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Index to Locations
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Centreville Chesterfield Cemetery
Queenstown Clover Fields Farm
Cemetery
Queenstown Wye Plantation
Stevensville Broad Creek Cemetery
Sudlersville Sudlersville Cemetery
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Queen Anne's County, Maryland
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William Grason (1788-1868) —
of Maryland.
Born in Queen
Anne's County, Md., March
11, 1788.
Member of Maryland
state house of delegates, 1828-29, 1837; Governor of
Maryland, 1839-42; delegate
to Maryland state constitutional convention, 1850; member of Maryland
state senate, 1852-53.
Episcopalian.
Died in Queen
Anne's County, Md., July 2,
1868 (age 80 years, 113
days).
Interment somewhere.
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Private or family
graveyards
Queen Anne's County, Maryland
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Robert Wright (1752-1826) —
of Maryland.
Born near Centreville, Queen
Anne's County, Md., November
20, 1752.
Democrat. Member of Maryland
state house of delegates, 1777-78, 1780, 1784, 1786-87, 1791-92;
member of Maryland
state senate, 1801; U.S.
Senator from Maryland, 1801-06; Governor of
Maryland, 1806-09; U.S.
Representative from Maryland 7th District, 1810-17, 1821-23;
district judge in Maryland, 1823-26.
Episcopalian.
Slaveowner.
Died in Queen
Anne's County, Md., September
7, 1826 (age 73 years, 291
days).
Interment in a private or family graveyard.
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Elbert Nostrand Carvel (1910-2005) —
also known as Elbert N. Carvel; "Big
Bert" —
of Laurel, Sussex
County, Del.
Born in Shelter Island, Suffolk
County, N.Y., February
9, 1910.
Democrat. Fertilizer
manufacturer; Lieutenant
Governor of Delaware, 1945-49; Delaware
Democratic state chair, 1946-47, 1955; delegate to Democratic
National Convention from Delaware, 1948,
1952,
1956,
1960;
Governor
of Delaware, 1949-53, 1961-65; defeated, 1952; candidate for U.S.
Senator from Delaware, 1958, 1964; candidate for Presidential
Elector for Delaware.
Episcopalian.
Member, Freemasons;
Shriners;
Lions;
Grange;
Sigma
Delta Kappa; Alpha
Zeta.
Died in Laurel, Sussex
County, Del., February
6, 2005 (age 94 years, 363
days).
Interment in a private or family graveyard.
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Turbutt Wright (1741-1783) —
of Maryland.
Born near Centreville, Queen
Anne's County, Md., February
5, 1741.
Delegate
to Maryland state constitutional convention, 1776; Delegate
to Continental Congress from Maryland, 1781-82; member of
Maryland state legislature, 1781-82.
Episcopalian.
Died near Centreville, Queen
Anne's County, Md., 1783
(age about
42 years).
Interment in a private or family graveyard.
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William Hemsley (1737-1812) —
of Maryland.
Born near Queenstown, Queen
Anne's County, Md., January
23, 1737.
Member of Maryland
state house of delegates, 1778; member of Maryland
state senate, 1779-81, 1786-87; Delegate
to Continental Congress from Maryland, 1782-83.
Episcopalian.
Died near Queenstown, Queen
Anne's County, Md., June 5,
1812 (age 75 years, 134
days).
Interment in a private or family graveyard.
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Richard Bennett Carmichael (1807-1884) —
of Queenstown, Queen
Anne's County, Md.
Born in Centreville, Queen
Anne's County, Md., December
25, 1807.
Democrat. Member of Maryland
state house of delegates, 1831, 1841, 1867; U.S.
Representative from Maryland 2nd District, 1833-35; state court
judge in Maryland, 1858-64; delegate to Democratic National
Convention from Maryland, 1864,
1876;
delegate
to Maryland state constitutional convention, 1867.
Episcopalian.
Slaveowner.
Died near Queenstown, Queen
Anne's County, Md., October
21, 1884 (age 76 years, 301
days).
Interment in a private or family graveyard.
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James Joseph Tilghman (1743-1809) —
also known as James Tilghman —
of Anne
Arundel County, Md.
Born in Queen
Anne's County, Md., August
2, 1743.
Maryland
state attorney general, 1777-78.
Anglican.
Died in Chestertown, Kent
County, Md., April
18, 1809 (age 65 years, 259
days).
Interment in a private or family graveyard.
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Chesterfield
Cemetery
Centreville, Queen Anne's County, Maryland
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Charles Hopper Gibson (1842-1900) —
also known as Charles H. Gibson —
of Easton, Talbot
County, Md.
Born near Centreville, Queen
Anne's County, Md., January
19, 1842.
