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<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <title>The Political Graveyard: Burke County, N.C.</title> <meta name="description" content="A database of political history and cemeteries, with brief biographical entries for 320,919 U.S. political figures, living and dead, from the 1700s to the present."> <meta name="keywords" content="political biography history genealogy cemeteries politics candidates congress senators legislators governors politicians biographies ancestors mayors birthplace geography elections"> <meta name="author" content="Lawrence Kestenbaum"> <script type="text/javascript"> var _gaq = _gaq || []; _gaq.push(['_setAccount', 'UA-7383562-1']); _gaq.push(['_trackPageview']); (function() { var ga = document.createElement('script'); ga.type = 'text/javascript'; ga.async = true; ga.src = ('https:' == document.location.protocol ? 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Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/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 <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/civil-war.html">fighting Union guerillas</a> 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 in a private or family graveyard. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Relatives:</i> Son of 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>.</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"> <i>Political families:</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0001.html">Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family</a> of Connecticut and New York; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0072.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>).</span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <br clear="all"> <hr> <span style="font-size:16pt;"><b><a name=" ">County Courthouse Grounds</a></b></span><br> Morganton, Burke County, North Carolina <br> <table width=100% align="left" cellpadding=5> <p> <tr><td colspan=2><span style="font-size:14pt;">Politicians who have (or had) monuments here:</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>Samuel James Ervin Jr. (1896-1985)</b> — also known as <b>Sam J. Ervin, Jr.</b> — of Morganton, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/BR-lived.html">Burke County</a>, N.C. Born in Morganton, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/BR-born.html">Burke County</a>, N.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1896/09-27.html">September 27, 1896</a>. Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during World War I; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">lawyer</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/ofc/sthse.html">North Carolina state house of representatives</a>, 1923-25, 1931; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/BR-parties.html">chair of Burke County Democratic Party</a>, 1924; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/NC.html">North Carolina Democratic State Executive Committee</a>, 1930-37; superior court judge in North Carolina, 1937-43; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from North Carolina</a> 10th District, 1946-47; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/ofc/spaj.html">justice of North Carolina state supreme court</a>, 1948-54; appointed 1948; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/ofc/ussen.html">U.S. Senator from North Carolina</a>, 1954-74; delegate to Democratic National Convention from North Carolina, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1956/NC.html">1956</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1964/NC.html">1964</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/presbyterian.html">Presbyterian</a>. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/aba.html">American Bar Association</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/am-jud-soc.html">American Judicature Society</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/am-historical-assoc.html">American Historical Association</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/am-legion.html">American Legion</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/disabled-am-vets.html">Disabled American Veterans</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/vfw.html">Veterans of Foreign Wars</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/farm-bureau.html">Farm Bureau</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/grange.html">Grange</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/sons-am-rev.html">Sons of the American Revolution</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/soc-cincinnati.html">Society of the Cincinnati</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/masons.html">Freemasons</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/scottish-rite-masons.html">Scottish Rite Masons</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/royal-arch-masons.html">Royal Arch Masons</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/knights-templar.html">Knights Templar</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/shriners.html">Shriners</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/ord-ahepa.html">Order of Ahepa</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/knights-pythias.html">Knights of Pythias</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/moose.html">Moose</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/kiwanis.html">Kiwanis</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/jr-ord-un-am-mechanics.html">Junior Order</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/newcomen.html">Newcomen Society</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/sigma-upsilon.html">Sigma Upsilon</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/phi-delta-phi.html">Phi Delta Phi</a>. Died in Winston-Salem, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/FO-died.html">Forsyth County</a>, N.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1985/04-23.html">April 23, 1985</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/88.html">88 years, 208 days</a>). Interment at <a href="#cms03461">Forest Hill Cemetery</a>; statue at County Courthouse Grounds. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Relatives:</i> Son of Samuel James Ervin and Laura Theresa (Powe) Ervin; brother of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ermentrout-erving.html#544.91.50">Joseph Wilson Ervin</a>; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1924/06-18.html">June 18, 1924</a>, to Margaret Bruce Bell; father of Laura Powe Ervin (daughter-in-law of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ward4.html#255.57.45">Hallett Sydney Ward</a>) and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ermentrout-erving.html#122.21.43">Samuel James Ervin III</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/10467.html">Ervin family</a> of Morganton, 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://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=E000211">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=403898">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://www.nndb.com/people/229/000109899">NNDB dossier</a> — <a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0259970">Internet Movie Database profile</a></span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <br clear="all"> <hr> <span style="font-size:16pt;"><b><a name="cms04261">First Presbyterian Churchyard</a></b></span><br> Morganton, Burke County, North Carolina <br> <table width=100% align="left" cellpadding=5> <tr><td colspan=2><span style="font-size:14pt;">Politicians buried here:</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>Burgess Sidney Gaither (1807-1892)</b> — also known as <b>Burgess S. Gaither</b> — 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/IR-born.html">Iredell County</a>, N.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1807/03-16.html">March 16, 1807</a>. Whig. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/ofc/cncn.html">delegate to North Carolina state constitutional convention</a>, 1835; delegate to Whig National Convention from North Carolina, 1839; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/ofc/stsen.html">North Carolina state senate</a>, 1844; candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from North Carolina</a>, 1851, 1853; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/ofc/ccrep.html">Representative from North Carolina in the Confederate Congress</a>, 1862-65. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/sons-temp.html">Sons of Temperance</a>. Died in Morganton, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/BR-died.html">Burke County</a>, N.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1892/02-23.html">February 23, 1892</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/84.html">84 years, 344 days</a>). Interment at First Presbyterian Churchyard. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Relatives:</i> Son of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/gaither-galasinski.html#074.12.49">Burgess Gaither</a> and Milly (Martin) Gaither.</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>See also</i> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burgess Sidney Gaither">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://www.ourcampaigns.com/CandidateDetail.html?CandidateID=70740">OurCampaigns candidate detail</a></span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <br clear="all"> <hr> <span style="font-size:16pt;"><b><a name="cms03461">Forest Hill Cemetery</a></b></span><br> Morganton, Burke County, North Carolina <br> <table width=100% align="left" cellpadding=5> <tr><td colspan=2><span style="font-size:14pt;">Politicians buried here:</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>Samuel James Ervin Jr. (1896-1985)</b> — also known as <b>Sam J. Ervin, Jr.</b> — of Morganton, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/BR-lived.html">Burke County</a>, N.C. Born in Morganton, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/BR-born.html">Burke County</a>, N.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1896/09-27.html">September 27, 1896</a>. Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during World War I; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">lawyer</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/ofc/sthse.html">North Carolina state house of representatives</a>, 1923-25, 1931; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/BR-parties.html">chair of Burke County Democratic Party</a>, 1924; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/NC.html">North Carolina Democratic State Executive Committee</a>, 1930-37; superior court judge in North Carolina, 1937-43; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from North Carolina</a> 10th District, 1946-47; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/ofc/spaj.html">justice of North Carolina state supreme court</a>, 1948-54; appointed 1948; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/ofc/ussen.html">U.S. Senator from North Carolina</a>, 1954-74; delegate to Democratic National Convention from North Carolina, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1956/NC.html">1956</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1964/NC.html">1964</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/presbyterian.html">Presbyterian</a>. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/aba.html">American Bar Association</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/am-jud-soc.html">American Judicature Society</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/am-historical-assoc.html">American Historical Association</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/am-legion.html">American Legion</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/disabled-am-vets.html">Disabled American Veterans</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/vfw.html">Veterans of Foreign Wars</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/farm-bureau.html">Farm Bureau</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/grange.html">Grange</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/sons-am-rev.html">Sons of the American Revolution</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/soc-cincinnati.html">Society of the