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Jacob Thompson (1810-1885) —
of Oxford, Lafayette
County, Miss.
Born in Leasburg, Caswell
County, N.C., May 15,
1810.
Democrat. U.S.
Representative from Mississippi, 1839-51 (at-large 1839-47, 1st
District 1847-51); U.S.
Secretary of the Interior, 1857-61; served in the Confederate
Army during the Civil War.
Died in Memphis, Shelby
County, Tenn., March 24,
1885 (age 74 years, 313
days).
Interment at Elmwood Cemetery.
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Kenneth Douglas McKellar (1869-1957) —
also known as Kenneth D. McKellar —
of Memphis, Shelby
County, Tenn.
Born in Richmond, Dallas
County, Ala., January
29, 1869.
Democrat. Lawyer;
Presidential Elector for Tennessee, 1904;
delegate to Democratic National Convention from Tennessee, 1908,
1920,
1936,
1940,
1944;
U.S.
Representative from Tennessee 10th District, 1911-17; U.S.
Senator from Tennessee, 1917-53.
Presbyterian.
Member, Freemasons;
Shriners;
Odd
Fellows; Delta
Kappa Epsilon.
Died October
25, 1957 (age 88 years, 269
days).
Interment at Elmwood Cemetery; statue at Tri-Cities
Regional Airport, Near Blountville, Sullivan County, Tenn.
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Isham Green Harris (1818-1897) —
also known as Isham G. Harris —
of Memphis, Shelby
County, Tenn.
Born near Tullahoma, Franklin
County, Tenn., February
10, 1818.
Democrat. Member of Tennessee
state senate, 1847; U.S.
Representative from Tennessee 9th District, 1849-53; Governor of
Tennessee, 1857-62; served in the Confederate Army during the
Civil War; U.S.
Senator from Tennessee, 1877-97; died in office 1897.
Died in Washington,
D.C., July 8,
1897 (age 79 years, 148
days).
Interment at Elmwood Cemetery.
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James Chamberlain Jones (1809-1859) —
also known as James C. Jones; "Lean
Jimmy" —
of Tennessee.
Born in Davidson
County, Tenn., April 20,
1809.
Member of Tennessee
state house of representatives, 1839; Governor of
Tennessee, 1841-45; U.S.
Senator from Tennessee, 1851-57.
Died October
29, 1859 (age 50 years, 192
days).
Interment at Elmwood Cemetery.
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Andrew Jackson Donelson (1799-1871) —
also known as Andrew J. Donelson —
of Nashville, Davidson
County, Tenn.; Memphis, Shelby
County, Tenn.
Born in Nashville, Davidson
County, Tenn., August
25, 1799.
Son of Samuel Donelson (1770-1802) and Mary Polly (Smith) Donelson
(1781-1857).
Whig. Lawyer; U.S.
Charge d'Affaires to Texas Republic, 1844-45; U.S. Minister to Prussia, 1846-49; candidate for Vice
President of the United States, 1856.
Died, of a heart
attack, in Memphis, Shelby
County, Tenn., June 26,
1871 (age 71 years, 305
days).
Interment at Elmwood Cemetery.
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Stephen Adams (1807-1857) —
of Aberdeen, Monroe
County, Miss.
Born in Pendleton District (now Anderson
County), S.C., October
17, 1807.
Democrat. Lawyer;
member of Tennessee
state senate, 1833-34; circuit judge in Mississippi, 1837-45,
1848; U.S.
Representative from Mississippi at-large, 1845-47; member of Mississippi
state house of representatives, 1850; delegate to
Mississippi state constitutional convention, 1851; U.S.
Senator from Mississippi, 1852-57.
Died in Memphis, Shelby
County, Tenn., May 11,
1857 (age 49 years, 206
days).
Interment at Elmwood Cemetery.
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Spencer Jarnagin (1792-1853) —
of Tennessee.
Born in Tennessee, 1792.
Member of Tennessee state legislature; U.S.
