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Index to Locations
Chillicothe Unknown location
Chillicothe Adena Estate Cemetery
Chillicothe Grandview Cemetery
Chillicothe Greenlawn Cemetery
Twin Township Twin Township
Cemetery
Yellow Bud Yellow Bud Cemetery
Unknown
Location
Chillicothe, Ross County, Ohio
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William Sumpter Murphy (c.1796-1844) —
also known as William S. Murphy; "Patrick Henry of the
West" —
of Chillicothe, Ross
County, Ohio.
Born in South Carolina, about 1796.
Whig. Lawyer;
delegate to Whig National Convention from Ohio, 1839; U.S. Charge
d'Affaires to Texas Republic, 1843-44, died in office 1844.
Died, of yellow
fever, in Galveston, Galveston
County, Tex., July 13,
1844 (age about 48
years).
Original interment and cenotaph at Trinity
Episcopal Cemetery, Galveston, Tex.; reinterment somewhere.
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Adena Estate
Cemetery
Chillicothe, Ross County, Ohio
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Thomas Worthington (1773-1827) —
of Chillicothe, Ross
County, Ohio.
Born in Charles Town, Jefferson
County, Va. (now W.Va.), July 16,
1773.
Democrat. Member of Northwest
Territory House of Representatives, 1799-1803; delegate
to Ohio state constitutional convention from Ross County, 1802;
register
of U.S. Land Office at Chillicothe, Ohio, 1802; U.S.
Senator from Ohio, 1803-07, 1810-14; member of Ohio
state house of representatives, 1807, 1821-22; Governor of
Ohio, 1814-18; defeated, 1808, 1810.
Slaveowner.
Died in New York, New York
County, N.Y., June 20,
1827 (age 53 years, 339
days).
Original interment at Adena Estate Cemetery; reinterment at Grandview Cemetery.
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Grandview
Cemetery
240 South Walnut Street
Chillicothe, Ross County, Ohio
Listed in National Register of Historic Places, 1978
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Thomas Worthington (1773-1827) —
of Chillicothe, Ross
County, Ohio.
Born in Charles Town, Jefferson
County, Va. (now W.Va.), July 16,
1773.
Democrat. Member of Northwest
Territory House of Representatives, 1799-1803; delegate
to Ohio state constitutional convention from Ross County, 1802;
register
of U.S. Land Office at Chillicothe, Ohio, 1802; U.S.
Senator from Ohio, 1803-07, 1810-14; member of Ohio
state house of representatives, 1807, 1821-22; Governor of
Ohio, 1814-18; defeated, 1808, 1810.
Slaveowner.
Died in New York, New York
County, N.Y., June 20,
1827 (age 53 years, 339
days).
Original interment at Adena Estate Cemetery;
reinterment at Grandview Cemetery.
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Edward Tiffin (1766-1829) —
of Charles Town, Jefferson
County, Va. (now W.Va.); Chillicothe, Ross
County, Ohio.
Born in Carlisle, England,
June
19, 1766.
Democrat. Physician;
minister;
member of Northwest
Territory legislature, 1799-1801; delegate
to Ohio state constitutional convention from Ross County, 1802;
Governor
of Ohio, 1803-07; U.S.
Senator from Ohio, 1807-09; resigned 1808; member of Ohio
state house of representatives, 1809-11; Commissioner of the
General Land Office, 1812-14; U.S. Surveyor-General for
Ohio-Indiana-Michigan, 1814-29.
Methodist.
English
ancestry.
Slaveowner.
Died in Chillicothe, Ross
County, Ohio, August
9, 1829 (age 63 years, 51
days).
Interment at Grandview Cemetery.
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William Allen (1803-1879) —
also known as "Earthquake Allen"; "Petticoat
Allen"; "The Fog Horn"; "The Ohio
Gong"; "Rise Up William Allen" —
of Ohio.
Born in Edenton, Chowan
County, N.C., December
27, 1803.
Democrat. Lawyer; U.S.
Representative from Ohio 7th District, 1833-35; U.S.
Senator from Ohio, 1837-49; delegate to Democratic National
Convention from Ohio, 1864;
Governor
of Ohio, 1874-76.
Died near Chillicothe, Ross
County, Ohio, July 11,
1879 (age 75 years, 196
days).
Interment at Grandview Cemetery.
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Duncan McArthur (1772-1839) —
of Chillicothe, Ross
County, Ohio.
