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Shannon County
Missouri

Cemeteries and Memorial Sites of Politicians in Shannon County

Index to Locations Birch Tree Oak Forest Cemetery Eminence Chilton Cemetery Eminence Munsell Cemetery Eminence New Eminence Cemetery Oak Forest Cemetery Birch Tree, Shannon County, Missouri Politicians buried here:   Lemuel Newland Searcy (1882-1944) — also known as L. N. Searcy — of Birch Tree, Shannon County, Mo.; Eminence, Shannon County, Mo. Born in Audrain County, Mo., May 8, 1882. Democrat. Lawyer; member of Missouri state senate 22nd District, 1927-30, 1935-42; defeated, 1942; delegate to Missouri state constitutional convention 22nd District, 1943-44; died in office 1944; candidate for Missouri state attorney general, 1944. Methodist. Member, Freemasons; Shriners; Odd Fellows. Died, from heart disease, in Excelsior Springs, Clay County, Mo., September 25, 1944 (age 62 years, 140 days). Interment at Oak Forest Cemetery.   Relatives: Son of Jefferson Beauregard Searcy and Arminta J. (Holloway) Searcy; brother of Robert Emmett Searcy; married, June 3, 1903, to Nancy Ann 'Nannie' Parker.   See also Find-A-Grave memorial Chilton Cemetery Eminence, Shannon County, Missouri See also Findagrave page for this location. Politicians buried here:   Commodore Perry Chilton (1844-1906) — also known as Perry Chilton — of Shannon County, Mo. Born December 6, 1844. Member of Missouri state house of representatives from Shannon County, 1887-88, 1893-94. Died August 17, 1906 (age 61 years, 254 days). Interment at Chilton Cemetery.   Presumably named for: Oliver Hazard Perry   Relatives: Son of Joshua Chilton and Elizabeth (Chilton) Chilton; married to Cynthia Emmaline Freeman; double first cousin of Shadrach Chilton; first cousin thrice removed of John Smith; second cousin once removed of Thomas Chilton and William Parish Chilton; third cousin once removed of Horace George Chilton and Arthur Bounds Chilton; fourth cousin of Howell Cobb, Henry Rootes Jackson and Thomas Reade Rootes Cobb.   Political families: Pendleton-Lee family of Maryland; Jackson-Lee family; King family of Savannah, Georgia; Walker-Meriwether-Kellogg family of Virginia; Washington-Walker family of Virginia (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).   See also Find-A-Grave memorial Munsell Cemetery Eminence, Shannon County, Missouri Politicians buried here:   Robert Emmett Searcy (1889-1954) — also known as Robert E. Searcy — of Eminence, Shannon County, Mo. Born in Boone County, Mo., October 22, 1889. Democrat. Member of Missouri state house of representatives from Shannon County, 1937-42, 1945-46; chair of Shannon County Democratic Party, 1949. Died in Mountain View, Howell County, Mo., January 27, 1954 (age 64 years, 97 days). Interment at Munsell Cemetery.   Relatives: Son of Jefferson Beauregard Searcy and Arminta J. (Holloway) Searcy; brother of Lemuel Newland Searcy; married to Anna Kathryn Woodward.   See also Find-A-Grave memorial New Eminence Cemetery Eminence, Shannon County, Missouri Politicians buried here:   David Lee Bales (1873-1952) — also known as David L. Bales — of Eminence, Shannon County, Mo. Born near Bloomfield, Davis County, Iowa, April 14, 1873. Democrat. Printer; merchant; farmer; member of Missouri state house of representatives from Shannon County, 1917-30; member of Missouri state senate 22nd District, 1931-34; candidate for delegate to Missouri state constitutional convention at-large, 1943. Died, from a stroke of apoplexy, in Eminence, Shannon County, Mo., October 31, 1952 (age 79 years, 200 days). Interment at New Eminence Cemetery.   Relatives: Married, July 2, 1893, to May Estella Powell.   See also Find-A-Grave memorial

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