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Pike County
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Cemeteries and Memorial Sites of Politicians in Pike County

Index to Locations Troy Green Hills Cemetery Troy Oakwood Cemetery Green Hills Cemetery Troy, Pike County, Alabama Founded 1955 Politicians buried here:   William Jennings Dyess (1929-1996) — also known as Billy Dyess — of Alabama. Born in Troy, Pike County, Ala., August 1, 1929. Foreign Service officer; U.S. Ambassador to Netherlands, 1981-83. Died, of cancer, in Washington, D.C., January 6, 1996 (age 66 years, 158 days). Interment at Green Hills Cemetery.   See also U.S. State Dept career summary — NNDB dossier   Maxwell Lewis Rafferty (1917-1982) — also known as Max Rafferty — of La Canada (now part of La Canada Flintridge), Los Angeles County, Calif.; Alabama. Born in New Orleans, Orleans Parish, La., May 9, 1917. Republican. School teacher and principal; superintendent of schools; newspaper columnist; California superintendent of public instruction, 1963-70; defeated, 1970; candidate for U.S. Senator from California, 1968; dean, Education Department, Troy State University, 1971-82. Episcopalian. Irish ancestry. Member, Phi Delta Kappa; Lions; Rotary. Drowned when his car went off the road into a pond, in Troy, Pike County, Ala., June 13, 1982 (age 65 years, 35 days). Interment at Green Hills Cemetery.   Relatives: Son of Maxwell Lewis Rafferty (1886-1967) and DeEtta (Cox) Rafferty; married, June 4, 1944, to Frances Luella Longman.   See also Wikipedia article — Find-A-Grave memorial — OurCampaigns candidate detail Oakwood Cemetery Troy, Pike County, Alabama Politicians buried here:   Lucien Dunbibbin Gardner (1876-1952) — of Montgomery, Montgomery County, Ala. Born in Troy, Pike County, Ala., November 28, 1876. Democrat. Member of Alabama state senate, 1906; associate justice of Alabama state supreme court, 1914-40; chief justice of Alabama state supreme court, 1940-51. Baptist. Member, Knights of Pythias; Phi Beta Kappa. Died November 2, 1952 (age 75 years, 340 days). Interment at Oakwood Cemetery.   Relatives: Son of John Dunbibbin Gardner and Julia (Starke) Gardner; married, December 26, 1900, to Henrietta Wiley; grandson of Benjamin Gardner.   See also Find-A-Grave memorial Charles Henderson (1860-1937) — of Troy, Pike County, Ala. Born in Pike County, Ala., April 26, 1860. Democrat. Mayor of Troy, Ala., 1886-91, 1901-06; alternate delegate to Gold Democrat National Convention from Alabama, 1896; president, Alabama Railroad Commission, 1907-15; Governor of Alabama, 1915-19. Died, from influenza, in Troy, Pike County, Ala., January 7, 1937 (age 76 years, 256 days). Interment at Oakwood Cemetery.   See also National Governors Association biography — Wikipedia article   Image source: Library of Congress   Oliver Cicero Wiley (1851-1917) — also known as Oliver C. Wiley — of Troy, Pike County, Ala. Born in Troy, Pike County, Ala., January 30, 1851. Democrat. Chair of Pike County Democratic Party, 1884-86; president, Alabama Midland Railway, 1887-92; bank director; member of Alabama Democratic State Executive Committee, 1888; U.S. Representative from Alabama 2nd District, 1908-09. Died in Troy, Pike County, Ala., October 18, 1917 (age 66 years, 261 days). Interment at Oakwood Cemetery.   Relatives: Son of James McCaleb Wiley and Cornelia Ann (Appling) Wiley; brother of Ariosto Appling Wiley; married 1874 to Augusta Murphree.   See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — Wikipedia article — Find-A-Grave memorial   William Hodges Samford (1866-1940) — of Troy, Pike County, Ala.; Montgomery, Montgomery County, Ala. Born in Auburn, Lee County, Ala., August 7, 1866. Democrat. Lawyer; member of Alabama Democratic State Executive Committee, 1900-05; delegate to Alabama state constitutional convention, 1901; candidate for Presidential Elector for Alabama; Judge, Alabama Court of Appeals, 1917-36. Methodist. Member, Freemasons; Knights of Pythias; Alpha Tau Omega. Died February 2, 1940 (age 73 years, 179 days). Interment at Oakwood Cemetery.   Relatives: Son of William James Samford and Caroline Elizabeth (Drake) Samford; brother of Thomas Drake Samford; married, December 18, 1890, to Kate Connor Park; grandnephew of James Ferguson Dowdell and William Crawford Dowdell; great-grandson of John Hodges Drake; first cousin once removed of James Render Dowdell; second cousin of Armstead Brown.   Political family: Candler family of Georgia.   See also Find-A-Grave memorial

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