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Index to Locations
Private or family graveyards
Chapel Point St. Ignatius' Catholic
Church Cemetery
Ironsides Christ Church
La Plata Mt. Rest Cemetery
Mt. Victoria Unknown location
Newport St. Mary's Church Cemetery
Habre de Venture, Port Tobacco Thomas
Stone National Historic Site
Rison Smallwood State Park
Private or family
graveyards
Charles County, Maryland
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Daniel of St. Thomas Jenifer (1723-1790) —
of Maryland.
Born in Charles
County, Md., 1723.
Member of Maryland
state senate, 1777-81; Delegate
to Continental Congress from Maryland, 1778-82; candidate for Governor of
Maryland, 1782, 1785; member,
U.S. Constitutional Convention, 1787.
Episcopalian.
Member, Freemasons.
Died in Annapolis, Anne
Arundel County, Md., November
16, 1790 (age about 67
years).
Interment in a private or family graveyard.
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Daniel Jenifer (1791-1855) —
of Allens Fresh, Charles
County, Md.
Born in Charles
County, Md., April
15, 1791.
Member of Maryland
state house of delegates, 1817-19, 1829-30; U.S.
Representative from Maryland, 1831-33, 1835-41 (1st District
1831-33, 7th District 1835-41); U.S. Minister to Austria, 1841-45; delegate
to Maryland state constitutional convention, 1850.
Slaveowner.
Died near Port Tobacco, Charles
County, Md., December
18, 1855 (age 64 years, 247
days).
Interment in a private or family graveyard.
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Benjamin Contee (1755-1815) —
of Maryland.
Born in Prince
George's County, Md., 1755.
Delegate
to Continental Congress from Maryland, 1788; U.S.
Representative from Maryland at-large, 1789-91; state court judge
in Maryland, 1815.
Episcopalian.
Slaveowner.
Died near Port Tobacco, Charles
County, Md., November
30, 1815 (age about 60
years).
Interment in a private or family graveyard.
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Paul Henry Nitze (1907-2004) —
also known as Paul H. Nitze —
of Washington,
D.C.
Born in Amherst, Hampshire
County, Mass., January
16, 1907.
U.S. Ambassador to , 1986-89.
Received the Presidential
Medal of Freedom in 1985.
Died, of pneumonia,
in Washington,
D.C., October
19, 2004 (age 97 years, 277
days).
Interment in a private or family graveyard.
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John Campbell (1765-1828) —
of Port Tobacco, Charles
County, Md.
Born near Port Tobacco, Charles
County, Md., September
11, 1765.
Member of Maryland
state house of delegates, 1792; member of Maryland
state senate, 1792-1800; U.S.
Representative from Maryland, 1801-11 (at-large 1801-07, 1st
District 1807-11); Charles
County Orphan's Court Judge.
Slaveowner.
Died in Charles
County, Md., June 23,
1828 (age 62 years, 286
days).
Interment in a private or family graveyard.
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Michael Jenifer Stone (c.1747-1812) —
of Maryland.
Born near Port Tobacco, Charles
County, Md., about 1747.
Member of Maryland
state house of delegates, 1781-83; U.S.
Representative from Maryland at-large, 1789-91; district judge in
Maryland, 1791-1802.
Episcopalian.
Slaveowner.
Died in Charles
County, Md., 1812
(age about
65 years).
Interment in a private or family graveyard.
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John Truman Stoddert (1790-1870) —
of Maryland.
Born in Charles
County, Md., October
1, 1790.
Member of Maryland
state house of delegates, 1815-16, 1820; U.S.
Representative from Maryland 8th District, 1833-35; delegate
to Maryland state constitutional convention, 1867.
Slaveowner.
Died in Charles
County, Md., July 19,
1870 (age 79 years, 291
days).
Interment in a private or family graveyard.
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St. Ignatius'
Catholic Church Cemetery
Chapel Point, Charles County, Maryland
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Sydney Emanuel Mudd (1858-1911) —
also known as Sydney E. Mudd —
of Bryantown, Charles
County, Md.; La Plata, Charles
County, Md.
Born near La Plata, Charles
County, Md., February
12, 1858.
Republican. Member of Maryland
state house of delegates, 1880-82, 1896; Speaker of
the Maryland State House of Delegates, 1896; candidate for
Presidential Elector for Maryland; U.S.
Representative from Maryland 5th District, 1890-91, 1897-1911;
delegate to Republican National Convention from Maryland, 1896
(speaker),
1900,
1908.
Catholic.
Died in Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa., October
21, 1911 (age 53 years, 251
days).
Interment at St. Ignatius' Catholic Church Cemetery.