Born in Dutchess
County, N.Y., June 14,
1772.
Democrat. Member of Ohio
state house of representatives, 1804; member of Ohio
state senate, 1805-13 (Ross and Franklin counties 1805-07, Ross,
Franklin and Highland counties 1807-08, Ross County 1808-13); colonel
in the U.S. Army during the War of 1812; U.S.
Representative from Ohio, 1813, 1823-25 (3rd District 1813, 6th
District 1823-25); Governor of
Ohio, 1830-32.
Scottish
ancestry.
Died April
29, 1839 (age 66 years, 319
days).
Interment at Grandview Cemetery.
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William Creighton Jr. (1778-1851) —
of Chillicothe, Ross
County, Ohio.
Born in Berkeley
County, Va. (now W.Va.), October
29, 1778.
Democrat. Secretary
of state of Ohio, 1803-08; member of Ohio
state house of representatives, 1810; U.S.
Representative from Ohio, 1813-17, 1827-28, 1829-33 (3rd District
1813-17, 6th District 1827-28, 1829-33).
Died in Chillicothe, Ross
County, Ohio, October
1, 1851 (age 72 years, 337
days).
Interment at Grandview Cemetery.
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Horatio Clifford Claypool (1859-1921) —
also known as Horatio C. Claypool —
of Ohio.
Born in McArthur, Vinton
County, Ohio, February
9, 1859.
Democrat. Probate judge in Ohio, 1905; U.S.
Representative from Ohio 11th District, 1911-15, 1917-19.
Died in Columbus, Franklin
County, Ohio, January
19, 1921 (age 61 years, 345
days).
Interment at Grandview Cemetery.
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Lawrence Talbot Neal (1844-1905) —
also known as Lawrence T. Neal —
of Chillicothe, Ross
County, Ohio.
Born in Parkersburg, Wood
County, Va. (now W.Va.), September
22, 1844.
Democrat. Lawyer; Ross
County Prosecuting Attorney, 1871-72; U.S.
Representative from Ohio 7th District, 1873-77; delegate to
Democratic National Convention from Ohio, 1880,
1888
(member, Resolutions
Committee), 1892;
candidate for Ohio
state senate, 1887; candidate for Governor of
Ohio, 1893.
Died in Chillicothe, Ross
County, Ohio, November
2, 1905 (age 61 years, 41
days).
Interment at Grandview Cemetery.
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Albert Douglas (1852-1935) —
of Chillicothe, Ross
County, Ohio.
Born in Chillicothe, Ross
County, Ohio, April
25, 1852.
Republican. Lawyer; Ross
County Prosecuting Attorney, 1877-81; candidate for Presidential
Elector for Ohio; U.S.
Representative from Ohio 11th District, 1907-11; defeated, 1910,
1912.
Died in Washington,
D.C., March
14, 1935 (age 82 years, 323
days).
Interment at Grandview Cemetery.
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Joseph Miller (1819-1862) —
of Chillicothe, Ross
County, Ohio.
Born in Chillicothe, Ross
County, Ohio, September
9, 1819.
Democrat. Lawyer;
member of Ohio
state house of representatives, 1856; U.S.
Representative from Ohio 10th District, 1857-59; justice of
Nebraska territorial supreme court, 1859-60.
Died May 27,
1862 (age 42 years, 260
days).
Interment at Grandview Cemetery.
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Harold Kile Claypool (1886-1958) —
also known as Harold K. Claypool —
of Chillicothe, Ross
County, Ohio.
Born in Bainbridge, Ross
County, Ohio, June 2,
1886.
Democrat. U.S.
Representative from Ohio 11th District, 1937-43.
Presbyterian.
Member, Elks; Eagles.
Died in Chillicothe, Ross
County, Ohio, August
2, 1958 (age 72 years, 61
days).
Interment at Grandview Cemetery.
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Carey Allen Trimble (1813-1887) —
of Ohio.
Born in Ohio, 1813.
Republican. U.S.
Representative from Ohio 10th District, 1859-63.
Died in 1887
(age about
74 years).
Interment at Grandview Cemetery.
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John Inskeep Vanmeter (1798-1875) —
also known as John I. Vanmeter —
of Ohio.
Born in Virginia, 1798.
Whig. Member of Ohio state legislature, 1830; candidate for
Presidential Elector for Ohio; U.S.
Representative from Ohio 8th District, 1843-45.
Died in 1875
(age about
77 years).
