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Gallatin County
Illinois

Cemeteries and Memorial Sites of Politicians in Gallatin County

Index to Locations Equality Unknown location Equality Elmwood Cemetery Shawneetown Westwood Cemetery Unknown Location Equality, Gallatin County, Illinois Politicians buried here:   Willis Hargrave — of White County, Ill. Delegate to Illinois state constitutional convention from White County, 1818. Died in Equality, Gallatin County, Ill. Interment somewhere. Elmwood Cemetery Equality, Gallatin County, Illinois Politicians buried here:   Earl Brannon (1895-1969) — of Equality, Gallatin County, Ill. Born December 8, 1895. Republican. Delegate to Republican National Convention from Illinois, 1932. Died in Harrisburg, Saline County, Ill., July 5, 1969 (age 73 years, 209 days). Interment at Elmwood Cemetery. Westwood Cemetery Shawneetown, Gallatin County, Illinois Politicians buried here:   Thomas Lloyd Posey (1750-1818) — also known as Thomas Posey — Born in Fairfax County, Va., July 9, 1750. Major in Continental Army during the Revolutionary War; member of Kentucky state senate, 1805-06; Lieutenant Governor of Kentucky, 1806-08; U.S. Senator from Louisiana, 1812-13; Governor of Indiana Territory, 1813-16; candidate for Governor of Indiana, 1816. Presbyterian. Member, Freemasons. Slaveowner. Died of typhus fever in Shawneetown, Gallatin County, Ill., March 19, 1818 (age 67 years, 253 days). Interment at Westwood Cemetery.   Relatives: Married to Martha Matthews and Mary Alexander Thornton; second great-grandfather of James Rumsey Beverley.   Posey County, Ind. is named for him.   See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — Wikipedia article — Find-A-Grave memorial   John McLean (1791-1830) — of Shawneetown, Gallatin County, Ill. Born in Guilford County, N.C., February 4, 1791. Democrat. Lawyer; U.S. Representative from Illinois at-large, 1818-19; member of Illinois state house of representatives, 1821-23, 1827-29; U.S. Senator from Illinois, 1824-25, 1829-30; died in office 1830. Died in Shawneetown, Gallatin County, Ill., October 14, 1830 (age 39 years, 252 days). Interment at Westwood Cemetery.   Relatives: Son of Ephraim McLean and Elizabeth Walton (Byers) McLean; brother of Finis Ewing McLean; uncle of James David Walker.   Political families: Walker-Meriwether-Kellogg family of Virginia; Walker-Helm-Lincoln-Brown family of Kentucky; Washington-Walker family of Virginia; Dorsey-Poffenbarger family of Maryland; Pendleton-Lee family of Maryland; Jackson-Lee family; Edwards-Cook family; Call family of Tallahassee, Florida (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).   McLean County, Ill. is named for him.   See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — Wikipedia article

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