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Index to Locations
Private or family graveyards
Ashwood St. John's Cemetery
Carter's Creek Lasting Hope
Cemetery
Columbia Greenwood Cemetery
Columbia Polk Memorial Gardens
Columbia Rose Hill Cemetery
Columbia Zion Cemetery
Private or family
graveyard
Maury County, Tennessee
| Politicians buried
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James Holland (1754-1823) —
of Rutherfordton, Rutherford
County, N.C.; Maury
County, Tenn.
Born in Anson
County, N.C., 1754.
Served in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War; justice
of the peace; member of North
Carolina state senate, 1783, 1797; member of North
Carolina house of commons, 1786, 1789; delegate
to North Carolina convention to ratify U.S. constitution, 1789;
lawyer;
U.S.
Representative from North Carolina, 1795-97, 1801-11 (at-large
1795-97, 1801-03, 11th District 1803-05, at-large 1805-07, 11th
District 1807-09, at-large 1809-11).
Slaveowner.
Died in Maury
County, Tenn., May 19,
1823 (age about 68
years).
Interment in a private or family graveyard.
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St. John's
Cemetery
Ashwood, Maury County, Tennessee
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James Houston Thomas (1808-1876) —
of Tennessee.
Born in Iredell
County, N.C., September
22, 1808.
Democrat. Tennessee
state attorney general, 1836-42; U.S.
Representative from Tennessee 6th District, 1847-51, 1859-61; Delegate
from Tennessee to the Confederate Provisional Congress, 1861-62.
Slaveowner.
Died near Fayetteville, Lincoln
County, Tenn., August
4, 1876 (age 67 years, 317
days).
Interment at St. John's Cemetery.
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Lasting Hope
Cemetery
Carter's Creek, Maury County, Tennessee
See also Findagrave
page for this location.
| Politicians buried
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Francis Willis (1745-1829) —
of Wilkes
County, Ga.; Maury
County, Tenn.
Born in Frederick
County, Va., January
5, 1745.
Colonel in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War; U.S.
Representative from Georgia at-large, 1791-93; candidate for U.S.
Representative from Tennessee 6th District, 1829.
Slaveowner.
Died in Maury
County, Tenn., April 3,
1829 (age 84 years, 88
days).
Interment at Lasting Hope Cemetery.
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Greenwood
Cemetery
Columbia, Maury County, Tennessee
| Politicians buried
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William Hawkins Polk (1815-1862) —
of Tennessee.
Born in Maury
County, Tenn., May 24,
1815.
Democrat. Member of Tennessee
state house of representatives, 1842-45; U.S. Charge d'Affaires
to Two Sicilies, 1845-47; major in the U.S. Army during the
Mexican War; U.S.
Representative from Tennessee 6th District, 1851-53.
Slaveowner.
Died in Nashville, Davidson
County, Tenn., December
16, 1862 (age 47 years, 206
days).
Interment at Greenwood Cemetery.
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Polk Memorial
Gardens
Columbia, Maury County, Tennessee
| Politicians who have
(or had) monuments here: |
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James Knox Polk (1795-1849) —
also known as James K. Polk; "Young Hickory";
"Napoleon of the Stump" —
of Tennessee.
Born in Pineville, Mecklenburg
County, N.C., November
2, 1795.
Democrat. Lawyer;
member of Tennessee
state house of representatives, 1823-25; U.S.
Representative from Tennessee, 1825-39 (6th District 1825-33, 9th
District 1833-39); Speaker of
the U.S. House, 1835-39; Governor of
Tennessee, 1839-41; President
of the United States, 1845-49.
Presbyterian
or Methodist.
Scotch-Irish
ancestry. Member, Freemasons.
Slaveowner.
Died, of cholera,
in Nashville, Davidson
County, Tenn., June 15,
1849 (age 53 years, 225
days).
Original interment at Polk Place Grounds (which no longer exists), Nashville, Tenn.;
reinterment in 1893 at Tennessee
State Capitol Grounds, Nashville, Tenn.; cenotaph at Polk
Memorial Gardens.
