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George D. Addison —
of Salem, Dent
County, Mo.
Born in Richmond,
Va.
Democrat. Farmer;
merchant; member of Missouri
state house of representatives from Dent County, 1927-28.
Member, Freemasons;
Knights
Templar; Shriners.
Burial location unknown.
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Thomas Branch (1802-1888) —
of Petersburg,
Va.
Born in Chesterfield
County, Va., December
23, 1802.
Merchant; banker; delegate
to Virginia secession convention from Petersburg city, 1861.
Died in Richmond,
Va., November
15, 1888 (age 85 years, 328
days).
Interment at Blandford
Cemetery, Petersburg, Va.
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James Winright Flanagan (1805-1887) —
also known as James W. Flanagan —
of Henderson, Rusk
County, Tex.
Born in Albemarle
County, Va., September
7, 1805.
Merchant; lawyer; farmer;
member of Texas
state house of representatives, 1851-52; member of Texas
state senate, 1856-58; candidate for Presidential Elector for
Texas; delegate
to Texas state constitutional convention, 1866, 1868-69; Lieutenant
Governor of Texas, 1869-70; resigned 1870; U.S.
Senator from Texas, 1869-75.
Baptist.
Member, Freemasons;
Odd
Fellows.
Slaveowner.
Died near Longview, Gregg
County, Tex., September
19, 1887 (age 82 years, 12
days).
Interment a
private or family graveyard, Rusk County, Tex.
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John Brady Grayson (1871-1942) —
also known as John B. Grayson —
of Warrenton, Fauquier
County, Va.
Born in Fauquier
County, Va., May 14,
1871.
Republican. Department store owner; postmaster;
delegate to Republican National Convention from Virginia, 1912
(alternate), 1916,
1920.
Died in Fauquier
County, Va., 1942
(age about
71 years).
Interment at Warrenton
Cemetery, Warrenton, Va.
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Job Hawxhurst (1823-1906) —
of Fairfax,
Va.
Born in Jamaica (now part of Queens), Queens
County, N.Y., March
30, 1823.
Republican. Farmer; miller;
merchant; postmaster at Fairfax
Court House, Va., 1865-85, 1889-93; Fairfax,
Va., 1897-1903; member of Virginia
state house of delegates, 1870; mayor
of Fairfax, Va., 1892.
Member, Good
Templars.
Died in Falls
Church, Va., February
7, 1906 (age 82 years, 314
days).
Interment at Fairfax
City Cemetery, Fairfax, Va.
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Benjamin Stephen Hooper (1835-1898) —
of Farmville, Prince
Edward County, Va.
Born near Buckingham, Buckingham
County, Va., March 6,
1835.
Republican. Merchant; tobacco
products manufacturer; served in the Confederate Army during the
Civil War; postmaster at Farmville,
Va., 1877; U.S.
Representative from Virginia 4th District, 1883-85; delegate to
Republican National Convention from Virginia, 1888.
Died in Farmville, Prince
Edward County, Va., January
17, 1898 (age 62 years, 317
days).
Interment at Farmville
Cemetery, Farmville, Va.
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Adolphus Humbles (1840-1926) —
of Lynchburg,
Va.
Born in Campbell
County, Va., October
17, 1840.
Republican. Merchant; operated a toll road between Lynchburg
and Rustberg; alternate delegate to Republican National Convention
from Virginia, 1896,
1904.
Baptist.
African
ancestry.
Died, from endocarditis,
in Lynchburg,
Va., October
4, 1926 (age 85 years, 352
days).
Interment at Humbles Family Cemetery, Lynchburg, Va.
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John Brown Kimberly (b. 1855) —
also known as John B. Kimberly —
of Fort Monroe, Elizabeth City County (now part of Hampton),
Va.
Born in Baltimore,
Md., December
31, 1855.
Republican. Merchant; hotel
owner; steamship
agent; postmaster;
director of banks and
electric
railways; alternate delegate to Republican National Convention
from Virginia, 1912,
1916,
1920,
1924.
Episcopalian.
Member, Rotary.
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of William H. Kimberly and Ann (Brown) Kimberly; married, October
28, 1888, to Leonora V. Allen. |
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James King (1787-1838) —
of Knoxville, Knox
County, Tenn.
Born in Montgomery
County, Va., 1787.
Physician;
merchant; steamboat
owner; mayor
of Knoxville, Tenn., 1837-38.
Died in 1838
(age about
51 years).
Interment at Old
Gray Cemetery, Knoxville, Tenn.