Interment at Grandview Cemetery.
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Nathaniel Massie —
of Chillicothe, Ross
County, Ohio.
Served in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War; delegate
to Ohio state constitutional convention from Ross County, 1802;
member of Ohio
state senate from Ross County, 1803-04; Speaker
of the Ohio State Senate, 1803-04; candidate for Presidential
Elector for Ohio; candidate for Governor of
Ohio, 1806.
Founder of Chillicothe.
Interment at Grandview Cemetery.
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Greenlawn
Cemetery
Chillicothe, Ross County, Ohio
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Jason Kellogg (1754-1821) —
of Hampton, Washington
County, N.Y.
Born in Sheffield, Berkshire
County, Mass., February
11, 1754.
Served in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War; member
of New York
state assembly, 1801-03, 1804-05, 1806-07, 1809-10, 1812-13,
1817-18 (Washington County 1801-03, 1804-05, 1806-07, 1809-10,
1812-13, Washington and Warren counties 1817-18).
Presbyterian.
Died in Chillicothe, Ross
County, Ohio, September
5, 1821 (age 67 years, 206
days).
Interment at Greenlawn Cemetery.
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Relatives: Son
of Rebecca (Munn) Kellogg and Elisha Kellogg; married to Mariam
Dewey; married, September
4, 1790, to Martha (Benedict) Sackett; married, May 8,
1816, to Lucretia (Dart) Rockwell; father of Silas
Dewey Kellogg; granduncle of Charles
Adams Jr.; great-grandfather of Charles
Collins Kellogg; second cousin of Orsamus
Cook Merrill and Timothy
Merrill; second cousin once removed of Aaron
Kellogg and Farrand
Fassett Merrill; second cousin twice removed of William
Pitt Kellogg; second cousin thrice removed of Henry
Theodore Kellogg; third cousin of Charles
Kellogg (1773-1842) and Daniel
Fiske Kellogg; third cousin once removed of Luther
Walter Badger, Greene
Carrier Bronson, Chester
Ashley, Daniel
Kellogg (1791-1875), Alvan
Kellogg, Alvah
Nash, John
Russell Kellogg, Day
Otis Kellogg, Dwight
Kellogg, George
Smith Catlin, Albert
Gallatin Kellogg, Francis
William Kellogg, Ensign
Hosmer Kellogg and Charles
Kellogg (1839-1903); third cousin twice removed of Orlando
Kellogg, William
Dean Kellogg, Stephen
Wright Kellogg, George
Bradley Kellogg, Daniel
Kellogg (1835-1918), Arthur
Tappan Kellogg and Selah
Merrill; third cousin thrice removed of Rowland
Case Kellogg, Frank
Billings Kellogg, William
Lucius Case, Clement
Phineas Kellogg, Edward
Russell Kellogg, Edward
Stanley Kellogg and Franklin
Warren Kellogg; fourth cousin of Gaylord
Griswold, Jeremiah
Mason, Stephen
Daniel Tilden and Elisha
Phelps; fourth cousin once removed of Hezekiah
Case, Joseph
Churchill Strong, Calvin
Frisbie, Amaziah
Brainard, DeGrasse
Maltby, Henry
Taintor, Daniel
Rose Tilden, Norman
A. Phelps, John
Smith Phelps and Lucretia
Garfield. |
| | | Political family: Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin
family of Connecticut and New York (subset of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | See also Find-A-Grave
memorial |
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Twin Township
Cemetery
Twin Township, Ross County, Ohio
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Myrl Howard Shoemaker (1913-1985) —
also known as Myrl H. Shoemaker —
of Ross
County, Ohio.
Born in Chillicothe, Ross
County, Ohio, April
14, 1913.
Democrat. Member of Ohio
state house of representatives, 1959-82; defeated, 1956; Lieutenant
Governor of Ohio, 1983-85; died in office 1985.
Died in Bourneville, Ross
County, Ohio, July 30,
1985 (age 72 years, 107
days).
Interment at Twin Township Cemetery.
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Yellow Bud
Cemetery
Yellow Bud, Ross County, Ohio
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Job Evans Stevenson (1832-1922) —
of Ohio.
Born in Ohio, 1832.
Republican. Member of Ohio state legislature, 1860; U.S.
Representative from Ohio 2nd District, 1869-73; defeated, 1874.
Died in 1922
(age about
90 years).
Interment at Yellow Bud Cemetery.
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