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Index to Locations
Private or family graveyards
Chapel Hill Unknown location
Chapel Hill Chapel Hill Memorial
Cemetery
Chapel Hill Old Chapel Hill
Cemetery
Hillsborough Unknown location
Hillsborough Hillsborough Old Town
Cemetery
Hillsborough St. Matthew's Episcopal
Churchyard
White Cross Antioch Baptist Church
Cemetery
Private or family
graveyards
Orange County, North Carolina
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Thomas Burke (c.1747-1783) —
of Orange
County, N.C.
Born in Galway, Ireland,
about 1747.
Physician;
lawyer;
delegate
to North Carolina state constitutional convention, 1776; Delegate
to Continental Congress from North Carolina, 1776; member of
North Carolina state legislature, 1777; Governor of
North Carolina, 1781-82.
Died near Hillsborough, Orange
County, N.C., December
2, 1783 (age about 36
years).
Interment in a private or family graveyard.
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William Francis Strudwick (d. 1812) —
of North Carolina.
Born near Wilmington, New Hanover
County, N.C.
Member of North
Carolina state senate, 1792-97; U.S.
Representative from North Carolina at-large, 1796-97; member of
North
Carolina house of commons, 1801-03.
Slaveowner.
Died in North Carolina, 1812.
Interment in a private or family graveyard.
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Unknown
Location
Chapel Hill, Orange County, North Carolina
Chapel Hill
Memorial Cemetery
Chapel Hill, Orange County, North Carolina
Old Chapel Hill
Cemetery
Chapel Hill, Orange County, North Carolina
Founded 1798
See also Findagrave
page for this location.
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Samuel Field Phillips (1824-1903) —
also known as Samuel F. Phillips —
of Chapel Hill, Orange
County, N.C.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., February
18, 1824.
Lawyer;
North
Carolina state auditor, 1862-64; resigned 1864; member of North
Carolina state house of representatives, 1871; U.S. Solicitor
General, 1872-85.
Presbyterian.
Represented Homer Plessy in Plessy v. Ferguson, 1896.
Died in Washington,
D.C., November
18, 1903 (age 79 years, 273
days).
Interment at Old Chapel Hill Cemetery.
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Frank Porter Graham (1886-1972) —
also known as Frank P. Graham —
of Chapel Hill, Orange
County, N.C.
Born in Fayetteville, Cumberland
County, N.C., October
14, 1886.
Democrat. School
teacher; college
instructor; lawyer;
served in the U.S. Army during World War I; university
professor; president
of the University of North Carolina, 1931-49; U.S.
Senator from North Carolina, 1949-50; appointed 1949; defeated,
1950.
Presbyterian.
Member, Americans
for Democratic Action; Phi
Beta Kappa.
Died in Chapel Hill, Orange
County, N.C., February
16, 1972 (age 85 years, 125
days).
Interment at Old Chapel Hill Cemetery.
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Lawrence William Cramer (1897-1978) —
also known as Lawrence W. Cramer —
Born in New Orleans, Orleans
Parish, La., December
26, 1897.
Served in the U.S. Army during World War I; university
professor; Lieutenant
Governor of Virgin Islands, 1931-35; Governor of
U.S. Virgin Islands, 1935-40; major in the U.S. Army during World
War II.
Member, Chi Psi;
American
Legion.
Died in Chapel Hill, Orange
County, N.C., October
18, 1978 (age 80 years, 296
days).
Interment at Old Chapel Hill Cemetery.
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William Franklin Strowd (1832-1911) —
also known as William F. Strowd —
of Pittsboro, Chatham
County, N.C.
Born in North Carolina, December
7, 1832.
U.S.
Representative from North Carolina 4th District, 1895-99.
Died December
12, 1911 (age 79 years, 5
days).
Interment at Old Chapel Hill Cemetery.
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Alonzo Craig Shuford (1858-1933) —
also known as Alonzo C. Shuford —
of Newton, Catawba
County, N.C.
Born in North Carolina, March 1,
1858.
Republican. U.S.
Representative from North Carolina 7th District, 1895-99.
Died February
8, 1933 (age 74 years, 344
days).
Interment at Old Chapel Hill Cemetery.
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George C. Pickard (1855-1924) —
of Chapel Hill, Orange
County, N.C.
Born in Alamance
County, N.C., October
7, 1855.
Democrat. Member of North
Carolina state house of representatives from Orange County,
1913-14.
Presbyterian.
Member, Knights
of Pythias; Freemasons.
