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Posey County
Indiana

Cemeteries and Memorial Sites of Politicians in Posey County

Index to Locations Private or family graveyards Black Township Templeton Cemetery Harmony Township Stillwell Cemetery Lynn Township Old Beech Cemetery Mt. Vernon Bellefontaine Cemetery Mt. Vernon Hedges Central Elementary School Playground New Harmony Maple Hill Cemetery New Harmony New Harmony Cemetery Poseyville Poseyville Graveyard Private or family graveyard Posey County, Indiana Politicians buried here:   Daniel Lynn (1782-1833) — also known as Dann Lynn — of Indiana. Born in Christian County, Ky., January 24, 1782. Delegate to Indiana state constitutional convention, 1816; member of Indiana state house of representatives, 1816-18, 1819-20. Died, of cholera, in West Franklin, Posey County, Ind., 1833 (age about 51 years). Interment in a private or family graveyard. Templeton Cemetery Black Township, Posey County, Indiana Politicians buried here:   George S. Green (1809-1857) — of Mt. Vernon, Posey County, Ind. Born in Washington, Mason County, Ky., March 4, 1809. Lawyer; probate judge in Indiana, 1831-34; member of Indiana state house of representatives, 1834-35. Died in Mt. Vernon, Posey County, Ind., September 11, 1857 (age 48 years, 191 days). Interment at Templeton Cemetery. Stillwell Cemetery Harmony Township, Posey County, Indiana Politicians buried here:   Magnus Tate Carnahan (1803-1874) — also known as Magnus T. Carnahan — of Indiana. Born in Christian County, Ky., August 4, 1803. Member of Indiana state house of representatives, 1846-47, 1849-50, 1855-57, 1869; defeated, 1847; member of Indiana state senate, 1859-61, 1871-73. Presbyterian. Died in New Harmony, Posey County, Ind., January 23, 1874 (age 70 years, 172 days). Interment at Stillwell Cemetery. Old Beech Cemetery Lynn Township, Posey County, Indiana Politicians buried here:   James W. French (1852-1915) — of Indiana. Born in Posey County, Ind., September 17, 1852. Member of Indiana state house of representatives, 1885; member of Indiana state senate, 1887. Died in Archer City, Archer County, Tex., March 13, 1915 (age 62 years, 177 days). Interment at Old Beech Cemetery. Bellefontaine Cemetery Mt. Vernon, Posey County, Indiana Politicians buried here:   Alvin Peterson Hovey (1821-1891) — also known as Alvin P. Hovey — of Mt. Vernon, Posey County, Ind. Born near Mt. Vernon, Posey County, Ind., September 26, 1821. Republican. Delegate to Indiana state constitutional convention, 1850; circuit judge in Indiana, 1851-54; justice of Indiana state supreme court, 1854; U.S. Attorney for Indiana, 1856-58; general in the Union Army during the Civil War; U.S. Minister to Peru, 1865-70; U.S. Representative from Indiana 1st District, 1887-89; resigned 1889; Governor of Indiana, 1889-91. Died November 23, 1891 (age 70 years, 58 days). Interment at Bellefontaine Cemetery.   Relatives: Father-in-law of Gustavus Vasa Menzies.   See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — National Governors Association biography — U.S. State Dept career summary   William Paley Edson (1834-1902) — also known as William P. Edson — of Indiana. Born in Mt. Vernon, Posey County, Ind., May 14, 1834. Member of Indiana state house of representatives, 1857; common pleas court judge in Indiana, 1871-72; candidate for justice of Indiana state supreme court, 1876, 1882. Episcopalian. Died in Mt. Vernon, Posey County, Ind., April 30, 1902 (age 67 years, 351 days). Interment at Bellefontaine Cemetery.   Relatives: Brother of Joseph Phelps Edson.   Gustavus Vasa Menzies (1844-1917) — also known as Gustavus V. Menzies — of Mt. Vernon, Posey County, Ind. Born in Boone County, Ky., December 24, 1844. Democrat. Served in the Union Army during the Civil War; candidate for Presidential Elector for Indiana; member of Indiana state senate, 1879-81; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Indiana, 1884, 1896, 1900, 1904 (member, Credentials Committee; speaker), 1912 (member, Committee on Permanent Organization; speaker); candidate for U.S. Representative from Indiana 1st District, 1905, 1906. Died in Mt. Vernon, Posey County, Ind., December 15, 1917 (age 72 years, 356 days). Interment at Bellefontaine Cemetery.   