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<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <title>The Political Graveyard: Mason County, W.Va.</title> <meta name="description" content="A database of political history and cemeteries, with brief biographical entries for 338,260 U.S. political figures, living and dead, from the 1700s to the present."> <meta name="keywords" content="political biography history genealogy cemeteries politics candidates congress senators legislators governors politicians biographies ancestors mayors birthplace geography elections"> <meta name="author" content="Lawrence Kestenbaum"> <script type="text/javascript"> var _gaq = _gaq || []; _gaq.push(['_setAccount', 'UA-7383562-1']); _gaq.push(['_trackPageview']); (function() { var ga = document.createElement('script'); ga.type = 'text/javascript'; ga.async = true; ga.src = ('https:' == document.location.protocol ? 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Born in Mt. Airy, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/SH-born.html">Shenandoah County</a>, Va., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1786/02-07.html">February 7, 1786</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Virginia</a>, 1833-37, 1849-53 (16th District 1833-35, 1st District 1835-37, 14th District 1849-53). Slaveowner. Died in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/PU-died.html">Putnam County</a>, W.Va., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1866/08-02.html">August 2, 1866</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/80.html">80 years, 176 days</a>). Interment at Beale Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Presumably named for: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/maddock-magerman.html#015.69.29">James Madison</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=B000266">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=401260">Govtrack.us page</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <hr> <a name="cms08839">Leon Cemetery</a> Leon, Mason County, West Virginia See also <a href="http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=cr&CRid=78937&">Findagrave page</a> for this location. <table width=100% align="left" cellpadding=5> <tr><td colspan=2>Politicians buried here:</td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/politicalgraveyard/7763990960/"><img src="https://politicalgraveyard.com/thumb/614/23.16.jpg" width=70 height=118 border=0 alt="George A. Rairden"></a></td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> George A. Rairden (1891-1972) — of Leon, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/MS-lived.html">Mason County</a>, W.Va. Born in Leon, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/MS-born.html">Mason County</a>, W.Va., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1891/01-09.html">January 9, 1891</a>. Republican. Served in the U.S. Army during World War I; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/merchant.html">merchant</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/realestate.html">land agent</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/construction.html">contractor</a>; justice of the peace; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/ofc/sthse.html">West Virginia state house of delegates</a> from Mason County, 1927-36, 1939-46, 1949-54, 1959-60. Died <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1972/03-17.html">March 17, 1972</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/81.html">81 years, 68 days</a>). Interment at Leon Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Harvey C. Rairden and Rachel (McDaniel) Rairden; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1919/">1919</a> to Wretha Parsons.</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/94285113">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Image source: West Virginia Blue Book 1951</td></tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <hr> <a name="cms09171">Graham Baptist Church Cemetery</a> Graham Station Road Near New Haven, Mason County, West Virginia See also <a href="http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=cr&CRid=1977579&">Findagrave page</a> for this location. <table width=100% align="left" cellpadding=5> <tr><td colspan=2>Politicians buried here:</td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Lester Kenneth Ohlinger (1906-1975) — also known as Lester K. Ohlinger — of New Haven, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/MS-lived.html">Mason County</a>, W.Va. Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1906/index.html">1906</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/MS-parties.html">Chair of Mason County Democratic Party</a>, 1950-55. Died in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1975/index.html">1975</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/69.html">about 69 years</a>). Interment at Graham Baptist Church Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1930/05-21.html">May 21, 1930</a>, to Sevilla A. Roush.</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/85657857">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <hr> <a name="cms01069">Lone Oak Cemetery</a> Point Pleasant, Mason County, West Virginia <table width=100% align="left" cellpadding=5> <tr><td colspan=2>Politicians buried here:</td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Kellian Van Rensalear Whaley (1821-1876) — also known as Kellian Whaley — of Point Pleasant, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/MS-lived.html">Mason County</a>, W.Va. Born in Utica, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/OE-born.html">Oneida County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1821/05-06.html">May 6, 1821</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lumber.html">Lumber business</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Virginia</a> 11th District, 1861-63; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from West Virginia</a> 3rd District, 1863-67. Died in Point Pleasant, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/MS-died.html">Mason County</a>, W.Va., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1876/05-20.html">May 20, 1876</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/55.html">55 years, 14 