Democrat. Lawyer; U.S.
Representative from Maryland 1st District, 1885-91; U.S.
Senator from Maryland, 1891-97.
Episcopalian.
Died, from heart
disease, in Washington,
D.C., March
31, 1900 (age 58 years, 71
days).
Interment at Chesterfield Cemetery.
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John Brown (d. 1815) —
of Maryland.
Born in Maryland.
Democrat. Member of Maryland
state house of delegates, 1807-08; U.S.
Representative from Maryland 7th District, 1809-10.
Methodist.
Died in Centreville, Queen
Anne's County, Md., December
13, 1815.
Interment at Chesterfield Cemetery.
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John Brewer Brown (1836-1898) —
also known as John B. Brown —
of Maryland.
Born in Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa., May 13,
1836.
Democrat. Member of Maryland
state house of delegates, 1870; member of Maryland
state senate, 1888-94; delegate to Democratic National Convention
from Maryland, 1888
(member, Committee
on Permanent Organization); U.S.
Representative from Maryland 1st District, 1892-93.
Episcopalian.
Died in Centreville, Queen
Anne's County, Md., May 16,
1898 (age 62 years, 3
days).
Interment at Chesterfield Cemetery.
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Clover Fields
Farm Cemetery
Queenstown, Queen Anne's County, Maryland
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James Lloyd (1756-1830) —
of Maryland.
Born near Chestertown, Kent
County, Md., 1756.
Democrat. Lawyer;
served in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War; member
of Maryland
state house of delegates, 1778-79, 1781-83, 1793, 1795; member of
Maryland
state senate, 1784-85; U.S.
Senator from Maryland, 1797-1800; general in the U.S. Army during
the War of 1812.
Episcopalian.
Slaveowner.
Died near Easton, Talbot
County, Md., September
20, 1830 (age about 74
years).
Interment at Clover Fields Farm Cemetery.
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Wye
Plantation
Queenstown, Queen Anne's County, Maryland
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William Paca (1740-1799) —
of Annapolis, Anne
Arundel County, Md.
Born in Abingdon, Baltimore County (now Harford
County), Md., October
31, 1740.
Lawyer;
planter;
delegate
to Maryland state constitutional convention, 1774-76; Delegate
to Continental Congress from Maryland, 1774-80; signer,
Declaration of Independence, 1776; member of Maryland
state senate, 1777-79; Governor of
Maryland, 1782-85; delegate
to Maryland convention to ratify U.S. constitution, 1788; U.S.
District Judge for Maryland, 1789-99; died in office 1799.
Anglican.
English
and Italian
ancestry.
Died in Queenstown, Queen
Anne's County, Md., October
23, 1799 (age 58 years, 357
days).
Interment at Wye Plantation; memorial monument at Constitution Gardens, Washington, D.C.
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Broad Creek
Cemetery
Stevensville, Queen Anne's County, Maryland
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Brockman Adams (1927-2004) —
also known as Brock Adams —
of Seattle, King
County, Wash.; Stevensville, Queen
Anne's County, Md.
Born in Atlanta, Fulton
County, Ga., January
13, 1927.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Navy during World War II; lawyer; U.S.
Attorney for the Western District of Washington, 1961-64; U.S.
Representative from Washington 7th District, 1965-77; U.S.
Secretary of Transportation, 1977-79; resigned 1979; U.S.
Senator from Washington, 1987-93; speaker, Democratic National Convention, 1988 ;
in 1992, he was accused
by eight women of sexual
misconduct including sexual
harassment and rape;
he denied the allegations, and no charges were ever brought, but the
scandal
ended his political career.
Episcopalian.
Member, American Bar
Association; Phi
Beta Kappa; Federal
Bar Association.
Died, from Parkinson's
disease, in Stevensville, Queen
Anne's County, Md., September
10, 2004 (age 77 years, 241
days).
Interment at Broad Creek Cemetery.
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Sudlersville
Cemetery
Sudlersville, Queen Anne's County, Maryland
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Dudley George Roe (1881-1970) —
also known as Dudley G. Roe —
of Sudlersville, Queen
Anne's County, Md.
Born in Sudlersville, Queen
Anne's County, Md., March
23, 1881.
Democrat. Member of Maryland
state house of delegates, 1908; member of Maryland
state senate, 1924-33, 1939-41; delegate to Democratic National
Convention from Maryland, 1928;
U.S.
Representative from Maryland 1st District, 1945-47; defeated,
1946.
Episcopalian.
Died in Chestertown, Kent
County, Md., January
4, 1970 (age 88 years, 287
days).
Interment at Sudlersville Cemetery.
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