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Richard Wigginton Thompson (1809-1900) —
also known as Richard W. Thompson —
of Bedford, Lawrence
County, Ind.; Terre Haute, Vigo
County, Ind.
Born near Culpeper Court House, Culpeper
County, Va., June 9,
1809.
School
teacher; lawyer;
member of Indiana
state house of representatives, 1834-36; member of Indiana
state senate, 1836-38; delegate to Whig National Convention from
Indiana, 1839; U.S.
Representative from Indiana, 1841-43, 1847-49 (2nd District
1841-43, 7th District 1847-49); U.S. Collector of Internal
Revenue for the 7th Indiana District, 1864-66; circuit judge in
Indiana, 1867-69; delegate to Republican National Convention from
Indiana, 1868
(member, Resolutions
Committee), 1876,
1888,
1896;
U.S.
Secretary of the Navy, 1877-80; chairman of the American
Committee of the Panama
Canal Company, 1881; director of the Panama Railroad
Company, 1881-88.
Member, Freemasons.
Died in Terre Haute, Vigo
County, Ind., February
9, 1900 (age 90 years, 245
days).
Interment at Highland Lawn Cemetery.
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Eugene Victor Debs (1855-1926) —
also known as Eugene V. Debs —
of Terre Haute, Vigo
County, Ind.
Born in Terre Haute, Vigo
County, Ind., November
5, 1855.
Son of Daniel Debs and Marguerite (Betterich) Debs.
Locomotive
fireman on the Terre Haute and Indianapolis Railroad;
secretary-treasurer
of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen in 1880-93; member of Indiana
state house of representatives, 1885; founder in
1893 and president
(1893-97) of the American Railway Union; arrested
during a strike
in 1894 and charged
with conspiracy
to commit murder; the charges were dropped, but he was jailed
for six months for contempt
of court; became a Socialist while incarcerated; candidate for President
of the United States, 1900 (Social Democratic), 1904 (Socialist),
1908 (Socialist), 1912 (Socialist), 1920 (Socialist); in 1905, was a
founder of
the Industrial Workers of the World ("Wobblies"), which hoped to
organize all workers in "One Big Union"; convicted
under the Sedition
and Espionage Act for an anti-war
speech he made in 1918, and sentenced
to ten years in federal prison;
released in 1921.
Member, Knights
of Pythias; American Civil
Liberties Union.
Died in Lindlahr Sanitarium,
Elmhurst, DuPage
County, Ill., October
20, 1926 (age 70 years, 349
days).
Interment at Highland Lawn Cemetery.
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Daniel Wolsey Voorhees (1827-1897) —
also known as Daniel W. Voorhees —
of Terre Haute, Vigo
County, Ind.
Born in Butler
County, Ohio, September
26, 1827.
Democrat. U.S.
Attorney for Indiana, 1858-61; U.S.
Representative from Indiana, 1861-66, 1869-73 (7th District
1861-66, 6th District 1869-73); delegate to Democratic National
Convention from Indiana, 1876
(member, Resolutions
Committee), 1884,
1888;
U.S.
Senator from Indiana, 1877-97.
Died in Washington,
D.C., April 10,
1897 (age 69 years, 196
days).
Interment at Highland Lawn Cemetery.
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Claude Gernade Bowers (1878-1958) —
also known as Claude G. Bowers —
of Terre Haute, Vigo
County, Ind.; Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Westfield, Hamilton
County, Ind., November
20, 1878.
Son of Lewis Bowers and Juliet (Tipton) Bowers.
Democrat. Newspaper
editor; candidate for U.S.
Representative from Indiana 5th District, 1904, 1906; delegate to
Democratic National Convention from Indiana, 1908;
delegate to Democratic National Convention from New York, 1928,
1932;
U.S. Ambassador to Spain, 1933-39; Chile, 1939-53.
Died of leukemia
in Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., January
21, 1958 (age 79 years, 62
days).
Interment at Highland Lawn Cemetery.
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John Givan Davis (1810-1866) —
also known as John G. Davis —
of Rockville, Parke
County, Ind.; Terre Haute, Vigo
County, Ind.
Born in Fleming
County, Ky., October
10, 1810.
