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Cemeteries and Memorial Sites of Politicians in Cumberland County

Index to Locations Private or family graveyards Private or family graveyards Cumberland County, Virginia Politicians buried here:   Edmund Randolph Cocke (1841-1922) — also known as Edmund R. Cocke — of Cumberland County, Va. Born in Cumberland County, Va., March 25, 1841. Served in the Confederate Army during the Civil War; Populist candidate for Governor of Virginia, 1893; Populist candidate for U.S. Representative from Virginia 10th District, 1894; Populist candidate for Lieutenant Governor of Virginia, 1897. Died in Cumberland County, Va., February 19, 1922 (age 80 years, 331 days). Interment in a private or family graveyard.   Relatives: Son of William Armistead Cocke and Elizabeth Randolph (Preston) Cocke; married, October 17, 1871, to Phoebe A. Preston; married, May 6, 1878, to Lucia Cary Harrison (second cousin of Richard Evelyn Byrd); grandnephew of Peyton Randolph (1779-1828); great-grandson of Edmund Jenings Randolph; great-grandnephew of George Nicholas, Wilson Cary Nicholas and John Nicholas; second great-grandson of Robert Carter Nicholas (1729-1780); second great-grandnephew of Peyton Randolph (1721-1775); third great-grandnephew of Richard Randolph; first cousin once removed of Edmund Randolph; first cousin twice removed of Robert Carter Nicholas (1787-1857); first cousin four times removed of Richard Bland, Benjamin Harrison (1726-1791) and William Fitzhugh; second cousin once removed of Peter Myndert Dox and Francis Beverley Biddle; second cousin thrice removed of Theodorick Bland, Thomas Jefferson, Beverley Randolph, Carter Bassett Harrison, William Henry Harrison and John Randolph of Roanoke; third cousin of Harry Bartow Hawes; third cousin once removed of Thomas Marshall and James Keith Marshall; third cousin twice removed of John Marshall, Henry Lee, Charles Lee, Richard Bland Lee, James Markham Marshall, Thomas Mann Randolph Jr., Alexander Keith Marshall, Edmund Jennings Lee, Martha Jefferson Randolph, Dabney Carr, Henry St. George Tucker and John Scott Harrison (1804-1878); third cousin thrice removed of Burwell Bassett; fourth cousin once removed of Francis Wayles Eppes, Dabney Smith Carr, Benjamin Franklin Randolph, Meriwether Lewis Randolph, George Wythe Randolph, Nathaniel Beverly Tucker, Carter Henry Harrison, Benjamin Harrison (1833-1901), William Henry Fitzhugh Lee, John Breckinridge Castleman and John Scott Harrison (1844-1926).   Political family: Livingston-Schuyler family of New York (subset of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).   See also Wikipedia article — Find-A-Grave memorial — OurCampaigns candidate detail   Samuel P. Bolling (1819-1900) — of Cumberland County, Va. Born in slavery in Cumberland County, Va., January 10, 1819. Farmer; builder; brick manufacturer; member of Virginia state house of delegates from Buckingham & Cumberland counties, 1885-87. Baptist. African ancestry. Died in Cumberland County, Va., February 8, 1900 (age 81 years, 29 days). Interment in a private or family graveyard.   Relatives: Son of Lenaeus Bolling and Olive Bolling; married to Ellen Gantt; father of Phillip S. Bolling.   See also Wikipedia article

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