Index to Locations
Private or family graveyards
Harrodsburg Spring Hill Cemetery
Near McAfee New Providence
Presbyterian Church Cemetery
Private or family
graveyards
Mercer County, Kentucky
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Gabriel Slaughter (1767-1830) —
of Kentucky.
Born in Culpeper
County, Va., December
12, 1767.
Justice of the peace; member of Kentucky
state house of representatives, 1797; member of Kentucky
state senate, 1801; Lieutenant
Governor of Kentucky, 1808-12, 1816; served in the U.S. Army
during the War of 1812; Governor of
Kentucky, 1816-20.
Baptist.
Died in Mercer
County, Ky., September
19, 1830 (age 62 years, 281
days).
Interment in a private or family graveyard.
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Politicians formerly
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Charles McClung (1761-1835) —
of Knoxville, Knox
County, Tenn.
Born in Lancaster
County, Pa., May 13,
1761.
Surveyor;
merchant;
lawyer;
delegate
to Tennessee state constitutional convention, 1796.
Died in Harrodsburg, Mercer
County, Ky., August
9, 1835 (age 74 years, 88
days).
Original interment at in a private or family graveyard; reinterment
in 1904 at Old
Gray Cemetery, Knoxville, Tenn.
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Spring Hill
Cemetery
Harrodsburg, Mercer County, Kentucky
Politicians buried
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John Burton Thompson (1810-1874) —
also known as John B. Thompson —
of Harrodsburg, Mercer
County, Ky.
Born near Harrodsburg, Mercer
County, Ky., December
14, 1810.
Member of Kentucky
state senate, 1829-33; member of Kentucky
state house of representatives, 1835-37; U.S.
Representative from Kentucky 5th District, 1840-43, 1847-51; Lieutenant
Governor of Kentucky, 1852-53; U.S.
Senator from Kentucky, 1853-59.
Slaveowner.
Died in Harrodsburg, Mercer
County, Ky., January
7, 1874 (age 63 years, 24
days).
Interment at Spring Hill Cemetery.
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Beriah Magoffin (1815-1885) —
of Harrodsburg, Mercer
County, Ky.
Born in Harrodsburg, Mercer
County, Ky., April
18, 1815.
Democrat. State court judge in Kentucky, 1840; member of Kentucky
state senate, 1850; delegate to Democratic National Convention
from Kentucky, 1856;
Governor
of Kentucky, 1859-62; member of Kentucky
state house of representatives, 1867.
Scotch-Irish
ancestry.
Died in Harrodsburg, Mercer
County, Ky., February
28, 1885 (age 69 years, 316
days).
Interment at Spring Hill Cemetery.
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Philip Burton Thompson Jr. (1845-1909) —
also known as Philip B. Thompson, Jr. —
of Harrodsburg, Mercer
County, Ky.
Born in Kentucky, 1845.
Democrat. U.S.
Representative from Kentucky 8th District, 1879-85.
Died in 1909
(age about
64 years).
Interment at Spring Hill Cemetery.
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Beriah Magoffin Jr. (1843-1932) —
of St. Paul, Ramsey
County, Minn.; McAlester, Pittsburg
County, Okla.
Born in Harrodsburg, Mercer
County, Ky., March
13, 1843.
Democrat. Served in the Confederate Army during the Civil War; farmer;
member of Minnesota
state house of representatives District 24, 1877.
Presbyterian.
Died in McAlester, Pittsburg
County, Okla., August
29, 1932 (age 89 years, 169
days).
Interment at Spring Hill Cemetery.
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New Providence
Presbyterian Church Cemetery
Near McAfee, Mercer County, Kentucky
Politicians buried
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Robert Breckinridge McAfee (1784-1849) —
also known as Robert B. McAfee —
of Kentucky.
Born in Mercer
County, Ky., February
18, 1784.
General in the U.S. Army during the War of 1812; Lieutenant
Governor of Kentucky, 1824-28; U.S. Charge d'Affaires to New Grenada, 1833-37.
Died in Mercer
County, Ky., March
12, 1849 (age 65 years, 22
days).
Interment at New Providence Presbyterian Church Cemetery.
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John J. McAfee (1836-1896) —
of Kentucky.
Born in Mercer
County, Ky., 1836.
Served in the Confederate Army during the Civil War; member of Kentucky
state house of representatives, 1871-73.
Died, of heart
trouble, Louisville, Jefferson
County, Ky., April 4,
1896 (age about 59
years).
Interment at New Providence Presbyterian Church Cemetery.
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