Relatives: Son-in-law of Alvin Peterson Hovey.   Urbin Marrs (1802-1875) — of Indiana. Born in Logan County, Ky., March 10, 1802. Circuit judge in Indiana, 1845-51; member of Indiana state house of representatives, 1851-52; served in the Union Army during the Civil War. Member, Freemasons. Died in Posey County, Ind., August 28, 1875 (age 73 years, 171 days). Interment at Bellefontaine Cemetery.   William Carroll Pitts (1814-1884) — also known as William C. Pitts — of Posey County, Ind. Born in Robertson County, Tenn., May 11, 1814. Democrat. Farmer; member of Indiana state house of representatives, 1861. Died in Lynn Township, Posey County, Ind., September 20, 1884 (age 70 years, 132 days). Interment at Bellefontaine Cemetery.   George W. Thomas (1813-1892) — of Mt. Vernon, Posey County, Ind. Born in Tennessee, March 22, 1813. Member of Indiana state house of representatives, 1849-50. Member, Freemasons. Died in Mt. Vernon, Posey County, Ind., April 26, 1892 (age 79 years, 35 days). Interment at Bellefontaine Cemetery. Hedges Central Elementary School Playground Mt. Vernon, Posey County, Indiana Politicians buried here:   John Pitcher (1795-1892) — of Spencer County, Ind.; Posey County, Ind. Born in Watertown, Litchfield County, Conn., August 22, 1795. Lawyer; Spencer County Sheriff, 1826-30; member of Indiana state house of representatives, 1830-31; candidate for U.S. Representative from Indiana, 1837; member of Indiana state senate, 1841-44; candidate for Presidential Elector for Indiana; candidate for delegate to Indiana state constitutional convention, 1850. Episcopalian. English ancestry. Member, Freemasons. Reputed to have loaned law books to the young Abraham Lincoln. Died in Mt. Vernon, Posey County, Ind., August 2, 1892 (age 96 years, 346 days). Interment at Hedges Central Elementary School Playground. Maple Hill Cemetery New Harmony, Posey County, Indiana Politicians buried here:   Robert Dale Owen (1801-1877) — also known as Robert D. Owen — of New Harmony, Posey County, Ind. Born in Glasgow, Scotland, November 9, 1801. Democrat. Farmer; author; newspaper editor; member of Indiana state house of representatives, 1836-39, 1851-52; U.S. Representative from Indiana 1st District, 1843-47; defeated, 1839, 1847; candidate for Presidential Elector for Indiana; delegate to Indiana state constitutional convention, 1850-51; U.S. Charge d'Affaires to Two Sicilies, 1853-54; U.S. Minister to Two Sicilies, 1854-58. Scottish and Welsh ancestry. Aided his father in the establishment of the New Harmony social experiment. Died in Lake George, Warren County, N.Y., June 24, 1877 (age 75 years, 227 days). Original interment at Village Cemetery, Lake George, N.Y.; reinterment at Maple Hill Cemetery.   Cross-reference: Morris Birkbeck   See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — U.S. State Dept career summary — NNDB dossier New Harmony Cemetery New Harmony, Posey County, Indiana Politicians buried here:   Morris Birkbeck (1764-1825) — also known as Jonathan Freeman — of Edwards County, Ill. Born in Settle, Yorkshire, England, January 23, 1764. Secretary of state of Illinois, 1824-25. Anti-slavery writer under the pseudonym "Jonathan Freeman". While returning on horseback from a visit to Robert Owen, he drowned while fording the Fox River, Edwards County, Ill., June 4, 1825 (age 61 years, 132 days). Interment at New Harmony Cemetery; memorial monument at Courthouse Grounds, Albion, Ill.   Relatives: Son of Morris Birkbeck ; married, April 24, 1794, to Prudence Bush.   See also Wikipedia article Poseyville Graveyard Poseyville, Posey County, Indiana Politicians buried here:   Thomas C. Jaquess (1821-1904) — of Indiana. Born in Posey County, Ind., December 10, 1821. Member of Indiana state senate, 1867-69. Presbyterian. Died in Poseyville, Posey County, Ind., October 15, 1904 (age 82 years, 310 days). Interment at Poseyville Graveyard.

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