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Index to Locations
Private or family graveyards
Morganton County Courthouse Grounds
Morganton First Presbyterian
Churchyard
Morganton Forest Hill Cemetery
Morganton Swan Ponds Plantation
Cemetery
Near Morganton Quaker Meadows
Cemetery
Private or family
graveyard
Burke County, North Carolina
| Politicians buried
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William Waigstill Avery (1816-1864) —
of Morganton, Burke
County, N.C.
Born in Burke
County, N.C., May 25,
1816.
Democrat. Lawyer;
member of North Carolina state legislature, 1842; delegate to
Democratic National Convention from North Carolina, 1860;
delegate
to North Carolina secession convention, 1861; Delegate
from North Carolina to the Confederate Provisional Congress,
1861-62.
Mortally wounded while fighting
Union guerillas in Tennessee, and died in Morganton, Burke
County, N.C., July 3,
1864 (age 48 years, 39
days).
Interment in a private or family graveyard.
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Relatives: Son
of Isaac Thomas Avery and Harriet (Erwin) Avery; married, May 27,
1846, to Corrina Mary Morehead (daughter of John
Motley Morehead); grandson of Waightstill
Avery; second cousin of Lorenzo
Burrows; third cousin once removed of Noyes
Barber; third cousin twice removed of Horace
Billings Packer; fourth cousin of Daniel
Packer, Asa
Packer, Edwin
Barber Morgan, Christopher
Morgan, Edwin
Denison Morgan and Alfred
Avery Burnham; fourth cousin once removed of Judson
B. Phelps, Morgan
Gardner Bulkeley, William
Henry Bulkeley, Robert
Asa Packer and William
Frederick Morgan Rowland. |
| | | Political families: Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin
family of Connecticut and New York; Fairbanks-Adams
family; Lenoir
family of North Carolina; Beakes-Greene-Witter
family; Livingston-Schuyler
family of New York (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
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County Courthouse
Grounds
Morganton, Burke County, North Carolina
| Politicians who have
(or had) monuments here: |
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Samuel James Ervin Jr. (1896-1985) —
also known as Sam J. Ervin, Jr. —
of Morganton, Burke
County, N.C.
Born in Morganton, Burke
County, N.C., September
27, 1896.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during World War I; lawyer;
member of North
Carolina state house of representatives, 1923-25, 1931; chair of
Burke County Democratic Party, 1924; member of North
Carolina Democratic State Executive Committee, 1930-37; superior
court judge in North Carolina, 1937-43; U.S.
Representative from North Carolina 10th District, 1946-47; justice of
North Carolina state supreme court, 1948-54; appointed 1948; U.S.
Senator from North Carolina, 1954-74; delegate to Democratic
National Convention from North Carolina, 1956,
1964.
Presbyterian.
Member, American Bar
Association; American
Judicature Society; American
Historical Association; American
Legion; Disabled
American Veterans; Veterans of
Foreign Wars; Farm
Bureau; Grange;
Sons
of the American Revolution; Society
of the Cincinnati; Freemasons;
Scottish
Rite Masons; Royal
Arch Masons; Knights
Templar; Shriners;
Order
of Ahepa; Knights
of Pythias; Moose; Kiwanis;
Junior
Order; Newcomen
Society; Sigma
Upsilon; Phi
Delta Phi.
Died in Winston-Salem, Forsyth
County, N.C., April
23, 1985 (age 88 years, 208
days).
Interment at Forest Hill Cemetery; statue at
County Courthouse Grounds.
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First
Presbyterian Churchyard
Morganton, Burke County, North Carolina
| Politicians buried
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Burgess Sidney Gaither (1807-1892) —
also known as Burgess S. Gaither —
of Morganton, Burke
County, N.C.
Born in Iredell
County, N.C., March
16, 1807.
Whig. Lawyer; delegate
to North Carolina state constitutional convention, 1835; delegate
to Whig National Convention from North Carolina, 1839; member of North
Carolina state senate, 1844; candidate for U.S.