Democrat. Parke
County Sheriff, 1830-33; U.S.
Representative from Indiana 7th District, 1851-55, 1857-61;
delegate to Democratic National Convention from Indiana, 1864.
Died in Terre Haute, Vigo
County, Ind., January
18, 1866 (age 55 years, 100
days).
Original interment at Woodlawn Cemetery;
reinterment at Highland Lawn Cemetery.
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George Washington Faris (1854-1914) —
also known as George W. Faris —
of Terre Haute, Vigo
County, Ind.
Born near Rensselaer, Jasper
County, Ind., June 9,
1854.
Republican. U.S.
Representative from Indiana, 1895-1901 (8th District 1895-97, 5th
District 1897-1901); alternate delegate to Republican National
Convention from Indiana, 1908.
Member, Phi
Kappa Psi.
Died in Washington,
D.C., April 17,
1914 (age 59 years, 312
days).
Interment at Highland Lawn Cemetery.
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James Everett Sanders (1882-1950) —
also known as Everett Sanders —
of Terre Haute, Vigo
County, Ind.
Born in a log
cabin near Coalmont, Clay
County, Ind., March 8,
1882.
Son of James Sanders and Melissa Everal (Stark) Sanders.
Republican. School
teacher; lawyer; U.S.
Representative from Indiana 5th District, 1917-25; secretary to
President Calvin
Coolidge, 1925-29; Chairman of
Republican National Committee, 1932-34.
Baptist.
Member, Elks.
Died, from a heart
ailment, in his law
office, in Washington,
D.C., May 12,
1950 (age 68 years, 65
days).
Interment at Highland Lawn Cemetery.
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Virginia Ellis Jenckes (1877-1975) —
also known as Virginia E. Jenckes; Virginia Ellis
Somes —
of Terre Haute, Vigo
County, Ind.
Born in Terre Haute, Vigo
County, Ind., November
6, 1877.
Daughter of James Ellis Somes and Mary (Oliver) Somes.
Democrat. Farmer; U.S.
Representative from Indiana 6th District, 1933-39.
Female.
Episcopalian.
Died in Terre Haute, Vigo
County, Ind., January
9, 1975 (age 97 years, 64
days).
Interment at Highland Lawn Cemetery.
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Ralph Tucker (1906-1977) —
of Terre Haute, Vigo
County, Ind.
Born in Hymera, Sullivan
County, Ind., September
30, 1906.
Democrat. Mayor
of Terre Haute, Ind., 1948-68; delegate to Democratic National
Convention from Indiana, 1948,
1952
(alternate), 1956,
1964;
candidate for Governor of
Indiana, 1956.
Died of cancer, in
Terre Haute, Vigo
County, Ind., November
12, 1977 (age 71 years, 43
days).
Interment at Highland Lawn Cemetery.
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William Edward McLean (1832-1906) —
of Indiana.
Born in Calvert
County, Md., October
12, 1832.
Member of Indiana
state senate, 1857-60, 1893-96; member of Indiana
state house of representatives, 1861, 1867-68; colonel in the
Union Army during the Civil War; candidate for U.S.
Representative from Indiana, 1876.
Member, Grand
Army of the Republic; Odd
Fellows; Loyal
Legion.
Died in Terre Haute, Vigo
County, Ind., November
6, 1906 (age 74 years, 25
days).
Interment at Highland Lawn Cemetery.
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Bertha Baur (1870-1967) —
also known as Bertha E. Duppler; Mrs. Jacob
Baur —
of Chicago, Cook
County, Ill.
Born in Mineral Point, Iowa
County, Wis., October
14, 1870.
Republican. Delegate to Republican National Convention from Illinois,
1932;
candidate for U.S.
Representative from Illinois 9th District, 1936; member of Republican
National Committee from Illinois, 1937-43.
Female.
Died in Chicago, Cook
County, Ill., July 10,
1967 (age 96 years, 269
days).
Interment at Highland Lawn Cemetery.
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John Engles Cox (1866-1927) —
also known as John E. Cox —
of Terre Haute, Vigo
County, Ind.
Born near Terre Haute, Vigo
County, Ind., December
27, 1866.
