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Crawford County
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Cemeteries and Memorial Sites of Politicians in Crawford County

Index to Locations Bucyrus Oakwood Cemetery Dallas Township Monnett Chapel Graveyard Oakwood Cemetery 835 Kaler Avenue Bucyrus, Crawford County, Ohio Founded 1858 See also Findagrave page for this location. Politicians buried here:   Ebenezer Byron Finley (1833-1916) — also known as Ebenezer Finley — of Bucyrus, Crawford County, Ohio. Born in Orrville, Wayne County, Ohio, July 31, 1833. Democrat. U.S. Representative from Ohio, 1877-81 (14th District 1877-79, 8th District 1879-81); circuit judge in Ohio 3rd Circuit, 1896-97. Died in Bucyrus, Crawford County, Ohio, August 22, 1916 (age 83 years, 22 days). Interment at Oakwood Cemetery.   Relatives: Married to Charlotte E. Codding; nephew of Stephen Ross Harris.   See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — Find-A-Grave memorial   George Sweney (1796-1877) — of Bucyrus, Crawford County, Ohio. Born near Gettysburg, Adams County, Pa., February 22, 1796. Democrat. Lawyer; U.S. Representative from Ohio 14th District, 1839-43. Died in Bucyrus, Crawford County, Ohio, October 10, 1877 (age 81 years, 230 days). Interment at Oakwood Cemetery.   Relatives: Married to Rebecca Hetich.   See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — Find-A-Grave memorial   Stephen Ross Harris (1824-1905) — also known as Stephen R. Harris; "Uncle Stephen" — of Bucyrus, Crawford County, Ohio. Born near Massillon, Stark County, Ohio, May 22, 1824. Republican. Mayor of Bucyrus, Ohio, 1852; U.S. Representative from Ohio 13th District, 1895-97. Died in Bucyrus, Crawford County, Ohio, January 15, 1905 (age 80 years, 238 days). Interment at Oakwood Cemetery.   Relatives: Married to Mary J. Monnett; uncle of Ebenezer Byron Finley.   Cross-reference: John E. Hopley   See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — Find-A-Grave memorial   John Edward Hopley (1850-1927) — also known as John E. Hopley — of Bucyrus, Crawford County, Ohio. Born in Elkton, Todd County, Ky., August 25, 1850. Republican. Newspaper editor; lawyer; campaign manager and then private secretary to U.S. Rep. Stephen R. Harris, 1895-97; U.S. Consul in Southampton, 1898-1903; Montevideo, 1903-05; Republican candidate for Presidential Elector for Ohio, 1912; candidate for U.S. Representative from Ohio 8th District, 1914. Presbyterian. Member, Freemasons; Royal Arch Masons; Royal and Select Masters; Order of the Eastern Star; Knights Templar; Elks. As a bedridden invalid, smoking a pipe, he accidentally dropped the pipe, his clothes caught fire, and he was badly burned; his burns became infected, leading to his death a few days later, in Bucyrus, Crawford County, Ohio, July 10, 1927 (age 76 years, 319 days). Interment at Oakwood Cemetery.   Relatives: Son of John Prat Hopley and Georgianna (Rochester) Hopley; brother of Thomas Prat Hopley and James Richard Hopley.   Political family: Hopley family of Bucyrus, Ohio.   Hopley Avenue, in Bucyrus, Ohio, is named for him.   See also Find-A-Grave memorial   Thomas Prat Hopley (1854-1934) — also known as Thomas P. Hopley — of Enid, Garfield County, Okla. Born in Logan, Hocking County, Ohio, November 13, 1854. Newspaper editor; Independent candidate for U.S. Representative from Oklahoma 8th District, 1922; Independent candidate for U.S. Senator from Oklahoma, 1926, 1930, 1932. Died in Enid, Garfield County, Okla., March 14, 1934 (age 79 years, 121 days). Interment at Oakwood Cemetery.   Relatives: Son of John Prat Hopley and Georgianna (Rochester) Hopley; brother of John Edward Hopley and James Richard Hopley; married 1897 to Rosa Jeanette Curtis.   Political family: Hopley family of Bucyrus, Ohio.   