Senator from Tennessee, 1843-47.
Died in 1853
(age about
61 years).
Interment at Elmwood Cemetery.
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Thomas Battle Turley (1845-1910) —
also known as Thomas B. Turley —
of Memphis, Shelby
County, Tenn.
Born in Tennessee, 1845.
Democrat. U.S.
Senator from Tennessee, 1897-1901.
Died in 1910
(age about
65 years).
Interment at Elmwood Cemetery.
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Edward Hull Crump (1874-1954) —
also known as Edward H. Crump; Ed Crump; "Boss
Crump" —
of Memphis, Shelby
County, Tenn.
Born near Holly Springs, Marshall
County, Miss., October
2, 1874.
Democrat. Head, E. H. Crump Buggy
Manufacturing Co.; president, E. H. Crump & Co. (involved in banking, real
estate, and insurance);
mayor
of Memphis, Tenn., 1910-16, 1940; resigned 1916; proceedings were
brought for his ouster as
mayor in 1915-16, based on charges
that he failed to
enforce state liquor
laws; when the ouster suit was upheld by the state supreme court,
he resigned;
Shelby
County Treasurer, 1917-23; delegate to Democratic National
Convention from Tennessee, 1924,
1928,
1932,
1936,
1940,
1944;
U.S.
Representative from Tennessee, 1931-35 (10th District 1931-33,
9th District 1933-35); member of Democratic
National Committee from Tennessee, 1936-45.
Died in Memphis, Shelby
County, Tenn., October
16, 1954 (age 80 years, 14
days).
Interment at Elmwood Cemetery.
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Robert Bruce Macon (1859-1925) —
also known as Robert B. Macon —
of Helena (now part of Helena-West Helena), Phillips
County, Ark.
Born near Trenton, Phillips
County, Ark., July 6,
1859.
Democrat. Lawyer;
member of Arkansas
state house of representatives, 1883-87; prosecuting attorney,
1st Circuit, 1898-1902; U.S.
Representative from Arkansas 1st District, 1903-13.
Died in Marvell, Phillips
County, Ark., October
9, 1925 (age 66 years, 95
days).
Interment at Elmwood Cemetery.
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David Maney Currin (1817-1864) —
of Tennessee.
Born in Murfreesboro, Rutherford
County, Tenn., November
11, 1817.
Member of Tennessee state legislature, 1851; Delegate
from Tennessee to the Confederate Provisional Congress, 1861-62;
Representative
from Tennessee in the Confederate Congress, 1862-64; died in
office 1864.
Died in Richmond,
Va., March 25,
1864 (age 46 years, 135
days).
Interment at Elmwood Cemetery.
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Hiram Casey Young (1828-1899) —
also known as H. Casey Young —
of Memphis, Shelby
County, Tenn.
Born in Alabama, 1828.
Democrat. U.S.
Representative from Tennessee 10th District, 1875-81, 1883-85.
Died in 1899
(age about
71 years).
Interment at Elmwood Cemetery.
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William Graham Swan (1821-1869) —
also known as William G. Swan —
of Knoxville, Knox
County, Tenn.
Born in 1821.
Lawyer;
circuit judge in Tennessee; Tennessee
state attorney general, 1851; mayor
of Knoxville, Tenn., 1855-56; served in the Confederate Army
during the Civil War; Representative
from Tennessee in the Confederate Congress, 1862-65.
Died April 18,
1869 (age about 47
years).
Interment at Elmwood Cemetery.
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Joseph Brown Heiskell (1823-1913) —
of Tennessee.
Born in Knoxville, Knox
County, Tenn., November
5, 1823.
Member of Tennessee
state senate, 1858; Representative
from Tennessee in the Confederate Congress, 1862-64; delegate to
Tennessee state constitutional convention, 1870; Tennessee
state attorney general, 1870-78.
Died in Memphis, Shelby
County, Tenn., March 7,
1913 (age 89 years, 122
days).
