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Lafayette County
Mississippi

Cemeteries and Memorial Sites of Politicians in Lafayette County

Index to Locations Oxford Unknown location Oxford Oxford Memorial Cemetery Oxford St. Peter's Cemetery Unknown Location Oxford, Lafayette County, Mississippi Politicians buried here:   Charles Bowen Howry (1844-1928) — also known as Charles B. Howry — of Mississippi. Born in Oxford, Lafayette County, Miss., May 14, 1844. Served in the Confederate Army during the Civil War; member of Mississippi state house of representatives, 1880-84; U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Mississippi, 1885-89; Judge of U.S. Court of Claims, 1897-. Member, American Bar Association. Died July 20, 1928 (age 84 years, 67 days). Interment somewhere. Oxford Memorial Cemetery Oxford, Lafayette County, Mississippi Politicians buried here:   William Nathaniel Ethridge Jr. (1912-1971) — of Oxford, Lafayette County, Miss. Born in Columbus, Lowndes County, Miss., August 3, 1912. Lawyer; law professor; justice of Mississippi state supreme court, 1950-71; died in office 1971; chief justice of Mississippi state supreme court, 1966-71; died in office 1971. Presbyterian. Member, American Bar Association; American Judicature Society; Sigma Alpha Epsilon; Phi Delta Phi; Omicron Delta Kappa. Died July 29, 1971 (age 58 years, 360 days). Interment at Oxford Memorial Cemetery.   Relatives: Son of William Nathaniel Ethridge and Laura Mae (Ramage) Ethridge; married, December 14, 1946, to Lura Elizabeth Clark.   See also Find-A-Grave memorial   Clarence Lee Sivley (1871-1936) — also known as Clarence L. Sivley — of Oxford, Lafayette County, Miss. Born in Raymond, Hinds County, Miss., March 14, 1871. Democrat. Law professor; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Mississippi, 1904 (member, Committee to Notify Presidential Nominee). Died in Oxford, Lafayette County, Miss., March 13, 1936 (age 64 years, 365 days). Interment at Oxford Memorial Cemetery.   Relatives: Son of William Rufus Sivley and Lelia Josephine (Stokes) Sivley; married 1899 to Minnie Clopton.   See also Find-A-Grave memorial St. Peter's Cemetery Oxford, Lafayette County, Mississippi Politicians buried here: Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar (1825-1893) — also known as Lucius Q. C. Lamar — of Covington, Newton County, Ga.; Abbeville, Lafayette County, Miss.; Oxford, Lafayette County, Miss. Born near Eatonton, Putnam County, Ga., September 17, 1825. Democrat. Lawyer; cotton planter; president, University of Mississippi, 1849-52; member of Georgia state house of representatives, 1853; U.S. Representative from Mississippi 1st District, 1857-60, 1873-77; colonel in the Confederate Army during the Civil War; delegate to Mississippi state constitutional convention, 1865, 1868, 1875, 1877, 1881; U.S. Senator from Mississippi, 1877-85; U.S. Secretary of the Interior, 1885-88; Associate Justice of U.S. Supreme Court, 1888-93; died in office 1893. Methodist. Member, Sigma Alpha Epsilon. Slaveowner. Died in Vineville (now part of Macon), Bibb County, Ga., January 23, 1893 (age 67 years, 128 days). Original interment at Riverside Cemetery, Macon, Ga.; reinterment in 1894 at St. Peter's Cemetery.   Relatives: Son of Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar (1797-1834) and Sarah Williamson (Bird) Lamar; married to Virginia Longstreet; nephew of Mirabeau Buonaparte Lamar and Loretta Rebecca Lamar (who married Absalom Harris Chappell); uncle of William Bailey Lamar; fourth cousin of William McKendree Robbins and Joseph Rucker Lamar; fourth cousin once removed of Gaston Ahi Robbins.   Political family: Lamar family of Georgia.   Lamar counties in Ala., Ga. and Miss. are named for him.   The municipality of Lamar, Colorado, is named for him.  — Lamar Hall, at the University of Mississippi, Oxford, Mississippi, is named for him.  — Lamar River, in Yellowstone National Park, Park County, Wyoming, is named for him.  — Lamar Boulevard, in Oxford, Mississippi, is named for him.  — Lamar Avenue, in Memphis, Tennessee, is named for him.  — Lamar School (founded 1964), in Meridian, Mississippi, is named for him.   See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — federal judicial profile — Wikipedia article — Ballotpedia article — NNDB dossier — Find-A-Grave memorial   Books about Lucius Q. C. Lamar: John F. Kennedy, Profiles in Courage   Image source: James G. Blaine, Twenty Years of Congress, vol. 2 (1886)   William Van Amberg Sullivan (1857-1918) — also known as William V. Sullivan — of Oxford, Lafayette County, Miss. Born in Mississippi, 1857. Democrat. Delegate to Democratic National Convention from Mississippi, 1892; U.S. Representative from Mississippi 2nd District, 1897-98; U.S. Senator from Mississippi, 1898-1901. Died in 1918 (age about 61 years). Interment at St. Peter's Cemetery.   See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page

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