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Relatives: Son
of Samuel Polk and Jane Gracy (Knox) Polk; brother of William
Hawkins Polk; married, January
1, 1824, to Sarah
Childress (daughter of Joel
Childress); nephew of Mary Ophelia Polk (who married Thomas
Jones Hardeman); uncle of Marshall
Tate Polk and Tasker
Polk; first cousin once removed of Edwin
Fitzhugh Polk; second cousin once removed of Mary Adelaide Polk
(who married George
Davis) and Richard
Tyler Polk; second cousin twice removed of Rufus
King Polk and Frank
Lyon Polk; second cousin thrice removed of Elizabeth
Polk Guest; second cousin four times removed of Raymond
R. Guest; third cousin once removed of Charles
Polk and Augustus
Caesar Dodge; fourth cousin of Trusten
Polk; fourth cousin once removed of Albert
Fawcett Polk. |
| | | Political families: Ashe-Polk
family of North Carolina; Polk
family; Manly-Haywood-Polk
family of Raleigh, North Carolina (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | Cross-reference: Aaron
V. Brown — John
Charles Frémont |
| | | Polk counties in Ark., Fla., Ga., Iowa, Minn., Neb., Ore., Tenn., Tex. and Wis. are
named for him. |
| | | The city
of Polk
City, Florida, is named for
him. — The city
of Polk
City, Iowa, is named for
him. — The borough
of Polk,
Pennsylvania, is named for
him. — James K. Polk Elementary
School, in Alexandria,
Virginia, is named for
him. — James K. Polk Elementary
School, in Fresno,
California, is named for
him. — The World War II Liberty
ship SS James K. Polk (built 1942 at Wilmington,
North Carolina; torpedoed in the North
Atlantic Ocean, 1943; towed away and scrapped) was named for
him. |
| | | Other politicians named for him: James
Knox Polk Hall
— James
P. Latta
— James
K. P. Fenner
— J.
K. P. Marshall
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| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — National
Governors Association biography — Wikipedia
article — NNDB
dossier — Find-A-Grave
memorial — OurCampaigns
candidate detail — Tennessee
Encyclopedia |
| | | Books about James K. Polk: Sam W.
Haynes, James
K. Polk and the Expansionist Impulse — Paul H.
Bergeron, The
Presidency of James K. Polk — Thomas M. Leonard, James
K. Polk : A Clear and Unquestionable Destiny — Eugene
Irving McCormac, James
K. Polk: A Political Biography to the Prelude to War
1795-1845 — Eugene Irving McCormac, James
K. Polk: A Political Biography to the End of a Career
1845-1849 — Richard B. Cheney & Lynne V. Cheney, Kings
Of The Hill : How Nine Powerful Men Changed The Course of American
History — John Seigenthaler, James
K. Polk: 1845 - 1849 |
| | | Image source: Portrait & Biographical
Album of Washtenaw County (1891) |
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Rose Hill
Cemetery
Columbia, Maury County, Tennessee
| Politicians buried
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Alfred Osborn Pope Nicholson (1808-1876) —
also known as A. O. P. Nicholson —
of Tennessee.
Born in Tennessee, 1808.
Democrat. Member of Tennessee state legislature, 1830; U.S.
Senator from Tennessee, 1840-42, 1859-61; chief
justice of Tennessee state supreme court, 1870-76.
When the Civil War began, he left Washington but did not resign his
seat in the Senate; one of ten Southern
senators expelled
in absentia on July 11, 1861.
Slaveowner.
Died in 1876
(age about
68 years).
Interment at Rose Hill Cemetery.
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Edward Ward Carmack (1858-1908) —
also known as Edward W. Carmack —
of Memphis, Shelby
County, Tenn.
Born near Castalian Springs, Sumner
County, Tenn., November
5, 1858.
Democrat. Lawyer;
member of Tennessee
state house of representatives, 1885; editor of newspapers,
including the Nashville American, the Memphis
Commercial, and the Nashville Tennesseean; delegate to
Democratic National Convention from Tennessee, 1896,
1904
(member, Platform
and Resolutions Committee); U.S.
Representative from Tennessee 10th District, 1897-1901; U.S.
Senator from Tennessee, 1901-07; candidate for nomination for Governor of
Tennessee, 1908.
