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Index to Locations
Winchester Mt. Hebron Cemetery
Winchester Old Lutheran Cemetery
Winchester Old Stone Presbyterian
Church Cemetery
Winchester Wood Family Cemetery
Mt. Hebron
Cemetery
305 East Boscawen Street
Winchester, Virginia
Founded 1844
See also Findagrave
page for this location.
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David Holmes (1769-1832) —
of Winchester,
Va.; Washington, Adams
County, Miss.
Born near Hanover, York
County, Pa., March
10, 1769.
U.S.
Representative from Virginia, 1797-1809 (at-large 1797-1807, 4th
District 1807-09); Governor
of Mississippi Territory, 1809-11, 1812-15; Governor of
Mississippi, 1817-20, 1826; U.S.
Senator from Mississippi, 1820-25.
Presbyterian.
Slaveowner.
Died near Winchester, Frederick
County, Va., August
20, 1832 (age 63 years, 163
days).
Interment at Mt. Hebron Cemetery.
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Harry Flood Byrd (1887-1966) —
also known as Harry F. Byrd —
of Winchester,
Va.; Berryville, Clarke
County, Va.
Born in Martinsburg, Berkeley
County, W.Va., June 10,
1887.
Newspaper
publisher; fruit
farmer;
member of Virginia
state senate, 1915-25 (10th District 1915-23, 26th District
1924-25); Virginia
Democratic state chair, 1922-25; delegate to Democratic National
Convention from Virginia, 1924,
1928,
1940,
1944,
1948,
1952,
1956;
Governor
of Virginia, 1926-30; member of Democratic
National Committee from Virginia, 1928-40; Vice-Chair
of Democratic National Committee, 1929; candidate for Democratic
nomination for President, 1932;
U.S.
Senator from Virginia, 1933-65; candidate for Democratic
nomination for Vice President, 1944;
States Rights candidate for President
of the United States, 1956; received 15 electoral votes for
President, 1960.
Episcopalian.
Member, Freemasons;
Elks; Moose; United
Commercial Travelers; Grange.
Died in Berryville, Clarke
County, Va., October
20, 1966 (age 79 years, 132
days).
Interment at Mt. Hebron Cemetery.
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Relatives: Son
of Richard
Evelyn Byrd (1860-1925) and Eleanor Bolling (Flood) Byrd; brother
of Richard Evelyn Byrd (1888-1957; polar explorer); married, October
7, 1913, to Anne Douglas Beverley; father of Harry
Flood Byrd Jr.; half-nephew of Joel
West Flood; nephew of Henry
De La Warr Flood; second great-grandnephew of Charles
Willing Byrd; first cousin four times removed of Benjamin
William Sheridan Cabell; first cousin five times removed of Benjamin
Harrison and Robert
Carter Nicholas (1729-1780); second cousin thrice removed of William
Lewis Cabell and George
Craighead Cabell; second cousin four times removed of George
Nicholas, Carter
Bassett Harrison, Wilson
Cary Nicholas, John
Nicholas and William
Henry Harrison; second cousin five times removed of John
Randolph of Roanoke; third cousin once removed of Connally
Findlay Trigg; third cousin twice removed of Benjamin
Earl Cabell; third cousin thrice removed of Peyton
Randolph, Robert
Carter Nicholas (1787-1857) and John
Scott Harrison; fourth cousin once removed of Carter
Henry Harrison II and 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; Walker-Randolph
family of Huntsville, Alabama (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — National
Governors Association biography — NNDB
dossier — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
| | | Image source: Time Magazine, August 17,
1962 |
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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.
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Frederick William Mackey Holliday (1828-1899) —
of Virginia.
Born in Winchester,
Va., February
22, 1828.
Democrat. Lawyer;
colonel in the Confederate Army during the Civil War; wounded in
battle and lost his
right arm; Representative
from Virginia in the Confederate Congress, 1864-65; Governor of
Virginia, 1878-82.
Suffered a stroke,
and died two weeks later, in Winchester,
Va., May 29,
1899 (age 71 years, 96
days).
Interment at Mt. Hebron Cemetery.
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Charles Magill (1760-1827) —
of Winchester,
Va.
Born in County Antrim, Ireland (now Northern
Ireland), July 10,
1760.