Cincinnati</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/masons.html">Freemasons</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/scottish-rite-masons.html">Scottish Rite Masons</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/royal-arch-masons.html">Royal Arch Masons</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/knights-templar.html">Knights Templar</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/shriners.html">Shriners</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/ord-ahepa.html">Order of Ahepa</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/knights-pythias.html">Knights of Pythias</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/moose.html">Moose</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/kiwanis.html">Kiwanis</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/jr-ord-un-am-mechanics.html">Junior Order</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/newcomen.html">Newcomen Society</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/sigma-upsilon.html">Sigma Upsilon</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/phi-delta-phi.html">Phi Delta Phi</a>. Died in Winston-Salem, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/FO-died.html">Forsyth County</a>, N.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1985/04-23.html">April 23, 1985</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/88.html">88 years, 208 days</a>). Interment at Forest Hill Cemetery; statue at <a href="# ">County Courthouse Grounds</a>. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Relatives:</i> Son of Samuel James Ervin and Laura Theresa (Powe) Ervin; brother of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ermentrout-erving.html#544.91.50">Joseph Wilson Ervin</a>; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1924/06-18.html">June 18, 1924</a>, to Margaret Bruce Bell; father of Laura Powe Ervin (daughter-in-law of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ward4.html#255.57.45">Hallett Sydney Ward</a>) and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ermentrout-erving.html#122.21.43">Samuel James Ervin III</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/10467.html">Ervin family</a> of Morganton, 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://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=E000211">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=403898">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://www.nndb.com/people/229/000109899">NNDB dossier</a> — <a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0259970">Internet Movie Database profile</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>Tod Robinson Caldwell (1818-1874)</b> — also known as <b>Tod R. Caldwell</b> — of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/BR-lived.html">Burke County</a>, N.C. Born in Morganton, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/BR-born.html">Burke County</a>, N.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1818/02-19.html">February 19, 1818</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/ofc/ltgov.html">Lieutenant Governor of North Carolina</a>, 1868-70; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/ofc/gov.html">Governor of North Carolina</a>, 1870-74; died in office 1874. Died <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1874/07-11.html">July 11, 1874</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/56.html">56 years, 142 days</a>). Interment at Forest Hill Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>See also</i> <a href="https://www.nga.org/governor/tod-robinson-caldwell/">National Governors Association biography</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tod Robinson Caldwell">Wikipedia article</a></span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>Samuel James Ervin III (1926-1999)</b> — Born in Morganton, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/BR-born.html">Burke County</a>, N.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1926/03-02.html">March 2, 1926</a>. Served in the U.S. Army during World War II; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/ofc/sthse.html">North Carolina state house of representatives</a>, 1965-67; superior court judge in North Carolina, 1967-80; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/offices/us-ct-apps.html">Judge of U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit</a>, 1980-99; died in office 1999. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/presbyterian.html">Presbyterian</a>. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/masons.html">Freemasons</a>. Died at Grace <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/misc-hospitals.html">Hospital</a>, Morganton, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/BR-died.html">Burke County</a>, N.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1999/09-18.html">September 18, 1999</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/73.html">73 years, 200 days</a>). Interment at Forest Hill Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Relatives:</i> Son of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ermentrout-erving.html#020.87.90">Samuel James Ervin Jr.</a>; brother of Laura Powe Ervin (daughter-in-law of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ward4.html#255.57.45">Hallett Sydney Ward</a>); nephew of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ermentrout-erving.html#544.91.50">Joseph Wilson Ervin</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/10467.html">Ervin family</a> of Morganton, 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/7325629">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>Joseph Wilson Ervin (1901-1945)</b> — of North Carolina. Born in Morganton, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/BR-born.html">Burke County</a>, N.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1901/03-03.html">March 3, 1901</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from North Carolina</a> 10th District, 1945; died in office 1945. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/presbyterian.html">Presbyterian</a>. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/masons.html">Freemasons</a>. Died in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DC/wa-died.html">Washington</a>, D.