also known as Henry C. Gilbert — of Coldwater, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/BN-lived.html">Branch County</a>, Mich. Born in Salina (now part of Syracuse), <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ON-born.html">Onondaga County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1818/07-14.html">July 14, 1818</a>. Democrat. Candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/ofc/sthse.html">Michigan state house of representatives</a>, 1849; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Michigan, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1852/MI.html">1852</a>; colonel in the Union Army during the Civil War. Mortally wounded at the battle of Resaca, Georgia, and died nine days later at the Military <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/misc-hospitals.html">Hospital</a>, Chattanooga, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TN/HA-died.html">Hamilton County</a>, Tenn., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1864/05-24.html">May 24, 1864</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/45.html">45 years, 315 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/BN-buried.html#cms00221">Oak Grove Cemetery</a>, Coldwater, Mich. </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Peter Augustus Porter (1827-1864) — also known as Peter A. Porter — of Niagara Falls, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NI-lived.html">Niagara County</a>, N.Y. Born in Black Rock (now part of Buffalo), <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ER-born.html">Erie County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1827/07-17.html">July 17, 1827</a>. Member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/asmbly.html">New York state assembly</a> from Niagara County 2nd District, 1862; colonel in the Union Army during the Civil War. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/episcopalian.html">Episcopalian</a>. Killed by enemy <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/gunshot.html">gunshot</a> while leading troops in battle, Cold Harbor, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/HV-died.html">Hanover County</a>, Va., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1864/06-03.html">June 3, 1864</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/36.html">36 years, 322 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NI-buried.html#cms00778">Oakwood Cemetery</a>, Niagara Falls, N.Y. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/porter7.html#448.03.00">Peter Buell Porter</a> and Letitia Preston (Breckinridge) Porter; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1852/03-30.html">March 30, 1852</a>, to Mary Cabell Breckinridge (granddaughter of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/breckinridge.html#809.50.86">John Breckinridge</a>); married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1859/11-09.html">November 9, 1859</a>, to Josephine Morris; father of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/porter7.html#905.50.52">Peter Augustus Porter (1853-1925)</a>; nephew of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/porter1.html#961.34.21">Augustus Seymour Porter (1769-1849)</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/breckinridge.html#446.25.19">Joseph Cabell Breckinridge</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/breckinridge.html#913.15.69">Robert Jefferson Breckinridge</a>; great-grandnephew of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/preston.html#916.93.84">William Preston</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cabana-cadwalader.html#775.20.26">William Cabell</a>; first cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/porter1.html#578.27.47">Augustus Seymour Porter (1798-1872)</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/porter7.html#089.34.88">Peter Buell Porter Jr.</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/breckinridge.html#923.82.77">John Cabell Breckinridge</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/breckinridge.html#891.83.83">Robert Jefferson Breckinridge Jr.</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/breckinridge.html#685.82.03">William Campbell Preston Breckinridge</a>; first cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/breckinridge.html#019.25.10">James Douglas Breckinridge</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cabana-cadwalader.html#794.87.46">Benjamin William Sheridan Cabell</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/breckinridge.html#179.74.78">Clifton Rodes Breckinridge</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/handerson-hanlan.html#535.23.07">Levin Irving Handy</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/breckinridge.html#923.46.15">Desha Breckinridge</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/breckinridge.html#447.87.63">Henry Skillman Breckinridge</a>; first cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cabana-cadwalader.html#973.19.38">William Cabell Jr.</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/preston.html#983.64.79">Francis Smith Preston</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cabana-cadwalader.html#439.27.42">William Henry Cabell</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/preston.html#086.13.03">James Patton Preston</a>; second cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/harrison.html#656.69.21">Carter Henry Harrison</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cabana-cadwalader.html#372.07.63">William Lewis Cabell</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cabana-cadwalader.html#448.18.40">George Craighead Cabell</a>; second cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/preston.html#453.47.09">William Campbell Preston</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/mcdowell.html#709.27.32">James McDowell</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cabana-cadwalader.html#038.07.47">Frederick Mortimer Cabell</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/fleury-flye.html#530.19.72">John Buchanan Floyd</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/preston.html#081.09.35">John Smith Preston</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/fleury-flye.html#944.84.18">George Rogers Clark Floyd</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cabana-cadwalader.html#045.17.96">Edward Carrington Cabell</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/grant.html#462.32.81">Ulysses Simpson Grant</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cabana-cadwalader.html#823.76.27">Benjamin Earl Cabell</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/harrison.html#988.40.79">Carter Henry Harrison II</a>; second cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/grant.html#144.42.40">Frederick Dent Grant</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/grant.html#500.19.17">Ulysses Simpson Grant Jr.