Colonel in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War; lawyer; planter;
member of Virginia
state senate, 1799-1800; Judge of U.S. Circuit Court for the 4th
Circuit, 1801-02; mayor
of Winchester, Va., 1805.
Scotch-Irish
ancestry.
Died in Winchester,
Va., April
18, 1827 (age 66 years, 282
days).
Interment at Mt. Hebron Cemetery.
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Holmes Conrad (1840-1915) —
of Winchester,
Va.
Born in Winchester,
Va., January
31, 1840.
Major in the Confederate Army during the Civil War; lawyer;
member of Virginia
state house of delegates, 1878-82; U.S. Solicitor General,
1895-97.
Died in Winchester,
Va., September
4, 1915 (age 75 years, 216
days).
Interment at Mt. Hebron Cemetery.
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John Smith (1750-1836) —
of Virginia.
Born near Locust Hill, Middlesex
County, Va., May 7,
1750.
Justice of the peace; served in the Continental Army during the
Revolutionary War; member of Virginia
state house of delegates, 1779-83; member of Virginia
state senate, 1791-94; U.S.
Representative from Virginia, 1801-15 (at-large 1801-07, 3rd
District 1807-15); served in the U.S. Army during the War of 1812.
Died in Frederick
County, Va., March 5,
1836 (age 85 years, 303
days).
Original interment in private or family graveyard; reinterment in
1890 at Mt. Hebron Cemetery.
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Thomas Walter Harrison (1856-1935) —
also known as Thomas W. Harrison —
of Winchester,
Va.
Born in Leesburg, Loudoun
County, Va., August
5, 1856.
Democrat. Member of Virginia
state senate, 1887-94; state court judge in Virginia, 1895-1916;
delegate
to Virginia state constitutional convention from Frederick County
& Winchester city, 1901-02; U.S.
Representative from Virginia 7th District, 1916-22, 1923-29.
Member, Phi
Kappa Psi.
Died in Winchester,
Va., May 9,
1935 (age 78 years, 277
days).
Interment at Mt. Hebron Cemetery.
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John Randolph Tucker (1823-1897) —
of Lexington,
Va.
Born in Winchester,
Va., December
24, 1823.
Democrat. U.S.
Representative from Virginia, 1875-87 (6th District 1875-85, 10th
District 1885-87).
Slaveowner.
Died in Lexington,
Va., February
13, 1897 (age 73 years, 51
days).
Interment at Mt. Hebron Cemetery.
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Richard Evelyn Byrd (1860-1925) —
also known as Richard E. Byrd —
of Winchester,
Va.
Born in Austin, Travis
County, Tex., August
13, 1860.
Democrat. Lawyer; Frederick
County Commonwealth Attorney, 1884-1904; member of Virginia
state house of delegates from Frederick County & Winchester city,
1906-13; Speaker of
the Virginia State House of Delegates, 1908-13; delegate to
Democratic National Convention from Virginia, 1912,
1920;
U.S.
Attorney for the Western District of Virginia, 1914-20.
Died in Richmond,
Va., October
25, 1925 (age 65 years, 73
days).
Interment at Mt. Hebron Cemetery.
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Relatives: Son
of Col. William Byrd and Jennie (Rivers) Byrd; married, September
15, 1886, to Eleanor Bolling Flood (sister of Henry
De La Warr Flood); father of Harry
Flood Byrd and Richard Evelyn Byrd (1888-1957; polar explorer);
grandfather of Harry
Flood Byrd Jr.; great-grandnephew of Charles
Willing Byrd; first cousin four times removed of Benjamin
Harrison (1726-1791) and Robert
Carter Nicholas (1729-1780); second cousin of Lucia Cary Harrison
(who married Edmund
Randolph Cocke); second cousin thrice removed of George
Nicholas, Carter
Bassett Harrison, Wilson
Cary Nicholas, John
Nicholas and William
Henry Harrison; third cousin of Connally
Findlay Trigg; third cousin twice removed of Peyton
Randolph, Robert
Carter Nicholas (1787-1857) and John
Scott Harrison; third cousin thrice removed of Burwell
Bassett; fourth cousin once removed of Thomas
Marshall, James
Keith Marshall, Peter
Myndert Dox, Edmund
Randolph, Carter
Henry Harrison and Benjamin
Harrison (1833-1901). |
| | | Political families: Harrison-Randolph-Marshall-Cabell
family of Virginia; Clark-Thomson
family of Iowa and Virginia (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | Image source: Men of Mark in Virginia
(1906) |
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Burr Powell Harrison (1904-1973) —
also known as Burr P. Harrison —
of Winchester,
Va.