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William Lamb (1835-1909) —
also known as "The Hero of Fort Fisher" —
of Norfolk,
Va.
Born in Norfolk,
Va., September
27, 1835.
Newspaper
publisher; merchant; delegate to Democratic National
Convention from Virginia, 1856,
1876;
candidate for Presidential Elector for Virginia; colonel in the
Confederate Army during the Civil War; steamship
agent; importer
and exporter; banker; Vice-Consul
for Sweden & Norway in Norfolk,
Va., 1876-1903; Vice-Consul
for Germany in Norfolk,
Va., 1880-1903; mayor
of Norfolk, Va., 1880-86; Virginia
Republican state chair, 1895-97; delegate to Republican National
Convention from Virginia, 1896
(member, Committee
on Rules and Order of Business; speaker).
Episcopalian.
Member, Phi
Beta Kappa; Theta
Delta Chi; Odd
Fellows; Redmen.
Died in Norfolk,
Va., March
23, 1909 (age 73 years, 177
days).
Interment at Elmwood
Cemetery, Norfolk, Va.
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William Boswell Lamb (1774-1852) —
of Norfolk,
Va.
Born September
8, 1774.
Merchant; banker; mayor
of Norfolk, Va., 1810-11, 1812-13, 1814-15, 1816-17, 1823.
Died November
14, 1852 (age 78 years, 67
days).
Interment at Cedar
Grove Cemetery, Norfolk, Va.
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John William Leftwich (1826-1870) —
also known as John W. Leftwich —
of Memphis, Shelby
County, Tenn.
Born in Liberty (now Bedford), Bedford
County, Va., September
7, 1826.
Democrat. Merchant; U.S.
Representative from Tennessee 8th District, 1866-67; mayor
of Memphis, Tenn., 1868-69, 1869-70.
Died in Lynchburg,
Va., March 6,
1870 (age 43 years, 180
days).
Interment at Elmwood
Cemetery, Memphis, Tenn.
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Relatives: Son
of Joel Leftwich and Mary L. (Thorpe) Leftwich; married, December
17, 1854, to Gertrude Aurelia Wendle; great-grandnephew of Jabez
Leftwich; second cousin once removed of Joseph
Cabell Breckinridge, Benjamin
William Sheridan Cabell and Robert
Jefferson Breckinridge; third cousin of John
Cabell Breckinridge, Carter
Henry Harrison, Peter
Augustus Porter (1827-1864), William
Lewis Cabell, Robert
Jefferson Breckinridge Jr., George
Craighead Cabell and William
Campbell Preston Breckinridge; third cousin once removed of Clifton
Rodes Breckinridge, Peter
Augustus Porter (1853-1925), Benjamin
Earl Cabell, Carter
Henry Harrison II, Levin
Irving Handy, Desha
Breckinridge and Henry
Skillman Breckinridge; third cousin twice removed of Earle
Cabell. |
| | | Political families: Harrison-Randolph-Marshall-Cabell
family of Virginia; Breckinridge-Preston-Cabell-Floyd
family of Virginia; Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin
family of Connecticut and New York (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — Wikipedia article — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
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Edward Lucas (1780-1858) —
of Virginia.
Born near Shepherdstown, Jefferson
County, Va. (now W.Va.), October
20, 1780.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during the War of 1812; lawyer;
merchant; member of Virginia
state house of delegates, 1819-22, 1830-31; U.S.
Representative from Virginia, 1833-37 (15th District 1833-35,
12th District 1835-37).
Slaveowner.
Died in Harpers Ferry, Jefferson
County, Va (now W.Va.), March 4,
1858 (age 77 years, 135
days).
Interment at Harper
Cemetery, Harpers Ferry, W.Va.
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Elbert Sevier Martin (c.1829-1876) —
of Jonesville, Lee
County, Va.; Dallas, Dallas
County, Tex.
Born near Jonesville, Lee
County, Va., about 1829.
Merchant; U.S.
Representative from Virginia 13th District, 1859-61; served in
the Confederate Army during the Civil War; newspaper
publisher.
Died in Dallas, Dallas
County, Tex., September
3, 1876 (age about 47
years).
Burial location unknown.
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Moses Myers (1752-1835) —
of Norfolk,
Va.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., 1752.
Merchant; U.S. Collector of Customs, 1820.
Jewish.
Died in Norfolk,
Va., July 10,
1835 (age about 83
years).
Interment somewhere
in Norfolk, Va.
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James Andrew Nighbert (1832-1898) —
Born in Montgomery
County, Va., July 23,
1832.
