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<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <title>The Political Graveyard: Stowe family of Belmont, North Carolina</title> <meta name="description" content="A database of political history and cemeteries, with brief biographical entries for 320,919 U.S. political figures, living and dead, from the 1700s to the present."> <meta name="keywords" content="political biography history genealogy cemeteries politics candidates congress senators legislators governors politicians biographies ancestors mayors birthplace geography elections"> <meta name="author" content="Lawrence Kestenbaum"> <script type="text/javascript"> var _gaq = _gaq || []; _gaq.push(['_setAccount', 'UA-7383562-1']); _gaq.push(['_trackPageview']); (function() { var ga = document.createElement('script'); ga.type = 'text/javascript'; ga.async = true; ga.src = ('https:' == document.location.protocol ? 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These families each have three or more politician members, all linked together by blood, marriage or adoption.</p> <p>These groupings — even the <i>names</i> of the groupings, and the areas of main activity — are the result of a computer algorithm working with the data I have, not the choices of any historian or genealogist.</p> <table align="left" cellpadding=5> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>Abram Stowe (1842-1897)</b> — of Belmont, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/GA-lived.html">Gaston County</a>, N.C. Born <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1842/07-12.html">July 12, 1842</a>. Democrat. Served in the Confederate Army during the Civil War; postmaster at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/ofc/belmont.html#3">Garibaldi, N.C.</a>, 1874-76, 1876-83; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/ofc/belmont.html#2">Belmont, N.C.</a>, 1893-97. Died <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1897/07-01.html">July 1, 1897</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/54.html">54 years, 354 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/GA-buried.html# ">Goshen Cemetery</a>, Belmont, 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"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Relatives:</i> Son of Jacob Reece Stowe and Sarah (Marriner) Stowe; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1870/12-06.html">December 6, 1870</a>, to Sarah Frances Holland; uncle of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/stoutenburgh-strang.html#112.11.66">DeLambert Pinckney Stowe</a>; first cousin once removed of Flonie Estelle Stowe (who married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/jasen-jeffreys.html#964.62.97">William McCoy Jefferson</a>).</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"> <i>Political family:</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/36899.html">Stowe family</a> of Belmont, North Carolina.</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>See also</i> <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/46214034">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>DeLambert Pinckney Stowe (1888-1953)</b> — also known as <b>DeLambert P. Stowe</b> — of Belmont, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/GA-lived.html">Gaston County</a>, N.C. Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/GA-born.html">Gaston County</a>, N.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1888/08-30.html">August 30, 1888</a>. Democrat. Postmaster at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/ofc/belmont.html#2">Belmont, N.C.</a>, 1915-21. Died in Belmont, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/GA-died.html">Gaston County</a>, N.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1953/01-02.html">January 2, 1953</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/64.html">64 years, 125 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/GA-buried.html# ">Greenwood Cemetery</a>, Belmont, 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"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Relatives:</i> Son of James Pinkney Stowe and Elmira Jane (Kendrick) Stowe; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1909/10-27.html">October 27, 1909</a>, to Aurelia Hand; nephew of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/stoutenburgh-strang.html#663.88.88">Abram Stowe</a>; second cousin of Flonie Estelle Stowe (who married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/jasen-jeffreys.html#964.62.97">William McCoy Jefferson</a>).</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"> <i>Political family:</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/36899.html">Stowe family</a> of Belmont, North Carolina.</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>See also</i> <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/110258675">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>William McCoy Jefferson (1892-1944)</b> — also known as <b>William M. Jefferson</b>; <b>Jeff Jefferson</b> — of Belmont, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/GA-lived.html">Gaston County</a>, N.C. Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/BE-born.html">Beaufort County</a>, N.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1892/02-05.html">February 5, 1892</a>. Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during World War I; postmaster at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/ofc/belmont.html#2">Belmont, N.C.</a>, 1934-44. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/am-legion.html">American Legion</a>. Died in Belmont, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/GA-died.html">Gaston County</a>, N.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1944/03-23.html">March 23, 1944</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/52.html">52 years, 47 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/GA-buried.html# ">Greenwood Cemetery</a>, Belmont, 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"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Relatives:</i> Married to Flonie Estelle Stowe (first cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/stoutenburgh-strang.html#663.88.88">Abram Stowe</a>; second cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/stoutenburgh-strang.html#112.11.66">DeLambert Pinckney Stowe</a>).</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"> <i>Political family:</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/36899.html">Stowe family</a> of Belmont, North Carolina.</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>See also</i> <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/30121154">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> </td> <td width=180 align="center" valign="center"> <script type="text/javascript"> </script> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script> </td></tr></table> <table width=100%> <td align="center" valign="center"> <script type="text/javascript"> </script> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script> </td></table> <table width=100%> <tr><td align="center"><span style="font-size:20pt;"> <span style="font-family:garamond,serif"> <i>"Enjoy the hospitable entertainment of a political graveyard."</i></span></span><br> <span style="font-size:8pt;">Henry L. 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