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Clarke County
Virginia

Cemeteries and Memorial Sites of Politicians in Clarke County

Index to Locations Berryville Green Hill Cemetery Millwood Old Chapel Cemetery White Post Meade Memorial Episcopal Church Cemetery Green Hill Cemetery Berryville, Clarke County, Virginia Politicians buried here:   Leo George Cyr (1909-2003) — also known as Leo G. Cyr — of Maine; Sterling, Loudoun County, Va. Born in Limestone, Aroostook County, Maine, July 28, 1909. Foreign Service officer; U.S. Consul General in Tangier, 1957; U.S. Ambassador to Rwanda, 1966-71. French Canadian ancestry. Died, while suffering from Alzheimer's disease, in Sterling, Loudoun County, Va., July 27, 2003 (age 93 years, 364 days). Interment at Green Hill Cemetery.   Relatives: Son of Louis A. Cyr and Laura A. (Franck) Cyr; married, April 30, 1941, to Katherine McCormick.   See also U.S. State Dept career summary — Find-A-Grave memorial   Books by Leo G. Cyr: Madawaskan Heritage Old Chapel Cemetery Millwood, Clarke County, Virginia Politicians buried here:   Edmund Jenings Randolph (1753-1813) — of Virginia. Born in Williamsburg, Va., August 10, 1753. Served in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War; delegate to Virginia state constitutional convention, 1776; Virginia state attorney general, 1776-82; Delegate to Continental Congress from Virginia, 1779-82; Governor of Virginia, 1786-88; member, U.S. Constitutional Convention, 1787; member of Virginia state house of delegates, 1788; U.S. Attorney General, 1789-94; U.S. Secretary of State, 1794-95. Episcopalian. Member, Freemasons. Died in Millwood, Clarke County, Va., September 12, 1813 (age 60 years, 33 days). Interment at Old Chapel Cemetery.   Relatives: Son of John Randolph and Ariana (Jenings) Randolph; married, August 29, 1776, to Elizabeth Nicholas (daughter of Robert Carter Nicholas; sister of George Nicholas, Wilson Cary Nicholas and John Nicholas); father of Peyton Randolph (1779-1828); nephew of Peyton Randolph (1721-1775); grandfather of Edmund Randolph; grandnephew of Richard Randolph; great-grandfather of Edmund Randolph Cocke; second great-grandfather of Francis Beverley Biddle; first cousin once removed of Richard Bland; second cousin of Theodorick Bland, Thomas Jefferson, Beverley Randolph and John Randolph of Roanoke; second cousin once removed of John Marshall, Henry Lee, Charles Lee, James Markham Marshall, Thomas Mann Randolph Jr., Alexander Keith Marshall, Edmund Jennings Lee, Martha Jefferson Randolph, Dabney Carr and Henry St. George Tucker; second cousin twice removed of Thomas Marshall, James Keith Marshall, Francis Wayles Eppes, Dabney Smith Carr, Benjamin Franklin Randolph, Meriwether Lewis Randolph, George Wythe Randolph, Nathaniel Beverly Tucker and Carter Henry Harrison; second cousin thrice removed of Thomas Jefferson Coolidge, Fitzhugh Lee, John Augustine Marshall, Carter Henry Harrison II and Frederick Madison Roberts; second cousin four times removed of John Gardner Coolidge, Edith Wilson, William Marshall Bullitt and Alexander Scott Bullitt; second cousin five times removed of William Welby Beverley; third cousin once removed of John Wayles Eppes; third cousin twice removed of Coleby Chew; third cousin thrice removed of St. Clair Ballard, Lewis Ballard and William Henry Robertson.   Political families: Lee-Randolph family; Biddle-Randolph family of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Harrison-Randolph-Marshall-Cabell family of Virginia (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).   Randolph County, Ill. is named for him.   See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — National Governors Association biography — Wikipedia article — NNDB dossier — Find-A-Grave memorial   Books about Edmund Jenings Randolph: John J. Reardon, Edmund Randolph : A Biography   Robert Page (1765-1840) — of Virginia. Born in Gloucester County (part now in Mathews County), Va., February 4, 1765. Served in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War; lawyer; planter; member of Virginia state house of delegates, 1795; U.S. Representative from Virginia at-large, 1799-1801. Slaveowner. Died in Clarke County, Va., December 8, 1840 (age 75 years, 308 days). Interment at Old Chapel Cemetery.   See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page   Raymond R. Guest (1939-2001) — also known as Andy Guest — of Front Royal, Warren County, Va. Born in Manhattan, New York County, N.Y., September 29, 1939. Republican. Farmer; banker; member of Virginia state house of delegates, 1973-99. Episcopalian. Member, Elks; Rotary; Izaak Walton League; Ruritan. Died, of cancer, in Front Royal, Warren County, Va., April 2, 2001 (age 61 years, 185 days). Interment at Old Chapel Cemetery.   Relatives: Son of Raymond Richard Guest and Elizabeth Polk Guest; nephew of Winston Frederick Churchill Guest; grandson of Frank Lyon Polk; fifth great-grandson of Philemon Hawkins; first cousin four times removed of William Dallas Polk Haywood; second cousin twice removed of Rufus King Polk; second cousin four times removed of James Knox Polk and William Hawkins Polk; third cousin twice removed of Paul Fletcher Faison; third cousin thrice removed of Marshall Tate Polk, Tasker Polk, Richard Tyler Polk and Edwin Fitzhugh Polk.   Political families: Polk family; Manly-Haywood-Polk family of Raleigh, North Carolina (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).   Raymond R. 'Andy' Guest Jr. Shenandoah River State Park, in Warren County, Virginia, is named for him.   See also Find-A-Grave memorial   Hugh Mortimer Nelson (1811-1862) — also known as Hugh M. Nelson — of Clarke County, Va. Born in Hanover County, Va., October 20, 1811. Lawyer; delegate to Virginia secession convention from Clarke County, 1861; major in the Confederate Army during the Civil War. Died, of typhoid, in Albemarle County, Va., August 6, 1862 (age 50 years, 290 days). Interment at Old Chapel Cemetery.   Relatives: Married to Maria Adelaide Holker.   See also Find-A-Grave memorial Meade Memorial Episcopal Church Cemetery White Post, Clarke County, Virginia Politicians buried here:   Oliver Ridgeway Funsten (1817-1871) — also known as O. R. Funsten — of White Post, Clarke County, Va. Born in Clarke County, Va., April 15, 1817. Democrat. Delegate to Democratic National Convention from Virginia, 1860. Scotch-Irish ancestry. Died in Clarke County, Va., July 15, 1871 (age 54 years, 91 days). Interment at Meade Memorial Episcopal Church Cemetery.   Relatives: Son of Margaret (McKay) Funsten and Oliver Robert Funsten; brother of David Funsten.   Political family: Funsten family of Virginia.   See also Find-A-Grave memorial

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