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Richmond County
Virginia

Cemeteries and Memorial Sites of Politicians in Richmond County

Index to Locations Private or family graveyards Warsaw St. John's Episcopal Church Cemetery Private or family graveyards Richmond County, Virginia Politicians buried here:   Francis Lightfoot Lee (1734-1797) — of Virginia. Born in Westmoreland County, Va., October 14, 1734. Member of Virginia House of Burgesses, 1764; Delegate to Continental Congress from Virginia, 1775-78; signer, Declaration of Independence, 1776; member of Virginia state senate, 1778. Died, from pleurisy, in Richmond County, Va., January 11, 1797 (age 62 years, 89 days). Interment in a private or family graveyard; memorial monument at Constitution Gardens, Washington, D.C.   Relatives: Son of Thomas Lee and Hannah Harrison (Ludwell) Lee; brother of Richard Henry Lee and Arthur Lee; great-granduncle of Francis Preston Blair Lee; second great-granduncle of Edward Brooke Lee; third great-granduncle of Blair Lee III and Edward Brooke Lee Jr.; first cousin once removed of Thomas Sim Lee, Henry Lee, Charles Lee and Edmund Jennings Lee; first cousin twice removed of John Lee; first cousin thrice removed of Fitzhugh Lee; first cousin four times removed of Samuel Bullitt Churchill and John Lee Carroll; first cousin six times removed of Outerbridge Horsey; second cousin once removed of Zachary Taylor; second cousin twice removed of Thomas Leonidas Crittenden; second cousin thrice removed of Hancock Lee Jackson; second cousin four times removed of Abraham Lincoln, Elliot Woolfolk Major, James Sansome Lakin and Edgar Bailey Woolfolk; second cousin five times removed of Robert Todd Lincoln, Harrison Moore Lakin and James Offutt Lakin.   Political families: Lee-Randolph family; Jackson-Lee family; Pendleton-Lee family of Maryland (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).   See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — Wikipedia article   Richard Elliott Parker (1783-1840) — of Virginia. Born in Westmoreland County, Va., December 27, 1783. Democrat. Member of Virginia state legislature, 1820; U.S. Senator from Virginia, 1836-37. Slaveowner. Died in Loudoun County, Va., September 10, 1840 (age 56 years, 258 days). Interment in a private or family graveyard.   See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page   Joseph William Chinn (1798-1840) — of Virginia. Born near Nuttsville, Lancaster County, Va., November 16, 1798. Democrat. Lawyer; member of Virginia state house of delegates, 1826-28; member of Virginia state senate, 1829-31; U.S. Representative from Virginia, 1831-35 (13th District 1831-33, 10th District 1833-35). Slaveowner. Died in Richmond County, Va., December 5, 1840 (age 42 years, 19 days). Interment in a private or family graveyard.   Relatives: Married to Marianne Smith.   See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — Wikipedia article St. John's Episcopal Church Cemetery Warsaw, Richmond County, Virginia See also Findagrave page for this location. Politicians buried here: William Atkinson Jones (1849-1918) — also known as William A. Jones — of Warsaw, Richmond County, Va. Born in Warsaw, Richmond County, Va., March 21, 1849. Democrat. Lawyer; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Virginia, 1880, 1896, 1900; U.S. Representative from Virginia 1st District, 1891-1918; died in office 1918. Died in Warsaw, Richmond County, Va., April 17, 1918 (age 69 years, 27 days). Interment at St. John's Episcopal Church Cemetery.   Relatives: Married to Claude Douglas Motley.   See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — Wikipedia article — Find-A-Grave memorial   Image source: Autobiographies and Portraits of the President, Cabinet, etc. (1899)   Joseph William Chinn (1866-1936) — also known as Joseph W. Chinn — of Warsaw, Richmond County, Va. Born in Tappahannock, Essex County, Va., February 15, 1866. Democrat. Lawyer; Richmond County Commonwealth Attorney, 1891-1915; president, Northern Neck State Bank, Warsaw, Va., 1908-36; circuit judge in Virginia 12th Circuit, 1915-31; justice of Virginia state supreme court, 1931-36; appointed 1931; died in office 1936. Episcopalian. Member, Freemasons; Knights Templar; Shriners. Died, of emphysema, in Battle Creek, Calhoun County, Mich., August 16, 1936 (age 70 years, 183 days). Interment at St. John's Episcopal Church Cemetery.   Relatives: Son of Joseph William Chinn and Gaybriella (Brockenbrough) Chinn; married, December 14, 1899, to Sarah Fairfax Douglas.   See also Wikipedia article — Find-A-Grave memorial

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