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Logan County
Ohio

Cemeteries and Memorial Sites of Politicians in Logan County

Index to Locations Belle Center Unknown location Bellefontaine Bellefontaine Cemetery Rushsylvania Equality Cemetery Unknown Location Belle Center, Logan County, Ohio Politicians buried here:   David A. Liggitt — of Belle Center, Logan County, Ohio. Republican. Member of Ohio state senate, 1920; candidate for Lieutenant Governor of Ohio, 1924. Interment somewhere.   Relatives: Married to Ada Belle O'Connell. Bellefontaine Cemetery 632 East Brown Ave. Bellefontaine, Logan County, Ohio See also Findagrave page for this location. Politicians buried here:   William Lawrence (1819-1899) — of Bellefontaine, Logan County, Ohio. Born in Mt. Pleasant, Jefferson County, Ohio, June 26, 1819. Republican. Member of Ohio state house of representatives, 1846; member of Ohio state senate, 1849; state court judge in Ohio, 1857; U.S. Representative from Ohio, 1865-71, 1873-77 (4th District 1865-71, 8th District 1873-77). Died May 8, 1899 (age 79 years, 316 days). Interment at Bellefontaine Cemetery.   See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — Find-A-Grave memorial   Robert Patterson Kennedy (1840-1918) — also known as Robert P. Kennedy — of Bellefontaine, Logan County, Ohio. Born in Bellefontaine, Logan County, Ohio, January 23, 1840. Republican. Colonel in the Union Army during the Civil War; lawyer; U.S. Collector of Internal Revenue for the 4th Ohio District, 1879; Lieutenant Governor of Ohio, 1886-87; U.S. Representative from Ohio 8th District, 1887-91. Died May 6, 1918 (age 78 years, 103 days). Interment at Bellefontaine Cemetery.   See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — Find-A-Grave memorial   William H. West — of Bellefontaine, Logan County, Ohio. Republican. Delegate to Republican National Convention from Ohio, 1860; Ohio state attorney general, 1866-68; justice of Ohio state supreme court, 1872-73; delegate to Ohio state constitutional convention from Logan County, 1873. Interment at Bellefontaine Cemetery.   Relatives: Uncle of Samuel H. West.   See also Wikipedia article   Theodosius Botkin (1846-1918) — of Kansas; Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County, Utah. Born in Catawba, Clark County, Ohio, June 25, 1846. Served in the Union Army during the Civil War; lawyer; mining business; member of Kansas state legislature, 1880; served in the U.S. Army during the Spanish-American War; U.S. Consul in Campbellton, 1907-18, died in office 1918. Died in Campbellton, New Brunswick, May 27, 1918 (age 71 years, 336 days). Interment at Bellefontaine Cemetery.   See also Find-A-Grave memorial   Isaac Newton Zearing (1845-1937) — also known as I. Newton Zearing — of Bellefontaine, Logan County, Ohio. Born in 1845. Republican. Postmaster at Bellefontaine, Ohio, 1891, 1901; alternate delegate to Republican National Convention from Ohio, 1916, 1928; candidate for Presidential Elector for Ohio. Died in 1937 (age about 92 years). Interment at Bellefontaine Cemetery.   Presumably named for: Isaac Newton   See also Find-A-Grave memorial Equality Cemetery Rushsylvania, Logan County, Ohio Politicians buried here: Aaron Sherman Watkins (1863-1941) — also known as Aaron S. Watkins — of Wilmore, Jessamine County, Ky.; Van Wert, Van Wert County, Ohio; Columbus Grove, Putnam County, Ohio; Germantown, Montgomery County, Ohio; Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio. Born in Rushsylvania, Logan County, Ohio, November 29, 1863. School teacher; lawyer; Methodist minister; university professor; Prohibition candidate for U.S. Representative from Ohio 9th District, 1904; Prohibition candidate for Governor of Ohio, 1905, 1922, 1932; Prohibition candidate for Vice President of the United States, 1908, 1912; president, Asbury College, 1909-10; Prohibition candidate for U.S. Senator from Ohio, 1916; Prohibition candidate for President of the United States, 1920. Methodist. Died in Rushsylvania, Logan County, Ohio, February 9, 1941 (age 77 years, 72 days). Interment at Equality Cemetery.   Relatives: Son of William White Watkins and Rebecca J. (Elliott) Watkins; married, November 8, 1890, to Emma L. Davis; grandfather of W. Dean Watkins.   See also Wikipedia article — Find-A-Grave memorial   Image source: American Monthly Review of Reviews, September 1908

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