See also Find-A-Grave memorial   James Richard Hopley (1863-1954) — also known as James R. Hopley — of Bucyrus, Crawford County, Ohio. Born in Bucyrus, Crawford County, Ohio, August 1, 1863. Republican. Postmaster at Bucyrus, Ohio, 1911; candidate for U.S. Representative from Ohio 8th District, 1926; alternate delegate to Republican National Convention from Ohio, 1928. Died in Bucyrus, Crawford County, Ohio, August 9, 1954 (age 91 years, 8 days). Interment at Oakwood Cemetery.   Relatives: Son of John Prat Hopley and Georgianna (Rochester) Hopley; brother of John Edward Hopley and Thomas Prat Hopley; married to Elizabeth Sheppard and Pearl G. Shafer; married 1938 to Idah May Boyer.   Political family: Hopley family of Bucyrus, Ohio.   See also Find-A-Grave memorial   John Prat Hopley (1821-1904) — also known as John Hopley — of Bucyrus, Crawford County, Ohio. Born in Whitstable, Kent, England, May 21, 1821. School teacher; superintendent of schools; lawyer; bank examiner; newspaper publisher; postmaster at Bucyrus, Ohio, 1870-79, 1890-94. Died in Bucyrus, Crawford County, Ohio, June 3, 1904 (age 83 years, 13 days). Interment at Oakwood Cemetery.   Relatives: Married, April 19, 1848, to Georgianna Rochester; father of John Edward Hopley, Thomas Prat Hopley and James Richard Hopley.   Political family: Hopley family of Bucyrus, Ohio.   See also Find-A-Grave memorial   Jacob Babst (1846-1926) — of Crestline, Crawford County, Ohio. Born February 11, 1846. Republican. Alternate delegate to Republican National Convention from Ohio, 1916. Died August 20, 1926 (age 80 years, 190 days). Interment at Oakwood Cemetery.   See also Find-A-Grave memorial Clarence Ulmond Ahl (1893-1972) — of Bucyrus, Crawford County, Ohio. Born in Bucyrus, Crawford County, Ohio, February 19, 1893. Democrat. Lawyer; chair of Crawford County Democratic Party, 1915-17; served in the U.S. Army during World War I. Member, Eagles; Moose; American Legion. Died December 2, 1972 (age 79 years, 287 days). Interment at Oakwood Cemetery.   Relatives: Son of William Ahl and Caroline (Graff) Ahl; married, June 11, 1919, to Anna Mary Smith.   See also Find-A-Grave memorial   Image source: Bench and Bar of Northern Ohio (1921) Politicians formerly buried here:   Lawrence Washington Hall (1819-1863) — of Bucyrus, Crawford County, Ohio. Born in Lake County, Ohio, 1819. Democrat. Lawyer; common pleas court judge in Ohio, 1852-57; U.S. Representative from Ohio 9th District, 1857-59; defeated, 1858. Imprisoned for alleged disloyalty to the Union in 1862. Died of a lung hemorrhage, Bucyrus, Crawford County, Ohio, January 18, 1863 (age about 43 years). Original interment at Oakwood Cemetery; reinterment at Forest Lawn Cemetery, Buffalo, N.Y.   See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page Monnett Chapel Graveyard Dallas Township, Crawford County, Ohio Politicians buried here:   Frank Sylvestor Monnett (b. 1857) — also known as Frank S. Monnett — of Crawford County, Ohio. Born in Kenton, Hardin County, Ohio, March 19, 1857. Lawyer; Ohio state attorney general, 1896-1900; defeated in Democratic primary, 1926; Democratic candidate for U.S. Representative from Ohio 12th District, 1910; in 1915, when the U.S. was still neutral in World War I, he was a committee chair in "Labor's National Peace Council," which advocated a weapons embargo against the countries then at war; the organization secretly received funding from German agents; indicted in December 1915, along with H. Robert Fowler, Frank Buchanan, and others, for restraint of trade over the Peace Council's attempts to foment strikes in U.S. munitions plants; stood trial with seven co-defendants, but during the trial, the charges against him were dismissed. Died in Columbus, Franklin County, Ohio. Interment at Monnett Chapel Graveyard.

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