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Fairfield County
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Cemeteries and Memorial Sites of Politicians in Fairfield County

Index to Locations Berne Township St. Mary Cemetery Lancaster Elmwood Cemetery Lancaster Forest Rose Cemetery Lancaster St. Mary's Cemetery St. Mary Cemetery South Broad Street Berne Township, Fairfield County, Ohio Politicians buried here:   Hugh Boyle Ewing (1826-1905) — also known as Hugh Ewing — of Kansas. Born October 31, 1826. General in the Union Army during the Civil War; U.S. Minister to Netherlands, 1866-70. Died June 30, 1905 (age 78 years, 242 days). Interment at St. Mary Cemetery.   Cross-reference: Albert Rhodes   See also U.S. State Dept career summary Elmwood Cemetery Lancaster, Fairfield County, Ohio Politicians buried here:   William Medill (1802-1865) — of Fairfield County, Ohio. Born in Delaware, February, 1802. Democrat. Member of Ohio state legislature, 1830; U.S. Representative from Ohio 9th District, 1839-43; defeated, 1843 (9th District), 1856 (11th District); delegate to Ohio state constitutional convention from Fairfield County, 1850-51; Lieutenant Governor of Ohio, 1852-53; Governor of Ohio, 1853-56; defeated, 1855. Died September 2, 1865 (age 63 years, 0 days). Interment at Elmwood Cemetery.   See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — National Governors Association biography — OurCampaigns candidate detail   William White Irvin (1779-1842) — also known as William W. Irvin — of Lancaster, Fairfield County, Ohio. Born near Charlottesville, Albemarle County, Va., April 5, 1779. Democrat. Lawyer; common pleas court judge in Ohio, 1803-04; impeached and removed from office as judge by the state legislature, 1804; member of Ohio state house of representatives, 1806-07, 1825-27; Speaker of the Ohio State House of Representatives, 1825-26; justice of Ohio state supreme court, 1811-18; candidate for Governor of Ohio, 1822; U.S. Representative from Ohio 9th District, 1829-33. Member, Freemasons. Died in Lancaster, Fairfield County, Ohio, March 27, 1842 (age 62 years, 356 days). Interment at Elmwood Cemetery.   Relatives: Son of William Joseph Irvine and Elizabeth (Holt) Irvine; married, February 2, 1813, to Elizabeth Brown Gillespie (sister-in-law of Philemon Beecher).   Political family: Beecher-Irvin-Gillespie family of Lancaster, Ohio.   See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — Wikipedia article — Find-A-Grave memorial   Philemon Beecher (1776-1839) — of Lancaster, Fairfield County, Ohio. Born in Oxford, New Haven County, Conn., March 19, 1776. Lawyer; member of Ohio state house of representatives from Fairfield County, 1803, 1805-08; Speaker of the Ohio State House of Representatives, 1807-08; U.S. Representative from Ohio, 1817-21, 1823-29 (5th District 1817-21, 9th District 1823-29). Died in Lancaster, Fairfield County, Ohio, November 30, 1839 (age 63 years, 256 days). Interment at Elmwood Cemetery.   Relatives: Son of Abraham Beecher and Desire (Tolles) Beecher; married to Susan Gillespie (sister-in-law of William White Irvin); father of Maria Louisa Beecher (who married Philadelph Van Trump).   Political family: Beecher-Irvin-Gillespie family of Lancaster, Ohio.   See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — Wikipedia article — Find-A-Grave memorial   Philadelph Van Trump (1810-1874) — also known as Phil Van Trump — of Ohio. Born in Lancaster, Fairfield County, Ohio, November 15, 1810. Newspaper editor; lawyer; delegate to Whig National Convention from Ohio, 1852; American candidate for Governor of Ohio, 1857; common pleas court judge in Ohio, 1862-67; U.S. Representative from Ohio 12th District, 1867-73; defeated (Whig), 1850. Died in Lancaster, Fairfield County, Ohio, July 31, 1874 (age 63 years, 258 days). Interment at Elmwood Cemetery.   