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Washington County
Alabama

Cemeteries and Memorial Sites of Politicians in Washington County

Index to Locations Escatawpa Old Escatawpa Cemetery Millry Unknown location St. Stephens Old St. Stephens Cemetery Old Escatawpa Cemetery Escatawpa, Washington County, Alabama Politicians buried here:   Joseph R. Waldrop (1825-1872) — of Alabama. Born in Mississippi, 1825. Served in the Confederate Army during the Civil War; member of Alabama state house of representatives, 1869. Methodist. Member, Ku Klux Klan. Shot and killed while getting off his horse in front of a boarding house in Escatawpa, Washington County, Ala., 1872 (age about 47 years). Interment at Old Escatawpa Cemetery. Unknown Location Millry, Washington County, Alabama Politicians buried here:   Harry Toulmin (1766-1823) — of Lexington, Fayette County, Ky. Born in Taunton, England, September 7, 1766. Secretary of state of Kentucky, 1796-1804; first president, Transylvania University, 1804-18; judge of Mississippi territorial supreme court, 1804; U.S. District Judge for Alabama, 1818-19. Died in Millry, Washington County, Ala., November 11, 1823 (age 57 years, 65 days). Interment somewhere; cenotaph at Spring Hill Graveyard, Mobile, Ala.   Relatives: Married, September 11, 1787, to Ann Tremlett; married 1812 to Martha Johnson; grandfather of Harry Theophilus Toulmin.   Political family: Henshaw-Torrey family of Claiborne, Alabama.   The World War II Liberty ship SS Harry Toulmin (built 1944 at New Orleans, Louisiana; launched as the USS Segnius; sold 1947; scrapped 1967) was originally named for him.   See also Find-A-Grave memorial Old St. Stephens Cemetery St. Stephens, Washington County, Alabama Politicians buried here:   Oliver Henry Fitts (1771-1816) — also known as Oliver Fitts — of North Carolina. Born in Dinwiddie County, Va., 1771. Member of North Carolina house of commons, 1798-99; North Carolina state attorney general, 1808-10; judge of Mississippi territorial supreme court, 1810-16; died in office 1816. Died in St. Stephens, Washington County, Ala., 1816 (age about 45 years). Interment at Old St. Stephens Cemetery.

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