Index to Locations
Near Lynnville McLaurine Cemetery
Pulaski Maplewood Cemetery
Pulaski New Pulaski Cemetery
McLaurine
Cemetery
Near Lynnville, Giles County, Tennessee
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Robert Malone Bugg (1805-1887) —
also known as Robert M. Bugg —
of Lynnville, Giles
County, Tenn.
Born in Boydton, Mecklenburg
County, Va., January
20, 1805.
School
teacher; member of Tennessee
state house of representatives, 1851-52; U.S.
Representative from Tennessee 7th District, 1853-55; member of Tennessee
state senate, 1871-72.
Slaveowner.
Died in Lynnville, Giles
County, Tenn., February
18, 1887 (age 82 years, 29
days).
Interment at McLaurine Cemetery.
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Maplewood
Cemetery
Pulaski, Giles County, Tennessee
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John Calvin Brown (1827-1889) —
also known as John C. Brown —
of Pulaski, Giles
County, Tenn.
Born in Giles
County, Tenn., January
6, 1827.
Democrat. Lawyer;
Presidential Elector for Tennessee, 1860;
general in the Confederate Army during the Civil War; delegate
to Tennessee state constitutional convention, 1870; Governor of
Tennessee, 1871-75; president, Texas and Pacific Railroad;
president, Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad
Company; president, Bon Air Coal
Company; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Tennessee,
1876
(member, Resolutions
Committee), 1888.
Died in Red Boiling Springs, Macon
County, Tenn., August
17, 1889 (age 62 years, 223
days).
Interment at Maplewood Cemetery.
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Ross Bass (1918-1993) —
of Pulaski, Giles
County, Tenn.; Miami Shores, Dade County (now Miami-Dade
County), Fla.
Born in Giles
County, Tenn., March
17, 1918.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army Air Force in World War II; florist;
soft
drink bottler; postmaster;
U.S.
Representative from Tennessee 6th District, 1955-64; defeated,
1976; U.S.
Senator from Tennessee, 1964-67.
Methodist.
Member, American
Legion; Forty and
Eight; Veterans of
Foreign Wars; Kiwanis;
Elks.
Died January
1, 1993 (age 74 years, 290
days).
Interment at Maplewood Cemetery.
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Edward Everett Eslick (1872-1932) —
also known as Edward E. Eslick —
of Pulaski, Giles
County, Tenn.
Born near Pulaski, Giles
County, Tenn., April
19, 1872.
Democrat. Lawyer;
alternate delegate to Democratic National Convention from Tennessee,
1916;
U.S.
Representative from Tennessee 7th District, 1925-32; died in
office 1932.
Died suddenly while addressing the U.S. House of
Representatives, in the U.S. Capitol
Building, Washington,
D.C., June 14,
1932 (age 60 years, 56
days).
Interment at Maplewood Cemetery.
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James McCallum (1806-1889) —
of Tennessee.
Born in Robeson
County, N.C., October
3, 1806.
Member of Tennessee state legislature, 1861-63; Representative
from Tennessee in the Confederate Congress, 1864-65.
Presbyterian.
Member, Freemasons.
Died in Pulaski, Giles
County, Tenn., September
16, 1889 (age 82 years, 348
days).
Interment at Maplewood Cemetery.
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Thomas McKissick Jones (1816-1892) —
also known as Thomas M. Jones —
of Pulaski, Giles
County, Tenn.
Born in Person
County, N.C., December
16, 1816.
Democrat. Member of Tennessee
state house of representatives, 1840; member of Tennessee
state senate, 1840; Delegate
from Tennessee to the Confederate Provisional Congress, 1861-62;
in 1865, the Ku Klux Klan was organized in his law office; delegate
to Tennessee state constitutional convention, 1870; state court
judge in Tennessee, 1872-73; delegate to Democratic National
Convention from Tennessee, 1880
(member, Credentials
Committee).
Member, Freemasons;
Knights
Templar.
Died in Pulaski, Giles
County, Tenn., March
13, 1892 (age 75 years, 88
days).
Interment at Maplewood Cemetery.
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Willa Blake Eslick (1878-1961) —
also known as Willa B. Eslick; Willa McCord
Blake —
of Pulaski, Giles
County, Tenn.
Born in Fayetteville, Lincoln
County, Tenn., September
8, 1878.
Democrat. U.S.
Representative from Tennessee 7th District, 1932-33.
Female.
Methodist.
Member, American
Association of University Women; Daughters of the
American Revolution; United
Daughters of the Confederacy; Order of the
Eastern Star.
Died in Pulaski, Giles
County, Tenn., February
18, 1961 (age 82 years, 163
days).
Interment at Maplewood Cemetery.
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New Pulaski
Cemetery
Pulaski, Giles County, Tennessee
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John Goff Ballentine (1825-1915) —
of Tennessee.
Born in Pulaski, Giles
County, Tenn., May 20,
1825.
Democrat. Lawyer;
colonel in the Confederate Army during the Civil War; U.S.
Representative from Tennessee 7th District, 1883-87.
Slaveowner.
Died in Pulaski, Giles
County, Tenn., November
23, 1915 (age 90 years, 187
days).
Interment at New Pulaski Cemetery.
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