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Lowndes County
Georgia

Cemeteries and Memorial Sites of Politicians in Lowndes County

Index to Locations Valdosta Lakeview Cemetery Valdosta Sunset Hill Cemetery Lakeview Cemetery Valdosta, Lowndes County, Georgia Politicians buried here:   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.   Relatives: Son of Henry J. Thompson and Eva Inez (Edenfield) Thompson; married 1926 to Ann Newton.   See also National Governors Association biography — NNDB dossier Sunset Hill Cemetery Valdosta, Lowndes County, Georgia See also Findagrave page for this location. Politicians buried here:   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.   See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — Wikipedia article — Find-A-Grave memorial   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.   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, John Overton Pendleton and Bickerton Lyle Winston; fourth cousin of Coleby Chew; fourth cousin once removed of William Byrd III, George Cassety Pendleton, James Benjamin Garnett, Hubbard T. Smith, Charles M. Pendleton and Daniel Micajah Pendleton.   Political families: Pendleton #1 family of Maryland; Pendleton #3 family of Virginia (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).   See also Find-A-Grave memorial

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