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Caroline County
Virginia

Cemeteries and Memorial Sites of Politicians in Caroline County

Index to Locations Private or family graveyards Bowling Green Edmundsbury Graveyard Bowling Green Lakewood Cemetery Private or family graveyards Caroline County, Virginia Politicians buried here:   John Taylor of Caroline (1753-1824) — of Port Royal, Caroline County, Va. Born in Virginia, December 19, 1753. Democrat. Colonel in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War; lawyer; political theorist; member of Virginia state house of delegates, 1779-81, 1783-85, 1796-1800; U.S. Senator from Virginia, 1792-94, 1803, 1822-24; died in office 1824; candidate for Presidential Elector for Virginia. Slaveowner. Died in Caroline County, Va., August 21, 1824 (age 70 years, 246 days). Interment in a private or family graveyard.   Taylor County, W.Va. is named for him.   See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page   Daniel Coleman De Jarnette (1822-1881) — of Virginia. Born near Bowling Green, Caroline County, Va., October 18, 1822. Democrat. Member of Virginia state house of delegates, 1853-58; U.S. Representative from Virginia 3rd District, 1859-61; Representative from Virginia in the Confederate Congress, 1862-65; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Virginia, 1872. Slaveowner. Died in White Sulphur Springs, Greenbrier County, W.Va., August 20, 1881 (age 58 years, 306 days). Interment in a private or family graveyard.   See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page Edmundsbury Graveyard Bowling Green, Caroline County, Virginia Politicians formerly buried here:   Edmund Pendleton (1721-1803) — of Caroline County, Va. Born in Caroline County, Va., September 9, 1721. Planter; lawyer; justice of the peace; Delegate to Continental Congress from Virginia, 1774; member of Virginia House of Burgesses, 1776; justice of Virginia state supreme court, 1777; chief justice of Virginia state supreme court, 1788-1803; died in office 1803; delegate to Virginia convention to ratify U.S. constitution from Caroline County, 1788. Anglican. Died in Richmond, Va., October 23, 1803 (age 82 years, 44 days). Original interment at Edmundsbury Graveyard; reinterment in 1907 at Bruton Parish Church Cemetery, Williamsburg, Va.   Relatives: Son of Henry Pendleton and Mary Bishop (Taylor) Pendleton; married, January 21, 1741, to Elizabeth Roy; married, January 20, 1745, to Sarah Pollard; uncle of John Pendleton Jr. and Nathaniel Pendleton; granduncle of Philip Clayton Pendleton, Edmund Henry Pendleton and Nathanael Greene Pendleton; great-granduncle of Henry Gaines Johnson, John Strother Pendleton, Albert Gallatin Pendleton, Philip Coleman Pendleton, George Hunt Pendleton and Joseph Henry Pendleton; second great-granduncle of William Barret Pendleton, Francis Key Pendleton, Charles Rittenhouse Pendleton and John Overton Pendleton; third great-granduncle of Sidney Fletcher Taliaferro; first cousin once removed of John Penn; first cousin twice removed of James Madison, William Taylor Madison and Zachary Taylor; first cousin thrice removed of Coleby Chew; first cousin four times removed of George Cassety Pendleton, James Benjamin Garnett, Hubbard T. Smith, Charles M. Pendleton and Daniel Micajah Pendleton; first cousin five times removed of Elliot Woolfolk Major, Edgar Bailey Woolfolk and Charles Sumner Pendleton; second cousin thrice removed of Charles Willing Byrd.   Political family: Pendleton-Lee family of Maryland (subset of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).   Pendleton counties in Ky. and W.Va. are named for him.   See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — Wikipedia article Lakewood Cemetery Bowling Green, Caroline County, Virginia See also Findagrave page for this location. Politicians buried here:   Thomas Hunter Blanton (1895-1965) — also known as Tom H. Blanton — of Bowling Green, Caroline County, Va. Born in Caroline County, Va., October 19, 1895. Democrat. Delegate to Democratic National Convention from Virginia, 1944 (alternate), 1956; member of Virginia state senate 31st District, 1950; Virginia Democratic state chair, 1955-58. Died in Bowling Green, Caroline County, Va., October 18, 1965 (age 69 years, 364 days). Interment at Lakewood Cemetery.   Relatives: Son of James Rawlings Blanton and Cora Lee (Blanton) Blanton; married to Blanche Broaddus.   See also Find-A-Grave memorial

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