PoliticalGraveyard.com

Lawrence County
Indiana

Cemeteries and Memorial Sites of Politicians in Lawrence County

Index to Locations Bedford Crest Haven Memorial Gardens Bedford Green Hill Cemetery Bedford Leatherwood Church Cemetery Bedford Sheeks Cemetery Crest Haven Memorial Gardens Bedford, Lawrence County, Indiana Politicians buried here:   William Ezra Jenner (1908-1985) — also known as William E. Jenner — of Bedford, Lawrence County, Ind. Born in Marengo, Crawford County, Ind., July 21, 1908. Republican. Lawyer; member of Indiana state senate, 1934-42; served in the U.S. Army Air Force in World War II; U.S. Senator from Indiana, 1944-45, 1947-59; Indiana Republican state chair, 1945; delegate to Republican National Convention from Indiana, 1948, 1952 (speaker), 1956, 1960; States Rights candidate for Vice President of the United States, 1956. Member, Phi Delta Phi; Delta Tau Delta; Freemasons; Elks. Died in Bedford, Lawrence County, Ind., March 9, 1985 (age 76 years, 231 days). Interment at Crest Haven Memorial Gardens.   Relatives: Son of L. Lenwood Jenner and Jane (MacDonald) Jenner; married, June 30, 1933, to Janet Cuthill.   See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — Wikipedia article Green Hill Cemetery Bedford, Lawrence County, Indiana Politicians buried here:   George Grundy Dunn (1812-1857) — of Indiana. Born in Washington County, Ky., December 20, 1812. Lawyer; U.S. Representative from Indiana, 1847-49, 1855-57 (6th District 1847-49, 3rd District 1855-57); member of Indiana state senate, 1850-52. Died in Bedford, Lawrence County, Ind., September 4, 1857 (age 44 years, 258 days). Interment at Green Hill Cemetery.   Relatives: Father of Moses Fell Dunn.   See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page   Eugene Burgess Crowe (1878-1970) — also known as Eugene B. Crowe — of Bedford, Lawrence County, Ind. Born near Jeffersonville, Clark County, Ind., January 5, 1878. Democrat. Farmer; furniture merchant; banker; real estate dealer; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Indiana, 1928 (alternate), 1944 (member, Committee on Permanent Organization), 1948, 1952, 1956, 1964, 1968; U.S. Representative from Indiana, 1931-41 (3rd District 1931-33, 9th District 1933-41); defeated, 1940. Methodist. Member, Knights of Pythias; Moose; Elks; Rotary. Died in Indianapolis, Marion County, Ind., May 12, 1970 (age 92 years, 127 days). Interment at Green Hill Cemetery.   See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page   Moses Fell Dunn (1842-1915) — of Indiana. Born in Bedford, Lawrence County, Ind., April 26, 1842. Republican. Lawyer; member of Indiana state house of representatives, 1867-69; candidate for U.S. Representative from Indiana 6th District, 1870. Died October 21, 1915 (age 73 years, 178 days). Interment at Green Hill Cemetery.   Relatives: Son of George Grundy Dunn.   Dunn Memorial Hospital (now St. Vincent Dunn Hospital), in Bedford, Indiana, is named for him. Leatherwood Church Cemetery Bedford, Lawrence County, Indiana Politicians buried here:   Abraham Jonathan Hostetler (1818-1899) — of Indiana. Born in Washington County, Ind., November 22, 1818. Democrat. Candidate for Indiana state house of representatives, 1850; member of Indiana state senate, 1855-57; U.S. Representative from Indiana 8th District, 1879-81; defeated, 1880; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Indiana, 1880. Disciples of Christ. Member, Freemasons. Died in Bedford, Lawrence County, Ind., November 24, 1899 (age 81 years, 2 days). Interment at Leatherwood Church Cemetery.   See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page Sheeks Cemetery Bedford, Lawrence County, Indiana Founded 1869 Politicians buried here:   Azel Dale Beeler (1893-1963) — also known as Azel D. Beeler — of Indianapolis, Marion County, Ind. Born in Anderson, Madison County, Ind., May 17, 1893. U.S. Vice Consul in Rome, 1916-17; Bordeaux, 1917-18; Paris, as of 1919; university professor. Died July 12, 1963 (age 70 years, 56 days). Interment at Sheeks Cemetery.   Relatives: Son of William H. Beeler and Alice Beeler; married to Mary Fern Fields.   See also Find-A-Grave memorial

"Enjoy the hospitable entertainment of a political graveyard." Henry L. Clinton, Apollo Hall, New York City, February 3, 1872

The Political Graveyard is a web site about U.S. political history and cemeteries. Founded in 1996, it is the Internet's most comprehensive free source for American political biography, listing 320,919 politicians, living and dead.
	The coverage of this site includes (1) the President, Vice President, members of Congress, elected state and territorial officeholders in all fifty states, the District of Columbia, and U.S. territories; and the chief elected official, typically the mayor, of qualifying municipalities; (2) candidates at election, including primaries, for any of the above; (3) all federal judges and all state appellate judges; (4) certain federal officials, including the federal cabinet, diplomatic chiefs of mission, consuls, U.S. district attorneys, collectors of customs and internal revenue, members of major federal commissions; and political appointee (pre-1969) postmasters of qualifying communities; (5) state and national political party officials, including delegates, alternate delegates, and other participants in national party nominating conventions; (6) Americans who served as "honorary" consuls for other nations before 1950. Note: municipalities or communities "qualify", for Political Graveyard purposes, if they have at least half a million person-years of history, inclusive of predecessor, successor, and merged entities.
	The listings are incomplete; development of the database is a continually ongoing project.
	Information on this page — and on all other pages of this site — is believed to be accurate, but is not guaranteed. Users are advised to check with other sources before relying on any information here.
	The official URL for this page is: https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IN/LW-buried.html.
	Links to this or any other Political Graveyard page are welcome, but specific page addresses may sometimes change as the site develops.
	If you are searching for a specific named individual, try the alphabetical index of politicians.
Copyright notices: (1) Facts are not subject to copyright; see Feist v. Rural Telephone. (2) Politician portraits displayed on this site are 70-pixel-wide monochrome thumbnail images, which I believe to constitute fair use under applicable copyright law. Where possible, each image is linked to its online source. However, requests from owners of copyrighted images to delete them from this site are honored. (3) Original material, programming, selection and arrangement are © 1996-2023 Lawrence Kestenbaum. (4) This work is also licensed for free non-commercial re-use, with attribution, under a Creative Commons License.
Site information: The Political Graveyard is created and maintained by Lawrence Kestenbaum, who is solely responsible for its structure and content. — The mailing address is The Political Graveyard, P.O. Box 2563, Ann Arbor MI 48106. — This site is hosted by HDL. — The Political Graveyard opened on July 1, 1996; the last full revision was done on March 8, 2023.