Index to Locations
Private or family graveyards
Bowling Green Edmundsbury Graveyard
Bowling Green Lakewood Cemetery
Private or family
graveyards
Caroline County, Virginia
Politicians buried
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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; Presidential Elector for Virginia, 1796.
Slaveowner.
Died in Caroline
County, Va., August
21, 1824 (age 70 years, 246
days).
Interment in a private or family graveyard.
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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.
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Edmundsbury
Graveyard
Bowling Green, Caroline County, Virginia
Politicians formerly
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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.
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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, John
Overton Pendleton and Bickerton
Lyle Winston; 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 twice removed of William
Byrd III; second cousin thrice removed of Charles
Willing Byrd. |
|  | Political families:Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
|  | Pendleton counties in Ky. and W.Va. are
named for him. |
|  | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — Wikipedia article |
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Lakewood
Cemetery
Bowling Green, Caroline County, Virginia
See also Findagrave
page for this location.
Politicians buried
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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.
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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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