Ira J. Westover (d. 1836) — Delegate
to Texas Consultation of 1835 from District of Goliad, 1835;
served in the Texas Army during the Texas War of Independence. Taken
prisoner by the Mexican Army following the Battle of Coleto; a few
days later, he and almost 400 other prisoners were shot
to death, an incident which came to be known as the Goliad
Massacre, in Goliad, Goliad
County, Tex., March 27,
1836. Cremated.
Edward Oliver Wolcott (1848-1905) — also known as
Edward O. Wolcott — of Denver,
Colo.; Walhurst (unknown
county), Colo. Born in Massachusetts, 1848.
Republican. Member of Colorado state legislature; U.S.
Senator from Colorado, 1889-1901; delegate to Republican National
Convention from Colorado, 1904.
Died in Monte Carlo, Monaco,
1905.
Cremated;
ashes interred at Woodlawn
Cemetery, Bronx, N.Y.
William Waldorf Astor (1848-1919) — also known as
"Viscount Astor" — of New York, New York
County, N.Y.; Taplow, Buckinghamshire, England.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., March 31,
1848. Son of John Jacob Astor III (1822-1890); married, June 6,
1878, to Mary Dahlgren Paul (1858-1894). Member of New York
state assembly from New York County 11th District, 1878; member
of New
York state senate 10th District, 1880-81; U.S. Minister to Italy, 1882-85; renounced his American citizenship and became a
British subject in 1899; became a Baron in 1916 and a Viscount in
1917; member of the British House of Lords. Heir to Astor family
fortune of about $100 million; moved to England in 1890 and became a
British subject. Died, of heart
disease, in Brighton, England,
October
18, 1919. Cremated.
Charles Winfield Waterman (1861-1932) — also known
as Charles W. Waterman — of Denver,
Colo. Born in Vermont, 1861.
Republican. Delegate to Republican National Convention from Colorado,
1924,
1928,
1932;
U.S.
Senator from Colorado, 1927-32; died in office 1932. Died in 1932.
Cremated;
ashes interred at Cedar
Hill Cemetery, Suitland, Md.
Caroline Clyde Holt Holly (d. 1943) — also known as
Carrie Holly — of Colorado. Married to Charles
Frederick Holly. Member of Colorado state legislature, 1894. Female.
One of the first
three women state legislators in the U.S. Died in Castle Rock, Cowlitz
County, Wash., July 16,
1943. Cremated.
William Bross Lloyd (1875-1946) — also known as
William B. Lloyd; "The Millionaire Socialist"
— of Winnetka, Cook
County, Ill. Born in Chicago, Cook
County, Ill., February
27, 1875. Grandson of William
Bross; son of Henry Demarest Lloyd (social reformer, author) and
Jessie (Bross) Lloyd; married to Lola Maverick (divorced 1916) and
Madge Bird. Socialist. Candidate for U.S.
Senator from Illinois, 1918; arrested
in downtown Chicago, 1918, for refusing to remove a red
flag from his limo; co-founder of Communist Labor Party, 1919; indicted
for sedition,
1920; represented at trial by
Clarence
Darrow; convicted,
sentenced
to 1-5 years in prison;
his sentence was commuted in 1922. Died, of cancer, in
the Ritz-Carlton Hotel,
Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., June 30,
1946. Cremated; ashes
scattered in North Atlantic Ocean.
Clarence Dunn Van Duzer (1866-1947) — also known as
Clarence D. Van Duzer — of Tonopah, Nye
County, Nev. Born in Nevada, 1866.
Democrat. Member of Nevada state legislature; U.S.
Representative from Nevada at-large, 1903-07. Died in 1947.
Cremated;
ashes scattered.
Manuel Herrick (1876-1952) — Born in Ohio, 1876.
U.S.
Representative from Oklahoma 8th District, 1921-23; defeated,
1918 (Independent), 1922 (Republican primary), 1924 (Republican
primary), 1926 (Republican primary), 1928 (Republican primary), 1930
(Republican primary); candidate in Republican primary for U.S.
Representative from California, 1948. Disappeared
during a Sierra blizzard
January 11, 1952, while on a trip to his mining claim; was found dead
in a snowbank near Quincy, Plumas
County, Calif., on February 29, 1952.
Cremated;
ashes interred at Quincy
Cemetery, Quincy, Calif.
Harold Sumner Tolley (1894-1956) — also known as
Harold S. Tolley — of New York. Born in Pennsylvania, 1894.
Republican. U.S.
Representative from New York 34th District, 1925-27. Died in 1956.
Cremated.
John Leighton Stuart (1876-1962) — also known as
J. Leighton Stuart — of New York. Born in Hangchow
(Hangzhou), China of
American parents, June 24,
1876. U.S. Ambassador to China, 1946-49. Member, Sigma
Chi. Died in 1962.
Cremated.
Walter Elias Disney (1901-1966) — also known as
Walt Disney; "Uncle Walt" — of Los
Angeles, Los
Angeles County, Calif. Born in Chicago, Cook
County, Ill., December
5, 1901. Son of Elias Disney (1859-1941) and Flora (Call) Disney
(1868-1938); married, July 13,
1925, to Lillian Marie Bounds (1899-1997). Republican. Candidate
for Presidential Elector for California, 1944.