days</a>). Interment at Lone Oak Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=W000318">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=411480">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kellian Whaley">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> Daniel Haymond Polsley (1803-1877) — of Wellsburg, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/BR-lived.html">Brooke County</a>, Va. (now W.Va.). Born in Palatine, Va. (now part of Fairmont, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/MA-born.html">Marion County</a>, W.Va.), <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1803/11-28.html">November 28, 1803</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/newspaper.html">newspaper editor</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/ofc/ltgov.html">Lieutenant Governor of West Virginia</a>, 1861; district judge in West Virginia 7th District, 1863-66; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from West Virginia</a> 3rd District, 1867-69. Slaveowner. Died in Point Pleasant, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/MS-died.html">Mason County</a>, W.Va., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1877/10-14.html">October 14, 1877</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/73.html">73 years, 320 days</a>). Interment at Lone Oak Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Jacob Polsley and Margaret (Haymond) Polsley; married to Eliza Vilette Brown; nephew of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hayford-haynsworth.html#554.52.48">Daniel Haymond</a>; first cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hayford-haynsworth.html#158.84.48">Thomas Sherwood Haymond</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hayford-haynsworth.html#001.51.24">William Summerville Haymond</a>; first cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hayford-haynsworth.html#125.32.35">Alpheus Forest Haymond</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/maxwell.html#719.32.02">Edwin Maxwell</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hayford-haynsworth.html#130.56.41">Creed Haymond</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hayford-haynsworth.html#023.78.96">Henry Haymond</a>; first cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hayford-haynsworth.html#413.64.40">William Stanley Haymond</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hayford-haynsworth.html#089.39.60">William Edgar Haymond</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hayford-haynsworth.html#095.41.20">Thomas S. Haymond</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/maxwell.html#378.82.42">Haymond Maxwell</a>; first cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hayford-haynsworth.html#229.13.22">Frank Cruise Haymond</a>; second cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hayford-haynsworth.html#476.10.38">Daniel S. Haymond</a>; second cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hayford-haynsworth.html#154.10.22">Guy D. Haymond</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/snelling-snover.html#920.68.41">George S. Snodgrass</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/10001-1493.html">Haymond family</a> of West Virginia; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-1675.html">Haymond-Maxwell family</a> of West 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://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=P000418">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=408811">Govtrack.us page</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> James Capehart (1847-1921) — of Point Pleasant, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/MS-lived.html">Mason County</a>, W.Va.; Cocoa, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/FL/BE-lived.html">Brevard County</a>, Fla.; Cocoa, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/FL/BE-lived.html">Brevard County</a>, Fla. Born in Point Pleasant, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/MS-born.html">Mason County</a>, Va. (now W.Va.), <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1847/03-07.html">March 7, 1847</a>. Democrat. Delegate to Democratic National Convention from West Virginia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1888/WV.html">1888</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from West Virginia</a> 4th District, 1891-95; president, Point Pleasant National <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/banking.html">Bank</a>. Died <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1921/04-28.html">April 28, 1921</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/74.html">74 years, 52 days</a>). Interment at Lone Oak Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=C000129">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=402279">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> Charles Edgar Hogg (1852-1935) — also known as Charles E. Hogg — of Point Pleasant, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/MS-lived.html">Mason County</a>, W.Va. Born near Point Pleasant, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/MS-born.html">Mason County</a>, Va. (now W.Va.), <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1852/12-21.html">December 21, 1852</a>. Democratic Presidential Elector for West Virginia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/ofc/pr1884-meeting.html">1884</a> (voted for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cleveland.html#531.34.01">Grover Cleveland</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hendricks.html#811.95.89">Thomas A. Hendricks</a>); <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from West Virginia</a> 4th District, 1887-89; alternate delegate to Republican National Convention from West Virginia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1916/WV.html">1916</a>. Died <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1935/06-14.html">June 14, 1935</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/82.html">82 years, 175 days</a>). Interment at Lone Oak Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Father of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hogg.html#893.14.10">Robert Lynn