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1,164
family groupings listed on
The Political Graveyard web site.
These families each have three or more politician members,
all linked together by blood, marriage or adoption.
This specific family group is a subset of the
much larger Four Thousand
Related Politicians group. An individual may be listed
with more than one subset.
These groupings — even the names of the groupings,
and the areas of main activity — are the
result of a computer algorithm working with the data I have,
not the choices of any historian or genealogist.
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Horatio Gates Wintersmith (1785-1835) —
also known as Horatio G. Wintersmith —
of Elizabethtown, Hardin
County, Ky.
Born in Martinsburg, Berkeley
County, Va. (now W.Va.), May 15,
1785.
Postmaster at Elizabethtown,
Ky., 1816-31.
Died in Elizabethtown, Hardin
County, Ky., January
21, 1835 (age 49 years, 251
days).
Interment at Elizabethtown
City Cemetery, Elizabethtown, Ky.
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Samuel LaRue Hodgen (1791-1864) —
of Elizabethtown, Hardin
County, Ky.
Born in Elizabethtown, Hardin
County, Ky., April
30, 1791.
Republican. Merchant;
postmaster at Elizabethtown,
Ky., 1861-64.
Died in Elizabethtown, Hardin
County, Ky., August
15, 1864 (age 73 years, 107
days).
Interment at Elizabethtown
City Cemetery, Elizabethtown, Ky.
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John Motley Morehead (1796-1866) —
of Guilford
County, N.C.
Born in Pittsylvania
County, Va., July 4,
1796.
Whig. Lawyer; railroad
promoter; member of North
Carolina house of commons, 1821, 1826-27, 1838; Governor of
North Carolina, 1841-45; Delegate
from North Carolina to the Confederate Provisional Congress,
1861-62.
Died in Alum Springs, Greenbrier
County, W.Va., August
27, 1866 (age 70 years, 54
days).
Interment at First
Presbyterian Churchyard, Greensboro, N.C.
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James Turner Morehead (1797-1854) —
also known as James T. Morehead —
of Covington, Kenton
County, Ky.
Born near Shepherdsville, Bullitt
County, Ky., May 24,
1797.
Member of Kentucky
state senate, 1828; Lieutenant
Governor of Kentucky, 1832-34; Governor of
Kentucky, 1834-36; U.S.
Senator from Kentucky, 1841-47.
Baptist.
Slaveowner.
Died in Covington, Kenton
County, Ky., December
28, 1854 (age 57 years, 218
days).
Interment at Frankfort
Cemetery, Frankfort, Ky.
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Charles Slaughter Morehead (1802-1868) —
also known as Charles S. Morehead —
of Kentucky.
Born near Bardstown, Nelson
County, Ky., July 7,
1802.
Member of Kentucky
state house of representatives, 1828; Kentucky
state attorney general, 1832-38; U.S.
Representative from Kentucky 8th District, 1847-51; Governor of
Kentucky, 1855-59.
Slaveowner.
Died in Greenville, Washington
County, Miss., December
21, 1868 (age 66 years, 167
days).
Original interment in unknown location; reinterment in 1879 at Frankfort
Cemetery, Frankfort, Ky.
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John Larue Helm (1802-1867) —
of Kentucky.
Born near Elizabethtown, Hardin
County, Ky., July 4,
1802.
Lawyer;
member of Kentucky
state house of representatives, 1826; member of Kentucky
state senate, 1844-48; Lieutenant
Governor of Kentucky, 1848-50; Governor of
Kentucky, 1850-51, 1867; died in office 1867.
Died in Elizabethtown, Hardin
County, Ky., September
8, 1867 (age 65 years, 66
days).
Interment at Helm Cemetery, Near Elizabethtown, Hardin County, Ky.
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Charles G. Wintersmith (1812-1881) —
of Kentucky.
Born in Elizabethtown, Hardin
County, Ky., July 15,
1812.
Lawyer;
candidate for U.S.
Representative from Kentucky 5th District, 1855.
Member, Freemasons.
Died in Elizabethtown, Hardin
County, Ky., October
14, 1881 (age 69 years, 91
days).
Interment at Elizabethtown
City Cemetery, Elizabethtown, Ky.
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William Waigstill Avery (1816-1864) —
of Morganton, Burke
County, N.C.
Born in Burke
County, N.C., May 25,
1816.
Democrat. Lawyer;
member of North Carolina state legislature, 1842; delegate to
Democratic National Convention from North Carolina, 1860;
delegate
to North Carolina secession convention, 1861; Delegate
from North Carolina to the Confederate Provisional Congress,
1861-62.
Mortally wounded while fighting
Union guerillas in Tennessee, and died in Morganton, Burke
County, N.C., July 3,
1864 (age 48 years, 39
days).
Interment a
private or family graveyard, Burke County, N.C.
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Relatives: Son
of Isaac Thomas Avery and Harriet (Erwin) Avery; married, May 27,
1846, to Corrina Mary Morehead (daughter of John
Motley Morehead); grandson of Waightstill
Avery; second cousin of Lorenzo
Burrows; third cousin once removed of Noyes
Barber; third cousin twice removed of Horace
Billings Packer; fourth cousin of Daniel
Packer, Asa
Packer, Edwin
Barber Morgan, Christopher
Morgan, Edwin
Denison Morgan and Alfred
Avery Burnham; fourth cousin once removed of Judson
B. Phelps, Morgan
Gardner Bulkeley, William
Henry Bulkeley, Robert
Asa Packer and William
Frederick Morgan Rowland. |
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family of Connecticut and New York; Fairbanks-Adams
family; Lenoir
family of North Carolina; Beakes-Greene-Witter
family; Livingston-Schuyler
family of New York (subsets of the Four
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Robert Lawrence Wintersmith (1816-1890) —
also known as R. L. Wintersmith —
of Elizabethtown, Hardin
County, Ky.
Born in Elizabethtown, Hardin
County, Ky., August
13, 1816.
Republican. Delegate to Republican National Convention from Kentucky,
1868,
1880
(alternate).
Died in Elizabethtown, Hardin
County, Ky., February
26, 1890 (age 73 years, 197
days).
Interment at Elizabethtown
City Cemetery, Elizabethtown, Ky.
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Richard Curd Wintersmith (1822-1902) —
also known as Richard C. Wintersmith —
of Hardin
County, Ky.
Born in Elizabethtown, Hardin
County, Ky., 1822.
Kentucky
state treasurer, 1849-57.
Died in Jefferson
County, Ky., 1902
(age about
80 years).
Burial location unknown.
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David Cooper Swan Wintersmith (1839-1912) —
also known as David C. Swan Wintersmith —
of Elizabethtown, Hardin
County, Ky.
Born in Louisville, Jefferson
County, Ky., May 4,
1839.
Republican. Postmaster at Elizabethtown,
Ky., 1864-66, 1870-71, 1871-83.
Died in Louisville, Jefferson
County, Ky., November
10, 1912 (age 73 years, 190
days).
Interment at Cave
Hill Cemetery, Louisville, Ky.
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