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Bay County
Florida

Cemeteries and Memorial Sites of Politicians in Bay County

Index to Locations

  • Private or family graveyards
  • Lynn Haven Lynn Haven Cemetery
  • Panama City Greenwood Cemetery

    Private or family graveyard
    Bay County, Florida
    Politicians formerly buried here:
      John Clark (1766-1832) — also known as "Keeper of the Live Oaks" — of Georgia. Born February 28, 1766. Governor of Georgia, 1819-23. Died of yellow fever, in St. Andrews, Washington County (now part of Panama City, Bay County), Fla., October 2, 1832 (age 66 years, 217 days). Original interment at in a private or family graveyard; reinterment in 1922 at Marietta National Cemetery, Marietta, Ga.
      Relatives: Uncle of Edward Clark.
      See also National Governors Association biography

    Lynn Haven Cemetery
    Lynn Haven, Bay County, Florida
    Politicians buried here:
      Milton Buckingham Cooley (1840-1932) — also known as Milton B. Cooley — of Waterloo, Athens County, Ohio; McArthur, Vinton County, Ohio; Athens, Athens County, Ohio; Lynn Haven, Bay County, Fla. Born in Athens, Athens County, Ohio, May 15, 1840. Served in the Union Army during the Civil War; farmer; Greenback Labor candidate for Presidential Elector for Ohio, 1884; People's candidate for Ohio state house of representatives from Hocking and Vinton counties, 1897. Died in Lynn Haven, Bay County, Fla., June 9, 1932 (age 92 years, 25 days). Interment at Lynn Haven Cemetery.
      Relatives: Son of George Washington Cooley and Lorena Luzany (Stanley) Cooley.
      See also Find-A-Grave memorial

    Greenwood Cemetery
    Panama City, Bay County, Florida
    See also Findagrave page for this location.
    Politicians buried here:
      Charles Doty (1824-1918) — of Fond du Lac, Fond du Lac County, Wis.; Godfrey, Madison County, Ill. Born in Green Bay, Brown County, Wis., August 17, 1824. Whig. Surveyor; member of Wisconsin state assembly, 1848; served in the Union Army during the Civil War. Died in Bay County, Fla., 1918 (age about 93 years). Interment at Greenwood Cemetery.
      Relatives: Son of Sarah (Collins) Doty and James Duane Doty; married, December 24, 1846, to Sarah Jane Webster; grandson of Chillus Doty; first cousin once removed of Morgan Lewis Martin; third cousin thrice removed of Joseph Otis and Samuel Allyne Otis.
      Political family: Doty-Martin family of Salem and Martinsburg, New York (subset of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
      See also Wikipedia article — Find-A-Grave memorial

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