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Note: This is just one of
1,325
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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Samuel Ashe (1725-1813) —
of New
Hanover County, N.C.
Born in Bath, Beaufort
County, N.C., March
24, 1725.
Lawyer;
delegate
to North Carolina state constitutional convention, 1776; justice of
North Carolina state supreme court, 1777; Governor of
North Carolina, 1795-98; Presidential Elector for North Carolina,
1804.
Died in Rocky Point, Pender
County, N.C., February
3, 1813 (age 87 years, 316
days).
Interment at Ashe
Family Cemetery, Rocky Point, N.C.; memorial monument at Pack Square Park, Asheville, N.C.
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John Baptista Ashe (1748-1802) —
of North Carolina.
Born in Rocky Point, Pender
County, N.C., 1748.
Colonel in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War; member
of North Carolina state legislature, 1784-86; Delegate
to Continental Congress from North Carolina, 1787; member of North
Carolina state senate, 1789; U.S.
Representative from North Carolina at-large, 1789-93; elected Governor of
North Carolina 1802, but died before taking office.
Slaveowner.
Died in Halifax, Halifax
County, N.C., November
27, 1802 (age about 54
years).
Interment at Churchyard
Cemetery, Halifax, N.C.; cenotaph at Ashe
Family Cemetery, Rocky Point, N.C.
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William Henry Hill (1767-1809) —
of North Carolina.
Born in Brunswick, Columbus
County, N.C., May 1,
1767.
Lawyer;
U.S.
Attorney for North Carolina, 1790; member of North
Carolina state senate, 1794; U.S.
Representative from North Carolina at-large, 1799-1803.
Slaveowner.
Died near Wilmington, New Hanover
County, N.C., 1809
(age about
42 years).
Interment a private or family graveyard, New Hanover County, N.C.
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John Baptista Ashe (1810-1857) —
of Brownsville, Haywood
County, Tenn.; Galveston, Galveston
County, Tex.
Born in Rocky Point, Pender
County, N.C., 1810.
Whig. Lawyer; U.S.
Representative from Tennessee 10th District, 1843-45.
Slaveowner.
Died in Galveston, Galveston
County, Tex., December
29, 1857 (age about 47
years).
Burial location unknown.
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Thomas Samuel Ashe (1812-1887) —
of North Carolina.
Born near Graham, Alamance
County, N.C., July 19,
1812.
Member of North Carolina state legislature, 1842; member of North
Carolina state senate, 1854; delegate
to North Carolina secession convention, 1861; Representative
from North Carolina in the Confederate Congress, 1862-64;
candidate for Governor of
North Carolina, 1868; U.S.
Representative from North Carolina 6th District, 1873-77; justice of
North Carolina state supreme court, 1878-87; died in office 1887.
Slaveowner.
Died in Wadesboro, Anson
County, N.C., February
4, 1887 (age 74 years, 200
days).
Interment at Eastview
Cemetery, Wadesboro, N.C.
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William Shepperd Ashe (1814-1862) —
also known as William S. Ashe —
of Wilmington, New
Hanover County, N.C.
Born in Rocky Point, Pender
County, N.C., September
14, 1814.
Democrat. Lawyer;
member of North
Carolina state senate, 1846-48, 1858-60; U.S.
Representative from North Carolina, 1849-55 (7th District
1849-53, 3rd District 1853-55); president, Wilmington & Weldon Railroad,
1854; delegate to Democratic National Convention from North Carolina,
1860;
delegate
to North Carolina state constitutional convention, 1861; major in
the Confederate Army during the Civil War.
Slaveowner.
Killed in a railroad
accident near Wilmington, New Hanover
County, N.C., September
14, 1862 (age 48 years, 0
days).
Interment at Ashe
Family Cemetery, Rocky Point, N.C.
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George Davis (1820-1896) —
of Wilmington, New
Hanover County, N.C.
Born in Porter's Neck, Pender
County, N.C., March 1,
1820.
Lawyer;
Delegate
from North Carolina to the Confederate Provisional Congress,
1861-62; Senator
from North Carolina in the Confederate Congress, 1862-64; Confederate
Attorney General, 1864-65.