Democrat. Major in the Confederate Army during the Civil War; member
of Virginia
state house of delegates, 1863; merchant; lumber and
timber business; delegate to Democratic National Convention from
West Virginia, 1888.
German
ancestry. Member, Knights
of Honor.
Died in Logan, Logan
County, W.Va., December
17, 1898 (age 66 years, 147
days).
Interment at Nighbert Family Cemetery, Logan County, W.Va.
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Noah Noble (1794-1844) —
of Franklin
County, Ind.; Indianapolis, Marion
County, Ind.
Born in Berryville, Clarke
County, Va., January
14, 1794.
Lawyer;
farmer;
merchant; miller;
member of Indiana
state house of representatives, 1825; Governor of
Indiana, 1831-37.
Methodist.
Scottish
ancestry. Member, Freemasons.
Died in Indianapolis, Marion
County, Ind., February
8, 1844 (age 50 years, 25
days).
Original interment at Greenlawn
Cemetery (which no longer exists), Indianapolis, Ind.;
reinterment at Crown
Hill Cemetery, Indianapolis, Ind.
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Stephen Friel Nuckolls (1825-1879) —
of Linden, Clay
County, Mo.; Nebraska City, Otoe
County, Neb.; Cheyenne, Laramie
County, Wyo.; Salt Lake City, Salt Lake
County, Utah.
Born in Grayson
County, Va., August
16, 1825.
Democrat. Merchant; member of Nebraska
territorial legislature, 1859; Delegate
to U.S. Congress from Wyoming Territory, 1869-71; member
Wyoming territorial council, 1871.
Founder of Nebraska City, Nebraska.
Slaveowner.
Died in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake
County, Utah, February
14, 1879 (age 53 years, 182
days).
Interment at Mt.
Olivet Cemetery, Salt Lake City, Utah.
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Charles Sumner Pendleton (1880-1952) —
also known as Charles S. Pendleton —
of Gate City, Scott
County, Va.
Born in Gate City, Scott
County, Va., March
28, 1880.
Republican. Farmer; Prohibition
enforcement agent; minister;
merchant; member of Virginia
state senate 2nd District, 1920-21; candidate for Presidential
Elector for Virginia.
Died, from a coronary
occlusion due to arteriosclerosis,
in Gate City, Scott
County, Va., July 15,
1952 (age 72 years, 109
days).
Interment at Holston View Cemetery, Weber City, Va.
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Relatives: Son
of John Pendleton and Mary Ann (Quillen) Pendleton; married, July 15,
1906, to Pearl Margaret Taylor; first cousin five times removed
of Edmund
Pendleton; second cousin four times removed of John
Penn, John
Pendleton Jr., James
Madison, Nathaniel
Pendleton, William
Taylor Madison and Zachary
Taylor; third cousin once removed of George
Cassety Pendleton, Charles
M. Pendleton and Daniel
Micajah Pendleton; third cousin thrice removed of Philip
Clayton Pendleton, Edmund
Henry Pendleton, Nathanael
Greene Pendleton and Coleby
Chew; fourth cousin once removed of James
Benjamin Garnett and Hubbard
T. Smith. |
| | | Political family: Pendleton-Lee
family of Maryland (subset of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | See also Find-A-Grave
memorial |
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Richard Pollard (1790-1851) —
of Virginia.
Born in King and
Queen County, Va., 1790.
Lawyer;
major in the U.S. Army during the War of 1812; merchant; U.S.
Consul in Mexico City, 1833-34; U.S. Charge d'Affaires to Chile, 1834-42.
Died in Washington,
D.C., February
19, 1851 (age about 60
years).
Interment at Oak
Ridge Estate Cemetery, Oak Ridge, Va.
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Richard Randolph (1690-1748) —
Born in Henrico
County, Va., 1690.
Planter;
merchant; member of Virginia
House of Burgesses, 1727-48; died in office 1748.
Died in Bath, England,
December
17, 1748 (age about 58
years).