Member, Freemasons.
Shot
and killed by
Robin J. Cooper, whose father, Col. Duncan B. Cooper, had been
ridiculed in the Tennesseean, in Nashville, Davidson
County, Tenn., November
9, 1908 (age 50 years, 4
days). Robin and Duncan Cooper were convicted of second-degree
murder and sentenced to prison, but Duncan Cooper was pardoned, and
Robin Cooper's conviction was overturned on appeal; in 1919, Robin
Cooper was himself murdered in an apparent robbery.
Interment at Rose Hill Cemetery; statue (now gone) at State
Capitol Grounds, Nashville, Tenn.
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Washington Curran Whitthorne (1825-1891) —
also known as Washington C. Whitthorne —
of Columbia, Maury
County, Tenn.
Born near Farmington, Marshall
County, Tenn., April
19, 1825.
Democrat. Lawyer;
member of Tennessee
state senate, 1855-58; member of Tennessee
state house of representatives, 1859-61; Speaker
of the Tennessee State House of Representatives, 1859-61;
delegate to Democratic National Convention from Tennessee, 1860,
1876;
candidate for Presidential Elector for Tennessee; served in the
Confederate Army during the Civil War; U.S.
Representative from Tennessee, 1871-83, 1887-91 (6th District
1871-75, 7th District 1875-83, 1887-91); U.S.
Senator from Tennessee, 1886-87.
Slaveowner.
Died September
21, 1891 (age 66 years, 155
days).
Interment at Rose Hill Cemetery.
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Lemuel Phillips Padgett (1855-1922) —
also known as Lemuel P. Padgett —
of Columbia, Maury
County, Tenn.
Born in Columbia, Maury
County, Tenn., November
28, 1855.
Democrat. Lawyer;
candidate for Presidential Elector for Tennessee; member of Tennessee
state senate, 1899-1900; U.S.
Representative from Tennessee 7th District, 1901-22; died in
office 1922.
Died in Washington,
D.C., August
2, 1922 (age 66 years, 247
days).
Interment at Rose Hill Cemetery.
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William Charles Salmon (1868-1925) —
of Columbia, Maury
County, Tenn.
Born near Paris, Henry
County, Tenn., April 3,
1868.
Democrat. School
teacher; lawyer;
served in the U.S. Army during World War I; U.S.
Representative from Tennessee 7th District, 1923-25.
Disciples
of Christ. Member, Freemasons;
Odd
Fellows; Elks.
Died in Washington,
D.C., May 13,
1925 (age 57 years, 40
days).
Interment at Rose Hill Cemetery.
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Hugh Fletcher Fariss (1839-1914) —
also known as Hugh F. Fariss —
of Columbia, Maury
County, Tenn.
Born in Hampshire, Maury
County, Tenn., November
19, 1839.
Republican. Postmaster at Columbia,
Tenn., 1884-88, 1897-1902; delegate to Republican National
Convention from Tennessee, 1896;
justice of the peace.
Methodist.
Died in Columbia, Maury
County, Tenn., August
24, 1914 (age 74 years, 278
days).
Interment at Rose Hill Cemetery.
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Horace Frierson (1849-1936) —
of Nashville, Davidson
County, Tenn.; Columbia, Maury
County, Tenn.
Born in Maury
County, Tenn., 1849.
Democrat. Alternate delegate to Democratic National Convention from
Tennessee, 1912.
Died in Maury
County, Tenn., 1936
(age about
87 years).
Interment at Rose Hill Cemetery.
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Zion
Cemetery
Columbia, Maury County, Tennessee
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Barclay Martin (1802-1890) —
of Tennessee.
Born in Edgefield District (now Edgefield
County), S.C., December
17, 1802.
Democrat. Lawyer;
member of Tennessee
state house of representatives, 1839-40, 1847-49, 1851-53; member
of Tennessee
state senate, 1841-43; U.S.
Representative from Tennessee 6th District, 1845-47.
Slaveowner.
Died in Columbia, Maury
County, Tenn., November
8, 1890 (age 87 years, 326
days).
Interment at Zion Cemetery.
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