Index to Locations
Shelby Sunset Cemetery
Sunset
Cemetery
West Sumter Street
Shelby, Cleveland County, North Carolina
Politicians buried
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Clyde Roark Hoey (1877-1954) —
also known as Clyde R. Hoey —
of Shelby, Cleveland
County, N.C.
Born in Shelby, Cleveland
County, N.C., December
11, 1877.
Democrat. Newspaper
editor; lawyer;
member of North
Carolina state house of representatives, 1899-1902; member of North
Carolina state senate, 1903-06; delegate to Democratic National
Convention from North Carolina, 1904,
1940,
1944
(speaker),
1948,
1952;
U.S.
Representative from North Carolina 9th District, 1919-21; Governor of
North Carolina, 1937-41; member of Democratic
National Committee from North Carolina, 1941-44; U.S.
Senator from North Carolina, 1945-54; died in office 1954;
member, Commission on Intergovernmental Relations, 1953-54; died in
office 1954.
Methodist.
Member, Freemasons;
Odd
Fellows; Woodmen;
Junior
Order; Knights
of Pythias; Omicron
Delta Kappa; Sigma
Chi.
Died from a stroke,
at his desk in his congressional office,
in Washington,
D.C., May 12,
1954 (age 76 years, 152
days).
Interment at Sunset Cemetery.
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Oliver Max Gardner (1882-1947) —
also known as O. Max Gardner —
of Shelby, Cleveland
County, N.C.
Born in Shelby, Cleveland
County, N.C., March
22, 1882.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during the Spanish-American War; lawyer; chair of
Cleveland County Democratic Party, 1907-08; member of North
Carolina Democratic State Executive Committee, 1910-14; member of
North
Carolina state senate 32nd District, 1911-12, 1915-16; Lieutenant
Governor of North Carolina, 1917-21; delegate to Democratic
National Convention from North Carolina, 1924,
1932,
1940,
1944;
Governor
of North Carolina, 1929-33; defeated, 1920.
Baptist.
Member, American Bar
Association; Sigma
Nu; Odd
Fellows; Elks.
Died, from coronary
thrombosis, in his suite at the St. Regis Hotel,
Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., February
6, 1947 (age 64 years, 321
days).
Interment at Sunset Cemetery.
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Edwin Yates Webb (1872-1955) —
also known as Edwin Y. Webb —
of Shelby, Cleveland
County, N.C.
Born in Shelby, Cleveland
County, N.C., May 23,
1872.
Democrat. Lawyer; chair of
Cleveland County Democratic Party, 1898-1902; member of North
Carolina state senate, 1901-03; U.S.
Representative from North Carolina 9th District, 1903-19; U.S.
District Judge for the Western District of North Carolina,
1919-48.
Baptist.
Co-sponsor, National Prohibition Amendment to U.S. Constitution.
Died in Wilmington, New Hanover
County, N.C., February
7, 1955 (age 82 years, 260
days).
Interment at Sunset Cemetery.
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Otis McCoy Mull (1880-1962) —
also known as O. M. Mull —
of Shelby, Cleveland
County, N.C.
Born in Cleveland
County, N.C., 1880.
Democrat. Member of North
Carolina state house of representatives, 1920; Speaker of
the North Carolina State House of Representatives, 1920; North
Carolina Democratic state chair, 1931; delegate to Democratic
National Convention from North Carolina, 1944,
1952
(alternate).
Died November
27, 1962 (age about 82
years).
Interment at Sunset Cemetery.
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Plato Durham —
of North Carolina.
Served in the Confederate Army during the Civil War; lawyer;
candidate for U.S.
Representative from North Carolina 8th District, 1874.
Interment at Sunset Cemetery.
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Fay Webb Gardner (1885-1969) —
also known as Fay Lamar Webb; Mrs. O. Max
Gardner —
of Shelby, Cleveland
County, N.C.
Born in Shelby, Cleveland
County, N.C., September
7, 1885.
Democrat. Executive and stylist,
Cleveland Cloth
Mills of Shelby, N.C.; member of North
Carolina Democratic State Committee, 1929; member of North
Carolina Democratic State Executive Committee, 1930-32; delegate
to Democratic National Convention from North Carolina, 1948,
1952.
Female.
Baptist.
Member, Daughters of the
American Revolution; United
Daughters of the Confederacy; Colonial
Dames.
Died January
16, 1969 (age 83 years, 131
days).
Interment at Sunset Cemetery.
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