Interment at Elmwood Cemetery.
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James Trezvant (c.1782-1841) —
of Virginia.
Born in Virginia, about 1782.
Member of Virginia state legislature; U.S.
Representative from Virginia 2nd District, 1825-31.
Died September
2, 1841 (age about 59
years).
Interment at Elmwood Cemetery.
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John William Leftwich (1826-1870) —
also known as John W. Leftwich —
of Memphis, Shelby
County, Tenn.
Born in Bedford,
Va., September
7, 1826.
Democrat. U.S.
Representative from Tennessee 8th District, 1866-67; mayor of
Memphis, Tenn., 1868-69, 1869-70.
Died in Lynchburg,
Va., March 6,
1870 (age 43 years, 180
days).
Interment at Elmwood Cemetery.
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James Phelan (1856-1891) —
of Memphis, Shelby
County, Tenn.
Born in Aberdeen, Monroe
County, Miss., December
7, 1856.
Democrat. U.S.
Representative from Tennessee 10th District, 1887-91; died in
office 1891.
Died in Bahamas,
January
30, 1891 (age 34 years, 54
days).
Interment at Elmwood Cemetery.
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James Ronald Chalmers (1831-1898) —
also known as James R. Chalmers —
of Vicksburg, Warren
County, Miss.
Born near Lynchburg, Halifax
County, Va., January
12, 1831.
Son of Joseph
Williams Chalmers.
Democrat. Lawyer;
delegate to Democratic National Convention from Mississippi, 1852;
delegate
to Mississippi secession convention, 1861; general in the
Confederate Army during the Civil War; member of Mississippi
state senate, 1876-77; U.S.
Representative from Mississippi, 1877-82, 1884-85 (6th District
1877-82, 2nd District 1884-85).
Died, from complications of the grippe,
in Memphis, Shelby
County, Tenn., April 9,
1898 (age 67 years, 87
days).
Interment at Elmwood Cemetery.
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George Washington Gordon (1836-1911) —
also known as George W. Gordon —
of Memphis, Shelby
County, Tenn.
Born in Pulaski, Giles
County, Tenn., October
5, 1836.
Democrat. Civil
engineer; general in the Confederate Army during the Civil War;
lawyer;
Tennessee Railroad Commissioner, 1883-85; Special U.S. Indian Agent
in Arizona and Nevada, 1885-89; superintendent
of schools; U.S.
Representative from Tennessee 10th District, 1907-11; died in
office 1911.
Member, United
Confederate Veterans.
Died, from asthma and
uremia,
in Memphis, Shelby
County, Tenn., August 9,
1911 (age 74 years, 308
days).
Interment at Elmwood Cemetery.
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Joseph Hunter Bryan (1782-1839) —
of North Carolina.
Born in Martin
County, N.C., April 9,
1782.
Member of North
Carolina house of commons, 1804-05, 1807-09; U.S.
Representative from North Carolina 2nd District, 1815-19.
Died in La Grange, Fayette
County, Tenn., December
28, 1839 (age 57 years, 263
days).
Interment at Elmwood Cemetery.
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A. B. Taylor (1796-1866) —
of Memphis, Shelby
County, Tenn.
Born in 1796.
Mayor
of Memphis, Tenn., 1852-55.
One of the founders of Elmwood Cemetery.
Died in 1866
(age about
70 years).
Interment at Elmwood Cemetery.
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Henry Cousins Chambers (1823-1871) —
of Mississippi.
Born in Limestone
County, Ala., July 26,
1823.
Son of Henry
H. Chambers.
Member of Mississippi state legislature, 1859; Representative
from Mississippi in the Confederate Congress, 1862-65.
Killed William
Augustus Lake, his opponent for the Confederate Congress, in a duel
on October 15, 1861, at Hopefield, Ark.
Died in Bolivar
County, Miss., May 1,
1871 (age 47 years, 279
days).
Interment at Elmwood Cemetery.
