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Index to Locations
Private or family graveyards
Opportunity Pines Cemetery
Spokane Fairmount Memorial Park
Spokane Greenwood Memorial Terrace
Spokane Riverside Memorial Park
Private or family
graveyard
Spokane County, Washington
Pines
Cemetery
1402 South Pines Road
Opportunity, Spokane County, Washington
See also Findagrave
page for this location.
Fairmount
Memorial Park
5200 W. Wellesley Avenue
Spokane, Spokane County, Washington
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Miles Poindexter (1868-1946) —
of Spokane, Spokane
County, Wash.
Born in Memphis, Shelby
County, Tenn., April
22, 1868.
Republican. Lawyer; Walla
Walla County Prosecuting Attorney, 1892-94; superior court judge
in Washington, 1904-08; U.S.
Representative from Washington 3rd District, 1909-11; U.S.
Senator from Washington, 1911-23; defeated, 1922; candidate for
Republican nomination for President, 1920;
U.S. Ambassador to Peru, 1923-28.
Died in Greenlee, Rockbridge
County, Va., September
21, 1946 (age 78 years, 152
days).
Original interment at Stonewall
Jackson Memorial Cemetery, Lexington, Va.; reinterment at
Fairmount Memorial Park.
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Clarence Cleveland Dill (1884-1978) —
also known as C. C. Dill; "Father of the Grand Coulee
Dam"; "Father of the Radio Act" —
of Spokane, Spokane
County, Wash.
Born near Fredericktown, Knox
County, Ohio, September
21, 1884.
Democrat. School
teacher; newspaper
reporter; lawyer; U.S.
Representative from Washington 5th District, 1915-19; defeated,
1918; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Washington, 1920,
1924,
1928;
U.S.
Senator from Washington, 1923-35.
Methodist
or Unitarian.
Member, American Bar
Association; Elks; Moose; Freemasons;
Odd
Fellows; Redmen;
Woodmen;
Phi
Kappa Psi.
Instrumental in developing Grand Coulee Dam.
Died in Spokane, Spokane
County, Wash., January
14, 1978 (age 93 years, 115
days).
Interment at Fairmount Memorial Park.
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Clarence Daniel Martin (1886-1955) —
also known as Clarence D. Martin —
of Cheney, Spokane
County, Wash.
Born in Cheney, Spokane
County, Wash., June 29,
1886.
Democrat. Grain milling
business; delegate to Democratic National Convention from
Washington, 1920,
1924,
1928
(alternate); mayor of Cheney, Wash., 1928-32; Governor of
Washington, 1933-41; defeated in primary, 1948; member of Washington
state house of representatives, 1944.
Died in Cheney, Spokane
County, Wash., August
11, 1955 (age 69 years, 43
days).
Entombed at Fairmount Memorial Park.
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Samuel Clarence Hyde (1842-1922) —
also known as Samuel C. Hyde —
of Spokane, Spokane
County, Wash.
Born in Fort Ticonderoga, Essex
County, N.Y., April
22, 1842.
Republican. Served in the Union Army during the Civil War; surveyor;
lawyer;
Spokane
County Prosecuting Attorney, 1880-86; U.S.
Representative from Washington at-large, 1895-97; defeated, 1896.
Died in Spokane, Spokane
County, Wash., March 7,
1922 (age 79 years, 319
days).
Interment at Fairmount Memorial Park.
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May Arkwright Hutton —
of Spokane, Spokane
County, Wash.
Democrat. Delegate to Democratic National Convention from Washington,
1912.
Female.
Interment at Fairmount Memorial Park.
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Greenwood
Memorial Terrace
Spokane, Spokane County, Washington
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George Turner (1850-1932) —
of Spokane, Spokane
County, Wash.
Born in Edina, Knox
County, Mo., February
25, 1850.
Democrat. Justice of
Washington territorial supreme court, 1884-88; delegate
to Washington state constitutional convention, 1889; U.S.
Senator from Washington, 1897-1903; defeated, 1916; candidate for
Democratic nomination for Vice President, 1904;
candidate for Governor of
Washington, 1904; delegate to Democratic National Convention from
Washington, 1912
(speaker).
Died in Spokane, Spokane
County, Wash., January
26, 1932 (age 81 years, 335
days).
Interment at Greenwood Memorial Terrace.
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Charles Francis Clough (1843-1927) —
also known as C. F. Clough —
of Spokane, Spokane
County, Wash.
Born in Cumberland, Providence
County, R.I., December
26, 1843.
Served in the Union Army during the Civil War; real estate
broker; mayor
of Spokane, Wash., 1890.
Member, Grand
Army of the Republic.
Died in Spokane, Spokane
County, Wash., December
27, 1927 (age 84 years, 1
days).
Interment at Greenwood Memorial Terrace.
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Albert Franklyn Canwell (1907-2002) —
also known as Albert F. Canwell —
of Spokane, Spokane
County, Wash.
Born in Spokane, Spokane
County, Wash., January
11, 1907.