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of William Randolph and Mary (Isham) Randolph; married 1724 to Jane
Kennon Bolling; uncle of Richard
Bland and Peyton
Randolph (1721-1775); grandfather of John
Randolph of Roanoke; granduncle of Theodorick
Bland, Thomas
Jefferson, Edmund
Jenings Randolph and Beverley
Randolph; great-grandfather of Thomas
Mann Randolph Jr.; great-granduncle of John
Marshall, Henry
Lee, Charles
Lee, James
Markham Marshall, Alexander
Keith Marshall, Edmund
Jennings Lee, Martha
Jefferson, Dabney
Carr, Peyton
Randolph (1779-1828) and Henry
St. George Tucker; second great-grandfather of Benjamin
Franklin Randolph, Meriwether
Lewis Randolph and George
Wythe Randolph; second great-granduncle of Thomas
Marshall, James
Keith Marshall, Francis
Wayles Eppes, Dabney
Smith Carr, Edmund
Randolph, Nathaniel
Beverly Tucker and Carter
Henry Harrison; third great-grandfather of Thomas
Jefferson Coolidge; third great-granduncle of Fitzhugh
Lee, Edmund
Randolph Cocke, John
Augustine Marshall, Carter
Henry Harrison II and Frederick
Madison Roberts; fourth great-grandfather of John
Gardner Coolidge; fourth great-granduncle of Edith
Wilson, William
Marshall Bullitt, Alexander
Scott Bullitt and Francis
Beverley Biddle; fifth great-granduncle of William
Welby Beverley; first cousin thrice removed of John
Wayles Eppes; first cousin five times removed of William
Henry Robertson. |
| | | Political families: Harrison-Randolph-Marshall-Cabell
family of Virginia; Lee-Randolph
family; Biddle-Randolph
family of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Ballard-Gadsden-Randolph
family of West Virginia and South Carolina; Pendleton-Lee
family of Maryland; Walker-Randolph
family of Huntsville, Alabama (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | See also Wikipedia
article — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
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Daniel Roberdeau (1727-1795) —
of Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa.
Born in St.
Christopher, 1727.
Merchant; member of Pennsylvania state legislature, 1756; Delegate
to Continental Congress from Pennsylvania, 1777-79; general in
the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War.
French
and Scottish
ancestry.
Died in Winchester,
Va., January
5, 1795 (age about 67
years).
Interment at Mt.
Hebron Cemetery, Winchester, Va.
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John S. Roberts (1796-1871) —
of Nacogdoches, Nacogdoches
County, Tex.
Born in Virginia, July 13,
1796.
Served in the U.S. Army during the War of 1812; merchant; delegate
to Texas Republic Republic constitutional convention from
District of Nacogdoches, 1836; signer,
Texas Declaration of Independence, 1836; served in the Texas Army
during the Texas War of Independence.
Died August
9, 1871 (age 75 years, 27
days).
Interment at Oak
Grove Cemetery, Nacogdoches, Tex.
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John William Smith (1792-1845) —
also known as John W. Smith; William John Smith;
"El Colorado" —
of Ralls
County, Mo.; San Antonio, Bexar
County, Tex.
Born in Virginia, March 4,
1792.
Ralls
County Sheriff and Tax Collector, 1823-26; merchant; surveyor;
served in the Texas Army during the Texas War of Independence; mayor
of San Antonio, Tex., 1837-38, 1840-41, 1842-44; member of Texas
Republic Senate from District of Bexar, 1842-45; died in office
1845.
Catholic.
In 1836, he was the last messenger from the Alamo, San Antonio Tex.,
before it fell to the Mexican Army in the battle there.
Died, probably of pneumonia,
in Washington, Washington
County, Tex., January
12, 1845 (age 52 years, 314
days).
Original interment at Washington-on-the-Brazos
State Park, Washington, Tex.; reinterment at Washington
Cemetery, Washington, Tex.
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Relatives: Son
of John Smith and Isabel Smith; married 1821 to
Harriet Stone; married 1830 to Maria
de Jesús Delgado Curbelo. |
| | | See also Wikipedia
article |
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Archibald Hunter Arrington Williams (1842-1895) —
also known as A. H. A. Williams —
of Oxford, Granville
County, N.C.
Born near Louisburg, Franklin
County, N.C., October
22, 1842.
Democrat. Served in the Confederate Army during the Civil War; farmer;
merchant; developer and president of the Oxford & Henderson Railroad;
member of North
Carolina state house of representatives from Granville County,
1883-86; U.S.
Representative from North Carolina 5th District, 1891-93.
Died in Chase City, Mecklenburg
County, Va., September
5, 1895 (age 52 years, 318
days).
Interment at Elmwood
Cemetery, Oxford, N.C.
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William Albin Young (1860-1928) —
of Norfolk,
Va.
Born in Norfolk,
Va., May 17,
1860.
Democrat. Merchant; delegate to Democratic National Convention
from Virginia, 1892;
U.S.
Representative from Virginia 2nd District, 1897-98, 1899-1900;
member of Virginia
state house of delegates, 1910-12.
Died in Norfolk,
Va., March
12, 1928 (age 67 years, 300
days).
Interment at St.
Mary's Cemetery, Norfolk, Va.
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