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Index to Locations
Private or family graveyards
Woodbine Floyd Family Cemetery
Private or family
graveyard
Camden County,
| Politicians formerly
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Henry Lee (1756-1818) —
also known as "Light Horse Harry" —
of Westmoreland
County, Va.
Born in Prince
William County, Va., January
29, 1756.
Served in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War; Delegate
to Continental Congress from Virginia, 1786-88; delegate
to Virginia convention to ratify U.S. constitution from
Westmoreland County, 1788; Governor of
Virginia, 1791-94; U.S.
Representative from Virginia at-large, 1799-1801.
Eulogized George
Washington as "First in war, first in peace, and first in the
hearts of his countrymen.".
Slaveowner.
Died in Cumberland Island, Camden
County, Ga., March
25, 1818 (age 62 years, 55
days).
Original interment at in a private or family graveyard; reinterment
in 1913 at University
Chapel, Lexington, Va.
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Relatives: Son
of Henry Lee (1730-1787) and Lucy (Grymes) Lee; brother of Charles
Lee, Richard
Bland Lee and Edmund
Jennings Lee; married 1782 to
Matilda Ludwell Lee; married, June 18,
1793, to Ann Hill Carter; father of Robert E. Lee; grandfather of
Fitzhugh
Lee and William
Henry Fitzhugh Lee; grandnephew of Richard
Bland; great-grandnephew of Richard
Randolph; third great-granduncle of Lee
Marvin; first cousin once removed of Richard
Henry Lee, Francis
Lightfoot Lee, Arthur
Lee and Theodorick
Bland (1742-1790); first cousin twice removed of Peyton
Randolph (1721-1775); second cousin of Thomas
Sim Lee, John
Randolph of Roanoke and Henry
St. George Tucker; second cousin once removed of Thomas
Jefferson, Edmund
Jenings Randolph, Beverley
Randolph, John
Lee and Nathaniel
Beverly Tucker; second cousin twice removed of Francis
Preston Blair Lee; second cousin thrice removed of John
Lee Carroll and Edward
Brooke Lee; second cousin four times removed of William
Welby Beverley, Blair
Lee III and Edward
Brooke Lee Jr.; second cousin five times removed of Outerbridge
Horsey; third cousin of John
Marshall, James
Markham Marshall, Thomas
Mann Randolph Jr., Alexander
Keith Marshall, Martha
Jefferson Randolph, Dabney
Carr, Theodorick
Bland (1776-1846), Peyton
Randolph (1779-1828) and Zachary
Taylor; third cousin once removed of Thomas
Marshall, James
Keith Marshall, Francis
Wayles Eppes, Dabney
Smith Carr, Benjamin
Franklin Randolph, Meriwether
Lewis Randolph, George
Wythe Randolph, Thomas
Leonidas Crittenden, Edmund
Randolph, Carter
Henry Harrison and John
Breckinridge Castleman; third cousin twice removed of Hancock
Lee Jackson, Thomas
Jefferson Coolidge, Edmund
Randolph Cocke, John
Augustine Marshall, Carter
Henry Harrison II and Frederick
Madison Roberts; third cousin thrice removed of Abraham
Lincoln, John
Gardner Coolidge, James
Sansome Lakin, Elliot
Woolfolk Major, Edgar
Bailey Woolfolk, Edith
Wilson, William
Marshall Bullitt, Alexander
Scott Bullitt and Francis
Beverley Biddle; fourth cousin of John
Wayles Eppes. |
| |  | Political families: Livingston-Schuyler
family of New York; Lee-Mason
family of Virginia; Lee
family of Silver Spring, Maryland (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| |  | Lee County,
Va. is named for him. |
| |  | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — National Governors
Association biography — Wikipedia
article |
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Floyd Family
Cemetery
Woodbine, Camden County, Georgia
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John Floyd (1769-1839) —
of Jefferson, Jackson
County, Ga.
Born in Beaufort, Beaufort
County, S.C., October
3, 1769.
Planter;
shipbuilder;
served in the U.S. Army during the War of 1812; member of Georgia
state house of representatives, 1820-27; U.S.
Representative from Georgia 7th District, 1827-29.
Slaveowner.
Died near Jefferson, Jackson
County, Ga., June 24,
1839 (age 69 years, 264
days).
Interment at Floyd Family Cemetery.
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