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Charles City County
Virginia

Cemeteries and Memorial Sites of Politicians in Charles City County

Index to Locations Berkeley Plantation Westover Plantation Cemetery Private or family graveyards Shirley Shirley Plantation Cemetery Berkeley Plantation Charles City County, Virginia Politicians buried here:   Benjamin Harrison (1726-1791) — also known as "The Signer" — of Charles City County, Va. Born in Charles City County, Va., April 5, 1726. Planter; member of Virginia House of Burgesses, 1749-75; Delegate to Continental Congress from Virginia, 1774-77; signer, Declaration of Independence, 1776; member of Virginia state house of delegates, 1776-81, 1787-91; Speaker of the Virginia State House of Delegates, 1778-81; Governor of Virginia, 1781-84; delegate to Virginia convention to ratify U.S. constitution from Charles City County, 1788. Died in Charles City County, Va., April 24, 1791 (age 65 years, 19 days). Interment at Berkeley Plantation; memorial monument at Constitution Gardens, Washington, D.C.   Relatives: Son of Benjamin Harrison (1693-1745) and Ann (Carter) Harrison; brother-in-law of Peyton Randolph (1721-1775); married 1748 to Elizabeth Bassett; father of Carter Bassett Harrison and William Henry Harrison (1773-1841) (who married Anna Tuthill Symmes); uncle of Beverley Randolph; grandfather of John Scott Harrison; great-grandfather of Benjamin Harrison (1833-1901); great-granduncle of Carter Henry Harrison; second great-grandfather of Russell Benjamin Harrison; second great-granduncle of Carter Henry Harrison II; third great-grandfather of William Henry Harrison (1896-1990); ancestor *** of James Thomas Harrison; first cousin of Robert Carter Nicholas (1729-1780); first cousin once removed of George Nicholas, Wilson Cary Nicholas and John Nicholas; first cousin twice removed of Peyton Randolph (1779-1828) and Robert Carter Nicholas (1787-1857); first cousin thrice removed of Thomas Marshall, James Keith Marshall, Peter Myndert Dox and Edmund Randolph; first cousin four times removed of Edmund Randolph Cocke, Connally Findlay Trigg, Richard Evelyn Byrd, Harry Bartow Hawes and William Welby Beverley; first cousin five times removed of Francis Beverley Biddle and Harry Flood Byrd; first cousin six times removed of Harry Flood Byrd Jr.; second cousin once removed of Burwell Bassett; third cousin twice removed of Robert Monroe Harrison.   Political families: Pendleton-Lee family of Maryland; Lee-Randolph family; Harrison-Randolph-Marshall-Cabell family of Virginia; Blackburn-Slaughter-Buckner-Madison family of Kentucky (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).   Harrison County, W.Va. is named for him.   See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — National Governors Association biography — Wikipedia article Westover Plantation Cemetery Charles City County, Virginia Politicians buried here:   Richard Crane (1882-1938) — of Chicago, Cook County, Ill.; Westover, Arlington, Arlington County, Va. Born in Denver, Colo., August 12, 1882. Democrat. President, Crane Valve Company, Chicago, 1910-14; private secretary to U.S. Secretary of State Robert Lansing, 1915-19; U.S. Minister to Czechoslovakia, 1919-21; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Virginia, 1924 (alternate), 1928 (member, Committee on Permanent Organization); real estate business. Member, Council on Foreign Relations. Died October 3, 1938 (age 56 years, 52 days). Interment at Westover Plantation Cemetery.   Relatives: Son of Charles Richard Crane and Cornelia Workman (Smith) Crane; married, September 22, 1909, to Ellen Douglas Bruce; nephew of Richard Teller Crane Jr..   Political family: Crane family of Chicago, Illinois.   See also U.S. State Dept career summary — Find-A-Grave memorial Private or family graveyard Charles City County, Virginia Politicians buried here:   John Tyler (1747-1813) — of Charles City County, Va. Born in James City County, Va., February 28, 1747. Lawyer; planter; delegate to Virginia convention to ratify U.S. constitution from Charles City County, 1788; Governor of Virginia, 1808-11. Died in Charles City County, Va., January 6, 1813 (age 65 years, 313 days). Interment in a private or family graveyard.   Relatives: Son of John Tyler (1710-1773) and Anne (Contesse) Tyler; father of John Tyler (1790-1862) (who married Letitia Tyler and Julia Tyler); grandfather of David Gardiner Tyler and Lyon Gardiner Tyler; second cousin once removed of George Madison; second cousin twice removed of Zachary Taylor; second cousin thrice removed of John Strother Pendleton, Albert Gallatin Pendleton and Aylett Hawes Buckner; second cousin four times removed of James Francis Buckner Jr. and Bronson Murray Cutting; second cousin five times removed of Sidney Fletcher Taliaferro and Max Rogers Strother; relative *** of William Tyler Page.   Political families: Tyler family of Virginia; Brockenbrough-Stevenson-Braxton-Tyler family of Virginia (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).   Tyler County, W.Va. is named for him.   See also National Governors Association biography — Find-A-Grave memorial Shirley Plantation Cemetery Shirley, Charles City County, Virginia Politicians buried here:   James Harrison Oliver (1857-1928) — also known as J. H. Oliver — of Shirley, Charles City County, Va. Born in Houston County, Ga., January 15, 1857. As a naval commander, he was arrested and court-martialed over his role in a 1904 collision in Delaware Bay; acquitted and reinstated; Governor of U.S. Virgin Islands. Died, of heart disease, in Charles City County, Va., April 6, 1928 (age 71 years, 82 days). Interment at Shirley Plantation Cemetery.   Relatives: Son of Thaddeus Oliver and Sarah Penelope (Lawson) Oliver; married, December 7, 1893, to Marion Carter.   See also Wikipedia article — Find-A-Grave memorial

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