Index to Locations
Eddyville River View Cemetery
Kuttawa Kuttawa Cemetery
Kuttawa New Bethel Cemetery
River View
Cemetery
Eddyville, Lyon County, Kentucky
Politicians buried
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Willis Benson Machen (1810-1893) —
also known as Willis B. Machen —
of Eddyville, Lyon
County, Ky.
Born in Caldwell County (part now in Lyon
County), Ky., April
10, 1810.
Democrat. Delegate
to Kentucky state constitutional convention, 1849; member of Kentucky
state senate, 1854; member of Kentucky
state house of representatives, 1856, 1860; delegate
to Kentucky secession convention, 1861; Representative
from Kentucky in the Confederate Congress 1st District, 1862-65;
U.S.
Senator from Kentucky, 1872-73; received one electoral vote for
Vice-President, 1872;
delegate to Democratic National Convention from Kentucky, 1876.
Slaveowner.
Died in Hopkinsville, Christian
County, Ky., September
29, 1893 (age 83 years, 172
days).
Interment at River View Cemetery.
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Matthew Lyon (1749-1822) —
of Eddyville, Lyon
County, Ky.
Born in County Wicklow, Ireland,
July
14, 1749.
Served in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War; member
of Vermont
state house of representatives, 1779-83; U.S.
Representative from Vermont 1st District, 1797-1801; member of Kentucky
state house of representatives, 1802; U.S.
Representative from Kentucky 1st District, 1803-11; defeated,
1810.
Convicted
and jailed in 1789 under the Sedition
Act.
Slaveowner.
Died in Spadra Bluff, Johnson
County, Ark., August
1, 1822 (age 73 years, 18
days).
Original interment at Spadra
Bluff Cemetery, Spadra Bluff, Ark.; reinterment in 1833 at River
View Cemetery.
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Chittenden Lyon (1787-1842) —
of Eddyville, Lyon
County, Ky.
Born in Fair Haven, Rutland
County, Vt., February
22, 1787.
Democrat. Member of Kentucky
state house of representatives, 1822; member of Kentucky
state senate, 1827; U.S.
Representative from Kentucky, 1827-35 (12th District 1827-33, 1st
District 1833-35).
Slaveowner.
Died in Eddyville, Lyon
County, Ky., November
23, 1842 (age 55 years, 274
days).
Interment at River View Cemetery.
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Relatives: Son
of Matthew
Lyon and Beulah (Chittenden) Lyon; married 1817 to Nancy
Vaughn; married to Fances Baker; father of Margaret Aurelia Lyon (who
married Willis
Benson Machen); nephew of Martin
Chittenden; grandson of Thomas
Chittenden; fourth great-grandnephew of John
Winthrop (1606-1676); fifth great-grandson of John
Winthrop (1588-1649); first cousin twice removed of Return
Jonathan Meigs, Sr. and Josiah
Meigs; first cousin five times removed of Fitz-John
Winthrop; second cousin once removed of Return
Jonathan Meigs Jr. and Henry
Meigs; third cousin of Josiah
C. Chittenden, Return
Jonathan Meigs III, Abel
Madison Scranton, Henry
Meigs Jr. and John
Forsyth Jr.; third cousin once removed of Roger
Calvin Leete; fourth cousin of Jeduthun
Wilcox, John
Willard, Clark
S. Chittenden and Russell
Sage; fourth cousin once removed of Chauncey
Goodrich, Oliver
Wolcott Jr., Elizur
Goodrich, Frederick
Wolcott, Elijah
Hunt Mills, Leonard
Wilcox and Edgar
Jared Doolittle. |
|  | Political families: Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin
family of Connecticut and New York; Livingston-Schuyler
family of New York (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
|  | Lyon County,
Ky. is named for him. |
|  | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
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Kuttawa
Cemetery
Kuttawa, Lyon County, Kentucky
Politicians buried
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Charles Anderson (1814-1895) —
of Montgomery
County, Ohio.
Born in Louisville, Jefferson
County, Ky., June 1,
1814.
Republican. Lawyer;
member of Ohio
state senate, 1844; colonel in the Union Army during the Civil
War; Lieutenant
Governor of Ohio, 1864-65; Governor of
Ohio, 1865-66.
Died in Kuttawa, Lyon
County, Ky., September
2, 1895 (age 81 years, 93
days).
Interment at Kuttawa Cemetery.
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New Bethel
Cemetery
Kuttawa, Lyon County, Kentucky
Politicians buried
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William Johnson Stone (1841-1923) —
also known as William J. Stone —
of Kuttawa, Lyon
County, Ky.
Born in Kuttawa, Lyon
County, Ky., June 26,
1841.
Democrat. Member of Kentucky
state house of representatives, 1867; U.S.
Representative from Kentucky 1st District, 1885-95.
Died March
12, 1923 (age 81 years, 259
days).
Interment at New Bethel Cemetery.
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