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Cemeteries and Memorial Sites of Politicians in Pope County

Index to Locations Dover Cemetery Russellville Unknown location Russellville Oakland Cemetery Dover Cemetery Pope County, Arkansas Politicians formerly buried here:   Andrew Scott (1789-1851) — of Ste. Genevieve, Ste. Genevieve County, Mo. Born in Hanover County, Va., August 6, 1789. Lawyer; justice of Arkansas territorial supreme court, 1819-25; member of Arkansas territorial House of Representatives, 1831. Scottish ancestry. Killed Joseph Selden, another Arkansas Territory judge, in a duel on an island in the Mississippi River near Helena, Ark., May 26, 1824. Died in Norristown, Pope County, Ark., March 13, 1851 (age 61 years, 219 days). Original interment at Dover Cemetery; reinterment at Oakland Cemetery, Russellville, Ark.   Relatives: Brother-in-law of George Wallace Jones; brother of John Scott; father-in-law of Joseph Russel Jones; father of John Rice Homer Scott.   Political family: Jones family of Ste. Genevieve, Missouri. Unknown Location Russellville, Pope County, Arkansas Politicians buried here:   William Cary Renfrow (1845-1922) — of Norman, Cleveland County, Okla. Born in Smithfield, Johnston County, N.C., May 15, 1845. Served in the Confederate Army during the Civil War; Governor of Oklahoma Territory, 1893-97. Presbyterian. Died in Bentonville, Benton County, Ark., January 31, 1922 (age 76 years, 261 days). Interment somewhere. Oakland Cemetery Russellville, Pope County, Arkansas Politicians buried here:   Lawrence Brooks Hays (1898-1981) — also known as Brooks Hays — of Little Rock, Pulaski County, Ark.; North Carolina; Chevy Chase, Montgomery County, Md. Born in London, Pope County, Ark., August 9, 1898. Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during World War I; lawyer; member of Democratic National Committee from Arkansas, 1932-39; U.S. Representative from Arkansas 5th District, 1943-59; defeated, 1958; member, Commission on Intergovernmental Relations, 1953-55; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Arkansas, 1956; candidate for U.S. Representative from North Carolina 5th District, 1972. Baptist. Member, Sigma Chi; Phi Alpha Delta; Tau Kappa Alpha; Freemasons; Lions; American Bar Association. Died in Chevy Chase, Montgomery County, Md., October 11, 1981 (age 83 years, 63 days). Interment at Oakland Cemetery.   Relatives: Son of Adelbert Steele Hays and Sallie (Butler) Hays; married, February 2, 1922, to Marian Prather.   See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — Wikipedia article   Andrew Scott (1789-1851) — of Ste. Genevieve, Ste. Genevieve County, Mo. Born in Hanover County, Va., August 6, 1789. Lawyer; justice of Arkansas territorial supreme court, 1819-25; member of Arkansas territorial House of Representatives, 1831. Scottish ancestry. Killed Joseph Selden, another Arkansas Territory judge, in a duel on an island in the Mississippi River near Helena, Ark., May 26, 1824. Died in Norristown, Pope County, Ark., March 13, 1851 (age 61 years, 219 days). Original interment at Dover Cemetery, Pope County, Ark.; reinterment at Oakland Cemetery.   Relatives: Brother-in-law of George Wallace Jones; brother of John Scott; father-in-law of Joseph Russel Jones; father of John Rice Homer Scott.   Political family: Jones family of Ste. Genevieve, Missouri. Reece Arnold Caudle (1888-1955) — also known as Reece A. Caudle — of Russellville, Pope County, Ark. Born in Hector, Pope County, Ark., June 16, 1888. Democrat. Lawyer; member of Arkansas state house of representatives, 1930; Speaker of the Arkansas State House of Representatives, 1930; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Arkansas, 1952. Died in Pope County, Ark., June 21, 1955 (age 67 years, 5 days). Interment at Oakland Cemetery.   Relatives: Son of Lewis Monroe Caudle and Martha Elizabeth (Price) Caudle; married, December 23, 1915, to Floy McAlister; married 1921 to Era May Burgess.   Epitaph: "To live is to serve."   See also Find-A-Grave memorial   Image source: Tulsaweb.com

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