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1945/12-25.html">December 25, 1945</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/44.html">44 years, 297 days</a>). Interment at Forest Hill Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Relatives:</i> Brother of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ermentrout-erving.html#020.87.90">Samuel James Ervin Jr.</a>; uncle of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ermentrout-erving.html#122.21.43">Samuel James Ervin III</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/10467.html">Ervin family</a> of Morganton, 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://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=E000210">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=403897">Govtrack.us page</a></span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>Samuel McDowell Tate (1830-1897)</b> — also known as <b>Samuel McD. Tate</b> — of Morganton, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/BR-lived.html">Burke County</a>, N.C. Born in Morganton, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/BR-born.html">Burke County</a>, N.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1830/09-06.html">September 6, 1830</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/merchant.html">Merchant</a>; postmaster at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/ofc/morganton.html#2">Morganton, N.C.</a>, 1856-60; colonel in the Confederate Army during the Civil War; president, Western North Carolina <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/railroading.html">Railroad</a>, 1865 and 1866-68; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/ofc/sthse.html">North Carolina state house of representatives</a>, 1875; delegate to Democratic National Convention from North Carolina, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1876/NC.html">1876</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1880/NC.html">1880</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/ofc/trea.html">North Carolina state treasurer</a>, 1892-94. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/presbyterian.html">Presbyterian</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/scotch-irish.html">Scotch-Irish</a> ancestry. Died <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1897/06-25.html">June 25, 1897</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/66.html">66 years, 292 days</a>). Interment at Forest Hill Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Relatives:</i> Son of David Tate and Susan Maria (Tate) Tate; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1865/">1865</a> to Jane Sophronia 'Jennie' Pearson.</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/12084254">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 Carson Ervin (1859-1943)</b> — also known as <b>William C. Ervin</b> — of Lenoir, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/CD-lived.html">Caldwell County</a>, N.C.; 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/MW-born.html">McDowell County</a>, N.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1859/12-15.html">December 15, 1859</a>. <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/occ/printing.html">printer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/ofc/lenoir.html">mayor of Lenoir, N.C.</a>, 1888-89. Died in Morganton, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/BR-died.html">Burke County</a>, N.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1943/07-16.html">July 16, 1943</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/83.html">83 years, 213 days</a>). Interment at Forest Hill Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Relatives:</i> Son of Lawson Ervin and Evelyn (Moody) Ervin.</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/83577125">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <br clear="all"> <hr> <span style="font-size:16pt;"><b><a name="cms05117">Swan Ponds Plantation Cemetery</a></b></span><br> Morganton, Burke County, North Carolina <br> <table width=100% align="left" cellpadding=5> <tr><td colspan=2><span style="font-size:14pt;">Politicians buried here:</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>Waightstill Avery (1741-1821)</b> — of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/BR-lived.html">Burke County</a>, N.C. Born in Groton, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/NL-born.html">New London County</a>, Conn., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1741/05-10.html">May 10, 1741</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; colonel in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/ofc/comm.html">North Carolina house of commons</a>, 1776, 1782-83, 1793; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/ofc/attygn.html">North Carolina state attorney general</a>, 1777-79; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/ofc/stsen.html">North Carolina state senate</a>, 1796. Fought a <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/duel-participants.html">pistol duel</a> with <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/jackson1.html#174.79.95">Andrew Jackson</a> in 1788; neither man was injured. Died in the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/offices.html">judge's chambers</a> at the Burke <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/courthouse.html">County Courthouse</a>, Morganton, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/BR-died.html">Burke County</a>, N.