Hogg</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=H000701">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=405554">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> Robert Lynn Hogg (1893-1973) — also known as Robert L. Hogg — of Point Pleasant, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/MS-lived.html">Mason County</a>, W.Va. Born in Point Pleasant, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/MS-born.html">Mason County</a>, W.Va., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1893/12-30.html">December 30, 1893</a>. Republican. Member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/ofc/stsen.html">West Virginia state senate</a> 4th District, 1925-28; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from West Virginia</a> 4th District, 1930-33. Died in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/cv-died.html">Charlottesville</a>, Va., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1973/07-21.html">July 21, 1973</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/79.html">79 years, 203 days</a>). Interment at Lone Oak Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hogg.html#202.11.53">Charles Edgar Hogg</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=H000704">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=405557">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> Virgil Anson Lewis — also known as Virgil A. Lewis — of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/MS-lived.html">Mason County</a>, W.Va. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/ofc/spsc.html">West Virginia superintendent of schools</a>, 1893-97. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/methodist.html">Methodist</a>. Interment at Lone Oak Cemetery. </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Andrew R. Barbee (d. 1903) — of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/MS-lived.html">Mason County</a>, W.Va. Colonel in the Confederate Army during the Civil War; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/physician.html">physician</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/ofc/stsen.html">West Virginia state senate</a> 5th District, 1881-84. Died in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1903/index.html">1903</a>. 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Founded in 1996, it is the Internet's most comprehensive free source for American political biography, listing 338,260 politicians, living and dead.</td></tr> <tr><td colspan=3> </td></tr> <tr><td width=32 align="right" valign="top"> </td> <td valign="top"> <img src="rd.gif" width=10 height=10> The coverage of this site includes (1) the President, Vice President, members of Congress, elected state and territorial officeholders in all fifty states, the District of Columbia, and U.S. territories; and the chief elected official, typically the mayor, of qualifying municipalities; (2) candidates at election, including primaries, for any of the above; (3) all federal judges and all state appellate judges; (4) certain federal officials, including the federal cabinet, diplomatic chiefs of mission, consuls, U.S. district attorneys, collectors of customs and internal revenue, members of major federal commissions; and political appointee (pre-1969) postmasters of qualifying communities; (5) state and national political party officials, including delegates, alternate delegates, and other participants in national party nominating conventions; (6) Americans who served as "honorary" consuls for other nations before 1950. 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Users are advised to check with other sources before relying on any information here.</td> <td width=100 align="right" valign="top"> </td></tr> <tr><td width=32 align="right" valign="top"> </td> <td valign="top"> <img src="rd.gif" width=10 height=10> The official URL for this page is: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/MS-buried.html">https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/MS-buried.html</a>.</td> <td width=100 align="right" valign="top"> </td></tr> <tr><td width=32 align="right" valign="top"> </td> <td valign="top"> <img src="rd.gif" width=10 height=10> Links to this or any other Political Graveyard page are welcome, but specific page addresses may sometimes change as the site develops.</td> <td width=100 align="right" valign="top"> </td></tr> <tr><td width=32 align="right" valign="top"> </td> <td valign="top"> <img src="rd.gif" width=10 height=10> If you are searching for a specific named individual, try the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/alpha/index.html">alphabetical index of politicians</a>.</td> <td width=100 align="right" valign="top"> </td></tr> <tr><td colspan=3 align="left" valign="top"> Copyright notices: (1) Facts are not subject to copyright; see <a href="https://www.law.cornell.edu/copyright/cases/499_US_340.htm">Feist v. Rural Telephone</a>. (2) Politician portraits displayed on this site are 70-pixel-wide monochrome thumbnail images, which I believe to constitute fair use under applicable copyright law. Where possible, each image is linked to its online source. However, requests from owners of copyrighted images to delete them from this site are honored. (3) Original material, programming, selection and arrangement are © 1996-2025 Lawrence Kestenbaum. (4) This work is also licensed for free non-commercial re-use, with attribution, under a <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/deed.en">Creative Commons License</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td colspan=3 align="left" valign="top"> What is a "political graveyard"? See <a href="https://politicaldictionary.com/words/political-graveyard">Political Dictionary</a>; <a href="https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=political%20graveyard">Urban Dictionary</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td colspan=3 align="left" valign="top"> Site information: The Political Graveyard is created and maintained by Lawrence Kestenbaum, who is solely responsible for its structure and content. — The mailing address is The Political Graveyard, P.O. Box 2563, Ann Arbor MI 48106. — This site is hosted by <a href="https://www.hdlmi.com">HDLmi.com</a>. — The Political Graveyard opened on July 1, 1996; the last full revision was done on February 17, 2025. </td></tr> </table> </body> </html>