PoliticalGraveyard.com

West Feliciana Parish
Louisiana

Cemeteries and Memorial Sites of Politicians in West Feliciana Parish

Index to Locations Private or family graveyards St. Francisville Grace Church Cemetery St. Francisville Grace Episcopal Churchyard St. Francisville Locust Grove Cemetery St. Francisville Star Hill Cemetery Private or family graveyard West Feliciana Parish, Louisiana Politicians buried here:   Thomas Butler (1785-1847) — of Louisiana. Born near Carlisle, Cumberland County, Pa., April 14, 1785. Lawyer; planter; district judge in Louisiana, 1813; U.S. Representative from Louisiana at-large, 1818-21. Slaveowner. Died in St. Louis, Mo., August 7, 1847 (age 62 years, 115 days). Interment in a private or family graveyard.   See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page Grace Church Cemetery St. Francisville, West Feliciana Parish, Louisiana Politicians buried here:   Joseph Parkinson Newsham (1837-1919) — of Edwardsville, Madison County, Ill.; Donaldsonville, Ascension Parish, La.; St. Francisville, West Feliciana Parish, La. Born in Preston, Lancashire, England, May 24, 1837. Republican. Served in the Union Army during the Civil War; delegate to Louisiana state constitutional convention, 1867-68; U.S. Representative from Louisiana, 1868-69, 1870-71 (3rd District 1868-69, 4th District 1870-71). Died in St. Francisville, West Feliciana Parish, La., October 22, 1919 (age 82 years, 151 days). Interment at Grace Church Cemetery.   See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page Grace Episcopal Churchyard St. Francisville, West Feliciana Parish, Louisiana Politicians buried here:   John Bennett Dawson (1798-1845) — of New Orleans, Orleans Parish, La. Born near Nashville, Davidson County, Tenn., March 17, 1798. Planter; candidate for Governor of Louisiana, 1834; member of Louisiana state house of representatives, 1830; U.S. Representative from Louisiana, 1841-45 (2nd District 1841-43, 3rd District 1843-45); died in office 1845; postmaster at New Orleans, La., 1843. Slaveowner. Died in St. Francisville, West Feliciana Parish, La., June 26, 1845 (age 47 years, 101 days). Interment at Grace Episcopal Churchyard; cenotaph at Congressional Cemetery, Washington, D.C.   Relatives: Father of Anna Ruffin Dawson (who married Robert Charles Wickliffe).   Political family: Wickliffe-Holt family of Bardstown, Kentucky.   See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page Locust Grove Cemetery St. Francisville, West Feliciana Parish, Louisiana See also Findagrave page for this location. Politicians buried here:   Eleazar Wheelock Ripley (1782-1839) — also known as Eleazar W. Ripley — Born in Hanover, Grafton County, N.H., April 15, 1782. Democrat. Lawyer; member of Massachusetts state house of representatives, 1807-12; Speaker of the Massachusetts State House of Representatives, 1812; general in the U.S. Army during the War of 1812; member of Massachusetts state senate, 1820; member of Louisiana state senate, 1830; U.S. Representative from Louisiana 2nd District, 1835-39; died in office 1839. Slaveowner. Died in West Feliciana Parish, La., March 2, 1839 (age 56 years, 321 days). Interment at Locust Grove Cemetery.   Relatives: Son of Rev. Sylvanus Ripley and Abigail (Wheelock) Ripley; brother of Elizabeth Abigail Ripley (who married Judah Dana) and James Wheelock Ripley; married to Aurelia Smith; uncle of John Winchester Dana.   Political family: Dana-Ripley family of Fryeburg, Maine.   See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — Find-A-Grave memorial Star Hill Cemetery St. Francisville, West Feliciana Parish, Louisiana See also Findagrave page for this location. Politicians buried here:   John Richard Rarick (1924-2009) — also known as John R. Rarick — of Louisiana. Born in Waterford, Elkhart County, Ind., January 29, 1924. Served in the U.S. Army during World War II; lawyer; district judge in Louisiana 20th District, 1961-66; U.S. Representative from Louisiana 6th District, 1967-75; American Independent candidate for President of the United States, 1980. Member, Freemasons. Died in St. Francisville, West Feliciana Parish, La., September 14, 2009 (age 85 years, 228 days). Interment at Star Hill Cemetery.   See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — Find-A-Grave memorial — OurCampaigns candidate detail

"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/LA/WF-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.