Died August
14, 1924 (age 68 years, 312
days).
Interment at Old Chapel Hill Cemetery.
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Unknown
Location
Hillsborough, Orange County, North Carolina
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John Washington Graham (1838-1928) —
of Hillsborough, Orange
County, N.C.
Born in Hillsborough, Orange
County, N.C., July 22,
1838.
Democrat. Lawyer;
major in the Confederate Army during the Civil War; Orange
County Solicitor, 1866-68; delegate
to North Carolina state constitutional convention, 1868; member
of North
Carolina state senate, 1868-72, 1876, 1907-08, 1911; candidate
for U.S.
Representative from North Carolina 4th District, 1886.
Episcopalian.
Died in Hillsborough, Orange
County, N.C., March
24, 1928 (age 89 years, 246
days).
Interment somewhere.
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Hillsborough Old
Town Cemetery
Hillsborough, Orange County, North Carolina
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William Alexander Graham (1804-1875) —
also known as William A. Graham —
of Hillsborough, Orange
County, N.C.
Born near Lincolnton, Lincoln
County, N.C., September
5, 1804.
Whig. Lawyer; planter;
member of North
Carolina house of commons, 1833-40; U.S.
Senator from North Carolina, 1840-43; Governor of
North Carolina, 1845-49; U.S.
Secretary of the Navy, 1850-52; candidate for Vice
President of the United States, 1852; member of North
Carolina state senate, 1854-66; Senator
from North Carolina in the Confederate Congress, 1864-65.
Scotch-Irish
ancestry.
Slaveowner.
Died in Saratoga Springs, Saratoga
County, N.Y., August
11, 1875 (age 70 years, 340
days).
Interment at Hillsborough Old Town Cemetery.
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William Hooper (1742-1790) —
of North Carolina.
Born in Boston, Suffolk
County, Mass., June 17,
1742.
Delegate
to Continental Congress from North Carolina, 1774-77; signer,
Declaration of Independence, 1776; member of North Carolina state
legislature, 1777-78.
Episcopalian.
Member, Freemasons.
Died in Hillsborough, Orange
County, N.C., October
14, 1790 (age 48 years, 119
days).
Original interment at Hillsborough Old Town Cemetery; reinterment in
1894 at Guilford
Courthouse National Military Park, Greensboro, N.C.; memorial
monument at Constitution Gardens, Washington, D.C.
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St. Matthew's
Episcopal Churchyard
Hillsborough, Orange County, North Carolina
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George Herbert Murphy (1860-1924) —
also known as George H. Murphy —
Born in Scuppernong, Washington
County, N.C., September
28, 1860.
School
teacher; U.S. Vice & Deputy Consul in Chemnitz, 1886-89; Bremen, 1899-1900; Magdeburg, 1900; U.S. Deputy Consul General in Berlin, 1889-90; U.S. Vice & Deputy Consul General in Berlin, 1890; Frankfort, 1900-04; U.S. Consular Agent in Hanover, 1890-93; St. Catherines, 1905-06; U.S. Vice Commercial Agent (Vice
Consul) in Luxembourg, 1893-96; U.S. Vice Consul in Colón, 1898; U.S. Consul General in , 1906-14; Cape Town, 1914-20; Zurich, 1920-24.
Died in Zurich, Switzerland,
October
16, 1924 (age 64 years, 18
days).
Interment at St. Matthew's Episcopal Churchyard.
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Josiah Turner (1821-1901) —
of North Carolina.
Born in Hillsborough, Orange
County, N.C., December
27, 1821.
Member of North Carolina state legislature, 1852-60, 1879; delegate
to North Carolina secession convention, 1861; served in the
Confederate Army during the Civil War; Representative
from North Carolina in the Confederate Congress, 1864-65; delegate
to North Carolina state constitutional convention, 1875.
Died near Hillsborough, Orange
County, N.C., October
26, 1901 (age 79 years, 303
days).
Interment at St. Matthew's Episcopal Churchyard.
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Antioch Baptist
Church Cemetery
White Cross, Orange County, North Carolina
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Carl Thomas Durham (1892-1974) —
also known as Carl T. Durham —
of Chapel Hill, Orange
County, N.C.
Born in White Cross, Orange
County, N.C., August
28, 1892.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Navy during World War I; pharmacist;
U.S.
Representative from North Carolina 6th District, 1939-61.
Died in Durham, Durham
County, N.C., April
29, 1974 (age 81 years, 244
days).
Interment at Antioch Baptist Church Cemetery.
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