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William Claiborne Dunlap (1798-1872) —
of Knoxville, Knox
County, Tenn.; Bolivar, Hardeman
County, Tenn.
Born in Knoxville, Knox
County, Tenn., February
25, 1798.
Democrat. Lawyer; U.S.
Representative from Tennessee 13th District, 1833-37; circuit
judge in Tennessee, 1840-49; member of Tennessee
state senate, 1851-57; member of Tennessee
state house of representatives, 1857-59.
Died near Memphis, Shelby
County, Tenn., November
16, 1872 (age 74 years, 265
days).
Interment at Elmwood Cemetery.
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William Tecumsah Avery (1819-1880) —
of Tennessee.
Born in Hardeman
County, Tenn., November
11, 1819.
Democrat. Member of Tennessee
state house of representatives, 1843; U.S.
Representative from Tennessee 10th District, 1857-61; colonel in
the Confederate Army during the Civil War.
Accidentally drowned
in Ten Mile Bayou, Crittenden
County, Ark., May 22,
1880 (age 60 years, 193
days).
Interment at Elmwood Cemetery.
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George W. Guess (c.1829-1868) —
of Dallas, Dallas
County, Tex.
Born in North Carolina, about 1829.
Lawyer;
colonel in the Confederate Army during the Civil War; mayor of
Dallas, Tex., 1866-68.
Member, Freemasons.
Died of sunstroke,
aboard a steamboat
on the Mississippi River, at a wharf in Memphis, Shelby
County, Tenn., July 18,
1868 (age about 39
years).
Interment at Elmwood Cemetery.
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Jeremiah Watkins Clapp (1814-1898) —
of Mississippi.
Born in Abingdon, Washington
County, Va., September
24, 1814.
Delegate
to Mississippi secession convention, 1861; Representative
from Mississippi in the Confederate Congress, 1862-64.
Presbyterian.
Died in Memphis, Shelby
County, Tenn., September
5, 1898 (age 83 years, 346
days).
Interment at Elmwood Cemetery.
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Asa Hodges (1822-1900) —
of Arkansas.
Born near Moulton, Lawrence
County, Ala., January
22, 1822.
Republican. Delegate to
Arkansas state constitutional convention, 1867; member of Arkansas
state house of representatives, 1868; member of Arkansas
state senate, 1870; U.S.
Representative from Arkansas 1st District, 1873-75.
Died June 6,
1900 (age 78 years, 135
days).
Interment at Elmwood Cemetery.
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William Jay Smith (1823-1913) —
also known as William J. Smith —
of Memphis, Shelby
County, Tenn.
Born in Birmingham, England,
September
24, 1823.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Army during the Mexican War; served in
the Union Army during the Civil War; delegate to
Tennessee state constitutional convention, 1865; member of Tennessee
state house of representatives, 1865-67; member of Tennessee
state senate, 1867-69, 1885-87; delegate to Republican National
Convention from Tennessee, 1868,
1876;
U.S.
Representative from Tennessee 8th District, 1869-71; defeated,
1870; U.S. Surveyor of
Customs, 1875-79.
Died in Memphis, Shelby
County, Tenn., November
29, 1913 (age 90 years, 66
days).
Interment at Elmwood Cemetery.
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James Patton Anderson (1822-1872) —
of Hernando, DeSoto
County, Miss.; Olympia, Thurston
County, Wash.; near Monticello, Jefferson
County, Fla.; Memphis, Shelby
County, Tenn.
Born near Winchester, Franklin
County, Tenn., February
16, 1822.
Democrat. Lawyer;
colonel in the U.S. Army during the Mexican War; member of
Mississippi state legislature, 1850; Delegate
to U.S. Congress from Washington Territory, 1855-57; delegate
to Florida secession convention, 1861; Delegate
from Florida to the Confederate Provisional Congress, 1861;
general in the Confederate Army during the Civil War.
Died in Memphis, Shelby
County, Tenn., September
20, 1872 (age 50 years, 217
days).