</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cabana-cadwalader.html#230.79.50">Earle Cabell</a>; second cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/huntington.html#433.10.72">Benjamin Huntington</a>; third cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/leech-lehlbach.html#966.21.11">John William Leftwich</a>; third cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/davenport.html#262.65.85">John Davenport</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cohn-cokayne.html#034.25.81">Joshua Coit</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/davenport.html#802.92.13">James Davenport</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/huntington.html#280.27.07">Henry Huntington</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/huntington.html#633.15.25">Gurdon Huntington</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lathem-lathrop.html#224.69.81">Samuel Lathrop</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/huntington.html#157.08.09">Abel Huntington</a>; third cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/huntington.html#548.16.61">Samuel Huntington</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/scudder.html#199.87.50">Henry Scudder</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/otis.html#225.82.39">Asa H. Otis</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/nemanich-neveu.html#644.48.95">Alvred Bayard Nettleton</a>; third cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/webster.html#369.09.74">Daniel Frederick Webster</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/parler-parshall.html#156.54.33">Lovel Davis Parmelee</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/castleberry-catone.html#778.12.24">Theron Ephron Catlin</a>; fourth cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/huntington.html#075.06.66">Ebenezer Huntington</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/griswold.html#039.79.42">Gaylord Griswold</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/trumbull.html#300.46.46">Benjamin Trumbull</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/adams7.html#433.52.89">Parmenio Adams</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/phelps.html#743.86.80">Elisha Phelps</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/phelps.html#298.22.09">Lancelot Phelps</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/davenport.html#242.22.12">Theodore Davenport</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/blodget-blouin.html#580.47.10">Abijah Blodget</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/huntington.html#842.94.03">Benjamin Nicoll Huntington</a>; fourth cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/huntington.html#286.71.40">Samuel H. Huntington</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/huntington.html#260.28.70">Jabez Williams Huntington</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/case.html#002.57.43">Abiel Case</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/andrews.html#613.93.35">Samuel George Andrews</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/blodget-blouin.html#241.23.80">Harrison Blodget</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/brockson-bronrott.html#446.38.88">John Hall Brockway</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/case.html#177.15.53">Jairus Case</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/burrows.html#382.35.25">Lorenzo Burrows</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/phelps.html#826.92.69">Norman A. Phelps</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/holcomb-holdaway.html#147.60.12">Anson Levi Holcomb</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/castleberry-catone.html#082.28.77">George Smith Catlin</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/willauer-william.html#069.18.67">Waitman Thomas Willey</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/trumbull.html#679.80.55">Lyman Trumbull</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kellian-kellum.html#013.58.69">William Dean Kellogg</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/phelps.html#448.15.94">John Smith Phelps</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/glassbrook-glenmore.html#686.10.79">William Gleason Jr.</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/case.html#904.82.30">Almon Case</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/phelps.html#677.23.35">James Phelps</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cohn-cokayne.html#850.34.66">Robert Coit Jr.</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bronson.html#647.85.15">Samuel Lathrop Bronson</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lathem-lathrop.html#058.29.17">Abial Lathrop</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/witherspoon-woldanski.html#693.25.42">Roger Wolcott</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/holcomb-holdaway.html#973.59.02">Allen Jacob Holcomb</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political families: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0012.html">Harrison-Randolph-Marshall-Cabell family</a> of Virginia; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0031.html">Breckinridge-Preston-Cabell-Floyd family</a> of Virginia; <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/10001-0736.html">Walker-Randolph family</a> of Huntsville, Alabama (subsets of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/6576929">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Laurence Massillon Keitt (1824-1864) — also known as L. M. Keitt — of Orangeburg, Orangeburg District (now <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/OR-lived.html">Orangeburg County</a>), S.C. Born in Orangeburg District (part now in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/CA-born.html">Calhoun County</a>), S.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1824/10-04.html">October 4, 1824</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/farmer.html">Planter</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">lawyer</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/ofc/sthse.html">South Carolina state house of representatives</a>, 1848; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from South Carolina</a> 3rd District, 1853-55, 1855-56, 1856-60; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">censured</a> by the House in 1856 for aiding Rep. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/brooks.html#380.36.10">Preston S. Brooks</a> in his <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/murder-mayhem.html">caning attack</a> on Sen. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/sumner.html#134.74.24">Charles Sumner</a>; resigned; re-elected to his seat within a month; in 1858, he attacked and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/murder-mayhem.html">attempted to choke</a> Rep. