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Trigg County
Kentucky

Cemeteries and Memorial Sites of Politicians in Trigg County

Index to Locations Cadiz East End Cemetery Cadiz Old Cadiz Cemetery East End Cemetery Cadiz, Trigg County, Kentucky Politicians buried here:   Henry Cornelius Burnett (1825-1866) — also known as Henry C. Burnett — of Cadiz, Trigg County, Ky. Born in Essex County, Va., October 5, 1825. Democrat. Lawyer; U.S. Representative from Kentucky 1st District, 1855-61; delegate to Kentucky secession convention, 1861; expelled by the U.S. House in December 1861 for having taken up arms against the union; colonel in the Confederate Army during the Civil War; Delegate from Kentucky to the Confederate Provisional Congress, 1861-62; Senator from Kentucky in the Confederate Congress, 1862-65; indicted for treason after the Civil War, but never tried. Slaveowner. Died, from cholera, in Hopkinsville, Christian County, Ky., October 1, 1866 (age 40 years, 361 days). Original interment at Old Cadiz Cemetery; reinterment at East End Cemetery.   Relatives: Son of Martha (Garnett) Burnett and Dr. Isaac Burnett; married to Mary A. Terry.   See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — Wikipedia article   James Benjamin Garnett (1845-1921) — also known as James B. Garnett — of Cadiz, Trigg County, Ky. Born in Pembroke, Christian County, Ky., July 28, 1845. Democrat. Lawyer; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Kentucky, 1876 (member, Committee on Permanent Organization). Died in Trigg County, Ky., May 7, 1921 (age 75 years, 283 days). Interment at East End Cemetery.   Relatives: Son of Frances Ann (Pendleton) Garnett and Eldred Brockman Garnett; married 1877 to Virginia Hewell; married, November 13, 1900, to Mary Elizabeth Gunn; first cousin four times removed of Edmund Pendleton; second cousin thrice removed of John Penn, John Pendleton Jr. and Nathaniel Pendleton; third cousin of Hubbard T. Smith; third cousin twice removed of Philip Clayton Pendleton, Edmund Henry Pendleton and Nathanael Greene Pendleton; fourth cousin of George Cassety Pendleton, Charles M. Pendleton and Daniel Micajah Pendleton; fourth cousin once removed of Henry Gaines Johnson, John Strother Pendleton, Albert Gallatin Pendleton, Philip Coleman Pendleton, George Hunt Pendleton, Joseph Henry Pendleton and Charles Sumner Pendleton.   Political family: Four Thousand Related Politicians.. Old Cadiz Cemetery Cadiz, Trigg County, Kentucky Politicians formerly buried here:   Henry Cornelius Burnett (1825-1866) — also known as Henry C. Burnett — of Cadiz, Trigg County, Ky. Born in Essex County, Va., October 5, 1825. Democrat. Lawyer; U.S. Representative from Kentucky 1st District, 1855-61; delegate to Kentucky secession convention, 1861; expelled by the U.S. House in December 1861 for having taken up arms against the union; colonel in the Confederate Army during the Civil War; Delegate from Kentucky to the Confederate Provisional Congress, 1861-62; Senator from Kentucky in the Confederate Congress, 1862-65; indicted for treason after the Civil War, but never tried. Slaveowner. Died, from cholera, in Hopkinsville, Christian County, Ky., October 1, 1866 (age 40 years, 361 days). Original interment at Old Cadiz Cemetery; reinterment at East End Cemetery.   Relatives: Son of Martha (Garnett) Burnett and Dr. Isaac Burnett; married to Mary A. Terry.   See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — Wikipedia article

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