Born in Winchester,
Va., July 2,
1904.
Democrat. Lawyer; Frederick
County Commonwealth Attorney, 1932-40; member of Virginia
state senate 25th District, 1940-43; circuit judge in Virginia
17th Circuit, 1942-46; U.S.
Representative from Virginia 7th District, 1946-63.
Episcopalian.
Member, Elks; Odd
Fellows; Moose; Kiwanis;
Ruritan.
Died in Winchester,
Va., December
29, 1973 (age 69 years, 180
days).
Interment at Mt. Hebron Cemetery.
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Henry St. George Tucker (1780-1848) —
of Virginia.
Born in Chesterfield
County, Va., December
29, 1780.
Lawyer;
served in the U.S. Army during the War of 1812; U.S.
Representative from Virginia 3rd District, 1815-19; member of Virginia
state senate, 1819-23; law
professor; chancellor, 4th District, 1824-31; Judge, Virginia
Court of Appeals, 1831-41.
Slaveowner.
Died in Winchester,
Va., August
28, 1848 (age 67 years, 243
days).
Interment at Mt. Hebron Cemetery.
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Relatives: Son
of Frances (Bland) Tucker and St.
George Tucker; half-brother of John
Randolph of Roanoke; married, September
23, 1806, to Ann Evelina Hunter; father of Nathaniel
Beverly Tucker and John
Randolph Tucker; nephew of Theodorick
Bland (1742-1790) and Thomas
Tudor Tucker; grandfather of Henry
St. George Tucker (1853-1932); grandnephew of Richard
Bland; great-grandnephew of Richard
Randolph; first cousin of George
Tucker; first cousin twice removed of Peyton
Randolph (1721-1775); second cousin of Henry
Lee, Charles
Lee and Edmund
Jennings Lee; second cousin once removed of Thomas
Jefferson, Edmund
Jenings Randolph and Beverley
Randolph; second cousin twice removed of Fitzhugh
Lee; second cousin four times removed of William
Welby Beverley; third cousin of John
Marshall, James
Markham Marshall, Thomas
Mann Randolph Jr., Alexander
Keith Marshall, Martha
Jefferson Randolph, Dabney
Carr, John
Wayles Eppes, Theodorick
Bland (1776-1846) and Peyton
Randolph (1779-1828); third cousin once removed of David
Meriwether (1755-1822), James
Meriwether (1755-1817), Meriwether
Lewis, Thomas
Marshall, Benjamin
William Sheridan Cabell, James
Keith Marshall, Francis
Wayles Eppes, Dabney
Smith Carr, Benjamin
Franklin Randolph, Meriwether
Lewis Randolph, George
Wythe Randolph, Edmund
Randolph and Carter
Henry Harrison; third cousin twice removed of William
Lewis Cabell, Thomas
Jefferson Coolidge, George
Craighead Cabell, Edmund
Randolph Cocke, John
Augustine Marshall, Carter
Henry Harrison II, Frederick
Madison Roberts and Douglass
Townshend Bolling; third cousin thrice removed of Thomas
Lawton Davis, Connally
Findlay Trigg, Benjamin
Earl Cabell, John
Gardner Coolidge, Edith
Wilson, William
Marshall Bullitt, Alexander
Scott Bullitt, Francis
Beverley Biddle and Richard
Walker Bolling; fourth cousin of James
Meriwether (1788-1852), David
Meriwether (1800-1893) and James
Archibald Meriwether; fourth cousin once removed of George
Rockingham Gilmer and Reuben
Handy Meriwether. |
| | | Political families: Harrison-Randolph-Marshall-Cabell
family of Virginia; Walker-Randolph
family of Huntsville, Alabama (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | Tucker County,
W.Va. is named for him. |
| | | The World War II Liberty
ship SS Henry St.G. Tucker (built 1942 at Baltimore,
Maryland; scrapped 1966) was named for
him. |
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
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Daniel Morgan (1736-1802) —
of Virginia.
Born in Hunterdon
County, N.J., 1736.
General in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War; U.S.
Representative from Virginia at-large, 1797-99.
Presbyterian.