Democrat. Superior court judge in Indiana, 1907-15, 1919-27; delegate
to Democratic National Convention from Indiana, 1924.
Member, Freemasons;
Elks; Knights
of Pythias; Redmen; Woodmen.
Died in Terre Haute, Vigo
County, Ind., October
12, 1927 (age 60 years, 289
days).
Interment at Highland Lawn Cemetery.
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Vernon Ream McMillan (1892-1968) —
also known as Vernon R. McMillan —
of Terre Haute, Vigo
County, Ind.
Born in Morrill, Brown
County, Kan., September
15, 1892.
Founded sporting
goods business; invented
the football face mask and the basketball inflator; mayor
of Terre Haute, Ind., 1943-48.
Died in Terre Haute, Vigo
County, Ind., December
1, 1968 (age 76 years, 77
days).
Interment at Highland Lawn Cemetery.
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Ambrose B. Carlton (1825-1901) —
of Indiana.
Born in Lawrence
County, Ind., December
18, 1825.
Son of Robert
M. Carlton.
Served in the U.S. Army during the Mexican War; state court judge in
Indiana, 1856, 1873; member of Indiana
state house of representatives, 1877.
Died in Terre Haute, Vigo
County, Ind., September
5, 1901 (age 75 years, 261
days).
Interment at Highland Lawn Cemetery.
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Robert Noble Hudson (1819-1889) —
of Indiana.
Born in Brookville, Franklin
County, Ind., November
7, 1819.
Member of Indiana
state house of representatives, 1851-52, 1855; colonel in the
Union Army during the Civil War.
Uncovered a canal bond fraud in 1859-60, thus saving the state of
Indiana more than $1.2 million.
Died, of a stomach
ailment, in Terre Haute, Vigo
County, Ind., August
30, 1889 (age 69 years, 296
days).
Interment at Highland Lawn Cemetery.
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Chapman Jay Root (1864-1945) —
also known as C. J. Root —
of Terre Haute, Vigo
County, Ind.
Born in Wayne
County, Pa., November
22, 1864.
Republican. Delegate to Republican National Convention from Indiana,
1936
(alternate), 1940.
Member, Elks; Freemasons;
Shriners.
Founded Root Glass Company in 1901; in 1915, Root Glass designed and
patented the "pod-shaped" Coca-Cola bottle.
Died in Terre Haute, Vigo
County, Ind., November
20, 1945 (age 80 years, 363
days).
Interment at Highland Lawn Cemetery.
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Madge P. Stephens (born c.1872) —
also known as Madge Louise Patton; Madge Louise
Hawkins —
of Terre Haute, Vigo
County, Ind.
Born in Indiana, about 1872.
Socialist. Physician;
delegate to Socialist National Convention from Indiana, 1920.
Female.
Interment at Highland Lawn Cemetery.
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Relatives:
Married, November
15, 1897, to Audley B. Hawkins (c.1877-1905); married to Wallace
W. Stephens. |
| | | Epitaph: "A follower of Christ's
teaching, a socialist."; "She lived for those who loved her / Whose
heart was kind & true / & the Heaven that smiled above her / Received
her spirit too." |
| | | See also Find-A-Grave
memorial |
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| Politicians buried
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Thomas Henry Nelson (1820-1896) —
also known as Thomas H. Nelson —
of Indiana.
Born in Mason
County, Ky., October
20, 1820.
Candidate for U.S.
Representative from Indiana, 1860; U.S. Minister to Chile, 1861-66; Mexico, 1869-73.
Died in Terre Haute, Vigo
County, Ind., March 14,
1896 (age 75 years, 146
days).
Interment at Woodlawn Cemetery.
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Edward Allen Hannegan (1807-1859) —
also known as Edward A. Hannegan —
of Covington, Fountain
County, Ind.
Born in Hamilton
County, Ohio, June 25,
1807.
Democrat. Lawyer;
member of Indiana
state house of representatives, 1832-33, 1841-42; U.S.
Representative from Indiana 7th District, 1833-37; U.S.
Senator from Indiana, 1843-49; U.S. Minister to Prussia, 1849-50.
Presbyterian.
Member, Freemasons.