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Sydney Emanuel Mudd II (1885-1924) —
also known as Sydney E. Mudd —
of La Plata, Charles
County, Md.
Born near La Plata, Charles
County, Md., June 20,
1885.
Republican. Candidate for Maryland
state house of delegates, 1909; Maryland
Republican state chair, 1910; U.S.
Representative from Maryland 5th District, 1915-24; died in
office 1924.
Catholic.
Died in Baltimore,
Md., October
11, 1924 (age 39 years, 113
days).
Interment at St. Ignatius' Catholic Church Cemetery.
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Christ
Church
Ironsides, Charles County, Maryland
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Walter B. Huber (1903-1982) —
of Akron, Summit
County, Ohio; Nanjemoy, Charles
County, Md.
Born in Akron, Summit
County, Ohio, June 29,
1903.
Democrat. U.S.
Representative from Ohio 14th District, 1945-51; defeated, 1950.
Died in Lexington Park, St. Mary's
County, Md., August
8, 1982 (age 79 years, 40
days).
Interment at Christ Church.
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Mt. Rest
Cemetery
La Plata, Charles County, Maryland
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Frederick Stone (1820-1899) —
of Maryland.
Born in Charles
County, Md., February
7, 1820.
Democrat. Member of Maryland
state house of delegates, 1865-66, 1872; U.S.
Representative from Maryland 5th District, 1867-71; Judge,
Maryland Court of Appeals, 1881-90.
Episcopalian.
Slaveowner.
Died near La Plata, Charles
County, Md., October
17, 1899 (age 79 years, 252
days).
Interment at Mt. Rest Cemetery.
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John Grant Chapman (1798-1856) —
also known as John G. Chapman —
of Port Tobacco, Charles
County, Md.
Born in La Plata, Charles
County, Md., July 5,
1798.
Member of Maryland
state house of delegates, 1824-28, 1830, 1843-44; member of Maryland
state senate, 1831-36; U.S.
Representative from Maryland 1st District, 1845-49; delegate
to Maryland state constitutional convention, 1850.
Slaveowner.
Died in Charles
County, Md., December
10, 1856 (age 58 years, 158
days).
Original interment in private or family graveyard; reinterment at Mt.
Rest Cemetery.
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Andrew Grant Chapman (1839-1892) —
also known as Andrew G. Chapman —
of Port Tobacco, Charles
County, Md.; La Plata, Charles
County, Md.
Born in La Plata, Charles
County, Md., January
17, 1839.
Democrat. Member of Maryland
state house of delegates, 1868-72, 1880, 1886; delegate to
Democratic National Convention from Maryland, 1876
(member, Credentials
Committee); U.S.
Representative from Maryland 5th District, 1881-83.
Died near La Plata, Charles
County, Md., September
25, 1892 (age 53 years, 252
days).
Interment at Mt. Rest Cemetery.
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Unknown
Location
Mt. Victoria, Charles County, Maryland
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Robert Crain —
of Mt. Victoria, Charles
County, Md.
Democrat. Delegate to Democratic National Convention from Maryland,
1924.
Interment somewhere.
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St. Mary's Church
Cemetery
Newport, Charles County, Maryland
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William Duhurst Merrick (1793-1857) —
also known as William D. Merrick —
of Allens Fresh, Charles
County, Md.
Born in Annapolis, Anne
Arundel County, Md., October
25, 1793.
Served in the U.S. Army during the War of 1812; member of Maryland
state house of delegates, 1832-37, 1856-57; died in office 1857;
U.S.
Senator from Maryland, 1838-45; delegate
to Maryland state constitutional convention, 1850.
Slaveowner.
Died in Washington,
D.C., February
5, 1857 (age 63 years, 103
days).
Original interment at Mt.
Olivet Cemetery, Washington, D.C.; reinterment at St. Mary's
Church Cemetery.
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Thomas Stone
National Historic Site
Habre de Venture, Port Tobacco, Charles County, Maryland
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Thomas Stone (1743-1787) —
of Maryland.
Born in Charles
County, Md., 1743.
Delegate
to Continental Congress from Maryland, 1775-76, 1777-78, 1783-84;
signer,
Declaration of Independence, 1776; member of Maryland
state senate, 1777-80, 1781-87; died in office 1787; member of Maryland
state house of delegates, 1780.
Episcopalian.
Died in Alexandria,
Va., October
5, 1787 (age about 44
years).
Interment at Thomas Stone National Historic Site; memorial monument
at Constitution Gardens, Washington, D.C.
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Smallwood State
Park
Rison, Charles County, Maryland
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