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/grovenor-guert.html#922.17.48">Galusha Grow</a> during an argument on the House floor, starting a brawl; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/ofc/seccn.html">delegate to South Carolina secession convention</a> from Orange, 1860-62; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/ofc/cpdel.html">Delegate from South Carolina to the Confederate Provisional Congress</a>, 1861-62; colonel in the Confederate Army during the Civil War. Slaveowner. Mortally wounded at the battle of Cold Harbor, and died the next day, near Richmond (<a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/ZZ-died.html">unknown county</a>), Va., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1864/06-04.html">June 4, 1864</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/39.html">39 years, 244 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/CA-buried.html# ">West End Cemetery</a>, St. Matthews, 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">Relatives: Son of George Keitt and Mary Magdaleine (Wannamaker) Keitt; nephew of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/walworth-warburton.html#523.53.14">John Jacob Wannamaker</a>; first cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/walworth-warburton.html#166.13.61">William Whetstone Wannamaker Jr.</a>; first cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/walworth-warburton.html#918.68.36">William Whetstone Wannamaker III</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political family: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/15869.html">Wannamaker family</a> of Orangeburg, South Carolina.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=K000054">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=406224">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laurence M. Keitt">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/7192238">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> William Waigstill Avery (1816-1864) — of Morganton, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/BR-lived.html">Burke County</a>, N.C. Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/BR-born.html">Burke County</a>, N.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1816/05-25.html">May 25, 1816</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; member of North Carolina state legislature, 1842; delegate to Democratic National Convention from North Carolina, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1860/NC.html">1860</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/ofc/seccn.html">delegate to North Carolina secession convention</a>, 1861; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/ofc/cpdel.html">Delegate from North Carolina to the Confederate Provisional Congress</a>, 1861-62. Mortally wounded while fighting Union guerillas in Tennessee, and died in Morganton, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/BR-died.html">Burke County</a>, N.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1864/07-03.html">July 3, 1864</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/48.html">48 years, 39 days</a>). Interment <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/BR-buried.html#cms04838">a private or family graveyard</a>, Burke County, N.C. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Isaac Thomas Avery and Harriet (Erwin) Avery; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1846/05-27.html">May 27, 1846</a>, to Corrina Mary Morehead (daughter of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/morehead.html#267.93.18">John Motley Morehead</a>); grandson of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/avery.html#425.18.26">Waightstill Avery</a>; second cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/burrows.html#382.35.25">Lorenzo Burrows</a>; third cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bankson-barbosa.html#507.91.46">Noyes Barber</a>; third cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/paca-paganelli.html#387.67.72">Horace Billings Packer</a>; fourth cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/paca-paganelli.html#667.54.47">Daniel Packer</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/paca-paganelli.html#447.86.48">Asa Packer</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/morgan.html#427.99.59">Edwin Barber Morgan</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/morgan.html#898.52.04">Christopher Morgan</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/morgan.html#425.96.48">Edwin Denison Morgan</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/burnette-burnley.html#134.52.56">Alfred Avery Burnham</a>; fourth cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/phelps.html#845.11.77">Judson B. Phelps</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/buffum-bulloch.html#017.20.15">Morgan Gardner Bulkeley</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/buffum-bulloch.html#154.19.52">William Henry Bulkeley</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/paca-paganelli.html#677.69.99">Robert Asa Packer</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/rowland.html#044.24.89">William Frederick Morgan Rowland</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political families: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0001.html">Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family</a> of Connecticut and New York; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0072.html">Fairbanks-Adams family</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0377.html">Lenoir family</a> of North Carolina; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0495.html">Beakes-Greene-Witter family</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0003.html">Livingston-Schuyler family</a> of New York (subsets of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Samuel Allen Rice (1828-1864) — also known as Samuel A. Rice — of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IA/MH-lived.html">Mahaska County</a>, Iowa. Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/CA-born.html">Cattaraugus County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1828/01-27.html">January 27, 1828</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IA/ofc/attygn.html">Iowa state attorney general</a>, 1856-61; general in the Union Army during the Civil War. Mortally wounded at Jenkins' Ferry, Ark., April 30, 1864, and died at Oskaloosa, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IA/MH-died.html">Mahaska County</a>, Iowa, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1864/07-06.html">July 6, 1864</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/36.html">36 years, 161 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IA/MH-buried.html#cms00109">Forest Cemetery</a>, Oskaloosa, Iowa. </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Alexander Wilkin (c.1820-1864) — of St. Paul, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MN/RA-lived.html">Ramsey County</a>, Minn. Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/OR-born.html">Orange County</a>, N.Y., about 1820. Served in the U.S. Army during the Mexican War; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">lawyer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MN/ofc/trsc.html">secretary of Minnesota Territory</a>, 1851-53; colonel in the Union Army during the Civil War. Killed in battle at Tupelo, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MS/LE-died.html">Lee County</a>, Miss., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1864/07-14.html">July 14, 1864</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/44.html">about 44 years</a>); highest ranking volunteer from Minnesota to be killed in the Civil War. Burial location unknown. <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"><a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MN/WL.html">Wilkin County, Minn.</a> is named for him.</td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> William Allison Owens (1833-1864) — also known as William A. Owens — of Charlotte, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/ME-lived.html">Mecklenburg County</a>, N.C. Born <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1833/09-19.html">September 19, 1833</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/ofc/charlotte.html">Mayor of Charlotte, N.C.</a>, 1861-62; colonel in the Confederate Army during the Civil War. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/gunshot.html">Shot and wounded</a> at the Civil War battle of Snicker's Gap, and died the next day, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1864/07-19.html">July 19, 1864</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/30.html">30 years, 304 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/ME-buried.html#cms00378">Settler's Cemetery</a>, Charlotte, N.C. </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> William Jones (1803-1864) — of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IN/SP-lived.html">Spencer County</a>, Ind. Born in Vincennes, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IN/KX-born.html">Knox County</a>, Ind., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1803/index.html">1803</a>. Whig. Member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IN/ofc/sthse.html">Indiana state house of representatives</a>, 1838-41; colonel in the Union Army during the Civil War. Died in battle at Atlanta, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/FU-died.html">Fulton County</a>, Ga., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1864/07-22.html">July 22, 1864</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/61.html">about 61 years</a>). Burial location unknown. </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Philemon Thomas Herbert (1825-1864) — also known as Philemon T. Herbert — of Mariposa, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/MP-lived.html">Mariposa County</a>, Calif.; El Paso, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/EP-lived.html">El Paso County</a>, Tex. Born in Pine Apple, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/AL/WX-born.html">Wilcox County</a>, Ala., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1825/11-01.html">November 1, 1825</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/ofc/asmbly.html">California state assembly</a>, 1853-55 (10th District 1853-54, 6th District 1854-55); <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from California</a> at-large, 1855-57; in 1856, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/intoxication.html">drunk</a> at breakfast, he <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/murder-mayhem.html">shot and killed</a> Thomas Keating, a waiter at the Willard Hotel in Washington; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">charged</a> with <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/murder-mayhem.html">murder</a>, twice <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">tried</a>, and eventually acquitted; colonel in the Confederate Army during the Civil War. Wounded at the Battle of Mansfield, April 8, 1864, and died in Kingston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/LA/DS-died.html">DeSoto Parish</a>, La., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1864/07-23.html">July 23, 1864</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/38.html">38 years, 265 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/LA/DS-buried.html#cms03876">Evergreen Cemetery</a>, Kingston, La. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=H000526">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=405389">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philemon T. Herbert">Wikipedia article</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> John Gregg (1828-1864) — of Texas. Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/AL/LW-born.html">Lawrence County</a>, Ala., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1828/09-28.html">September 28, 1828</a>. State court judge in Texas, 1856; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/ofc/seccn.html">delegate to Texas secession convention</a>, 1861; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/ofc/cpdel.html">Delegate from Texas to the Confederate Provisional Congress</a>, 1861-62; general in the Confederate Army during the Civil War. Killed in action on the Charles City Road near Richmond (<a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/ZZ-died.html">unknown county</a>), Va., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1864/10-07.html">October 7, 1864</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/36.html">36 years, 9 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MS/MO-buried.html#cms00244">Odd Fellows Cemetery</a>, Aberdeen, Miss. <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"><a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/GG.html">Gregg County, Tex.</a> is named for him.</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> Michael Cook (1828-1864) — of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MN/RI-lived.html">Rice County</a>, Minn. Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/MR-born.html">Morris County</a>, N.J., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1828/03-17.html">March 17, 1828</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/construction.html">Carpenter</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MN/ofc/stsen.html">Minnesota state senate</a>, 1857-62 (5th District 1857-60, 8th District 1861-62); major in the Union Army during the Civil War. Wounded in the Civil War battle of Nashville, and died eleven days later in the Cumberland <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/misc-hospitals.html">field hospital</a>, Nashville, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TN/DA-died.html">Davidson County</a>, Tenn., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1864/12-27.html">December 27, 1864</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/36.html">36 years, 285 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MN/RI-buried.html#cms08208">Oak Ridge Cemetery</a>, Faribault, Minn. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Richard Cook and Nellie Louisa (Courter) Cook.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/35443287">Find-A-Grave memorial</a> — <a href="https://www.leg.state.mn.us/legdb/fulldetail?ID=11792">Minnesota Legislator record</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Henry G. Bailly (1828-1865) — of Hastings, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MN/DA-lived.html">Dakota County</a>, Minn. Born <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1828/10-29.html">October 29, 1828</a>. Democrat. Postmaster at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MN/ofc/hastings.html#2">Hastings, Minn.</a>, 1854-55; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MN/ofc/trcn.html">member Minnesota territorial council</a> 6th District, 1856-57; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MN/ofc/cncn.html">delegate to Minnesota state constitutional convention</a> 6th District, 1857; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MN/ofc/stsen.html">Minnesota state senate</a> 3rd District, 1857-58; served in the Union Army during the Civil War. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/french.html">French</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/amerind.html">American Indian</a> ancestry. Died, from his war wounds, in Minnesota, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1865/01-07.html">January 7, 1865</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/36.html">36 years, 70 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MN/DA-buried.html# ">Bellwood Cemetery</a>, Near Hastings, Dakota County, Minn. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bailhache-bakanatch.html#087.59.77">Alexis C. Bailly</a> and Lucy (Faribault) Bailly; brother of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bailhache-bakanatch.html#290.75.88">Alexis Phillip Bailly</a>; nephew of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/faircloth-farleigh.html#353.42.73">Alexander Faribault</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political family: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/27347.html">Bailly-Faribault family</a> of Mendota, Minnesota.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/72506110">Find-A-Grave memorial</a> — <a href="https://www.leg.state.mn.us/legdb/fulldetail?ID=11111">Minnesota Legislator record</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Silas Allen Yerkes (1834-1865) — also known as Silas Yerkes — of Vergennes, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/KE-lived.html">Kent County</a>, Mich. Born near Manchester, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/WA-born.html">Washtenaw County</a>, Mich., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1834/10-14.html">October 14, 1834</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/farmer.html">Farmer</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/ofc/sba.html">Michigan state board of agriculture</a>, 1861; resigned 1861; major in the Union Army during the Civil War. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/methodist.html">Methodist</a>. Badly wounded at the battle of Chickamauga, September 19, 1863, and apparently died as a result, in Vergennes, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/KE-died.html">Kent County</a>, Mich., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1865/10-26.html">October 26, 1865</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/31.html">31 years, 12 days</a>). Burial location unknown. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Anthony Yerkes and Esther (Allen) Yerkes.</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> Cassius Fairchild (1829-1868) — of Madison, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WI/DA-lived.html">Dane County</a>, Wis. Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1829/index.html">1829</a>. Democrat. Member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WI/ofc/asmbly.html">Wisconsin state assembly</a>, 1860; served in the Union Army during the Civil War. Died, from war wounds, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1868/index.html">1868</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/39.html">about 39 years</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WI/DA-buried.html#cms00116">Forest Hill Cemetery</a>, Madison, Wis. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/fairchild.html#423.79.80">Jairus C. Fairchild</a>; brother of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/fairchild.html#181.53.46">Lucius Fairchild</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political family: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/12197.html">Fairchild family</a> of Madison, Wisconsin.</td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Jacob Carl Maria DeGress (1842-1894) — also known as Jacob Carl DeGress — of Austin, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/TV-lived.html">Travis County</a>, Tex. Born in Cologne (Köln), <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/GR-born.html">Germany</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1842/04-23.html">April 23, 1842</a>. Republican. Colonel in the Union Army during the Civil War; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/ofc/sppi.html">Texas superintendent of public instruction</a>, 1871-74; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/ofc/austin.html">mayor of Austin, Tex.</a>, 1877-80; postmaster at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/ofc/austin.html#2">Austin, Tex.</a>, 1881-85, 1889-93. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/catholic.html">Catholic</a>. Died, of complications of his Civil War wounds, in Austin, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/TV-died.html">Travis County</a>, Tex., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1894/03-21.html">March 21, 1894</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/51.html">51 years, 332 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/TV-buried.html#cms00703">Oakwood Cemetery</a>, Austin, Tex. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Carl Franz Wilhelm von Gress and Johanna Walburga (di Bramino) von Gress; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1867/01-01.html">January 1, 1867</a>, to Elizabeth Buckner 'Bettie' Young; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1882/08-02.html">August 2, 1882</a>, to Willie Mae Johnston.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/63800356">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></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"> "Enjoy the hospitable entertainment of a political graveyard." 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