Republican. Member of Washington
state house of representatives, 1947-48; candidate for Washington
state senate, 1948; candidate for U.S.
Senator from Washington, 1950; candidate for U.S.
Representative from Washington at-large, 1952, 1954.
Chair of the Joint Legislative Committee on Un-American Activities,
known as the Canwell Committee, which held hearings in 1948 to
investigate alleged Communist infiltration of the University of
Washington; three tenured professors were fired for suspected
associations with Communists or refusal to answer the committee's
questions.
Died in Spokane, Spokane
County, Wash., April 1,
2002 (age 95 years, 80
days).
Interment at Greenwood Memorial Terrace.
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William Horace Clagett (1838-1901) —
also known as William H. Clagett —
of Humboldt City, Humboldt County (now Pershing
County), Nev.; Deer Lodge, Powell
County, Mont.
Born in Upper Marlboro, Prince
George's County, Md., September
21, 1838.
Republican. Lawyer;
member of Nevada
territorial House of Representatives, 1862-63; member of Nevada
state house of representatives, 1864-65; delegate to Republican
National Convention from Montana Territory, 1868;
Delegate
to U.S. Congress from Montana Territory, 1871-73; defeated, 1872.
Died in Spokane, Spokane
County, Wash., August
3, 1901 (age 62 years, 316
days).
Interment at Greenwood Memorial Terrace.
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Charles Stewart Voorhees (1853-1909) —
also known as Charles S. Voorhees —
of Terre Haute, Vigo
County, Ind.; Colfax, Whitman
County, Wash.; Spokane, Spokane
County, Wash.
Born in Covington, Fountain
County, Ind., June 4,
1853.
Lawyer;
Whitman
County Prosecuting Attorney, 1882-85; Delegate
to U.S. Congress from Washington Territory, 1885-89.
Died in Spokane, Spokane
County, Wash., December
26, 1909 (age 56 years, 205
days).
Interment at Greenwood Memorial Terrace.
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Riverside
Memorial Park
211 North Government Way
Spokane, Spokane County, Washington
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Marion E. Hay (1865-1933) —
of Wilbur, Lincoln
County, Wash.; Spokane, Spokane
County, Wash.
Born in Adams
County, Wis., December
9, 1865.
Republican. Merchant;
chair
of Lincoln County Republican Party, 1898-1902; alternate delegate
to Republican National Convention from Washington, 1900;
Lieutenant
Governor of Washington, 1909; Governor of
Washington, 1909-13; defeated, 1912.
Presbyterian.
Died in Spokane, Spokane
County, Wash., November
21, 1933 (age 67 years, 347
days).
Entombed in mausoleum at Riverside Memorial Park.
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Paul Gerhart Hatfield (1928-2000) —
also known as Paul G. Hatfield —
of Montana.
Born in Great Falls, Cascade
County, Mont., April
29, 1928.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during the Korean conflict; lawyer;
district judge in Montana, 1960-76; chief
justice of Montana state supreme court, 1977-78; U.S.
Senator from Montana, 1978; U.S.
District Judge for Montana, 1979-96.
Died of a heart
attack, in Great Falls, Cascade
County, Mont., July 3,
2000 (age 72 years, 65
days).
Interment at Riverside Memorial Park.
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John Thomas Fancher (1891-1928) —
also known as Jack T. Fancher —
of Washington.
Born in Manila (now Espanola), Spokane
County, Wash., May 13,
1891.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Army Air Corps in World War I;
candidate for U.S.
Representative from Washington 5th District, 1926.
Wounded by the premature explosion
of a bomb was destroying, in an empty field at the newly-opened
Wenatchee airport,
and died soon after in the hospital
at Wenatchee, Chelan
County, Wash., April
30, 1928 (age 36 years, 353
days).
Interment at Riverside Memorial Park.
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Frank Dravo Muse (d. 1947) —
also known as Frank D. Muse —
of Indiana.
Born in Buena Vista, Allegheny
County, Pa.
Prohibition candidate for U.S.
Representative from Indiana 8th District, 1906.
Died in Spokane, Spokane
County, Wash., January
8, 1947.
Interment at Riverside Memorial Park.
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B. Jean Silver (1926-2000) —
of Washington.
Born July 5,
1926.
Republican. Member of Washington
state house of representatives, 1983-96 (5th District 1983-92,
6th District 1993-96).
Female.
Died, of Alzheimer's
disease, at a nursing
home in Spokane, Spokane
County, Wash., March
14, 2000 (age 73 years, 253
days).
Interment at Riverside Memorial Park.
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John Abbot Fancher (1855-1931) —
also known as John Fancher; Jack Fancher —
of Espanola, Spokane
County, Wash.; Spokane, Spokane
County, Wash.
Born in Ogle
County, Ill., December
28, 1855.
Farmer;
postmaster;
member of Washington
state house of representatives, 1905-09.
Congregationalist.
Died in Spokane, Spokane
County, Wash., April 2,
1931 (age 75 years, 95
days).
Interment at Riverside Memorial Park.
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