Index to Locations
Unknown location
Private or family graveyards
Warrenton Bloomsbury Cemetery
Warrenton Fairview Cemetery
Warrenton Hawkins Cemetery
Unknown
Location
Warren County, North Carolina
Private or family
graveyards
Warren County, North Carolina
Politicians buried
here: |
|
Nathaniel Macon (1757-1837) —
of Warrenton, Warren
County, N.C.
Born near Warrenton, Warren
County, N.C., December
17, 1757.
Democrat. Served in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary
War; member of North
Carolina state senate, 1780-82, 1784-85; U.S.
Representative from North Carolina, 1791-1815 (at-large 1791-97,
5th District 1797-99, at-large 1799-1803, 6th District 1803-05,
at-large 1805-07, 6th District 1807-09, at-large 1809-11, 6th
District 1811-13, at-large 1813-15, 6th District 1815); Speaker of
the U.S. House, 1801-05; U.S.
Senator from North Carolina, 1815-28; resigned 1828; received 24
electoral votes for Vice-President, 1824;
delegate
to North Carolina state constitutional convention, 1835;
candidate for Presidential Elector for North Carolina.
Slaveowner.
Died in Warren
County, N.C., June 29,
1837 (age 79 years, 194
days).
Interment in a private or family graveyard.
|
|
Weldon Nathaniel Edwards (1788-1873) —
also known as Weldon N. Edwards —
of Warrenton, Warren
County, N.C.
Born in Gaston, Northampton
County, N.C., January
25, 1788.
Democrat. Member of North Carolina state legislature, 1810; U.S.
Representative from North Carolina 6th District, 1816-27.
Slaveowner.
Died in Warren
County, N.C., December
18, 1873 (age 85 years, 327
days).
Interment in a private or family graveyard.
|
Bloomsbury
Cemetery
Warrenton, Warren County, North Carolina
Politicians buried
here: |
|
James Turner (1766-1824) —
of Warrenton, Warren
County, N.C.
Born in Southampton
County, Va., December
20, 1766.
Democrat. Farmer; Governor of
North Carolina, 1802-05; U.S.
Senator from North Carolina, 1805-16.
Slaveowner.
Died in Warren
County, N.C., January
15, 1824 (age 57 years, 26
days).
Interment at Bloomsbury Cemetery.
|
Fairview
Cemetery
Warrenton, Warren County, North Carolina
Founded 1894
See also Findagrave
page for this location.
Politicians buried
here: |
|
John Hosea Kerr (1873-1958) —
also known as John H. Kerr —
of Warrenton, Warren
County, N.C.
Born in Yanceyville, Caswell
County, N.C., December
31, 1873.
Democrat. Lawyer;
mayor of Warrenton, N.C., 1897-98; superior court judge in North
Carolina 3rd District, 1916-21; U.S.
Representative from North Carolina 2nd District, 1923-53;
delegate to Democratic National Convention from North Carolina, 1940.
Baptist.
Member, Freemasons.
Died in Warrenton, Warren
County, N.C., June 21,
1958 (age 84 years, 172
days).
Interment at Fairview Cemetery.
| ![](hand.gif) |
Relatives: Son
of Capt. John H. Kerr and Eliza Katherine (Yancey) Kerr; married to
Ella Foote; grandnephew of John
Kerr. |
| ![](hand.gif) | Political family: Kerr-Settle
family of North Carolina. |
| ![](hand.gif) | The John H. Kerr dam,
in Mecklenburg
County, Virginia, is named for
him. — Kerr Lake,
an impoundment on the Roanoke River, in Mecklenburg,
Charlotte,
and Halifax
counties, Virginia, and Vance,
Granville,
and Warren
counties, North Carolina, is named for
him. |
| ![](hand.gif) | Epitaph: "He Loved God And His Fellow
Man." |
| ![](hand.gif) | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — Wikipedia article — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
|
|
Thomas Jefferson Green (1802-1863) —
of North Carolina; Texas; California.
Born in Warren
County, N.C., 1802.
Member of North Carolina state legislature, 1823; general in the
Texas Army during the Texas War of Independence; member of Texas
Republic House of Representatives, 1836; member of Texas
Republic Senate from District of Bexar, 1837; went
to California for the 1849 Gold Rush; member of California
state senate, 1850.
Sponsored the bill in the California Senate to create
the University of California.
Died in North Carolina, December
12, 1863 (age about 61
years).
Original interment in private or family graveyard; reinterment in
1905 at Fairview Cemetery.
|
|
Tasker Polk (1861-1928) —
of Warrenton, Warren
County, N.C.
Born in Tennessee, March
24, 1861.
Democrat. Lawyer;
member of North
Carolina state senate 16th District, 1915-16.
Died in North Carolina, July 5,
1928 (age 67 years, 103
days).
Interment at Fairview Cemetery.
|
|
Frank Herbert Gibbs (1895-1963) —
also known as Frank H. Gibbs —
of Warrenton, Warren
County, N.C.
Born in Rockingham, Richmond
County, N.C., August
4, 1895.
Democrat. Lawyer;
served in the U.S. Navy during World War I; mayor of Warrenton, N.C.,
1920-34; member of North
Carolina state senate 14th District, 1935.
Methodist.
Member, Sigma
Chi.
Died in 1963
(age about
67 years).
Interment at Fairview Cemetery.
|
|
Philemon Jenkins Macon (1858-1925) —
also known as P. J. Macon —
of Warrenton, Warren
County, N.C.
Born in Warrenton, Warren
County, N.C., March 7,
1858.
Democrat. Physician;
member of North
Carolina state house of representatives from Warren County,
1915-16.
Died, from a stroke of
apoplexy, in Warrenton, Warren
County, N.C., December
27, 1925 (age 67 years, 295
days).
Interment at Fairview Cemetery.
| ![](hand.gif) |
Relatives: Son
of Gideon Hunt Macon and Lou (Jenkins) Macon; married 1884 to
Georgiana Blanche Tarwater. |
| ![](hand.gif) | See also Find-A-Grave
memorial |
|
Hawkins
Cemetery
Warrenton, Warren County, North Carolina
Politicians buried
here: |
|
Philemon Hawkins (1717-1801) —
of Granville
County, N.C.
Born in Gloucester
County, Va., September
28, 1717.
Member of North
Carolina house of commons from Granville County, 1779-81,
1782-84, 1785-86.
Anglican.
English
ancestry.
Died in Warrenton, Warren
County, N.C., September
10, 1801 (age 83 years, 347
days).
Interment at Hawkins Cemetery.
|
|
|