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1821/03-13.html">March 13, 1821</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/79.html">79 years, 307 days</a>). Interment at Swan Ponds Plantation Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Relatives:</i> Son of Jerusha (Morgan) Avery and Humphrey Avery; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1778/10-03.html">October 3, 1778</a>, to Leah Probart Franks; father of Elizabeth Avery (who married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lenahan-leonad.html#162.81.37">William Ballard Lenoir</a>); grandfather of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lenahan-leonad.html#598.86.23">Isaac Thomas Lenoir</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/avery.html#865.71.31">William Waigstill Avery</a>; granduncle of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/burrows.html#382.35.25">Lorenzo Burrows</a>; first cousin four times removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/paca-paganelli.html#387.67.72">Horace Billings Packer</a>; second cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bankson-barbosa.html#507.91.46">Noyes Barber</a>; second cousin twice removed 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>; second cousin thrice 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>; second cousin four times removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/stanton.html#673.35.18">Henry Brewster Stanton</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/herrick.html#034.21.08">Jonathan R. Herrick</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/phelps.html#906.07.86">Erskine Mason Phelps</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/fringer-frosh.html#489.72.71">Spencer Gale Frink</a>; second cousin five times removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/herrick.html#808.73.93">D-Cady Herrick</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/gagliardi-gainer.html#645.80.14">Herman Arod Gager</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/herrick.html#595.94.66">Walter Richmond Herrick</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/blight-block.html#088.49.95">Burdette Burt Bliss</a>; third cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/belcher.html#815.11.79">Nathan Belcher</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/douglass.html#013.40.96">Samuel Townsend Douglass</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/douglas.html#626.06.48">Silas Hamilton Douglas</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/perkins.html#166.95.51">Joshua Perkins</a>; third cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/huntington.html#138.27.81">Charles Phelps Huntington</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/beadle-beales.html#530.93.34">George Mortimer Beakes</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/perkins.html#073.50.89">George Douglas Perkins</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/pendleton.html#348.93.66">Chauncey C. Pendleton</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/witherspoon-woldanski.html#469.63.20">Daniel Parrish Witter</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bingham.html#595.36.76">Albert Lemando Bingham</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/faalevao-fairbanks.html#488.81.57">Cornelia Cole Fairbanks</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/barc-barhite.html#657.31.50">Llewellyn James Barden</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/douglas.html#594.08.58">Henry Woolsey Douglas</a>.</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"> <i>Political family:</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0001.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>).</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;"><a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/AV.html">Avery County, N.C.</a> is named for him.</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>See also</i> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waightstill Avery">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/15027938">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <br clear="all"> <hr> <span style="font-size:16pt;"><b><a name="cms08279">Quaker Meadows Cemetery</a></b></span><br> Near Morganton, Burke County, North Carolina <br> <table width=100% align="left" cellpadding=5> <tr><td colspan=2><span style="font-size:14pt;">Politicians buried here:</span></td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>Joseph McDowell Jr. (1756-1801)</b> — also known as <b>"Quaker Meadows Joe"</b> — of North Carolina. Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/FR-born.html">Frederick County</a>, Va., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1756/02-15.html">February 15, 1756</a>. Colonel in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/farmer.html">planter</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/ofc/comm.html">North Carolina house of commons</a>, 1785-88, 1791-92; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/ofc/cnrt.html">delegate to North Carolina convention to ratify U.S. constitution</a>, 1789; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from North Carolina</a> 1st District, 1797-99. Slaveowner. Died, of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/stroke.html">apoplexy</a>, in Morganton, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/BR-died.html">Burke County</a>, N.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1801/02-05.html">February 5, 1801</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/44.html">44 years, 355 days</a>). Interment at Quaker Meadows Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><span style="font-size:8pt;"><i>Relatives:</i> Son of Joseph McDowell (1715-1771) and Margaret (O'Neill) McDowell; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1783/">1783</a> to Margaret Moffett; father of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/mcdowell.html#000.03.08">Joseph Jefferson McDowell</a>; cousin *** of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/mcdowell.html#025.64.52">Joseph McDowell (1758-1799)</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/10860.html">McDowell family</a> of McDowell County, 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://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=M000423">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=407424">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph McDowell, Jr.">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/36472376">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></span></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <br clear="all"> </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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