Representative from North Carolina, 1851, 1853; Representative
from North Carolina in the Confederate Congress, 1862-65.
Member, Sons of
Temperance.
Died in Morganton, Burke
County, N.C., February
23, 1892 (age 84 years, 344
days).
Interment at First Presbyterian Churchyard.
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Forest Hill
Cemetery
Morganton, Burke County, North Carolina
| Politicians buried
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Samuel James Ervin Jr. (1896-1985) —
also known as Sam J. Ervin, Jr. —
of Morganton, Burke
County, N.C.
Born in Morganton, Burke
County, N.C., September
27, 1896.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during World War I; lawyer;
member of North
Carolina state house of representatives, 1923-25, 1931; chair of
Burke County Democratic Party, 1924; member of North
Carolina Democratic State Executive Committee, 1930-37; superior
court judge in North Carolina, 1937-43; U.S.
Representative from North Carolina 10th District, 1946-47; justice of
North Carolina state supreme court, 1948-54; appointed 1948; U.S.
Senator from North Carolina, 1954-74; delegate to Democratic
National Convention from North Carolina, 1956,
1964.
Presbyterian.
Member, American Bar
Association; American
Judicature Society; American
Historical Association; American
Legion; Disabled
American Veterans; Veterans of
Foreign Wars; Farm
Bureau; Grange;
Sons
of the American Revolution; Society
of the Cincinnati; Freemasons;
Scottish
Rite Masons; Royal
Arch Masons; Knights
Templar; Shriners;
Order
of Ahepa; Knights
of Pythias; Moose; Kiwanis;
Junior
Order; Newcomen
Society; Sigma
Upsilon; Phi
Delta Phi.
Died in Winston-Salem, Forsyth
County, N.C., April
23, 1985 (age 88 years, 208
days).
Interment at Forest Hill Cemetery; statue at County Courthouse Grounds.
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Tod Robinson Caldwell (1818-1874) —
also known as Tod R. Caldwell —
of Burke
County, N.C.
Born in Morganton, Burke
County, N.C., February
19, 1818.
Lawyer;
Lieutenant
Governor of North Carolina, 1868-70; Governor of
North Carolina, 1870-74; died in office 1874.
Died July 11,
1874 (age 56 years, 142
days).
Interment at Forest Hill Cemetery.
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Samuel James Ervin III (1926-1999) —
Born in Morganton, Burke
County, N.C., March 2,
1926.
Served in the U.S. Army during World War II; member of North
Carolina state house of representatives, 1965-67; superior court
judge in North Carolina, 1967-80; Judge
of U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit, 1980-99; died in
office 1999.
Presbyterian.
Member, Freemasons.
Died at Grace Hospital,
Morganton, Burke
County, N.C., September
18, 1999 (age 73 years, 200
days).
Interment at Forest Hill Cemetery.
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Joseph Wilson Ervin (1901-1945) —
of North Carolina.
Born in Morganton, Burke
County, N.C., March 3,
1901.
Democrat. Lawyer; U.S.
Representative from North Carolina 10th District, 1945; died in
office 1945.
Presbyterian.
Member, Freemasons.
Died in Washington,
D.C., December
25, 1945 (age 44 years, 297
days).
Interment at Forest Hill Cemetery.
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Samuel McDowell Tate (1830-1897) —
also known as Samuel McD. Tate —
of Morganton, Burke
County, N.C.
Born in Morganton, Burke
County, N.C., September
6, 1830.
Democrat. Merchant;
postmaster at Morganton,
N.C., 1856-60; colonel in the Confederate Army during the Civil
War; president, Western North Carolina Railroad,
1865 and 1866-68; member of North
Carolina state house of representatives, 1875; delegate to
Democratic National Convention from North Carolina, 1876,
1880;
North
Carolina state treasurer, 1892-94.
Presbyterian.
Scotch-Irish
ancestry.
