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Williamsburg Bruton Churchyard
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Williamsburg Bruton Parish
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Williamsburg Cedar Grove Cemetery
Williamsburg College of William and
Mary Chapel
Williamsburg Episcopal Cemetery
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Williamsburg, Virginia
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William Angus Hamilton (1867-1929) —
also known as William A. Hamilton —
of Williamsburg,
Va.
Born in 1867.
Republican. Candidate for Presidential Elector for Virginia.
Died, of kidney
disease, 1929
(age about
62 years).
Interment somewhere.
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Relatives: Son
of William Hamilton and Anne (Fraser) Hamilton; married 1897 to Ruby
Plummer; married 1916 to Emma
Meyers. |
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Bruton
Churchyard
Williamsburg, Virginia
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Cyrus Griffin (1748-1810) —
of Virginia.
Born in Farnham, Richmond
County, Va., July 16,
1748.
Member of Virginia
state house of delegates, 1777-78, 1786-87; Delegate
to Continental Congress from Virginia, 1778-81, 1787-88; U.S.
District Judge for Virginia, 1789-1810; died in office 1810.
Died in Yorktown, York
County, Va., December
14, 1810 (age 62 years, 151
days).
Interment at Bruton Churchyard.
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Bruton Parish
Church Cemetery
Williamsburg, Virginia
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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, Bowling Green, Va.; reinterment in 1907 at Bruton
Parish Church Cemetery.
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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 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 |
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John Blair Jr. (1732-1800) —
of York
County, Va.
Born in Williamsburg,
Va., 1732.
Lawyer;
member of Virginia
House of Burgesses, 1766-71; delegate
to Virginia state constitutional convention, 1776; member of Virginia
Governor's Council, 1776-78; state court judge in Virginia,
1777-78; Judge, Virginia Court of Appeals, 1779-89; member,
U.S. Constitutional Convention, 1787; delegate
to Virginia convention to ratify U.S. constitution from York
County, 1788; justice of
Virginia state supreme court, 1789; Associate
Justice of U.S. Supreme Court, 1789-95; resigned 1795.
Presbyterian
or Episcopalian.
Member, Freemasons.
Slaveowner.
Died in Williamsburg,
Va., August
31, 1800 (age about 68
years).
Interment at Bruton Parish Church Cemetery.
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Bruton Parish
Churchyard
Williamsburg, Virginia
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Truxtun Beale (1856-1936) —
of San
Francisco, Calif.; Annapolis, Anne
Arundel County, Md.
Born in San
Francisco, Calif., March 6,
1856.
Republican. Lawyer;
U.S. Minister to Persia, 1891-92; Greece, 1892-93; delegate to Republican National Convention
from California, 1912;
alternate delegate to Republican National Convention from Maryland,
1920.
Died near Annapolis, Anne
Arundel County, Md., June 2,
1936 (age 80 years, 88
days).
Interment at Bruton Parish Churchyard.
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Relatives: Son
of Edward
Fitzgerald Beale and Mary (Edwards) Beale; married, April
30, 1894, to Harriet 'Hattie' Blaine (daughter of James
Gillespie Blaine); married, April
23, 1903, to Marie Oge. |
| | | Political family: Beale-Blaine-Edwards
family of Chester, Pennsylvania (subset of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | Truxtun Avenue
and Beale Avenue,
in Bakersfield,
California, are named for
him. — Beale Park,
in Bakersfield,
California, is named for
him. |
| | | See also U.S. State Dept career summary — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
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Cedar Grove
Cemetery
Williamsburg, Virginia
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Edward Stowe Hamlin (1808-1894) —
of Elyria, Lorain
County, Ohio; Cleveland, Cuyahoga
County, Ohio; Williamsburg,
Va.
Born in Hillsdale, Columbia
County, N.Y., July 6,
1808.
Whig. Lawyer; Lorain
County Prosecuting Attorney, 1833-35; U.S.
Representative from Ohio 21st District, 1844-45; newspaper
publisher.
Died in Washington,
D.C., November
23, 1894 (age 86 years, 140
days).
Interment at Cedar Grove Cemetery.
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College of
William and Mary Chapel
Williamsburg, Virginia
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Peyton Randolph (1721-1775) —
of Virginia.
Born in Williamsburg,
Va., 1721.
Delegate
to Continental Congress from Virginia, 1774-75.
Episcopalian.
Member, Freemasons.
Died in Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa., October
22, 1775 (age about 54
years).
Interment at College of William and Mary Chapel.
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Relatives: Son
of John Randolph and Susanna (Beverley) Randolh; brother-in-law of Benjamin
Harrison; married to Elizabeth 'Betty' Harrison; nephew of Richard
Randolph; uncle of Edmund
Jenings Randolph; granduncle of Peyton
Randolph (1779-1828); great-granduncle of Edmund
Randolph; second great-granduncle of Edmund
Randolph Cocke; third great-granduncle of Francis
Beverley Biddle; first cousin of Richard
Bland; first cousin once removed of Theodorick
Bland, Thomas
Jefferson, Beverley
Randolph and John
Randolph of Roanoke; first cousin twice removed of John
Marshall, Henry
Lee, Charles
Lee, James
Markham Marshall, Thomas
Mann Randolph Jr., Alexander
Keith Marshall, Martha
Jefferson Randolph, Edmund
Jennings Lee, Dabney
Carr and Henry
St. George Tucker; first cousin thrice removed of Thomas
Marshall, James
Keith Marshall, Francis
Wayles Eppes, Dabney
Smith Carr, Benjamin
Franklin Randolph, Meriwether
Lewis Randolph, George
Wythe Randolph, Nathaniel
Beverly Tucker and Carter
Henry Harrison; first cousin four times removed of Thomas
Jefferson Coolidge, Fitzhugh
Lee, John
Augustine Marshall, Carter
Henry Harrison II and Frederick
Madison Roberts; first cousin five times removed of John
Gardner Coolidge, Edith
Wilson, William
Marshall Bullitt and Alexander
Scott Bullitt; first cousin six times removed of William
Welby Beverley; second cousin twice removed of John
Wayles Eppes; second cousin thrice removed of Coleby
Chew; second cousin four times removed of St.
Clair Ballard, Lewis
Ballard and William
Henry Robertson; second cousin five times removed of Elliot
Woolfolk Major and Edgar
Bailey Woolfolk. |
| | | Political families: Pendleton-Lee
family of Maryland; Lee-Randolph
family; Harrison-Randolph-Marshall-Cabell
family of Virginia; Blackburn-Slaughter-Buckner-Madison
family of Kentucky (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | Randolph County,
N.C. is named for him. |
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — NNDB
dossier |
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Episcopal
Cemetery
Williamsburg, Virginia
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George Taliaferro Ward (c.1810-1862) —
also known as George T. Ward —
of Leon
County, Fla.
Born in Fayette
County, Ky., about 1810.
Whig. Member
Florida territorial council, 1833-34; delegate
to Florida state constitutional convention from Leon County,
1838-39; candidate for Delegate
to U.S. Congress from Florida Territory, 1841; candidate for Governor of
Florida, 1852; delegate
to Florida secession convention, 1861; Delegate
from Florida to the Confederate Provisional Congress, 1861-62;
candidate for Senator
from Florida in the Confederate Congress, 1861; colonel in the
Confederate Army during the Civil War.
Slaveowner.
Shot
and killed while leading his regiment in the Civil
War battle at Williamsburg,
Va., May 5,
1862 (age about 52
years).
Interment at Episcopal Cemetery.
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