Index to Locations
Valdosta Lakeview Cemetery
Valdosta Sunset Hill Cemetery
Lakeview
Cemetery
Valdosta, Lowndes County, Georgia
Politicians buried
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Melvin Ernest Thompson (1903-1980) —
also known as Melvin E. Thompson —
of Valdosta, Lowndes
County, Ga.
Born in Millen, Jenkins
County, Ga., May 1,
1903.
Democrat. Athletic
coach; school
principal; superintendent
of schools; Lieutenant
Governor of Georgia, 1946-47; Governor of
Georgia, 1947-48.
Baptist.
Member, Elks; Woodmen of
the World; Civitan;
Freemasons;
Shriners;
Kappa
Phi Kappa.
Died October
3, 1980 (age 77 years, 155
days).
Entombed in mausoleum at Lakeview Cemetery.
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Sunset Hill
Cemetery
Valdosta, Lowndes County, Georgia
See also Findagrave
page for this location.
Politicians buried
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William Stanley West (1849-1914) —
of Georgia.
Born in Buena Vista, Marion
County, Ga., August
23, 1849.
Democrat. Lawyer;
member of Georgia
state house of representatives, 1892-1901; delegate to Democratic
National Convention from Georgia, 1908;
U.S.
Senator from Georgia, 1914.
Died in Valdosta, Lowndes
County, Ga., December
22, 1914 (age 65 years, 121
days).
Interment at Sunset Hill Cemetery.
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Philip Coleman Pendleton (1812-1869) —
also known as P. C. Pendleton —
Born in Eatonton, Putnam
County, Ga., November
17, 1812.
Democrat. Served in the Confederate Army during the Civil War;
delegate to Democratic National Convention from Georgia, 1868.
Died in Valdosta, Lowndes
County, Ga., June 19,
1869 (age 56 years, 214
days).
Interment at Sunset Hill Cemetery.
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Relatives: Son
of Coleman Pendleton and Martha (Gilbert) Pendleton; married, November
23, 1841, to Catherine Sarah Melissa Tebeau; father of Charles
Rittenhouse Pendleton; great-grandnephew of Edmund
Pendleton; first cousin twice removed of John
Pendleton Jr. and Nathaniel
Pendleton; second cousin of John
Strother Pendleton and Albert
Gallatin Pendleton; second cousin once removed of Philip
Clayton Pendleton, Edmund
Henry Pendleton and Nathanael
Greene Pendleton; second cousin twice removed of John
Penn and Sidney
Fletcher Taliaferro; third cousin of Henry
Gaines Johnson, George
Hunt Pendleton and Joseph
Henry Pendleton; third cousin once removed of James
Madison, William
Taylor Madison, Zachary
Taylor, William
Barret Pendleton, Francis
Key Pendleton and John
Overton Pendleton; fourth cousin of Coleby
Chew; fourth cousin once removed of George
Cassety Pendleton, James
Benjamin Garnett, Hubbard
T. Smith, Charles
M. Pendleton and Daniel
Micajah Pendleton. |
| ![](hand.gif) | Political family: Pendleton-Lee
family of Maryland (subset of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
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memorial |
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