In May, 1852, during a drunken
argument, he stabbed
his brother-in-law, Captain Duncan, who died the next
day.
Died from overdose of
morphine (probably suicide),
in St.
Louis, Mo., February
25, 1859 (age 51 years, 245
days).
Interment at Woodlawn Cemetery.
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Thomas Holdsworth Blake (1792-1849) —
also known as Thomas H. Blake —
of Terre Haute, Vigo
County, Ind.
Born in Frederick
County, Md., July 25,
1792.
Lawyer;
Presidential Elector for Indiana, 1816;
U.S.
Attorney for Indiana, 1817-18; state court judge in Indiana,
1818; member of Indiana
state house of representatives, 1819-20, 1823-24; member of Indiana
state senate, 1821-22, 1829-30; U.S.
Representative from Indiana 1st District, 1827-29; candidate for
U.S.
Senator from Indiana, 1831, 1838.
Episcopalian.
Member, Freemasons.
Died of cholera
in a hotel at
Cincinnati, Hamilton
County, Ohio, November
28, 1849 (age 57 years, 126
days).
Interment at Woodlawn Cemetery.
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James McLean Hanna (1816-1872) —
also known as James M. Hanna —
of Clay
County, Ind.; Sullivan
County, Ind.
Born in Franklin
County, Ind., October
25, 1816.
Son of David
Graem Hanna.
Democrat. Candidate for Indiana
state house of representatives, 1847; Presidential Elector for
Indiana, 1848,
1856;
member of Indiana
state senate, 1849-52, 1869; circuit judge in Indiana, 1856-57;
justice
of Indiana state supreme court, 1857-65; delegate to Democratic
National Convention from Indiana, 1864.
Member, Freemasons.
Died in Curryville, Sullivan
County, Ind., January
15, 1872 (age 55 years, 82
days).
Interment at Woodlawn Cemetery.
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Samuel Barnes Gookins (1809-1880) —
of Indiana.
Born in Rupert, Bennington
County, Vt., May 30,
1809.
Member of Indiana
state house of representatives, 1851-52; justice of
Indiana state supreme court, 1854-57.
Died in Terre Haute, Vigo
County, Ind., June 14,
1880 (age 71 years, 15
days).
Interment at Woodlawn Cemetery.
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Ballard Smith (1821-1866) —
of Cannelton, Perry
County, Ind.; Terre Haute, Vigo
County, Ind.
Born in Durham, Strafford
County, N.H., January
13, 1821.
Lawyer;
member of Indiana
state house of representatives, 1855-57; Speaker of
the Indiana State House of Representatives, 1857; circuit judge
in Indiana, 1858-59; served in the Union Army during the Civil War.
Episcopalian.
Member, Odd
Fellows.
Died in Terre Haute, Vigo
County, Ind., October
3, 1866 (age 45 years, 263
days).
Interment at Woodlawn Cemetery.
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William Kirkpatrick Edwards (1820-1878) —
of Indiana.
Born near Louisville, Jefferson
County, Ky., December
26, 1820.
Member of Indiana
state house of representatives, 1846-51, 1859, 1873; Speaker of
the Indiana State House of Representatives, 1873; mayor
of Terre Haute, Ind., 1853-55; Presidential Elector for Indiana,
1860.
Member, Odd
Fellows; Freemasons.
Died in Terre Haute, Vigo
County, Ind., September
26, 1878 (age 57 years, 274
days).
Interment at Woodlawn Cemetery.
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Albert Lange (1801-1869) —
of Terre Haute, Vigo
County, Ind.
Born in Charlottenburg, Prussia (now part of Berlin, Germany),
December
16, 1801.
Republican. U.S. Consul in Amsterdam, 1849-50; Indiana
state auditor, 1861-63; mayor
of Terre Haute, Ind., 1863-67.
He belonged to a secret society which advocated
a constitutional government for the German Empire; in 1824, the
conspiracy was uncovered; he was convicted
of treason
and sentenced
to fifteen years in in prison;
pardoned
in 1829, and left Germany for the United States. A Terre Haute public
school was named for
him in 1900.
Died in Terre Haute, Vigo
County, Ind., July 25,
1869 (age 67 years, 221
days).
