Index to Locations
Berkeley Plantation
Westover Plantation Cemetery
Private or family graveyards
Shirley Shirley Plantation Cemetery
Berkeley
Plantation
Charles City County, Virginia
Politicians buried
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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.
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Westover
Plantation Cemetery
Charles City County, Virginia
Politicians buried
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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.
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William Byrd III (1728-1777) —
also known as William Evelyn Byrd —
Born in Charles
City County, Va., September
6, 1728.
Planter;
member of Virginia
House of Burgesses from Lunenburg County, 1752-54; member of Virginia
Governor's Council, 1755-75.
Slaveowner.
Died, by suicide,
Charles
City County, Va., January
1, 1777 (age 48 years, 117
days).
Interment at Westover Plantation Cemetery.
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Relatives: Son
of William Byrd II and Maria (Taylor) Byrd; married 1748 to
Elizabeth Hill Carter; married to Mary Shippen Willing; father of Charles
Willing Byrd; second great-grandfather of Connally
Findlay Trigg and Richard
Evelyn Byrd; third great-grandfather of Harry
Flood Byrd; fourth great-grandfather of Harry
Flood Byrd Jr.; fourth great-granduncle of William
Welby Beverley; first cousin six times removed of William
Bradley Umstead and Angier
Biddle Duke; first cousin seven times removed of Julia
Grimmet Fortson; second cousin twice removed of Edmund
Pendleton; third cousin once removed of John
Penn, John
Pendleton Jr. and Nathaniel
Pendleton; fourth cousin of James
Madison, William
Taylor Madison, Philip
Clayton Pendleton, Zachary
Taylor, Edmund
Henry Pendleton and Nathanael
Greene Pendleton; fourth cousin once removed of Henry
Gaines Johnson, Coleby
Chew, John
Strother Pendleton, Albert
Gallatin Pendleton, Philip
Coleman Pendleton, George
Hunt Pendleton and Joseph
Henry Pendleton. |
|  | Political family: Biddle
family of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (subset of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
|  | See also Wikipedia
article — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
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Private or family
graveyard
Charles City County, Virginia
Politicians buried
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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.
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Shirley
Plantation Cemetery
Shirley, Charles City County, Virginia
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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.
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