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Index to Locations
Republican Baptist Church Cemetery
Edgefield Unknown location
Edgefield Edgefield Village
Cemetery
Edgefield Sweetwater Cemetery
Edgefield Willow Brook Cemetery
Johnston Sunset Gardens Memorial
Park
Trenton Ebenezer Cemetery
Republican
Baptist Church Cemetery
Edgefield County, South Carolina
Unknown
Location
Edgefield, Edgefield County, South Carolina
Edgefield Village
Cemetery
Edgefield, Edgefield County, South Carolina
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Francis Hugh Wardlaw (1800-1861) —
of Edgefield, Edgefield District (now Edgefield
County), S.C.
Born in Abbeville, Abbeville District (now Abbeville
County), S.C., December
16, 1800.
Lawyer;
newspaper
editor; delegate
to South Carolina secession convention from Edgefield, 1860-61;
died in office 1861.
Died in Columbia, Richland District (now Richland
County), S.C., May 29,
1861 (age 60 years, 164
days).
Interment at Edgefield Village Cemetery.
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Relatives: Son
of James Wardlaw and Hannah (Clarke) Wardlaw; married to Ann Gresham
Lamar. |
| | | See also Find-A-Grave
memorial |
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Sweetwater
Cemetery
Edgefield, Edgefield County, South Carolina
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Andrew Pickens Butler (1826-1902) —
of Aiken
County, S.C.
Born in Edgefield District (now Edgefield
County), S.C., December
15, 1826.
Democrat. Cotton planter;
colonel in the Confederate Army during the Civil War; member of South
Carolina state senate from Aiken County, 1876-79; resigned 1879;
South Carolina Commissioner of Agriculture, 1879-90.
Member, Grange.
Died in Aiken
County, S.C., May 14,
1902 (age 75 years, 150
days).
Interment at Sweetwater Cemetery.
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Willow Brook
Cemetery
Edgefield, Edgefield County, South Carolina
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James Strom Thurmond (1902-2003) —
also known as Strom Thurmond —
of Edgefield, Edgefield
County, S.C.; Aiken, Aiken
County, S.C.; Columbia, Richland
County, S.C.
Born in Edgefield, Edgefield
County, S.C., December
5, 1902.
School
teacher; superintendent
of schools; lawyer;
member of South
Carolina state senate from Edgefield County, 1933-38; resigned
1938; delegate to Democratic National Convention from South Carolina,
1936,
1948,
1952
(member, Committee
on Rules and Order of Business), 1956;
circuit judge in South Carolina, 1938-46; served in the U.S. Army
during World War II; Governor of
South Carolina, 1947-51; States Rights candidate for President
of the United States, 1948; U.S.
Senator from South Carolina, 1954-56, 1956-2003; received 14
electoral votes for Vice-President, 1960;
delegate to Republican National Convention from South Carolina, 1972,
1988.
Baptist.
Member, American Bar
Association; Freemasons;
Knights
Templar; Shriners;
Pi
Kappa Alpha.
Died in Edgefield, Edgefield
County, S.C., June 26,
2003 (age 100 years,
203 days).
Interment at Willow Brook Cemetery; statue erected 1999 at State
House Grounds, Columbia, S.C.
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Relatives: Son
of John William Thurmond and Eleanor Gertrude Thurmond; married 1968 to Nancy
Janice Moore; married 1947 to Jean
Crouch. |
| | | Cross-reference: Charles
E. Simons, Jr. — Joe
Wilson — John
Light Napier — Robert
Adams |
| | | Strom Thurmond Federal
Building and U.S.
Courthouse, in Columbia,
South Carolina, is named for
him. — Strom Thurmond High
School, in Johnston,
South Carolina, is named for
him. |
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — National
Governors Association biography — Wikipedia
article — NNDB
dossier — OurCampaigns
candidate detail |
| | | Books about Strom Thurmond: Essie May
Washington-Williams, Dear
Senator : A Memoir by the Daughter of Strom Thurmond —
Jack Bass & Marilyn W. Thompson, Strom:
The Complicated Personal and Political Life of Strom
Thurmond — R. J. Duke, The
Centennial Senator: True Stories of Strom Thurmond from the People
Who Knew Him Best — Joseph Crespino, Strom
Thurmond's America |
| | | Image source: Library of
Congress |
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Matthew Calbraith Butler (1836-1909) —
also known as Matthew C. Butler —
of Edgefield, Edgefield
County, S.C.
Born near Greenville, Greenville District (now Greenville
County), S.C., March 8,
1836.
Democrat. Member of South
Carolina state house of representatives, 1860, 1866; general in
the Confederate Army during the Civil War; candidate for Lieutenant
Governor of South Carolina, 1870; U.S.
Senator from South Carolina, 1877-95; delegate to Democratic
National Convention from South Carolina, 1880
(Convention
Vice-President).
Died in Columbia, Richland
County, S.C., April
14, 1909 (age 73 years, 37
days).
Interment at Willow Brook Cemetery.