Interment at Woodlawn Cemetery.
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William Crawford Linton (1795-1835) —
of Indiana.
Born in Lancaster
County, Pa., 1795.
Member of Indiana
state senate, 1828-31; candidate for U.S.
Representative from Indiana, 1833.
Presbyterian.
Died of a heart
attack in Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa., January
31, 1835 (age about 39
years).
Interment at Woodlawn Cemetery.
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Grafton Fleener Cookerly (1815-1885) —
of Terre Haute, Vigo
County, Ind.
Born in Frederick
County, Md., February
4, 1815.
Democrat. Member of Indiana
state house of representatives, 1845-48; candidate for U.S.
Representative from Indiana, 1849; delegate
to Indiana state constitutional convention, 1850-51; delegate to
Democratic National Convention from Indiana, 1856;
mayor
of Terre Haute, Ind., 1867-71.
Member, Ancient
Order of United Workmen.
Died in Terre Haute, Vigo
County, Ind., July 5,
1885 (age 70 years, 151
days).
Interment at Woodlawn Cemetery.
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James M. Farrington (1798-1869) —
of Vigo
County, Ind.
Born in Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., December
6, 1798.
Member of Indiana
state house of representatives, 1825, 1840-41; Vigo
County Treasurer, 1829-1842; member of Indiana
state senate, 1831-34.
Died in Terre Haute, Vigo
County, Ind., October
8, 1869 (age 70 years, 306
days).
Interment at Woodlawn Cemetery.
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Jacob Drennan Early (1859-1919) —
also known as Jacob D. Early —
of Terre Haute, Vigo
County, Ind.
Born in Terre Haute, Vigo
County, Ind., November
4, 1859.
Son of Samuel Stockwell Early (1827-1884) and Anna Louisa (Andrews)
Early (born 1835).
Republican. Lawyer;
delegate to Republican National Convention from Indiana, 1888;
member of Indiana
state senate, 1897-99.
Member, Freemasons;
Sons
of the American Revolution; Knights
of Pythias.
Died in Stamford, Fairfield
County, Conn., October
18, 1919 (age 59 years, 348
days).
Interment at Woodlawn Cemetery.
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Thomas Dowling (c.1806-1876) —
of Indiana.
Born in Ireland,
about 1806.
Democrat. Member of Indiana
state house of representatives, 1836-38, 1840-41, 1843-46,
1848-49; member of Democratic
National Committee from Indiana, 1876.
Member, Freemasons.
Died in Terre Haute, Vigo
County, Ind., December
6, 1876 (age about 70
years).
Interment at Woodlawn Cemetery.
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John Pierson Baird (1830-1881) —
also known as John P. Baird —
of Vigo
County, Ind.
Born in Spencer
County, Ky., January
5, 1830.
Republican. Lawyer;
member of Indiana
state house of representatives, 1859; colonel in the Union Army
during the Civil War; alternate delegate to Republican National
Convention from Indiana, 1868.
Was commander at Fort Granger in Tennessee in June 1863, when he was
required to execute by hanging Lawrence Orton Williams and Walter
Peter as Confederate spies; an engraving of the execution was on the
front page of Harper's Weekly. Both spies were related to
Gen. Robert E. Lee's wife and were descendants of Martha Washington.
Baird was severely affected by this episode, and had a mental
breakdown in 1875.
Died in the Indiana Hospital for
the Insane, Indianapolis, Marion
County, Ind., March 7,
1881 (age 51 years, 61
days).
Interment at Woodlawn Cemetery.
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| Politicians formerly
buried here: |
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John Givan Davis (1810-1866) —
also known as John G. Davis —
of Rockville, Parke
County, Ind.; Terre Haute, Vigo
County, Ind.
Born in Fleming
County, Ky., October
10, 1810.
Democrat. Parke
County Sheriff, 1830-33; U.S.
Representative from Indiana 7th District, 1851-55, 1857-61;
delegate to Democratic National Convention from Indiana, 1864.
Died in Terre Haute, Vigo
County, Ind., January
18, 1866 (age 55 years, 100
days).
Original interment at Woodlawn Cemetery; reinterment at Highland Lawn Cemetery.
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