Interment at Elmwood Cemetery.
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Rowlett Paine (b. 1879) —
of Memphis, Shelby
County, Tenn.
Born in Memphis, Shelby
County, Tenn., December
22, 1879.
Son of John James Paine and Elizabeth (Rowlett) Paine.
Democrat. Wholesale
grocer; mayor of
Memphis, Tenn., 1920-27.
Methodist.
Member, Rotary.
Interment at Elmwood Cemetery.
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Relatives:
Nephew by marriage of George
Washington Gordon; son of John James Paine and Elizabeth
(Rowlett) Paine; married 1918 to Anna
Bell Hughes. |
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Henry Thomas Ellett (1812-1887) —
also known as Henry T. Ellett —
of Port Gibson, Claiborne
County, Miss.
Born in Salem, Salem
County, N.J., March 8,
1812.
Democrat. U.S.
Representative from Mississippi at-large, 1847; member of
Mississippi state legislature.
Died suddenly while delivering an address of
welcome to President Grover
Cleveland in Memphis, Shelby
County, Tenn., October
15, 1887 (age 75 years, 221
days).
Interment at Elmwood Cemetery.
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John W. Farley (1878-1942) —
of Memphis, Shelby
County, Tenn.
Born March 4,
1878.
Republican. Lawyer;
candidate for U.S.
Representative from Tennessee, 1916; delegate to Republican
National Convention from Tennessee, 1916
(alternate), 1924.
Member, Kappa
Alpha Order; Freemasons.
Led drive to establish
the West Tennessee Normal School (now University of Memphis) in 1912.
Died, of pneumonia
and severe arthritis,
November, 1942
(age 64
years, 0 days).
Interment at Elmwood Cemetery.
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Alexander M. Arzeno (d. 1878) —
of Newport, Monroe
County, Mich.
Member of Michigan
state house of representatives from Monroe County, 1847; delegate
to Michigan state constitutional convention, 1850; member of Michigan
state senate 8th District, 1853-54.
Died, of yellow
fever, in Memphis, Shelby
County, Tenn., November
19, 1878.
Interment at Elmwood Cemetery.
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Merrill Parrish Hudson (d. 1967) —
also known as Merrill P. Hudson; Mrs. Asaph R.
Hudson —
of Memphis, Shelby
County, Tenn.
Democrat. Alternate delegate to Democratic National Convention from
Tennessee, 1936,
1940.
Female.
Died May 4,
1967.
Interment at Elmwood Cemetery.
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Landon Carter Haynes (1816-1875) —
also known as Landon C. Haynes —
of Tennessee.
Born in Elizabethton, Carter
County, Tenn., December
2, 1816.
Member of Tennessee
state senate, 1847; member of Tennessee
state house of representatives, 1849-51; Speaker of
the Tennessee State House of Representatives, 1849-51; Senator
from Tennessee in the Confederate Congress, 1862-65.
Died in Memphis, Shelby
County, Tenn., February
17, 1875 (age 58 years, 77
days).
Original interment at Elmwood Cemetery; reinterment in 1902 at Jackson
Cemetery, Jackson, Tenn.
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Malcolm Rice Patterson (1861-1935) —
also known as Malcolm R. Patterson —
of Memphis, Shelby
County, Tenn.
Born in Somerville, Morgan
County, Ala., June 7,
1861.
Son of Josephine (Rice) Patterson and Josiah
Patterson.
Democrat. Lawyer; Shelby
County District Attorney, 1894-1900; U.S.
Representative from Tennessee 10th District, 1901-06; resigned
1906; Governor of
Tennessee, 1907-11.
Died in Sarasota, Sarasota
County, Fla., March 8,
1935 (age 73 years, 274
days).
Interment at Forest Hill Cemetery.
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Clifford Davis (1897-1970) —
of Memphis, Shelby
County, Tenn.
Born in Hazlehurst, Copiah
County, Miss., November
18, 1897.