Episcopalian.
At the end of the Civil War, with other Confederate
officials, attempted
to flee overseas, but turned
himself in at Key West, Fla.; spent several months in prison
at Fort Hamilton; pardoned
in 1866.
Died in Wilmington, New Hanover
County, N.C., February
23, 1896 (age 75 years, 359
days).
Interment at Oakdale
Cemetery, Wilmington, N.C.; statue erected 1911 at Third
and Market Streets, Wilmington, N.C.
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Relatives: Son
of Thomas Frederick Davis and Sarah Isabella (Eagles) Davis;
half-brother and fourth cousin of Horatio
Davis; married, November
17, 1842, to Mary Adelaide Polk (first cousin once removed of Frank
Lyon Polk; second cousin once removed of James
Knox Polk and William
Hawkins Polk; third cousin of Marshall
Tate Polk); married, May 9,
1866, to Monimia Fairfax; great-grandnephew of Samuel
Ashe; cousin four different ways of John
Baptista Ashe (1748-1802), John
Baptista Ashe (1810-1857), Thomas
Samuel Ashe and William
Shepperd Ashe; cousin three different ways of Alfred
Moore Waddell; second cousin twice removed of William
Henry Hill. |
| | | Political families: Polk
#1 family of New York City, New York; Ashe
#1 family of North Carolina (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | The World War II Liberty
ship SS George Davis (built 1942 at Wilmington,
North Carolina; scrapped 1960) was named for
him. |
| | | See also Wikipedia article — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
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Alfred Moore Waddell (1834-1912) —
also known as Alfred M. Waddell —
of Wilmington, New
Hanover County, N.C.
Born in Hillsborough, Orange
County, N.C., September
16, 1834.
Democrat. Lawyer; newspaper
editor and publisher; colonel in the Confederate Army during the
Civil War; U.S.
Representative from North Carolina 3rd District, 1871-79;
delegate to Democratic National Convention from North Carolina, 1880
(member, Resolutions
Committee), 1896;
notorious
leader of the overthrow of Wilmington's elected city government by white
supremacists on November 10, 1898; forced the incumbent mayor to
resign at gunpoint, and took his place; the offices of the Wilmington
Daily Record newspaper were burned,
and as many as 300 Black citizens of Wilmington were murdered;
mayor
of Wilmington, N.C., 1898-1906.
Died in Wilmington, New Hanover
County, N.C., March
17, 1912 (age 77 years, 183
days).
Interment at Oakdale
Cemetery, Wilmington, N.C.
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Horatio Davis (1840-1912) —
of Chatham, Pittsylvania
County, Va.; Gainesville, Alachua
County, Fla.
Born in Wilmington, New Hanover
County, N.C., May 16,
1840.
Served in the Confederate Army during the Civil War; lawyer;
county judge in Virginia, 1880-86; mayor
of Gainesville, Fla., 1908-09.
Episcopalian.
Died in Gainesville, Alachua
County, Fla., June 12,
1912 (age 72 years, 27
days).
Interment at Evergreen
Cemetery, Gainesville, Fla.
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James Alexander Lockhart (1850-1905) —
also known as James A. Lockhart —
of Wadesboro, Anson
County, N.C.
Born in Anson
County, N.C., June 2,
1850.
Democrat. Member of North
Carolina state house of representatives, 1878; member of North
Carolina state senate, 1880; U.S.
Representative from North Carolina 6th District, 1895-97;
alternate delegate to Democratic National Convention from North
Carolina, 1904.
Died in Charlotte, Mecklenburg
County, N.C., December
24, 1905 (age 55 years, 205
days).
Interment at Eastview
Cemetery, Wadesboro, N.C.
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Frank Lyon Polk (1871-1943) —
also known as Frank L. Polk —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., September
13, 1871.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during the Spanish-American War; lawyer;
Corporation counsel, New York City, 1914-15; Counselor, U.S. State
Department, 1915-19; Undersecretary of State, 1919-20; alternate
delegate to Democratic National Convention from New York, 1916.
Died in Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., February
7, 1943 (age 71 years, 147
days).
Interment at Woodlawn
Cemetery, Bronx, N.Y.
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