Welsh
ancestry.
Slaveowner.
Died July 6,
1802 (age about 66
years).
Original interment at Old Stone Presbyterian
Church Cemetery; reinterment at Mt. Hebron Cemetery; statue at Morgan
Square, Spartanburg, S.C.
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Robert Young Conrad (1805-1875) —
also known as Robert Y. Conrad —
of Frederick
County, Va.
Born in 1805.
Virginia
state attorney general, 1857-62; delegate
to Virginia secession convention from Frederick County, 1861.
Died in 1875
(age about
70 years).
Interment at Mt. Hebron Cemetery.
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James Washington Singleton (1811-1892) —
also known as James W. Singleton —
of Brown
County, Ill.; Quincy, Adams
County, Ill.
Born in Paxton, Frederick
County, Va., November
23, 1811.
Democrat. Delegate
to Illinois state constitutional convention from Brown County,
1847; member of Illinois
state house of representatives, 1850; delegate
to Illinois state constitutional convention from Adams County,
1862; U.S.
Representative from Illinois 11th District, 1879-83.
Died April 4,
1892 (age 80 years, 133
days).
Interment at Mt. Hebron Cemetery.
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Richard Parker (1810-1893) —
of Virginia.
Born in Richmond,
Va., December
22, 1810.
Democrat. U.S.
Representative from Virginia 10th District, 1849-51.
Slaveowner.
Died in Winchester,
Va., November
10, 1893 (age 82 years, 323
days).
Interment at Mt. Hebron Cemetery.
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Samuel Russ Atwell (1816-1892) —
also known as Samuel R. Atwell —
of Winchester,
Va.
Born August
16, 1816.
Republican. Postmaster at Winchester,
Va., 1870-75, 1878-82.
Died, from heart
disease, in Winchester,
Va., November
24, 1892 (age 76 years, 100
days).
Interment at Mt. Hebron Cemetery.
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Hollie Brockenborough McCormac (1875-1937) —
also known as H. B. McCormac —
of Winchester,
Va.
Born in Frederick
County, Va., December
27, 1875.
Republican. Woolen mill
manager; candidate for Presidential Elector for Virginia;
delegate to Republican National Convention from Virginia, 1928
(Convention
Vice-President), 1936.
Died in Winchester,
Va., December
11, 1937 (age 61 years, 349
days).
Interment at Mt. Hebron Cemetery.
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Relatives: Son
of John B. McCormac and Sarah Margaret (Anderson) McCormac; married
1911 to
Gertrude May Adams. |
| | | See also Find-A-Grave
memorial |
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James Sloan Kuykendall Jr. (1906-1995) —
also known as J. Sloan Kuykendall —
of Winchester,
Va.
Born in Romney, Hampshire
County, W.Va., December
11, 1906.
Delegate
to Virginia limited constitutional convention 25th District, 1945.
Died in Winchester,
Va., February
17, 1995 (age 88 years, 68
days).
Interment at Mt. Hebron Cemetery.
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Old Lutheran
Cemetery
Winchester, Virginia
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Hector B. Meredith (1826-1885) —
of Folsom, Sacramento
County, Calif.; New York, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Winchester,
Va., April
30, 1826.
Went
to California for the 1849 Gold Rush; member of California
state assembly 9th District, 1855-56.
Died from complications of a bad fall, in
New York, New York
County, N.Y., May 29,
1885 (age 59 years, 29
days).
Interment at Old Lutheran Cemetery.
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Relatives: Son
of James S. Meredith and Elizabeth B. (Eaty)
Meredith. |
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Old Stone
Presbyterian Church Cemetery
Winchester, Virginia
Wood Family
Cemetery
Winchester, Virginia
See also Findagrave
page for this location.
| Politicians buried
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Alexander White (1738-1804) —
of Frederick
County, Va.
Born in Orange
County, Va., June 17,
1738.
Lawyer;
member of Virginia
House of Burgesses, 1772-73; member of Virginia
state house of delegates from Frederick County, 1782-86, 1788; delegate
to Virginia convention to ratify U.S. constitution from Frederick
County, 1788; U.S.
Representative from Virginia, 1789-93 (at-large 1789-91, 1st
District 1791-93).
Slaveowner.
Died in Frederick
County, Va., October
9, 1804 (age 66 years, 114
days).
Interment at Wood Family Cemetery.
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