Son of Odom A. Davis and Jessie Davis.
Democrat. Lawyer; city
judge in Tennessee, 1923-27; U.S.
Representative from Tennessee, 1940-65 (9th District 1940-43,
10th District 1943-53, 9th District 1953-65).
Baptist.
Member, Freemasons;
Shriners;
Sigma
Alpha Epsilon; Moose; Elks; Order of
Ahepa.
Died in Washington,
D.C., June 8,
1970 (age 72 years, 202
days).
Interment at Forest Hill Cemetery.
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Walter Chandler (1887-1967) —
also known as Clift Chandler —
of Memphis, Shelby
County, Tenn.
Born in Jackson, Madison
County, Tenn., October
5, 1887.
Son of William Henry Chandler and Knoxie (Clift) Chandler.
Democrat. Member of Tennessee
state house of representatives, 1917; served in the U.S. Army
during World War I; member of Tennessee
state senate, 1921-23; U.S.
Representative from Tennessee 9th District, 1935-40; resigned
1940; mayor of
Memphis, Tenn., 1940-46, 1955; delegate to Democratic National
Convention from Tennessee, 1940,
1944.
Episcopalian.
Member, American Bar
Association; Phi
Kappa Phi; Sigma
Alpha Epsilon; Freemasons.
Died in Memphis, Shelby
County, Tenn., October
1, 1967 (age 79 years, 361
days).
Interment at Forest Hill Cemetery.
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Harry Bennett Anderson (1879-1935) —
of Memphis, Shelby
County, Tenn.
Born in Van Buren
County, Mich., November
5, 1879.
Son of Seneca Benjamin Anderson and Achsah Adelaide (Bennett)
Anderson.
Lawyer;
member of Tennessee
Republican State Executive Committee, 1904-10; Progressive
candidate for Presidential Elector for Tennessee, 1912;
colonel in the U.S. Army during World War I; U.S.
District Judge for the Western District of Tennessee, 1926-35;
died in office 1935.
Member, Elks; Freemasons;
Odd
Fellows; American
Legion.
Died, from a heart
ailment and pneumonia,
in Crook Sanitarium,
Jackson, Madison
County, Tenn., April 9,
1935 (age 55 years, 155
days).
Interment at Forest Hill Cemetery.
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Josiah Patterson (1837-1904) —
of Memphis, Shelby
County, Tenn.
Born in Morgan
County, Ala., April 14,
1837.
Democrat. Member of Tennessee state legislature; U.S.
Representative from Tennessee 10th District, 1891-97.
Died in Memphis, Shelby
County, Tenn., February
10, 1904 (age 66 years, 302
days).
Interment at Forest Hill Cemetery.
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William Robert Moore (1830-1909) —
of Tennessee.
Born in Alabama, 1830.
Republican. U.S.
Representative from Tennessee 10th District, 1881-83.
Died in 1909
(age about
79 years).
Interment at Forest Hill Cemetery.
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John Ethridge McCall (1859-1920) —
also known as John E. McCall —
of Lexington, Henderson
County, Tenn.
Born in Tennessee, 1859.
Republican. Member of Tennessee state legislature; U.S.
Representative from Tennessee 8th District, 1895-97; delegate to
Republican National Convention from Tennessee, 1900.
Died in 1920
(age about
61 years).
Interment at Forest Hill Cemetery.
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Walter Preston Armstrong (1884-1949) —
also known as Walter P. Armstrong —
of Memphis, Shelby
County, Tenn.
Born in Pittsboro, Calhoun
County, Miss., October
26, 1884.
Son of George Wells Armstrong and May (Cruthirds) Armstrong.
Democrat. Lawyer;
alternate delegate to Democratic National Convention from Tennessee,
1928,
1940.
Methodist.
Member, American Bar
Association; Sigma
Chi; Phi
Delta Phi.
Died July 27,
1949 (age 64 years, 274
days).
Interment at Forest Hill Cemetery.
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