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Relatives: Son
of William
Butler Jr. and Jane (Perry) Butler; married, February
25, 1858, to Maria Simkins Pickens (daughter of Francis
Wilkinson Pickens); nephew of Oliver Hazard Perry, Matthew
Calbraith Perry, Andrew
Pickens Butler and Pierce
Mason Butler; grandson of William
Butler; first cousin of James
DeWolf Perry and Caroline Slidell Perry (who married August
Belmont (1816-1890)); first cousin once removed of Perry
Belmont, August
Belmont (1853-1924) and Oliver
Hazard Perry Belmont. |
| | | Political families: Butler-Perry-Belmont-Slidell
family of Edgefield, South Carolina; Bradford-DeWolf-Butler-Perry
family of Bristol, Rhode Island (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — Wikipedia article |
| | | Books about Matthew Calbraith Butler:
Samuel J. Martin, Southern
Hero : Matthew Calbraith Butler, Confederate General, Hampton
Redshirt, and U.S. Senator |
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Francis Wilkinson Pickens (1805-1869) —
also known as Francis W. Pickens —
of South Carolina.
Born in Colleton District (now Colleton
County), S.C., April 7,
1805.
Member of South
Carolina state house of representatives, 1832-34; U.S.
Representative from South Carolina, 1834-43 (5th District
1834-37, 6th District 1837-39, 5th District 1839-41, 6th District
1841-43); member of South
Carolina state senate from Edgefield, 1844-46; U.S. Minister to
Russia, 1858-60; Governor of
South Carolina, 1860-62.
Slaveowner.
Died in Edgefield, Edgefield
County, S.C., January
25, 1869 (age 63 years, 293
days).
Interment at Willow Brook Cemetery.
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John Gary Evans (1863-1942) —
of Spartanburg, Spartanburg
County, S.C.
Born in Cokesbury, Abbeville District (now Greenwood
County), S.C., October
15, 1863.
Democrat. Lawyer;
member of South
Carolina state house of representatives from Aiken County,
1889-92; member of South
Carolina state senate from Aiken County, 1892-93; Governor of
South Carolina, 1894-97; delegate
to South Carolina state constitutional convention from Aiken
County, 1895; delegate to Democratic National Convention from South
Carolina, 1896,
1900,
1912,
1916,
1928
(alternate); major in the U.S. Army during the Spanish-American War;
South
Carolina Democratic state chair, 1912-16; member of Democratic
National Committee from South Carolina, 1918-21.
Episcopalian.
Member, American Bar
Association; Delta
Phi.
Died June 27,
1942 (age 78 years, 255
days).
Interment at Willow Brook Cemetery.
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John Calhoun Sheppard (1850-1931) —
also known as John C. Sheppard —
of Edgefield, Edgefield
County, S.C.
Born July 5,
1850.
Democrat. Delegate to Democratic National Convention from South
Carolina, 1876
(member, Credentials
Committee), 1904
(Honorary
Vice-President; speaker);
Governor
of South Carolina, 1886.
Died October
17, 1931 (age 81 years, 104
days).
Interment at Willow Brook Cemetery.
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Preston Smith Brooks (1819-1857) —
also known as Preston S. Brooks —
of Ninety Six, Edgefield District (now Greenwood
County), S.C.
Born in Edgefield, Edgefield District (now Edgefield
County), S.C., August
5, 1819.
Lawyer;
member of South
Carolina state house of representatives, 1844; U.S.
Representative from South Carolina 4th District, 1853-56,
1856-57; died in office 1857.
Suffered a hip wound in a duel
with Louis
T. Wigfall, 1839, and could walk only with
a cane for the rest of his life. In May, 1856, furious over an
anti-slavery speech, he went to the Senate and beat
Senator Charles
Sumner with a cane, causing severe
injuries; an attempt to expel
him from Congress failed for lack of the necessary two-thirds vote,
but he resigned;
re-elected to his own vacancy.
Slaveowner.
Died in Washington,
D.C., January
27, 1857 (age 37 years, 175
days).
Interment at Willow Brook Cemetery; cenotaph at Congressional
Cemetery, Washington, D.C.
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Sunset Gardens
Memorial Park
Johnston, Edgefield County, South Carolina
Ebenezer
Cemetery
Trenton, Edgefield County, South Carolina
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Benjamin Ryan Tillman (1847-1918) —
also known as Benjamin R. Tillman; "Pitchfork
Ben"; "The One-Eyed Plowboy" —
of Trenton, Edgefield
County, S.C.
Born in Edgefield District (now Edgefield
County), S.C., August
11, 1847.
Democrat. Served in the Confederate Army during the Civil War; lost his
left eye in 1864; farmer; Governor of
South Carolina, 1890-94; delegate
to South Carolina state constitutional convention from Edgefield
County, 1895; U.S.
Senator from South Carolina, 1895-1918; died in office 1918; in
Februry, 1902, he accused
fellow South Carolina senator John
McLaurin, of accepting a bribe (in the form of federal patronage)
to support a treaty; McLaurin called Tillman a liar, and the two came to
blows on the Senate floor; both were censured
by the Senate; delegate to Democratic National Convention from South
Carolina, 1904
(member, Platform
and Resolutions Committee), 1912
(member, Platform
and Resolutions Committee), 1916;
member of Democratic
National Committee from South Carolina, 1912-16.
English
ancestry.
Died in Washington,
D.C., July 3,
1918 (age 70 years, 326
days).
Interment at Ebenezer Cemetery; statue at State
House Grounds, Columbia, S.C.
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