Relatives: Married, January 16, 1837, to Marie Louisa Beecher (daughter of Philemon Beecher).   Political family: Beecher-Irvin-Gillespie family of Lancaster, Ohio.   See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — OurCampaigns candidate detail   Charles Robert Sherman (1788-1829) — of New Lancaster (now Lancaster), Fairfield County, Ohio. Born in Norwalk, Fairfield County, Conn., September 17, 1788. Lawyer; justice of Ohio state supreme court, 1823-29; died in office 1829. Died in Lebanon, Warren County, Ohio, June 24, 1829 (age 40 years, 280 days). Interment at Elmwood Cemetery.   Relatives: Son of Taylor Sherman and Elizabeth (Stoddard) Sherman; married, May 8, 1810, to Mary Hoyt; father of Charles Taylor Sherman, William Tecumseh Sherman, Lampson Parker Sherman and John Sherman; grandfather of Mary Hoyt Sherman (who married Nelson Appleton Miles); fifth great-grandson of Thomas Welles; second cousin once removed of Phineas Taylor Barnum; second cousin twice removed of Pierpont Edwards, Aaron Burr, Ezekiel Gilbert Stoddard and Blanche M. Woodward; second cousin thrice removed of Louis Ezekiel Stoddard; third cousin once removed of John Davenport, James Davenport, Theodore Dwight, Henry Waggaman Edwards, Philo Fairchild Barnum and Andrew Gould Chatfield; third cousin twice removed of Chauncey Goodrich, Elizur Goodrich and Chauncey Mitchell Depew; third cousin thrice removed of Samuel Huntington; fourth cousin of Theodore Davenport and David Lowrey Seymour; fourth cousin once removed of Gershom Birdsey, Morris Woodruff, Benjamin Hard, Gideon Hard, James Samuel Wadsworth, Alfred Peck Edgerton, John Appleton, Joseph Ketchum Edgerton, Joseph Pomeroy Root, Bushrod Ebenezer Hoppin, Caleb Seymour Pitkin and Edward Williams Hooker.   Political family: Seymour family of New York and Connecticut (subset of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).   See also Find-A-Grave memorial Forest Rose Cemetery Lancaster, Fairfield County, Ohio Politicians buried here:   Charles Drake Martin (1829-1911) — also known as Charles D. Martin — of Lancaster, Fairfield County, Ohio. Born in Mt. Vernon, Knox County, Ohio, August 5, 1829. Democrat. Lawyer; U.S. Representative from Ohio 11th District, 1859-61; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Ohio, 1880; member, Ohio Supreme Court Commission, 1883-85. Died in Lancaster, Fairfield County, Ohio, August 27, 1911 (age 82 years, 22 days). Interment at Forest Rose Cemetery.   See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — Wikipedia article St. Mary's Cemetery Lancaster, Fairfield County, Ohio Politicians buried here:   Thomas Ewing (1789-1871) — of Lancaster, Fairfield County, Ohio. Born near West Liberty, Ohio County, Va. (now W.Va.), December 28, 1789. U.S. Senator from Ohio, 1831-37, 1850-51; U.S. Secretary of the Treasury, 1841; U.S. Secretary of the Interior, 1849-50. Died in Lancaster, Fairfield County, Ohio, October 26, 1871 (age 81 years, 302 days). Interment at St. Mary's Cemetery.   Relatives: Father of Eleanor Boyle Ewing (who married William Tecumseh Sherman) and Thomas Ewing (1829-1896); grandfather of Thomas Ewing Jr..   Political families: Seymour family of New York and Connecticut; Ewing family of Yonkers and New York City, New York (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).   See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — Wikipedia article — NNDB dossier   Peter Francis Hammond (1887-1971) — of Ohio. Born in Lancaster, Fairfield County, Ohio, June 30, 1887. Democrat. U.S. Representative from Ohio 11th District, 1936-37. Died in Lancaster, Fairfield County, Ohio, April 2, 1971 (age 83 years, 276 days). Interment at St. Mary's Cemetery.   See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page

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