Irish
ancestry. Producer
or director
of several hundred films
from 1922 until the 1960s; creator and first voice of Mickey Mouse;
founder of Disney entertainment company and of Disneyland, the
world's first
theme park; recipient of the Presidential
Medal of Freedom on September 14, 1964. In honor of his
invention of the multiplane camera, he is an inductee to the National
Inventors Hall of
Fame. Died, of lung
cancer, in Los Angeles, Los Angeles
County, Calif., December
15, 1966. Cremated; ashes
interred at Forest
Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale, Calif.statue erected 1993 at Disneyland,
Anaheim, Calif.
George Lincoln Rockwell (1918-1967) — of Arlington,
Arlington
County, Va. Born in Bloomington, McLean
County, Ill., March 9,
1918. Son of George Lovejoy 'Doc' Rockwell (vaudeville and radio
comedian) and Claire (Schade) Rockwell. Served in the U.S. Navy
during World War II; served in the U.S. Navy during the Korean
conflict; founder, in 1959, of the National Committee to Free America
from Jewish
Domination (later known as the American Nazi
Party); arrested
at various demonstrations
during the 1960s; American Nazi candidate for Governor of
Virginia, 1965. Shot to
death by a sniper, later identified as John Patler, while driving his
car in the parking lot of Dominion Hills Shopping
Center, Arlington, Arlington
County, Va., August
25, 1967; Patler was convicted of the murder and sentenced to 20
years in prison. Rockwell's funeral procession was not allowed into
Culpeper National Cemetery because of Nazi emblems worn by his
supporters. Cremated.
Bernard Anthony Gufler (1903-1973) — also known as
Bernard Gufler — of Tacoma, Pierce
County, Wash. Born in Lawrence, Douglas
County, Kan., June 1,
1903. Foreign Service officer; U.S. Vice Consul in Riga, 1930-32; U.S. Ambassador to Ceylon, 1959-61; Finland, 1961-63. Died in 1973.
Cremated.
William Burnett Benton (1900-1973) — also known as
William Benton — of Southport, Fairfield, Fairfield
County, Conn. Born in Minneapolis, Hennepin
County, Minn., April 1,
1900. Son of Charles William Benton and Elma (Hixson) Benton;
married 1928
to Helen Hemingway. Democrat. Advertising
business; introduced sound effects into television commercials;
popularized the "Amos 'n' Andy" radio show; vice-president,
University of Chicago, 1937-45; publisher of the Encyclopedia
Brittanica; U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs,
1945-47; U.S.
Senator from Connecticut, 1949-53; defeated, 1952; delegate to
Democratic National Convention from Connecticut, 1952,
1956,
1960.
Episcopalian.
Member, American
Legion; Council on
Foreign Relations; Zeta
Psi. The William Benton Museum of Art at the University of
Connecticut is named for
him. Died, in the Waldorf Towers Hotel,
Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., March 18,
1973. Cremated; ashes
scattered.
Ernest Henry Gruening (1887-1974) — also known as
Ernest Gruening; "Mr. Alaska" — of
Alaska. Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., February
6, 1887. Democrat. Governor of
Alaska Territory, 1939-53; delegate to Democratic National
Convention from Alaska Territory, 1956;
U.S.
Senator from Alaska, 1959-69; defeated, 1968; delegate to
Democratic National Convention from Alaska, 1960,
1972;
candidate for Presidential Elector for Alaska, 1972.
Jewish.
Leader in drive to gain statehood for Alaska. One of only two
Senators to vote against the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, which gave
President Johnson authority to escalate the Vietnam War. Died of cancer in
Washington,
D.C., June 26,
1974. Cremated; ashes
scattered.
Ned Romeyn Healy (1905-1977) — also known as Ned
R. Healy — of California. Born in Wisconsin, 1905.
Democrat. U.S.
Representative from California 13th District, 1945-47; defeated,
1946, 1948. Died in 1977.
Cremated;
ashes scattered.
Harold Hinsdill Smedley (1893-1980) — also known as
Harold H. Smedley; Dike Smedley — of Michigan.
Born in Grand Rapids, Kent
County, Mich., September
29, 1893. Son of Charles Osmer Smedley (1856-1926) and Lillian M.
(Hinsdill) Smedley. Republican. Served in the U.S. Army Air Corps in
World War I; lawyer;
member of Michigan
state house of representatives from Kent County 1st District,
1925-26; defeated in primary, 1926. Four time national flyrod
accuracy champion; considered to be one of the best flyrod fishermen
in the country. Died in Fort Lauderdale, Broward
County, Fla., November, 1980.
Cremated;
ashes interred at Woodlawn
Cemetery, Grand Rapids, Mich.
Owen Joseph Christoffer Norem (1902-1981) — also
known as Owen J. C. Norem — of Montana. Born in 1902.
U.S. Minister to Lithuania, 1937-40. Died in Costa Mesa, Orange
County, Calif., 1981.
Cremated;
ashes scattered.
John Durnford Jernegan (1911-1981) — also known as
John D. Jernegan — Born in Los Angeles, Los Angeles
County, Calif., June 12,
1911. Foreign Service officer; U.S. Vice Consul in Mexico City, 1938; U.S. Ambassador to Iraq, 1958-62; Algeria, 1965-67. Died in 1981.
Cremated.
Hayes Ganiard (c.1918-1986) — of Clarklake, Jackson
County, Mich. American Independent candidate for Presidential
Elector for Michigan, 1972.
Died June 2,
1986. Cremated.