Died June 25,
1897 (age 66 years, 292
days).
Interment at Forest Hill Cemetery.
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Relatives: Son
of David Tate and Susan Maria (Tate) Tate; married 1865 to Jane
Sophronia 'Jennie' Pearson. |
| | | See also Find-A-Grave
memorial |
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William Carson Ervin (1859-1943) —
also known as William C. Ervin —
of Lenoir, Caldwell
County, N.C.; Morganton, Burke
County, N.C.
Born in McDowell
County, N.C., December
15, 1859.
Lawyer;
newspaper
editor; printer;
mayor
of Lenoir, N.C., 1888-89.
Died in Morganton, Burke
County, N.C., July 16,
1943 (age 83 years, 213
days).
Interment at Forest Hill Cemetery.
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Swan Ponds
Plantation Cemetery
Morganton, Burke County, North Carolina
| Politicians buried
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Waightstill Avery (1741-1821) —
of Burke
County, N.C.
Born in Groton, New London
County, Conn., May 10,
1741.
Lawyer;
colonel in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War; member
of North
Carolina house of commons, 1776, 1782-83, 1793; North
Carolina state attorney general, 1777-79; member of North
Carolina state senate, 1796.
Fought a pistol
duel with Andrew
Jackson in 1788; neither man was injured.
Died in the judge's
chambers at the Burke County
Courthouse, Morganton, Burke
County, N.C., March
13, 1821 (age 79 years, 307
days).
Interment at Swan Ponds Plantation Cemetery.
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Relatives: Son
of Jerusha (Morgan) Avery and Humphrey Avery; married, October
3, 1778, to Leah Probart Franks; father of Elizabeth Avery (who
married William
Ballard Lenoir); grandfather of Isaac
Thomas Lenoir and William
Waigstill Avery; granduncle of Lorenzo
Burrows; first cousin four times removed of Horace
Billings Packer; second cousin once removed of Noyes
Barber; second cousin twice removed of Daniel
Packer, Asa
Packer, Edwin
Barber Morgan, Christopher
Morgan, Edwin
Denison Morgan and Alfred
Avery Burnham; second cousin thrice removed of Judson
B. Phelps, Morgan
Gardner Bulkeley, William
Henry Bulkeley, Robert
Asa Packer and William
Frederick Morgan Rowland; second cousin four times removed of Henry
Brewster Stanton, Jonathan
R. Herrick, Erskine
Mason Phelps and Spencer
Gale Frink; second cousin five times removed of D-Cady
Herrick, Herman
Arod Gager, Walter
Richmond Herrick and Burdette
Burt Bliss; third cousin twice removed of Nathan
Belcher, Samuel
Townsend Douglass, Silas
Hamilton Douglas and Joshua
Perkins; third cousin thrice removed of Charles
Phelps Huntington, George
Mortimer Beakes, George
Douglas Perkins, Chauncey
C. Pendleton, Daniel
Parrish Witter, Albert
Lemando Bingham, Cornelia
Cole Fairbanks, Llewellyn
James Barden and Henry
Woolsey Douglas. |
| | | Political family: Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin
family of Connecticut and New York (subset of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | Avery County,
N.C. is named for him. |
| | | See also Wikipedia
article — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
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Quaker Meadows
Cemetery
Near Morganton, Burke County, North Carolina
| Politicians buried
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Joseph McDowell Jr. (1756-1801) —
also known as "Quaker Meadows Joe" —
of North Carolina.
Born in Frederick
County, Va., February
15, 1756.
Colonel in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War; planter;
member of North
Carolina house of commons, 1785-88, 1791-92; delegate
to North Carolina convention to ratify U.S. constitution, 1789;
U.S.
Representative from North Carolina 1st District, 1797-99.
Slaveowner.
Died, of apoplexy,
in Morganton, Burke
County, N.C., February
5, 1801 (age 44 years, 355
days).
Interment at Quaker Meadows Cemetery.
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