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Barbour County
West Virginia

Cemeteries and Memorial Sites of Politicians in Barbour County

Index to Locations

  • Cross Roads Cemetery
  • Philippi Barbour Memorial Cemetery
  • Philippi Fraternity Cemetery
  • Philippi Masonic Cemetery
  • Philippi Mt. Olive Cemetery


    Cross Roads Cemetery
    Barbour County, West Virginia
    Politicians buried here:
    Dayton R. Stemple Dayton R. Stemple (b. 1900) — of Philippi, Barbour County, W.Va. Born in Barbour County, W.Va., September 8, 1900. Republican. Farmer; funeral director; lawyer; Barbour County Prosecuting Attorney, 1925-29, 1933-35; member of West Virginia state senate 15th District, 1947-62; candidate for judge of West Virginia supreme court of appeals, 1956, 1960; circuit judge in West Virginia for the 19th Judicial Circuit, 1963. Methodist. Member, Kiwanis; Farm Bureau; Elks. Interment at Cross Roads Cemetery.
      Relatives: Son of James D. Stemple and Mary C. (Hershman) Stemple; married, August 30, 1922, to Ethel Virginia Park.
      Image source: West Virginia Blue Book 1951


    Barbour Memorial Cemetery
    Philippi, Barbour County, West Virginia
    Politicians buried here:
      Richard Hugh Everson (1945-1999) — also known as Rick Everson — of West Virginia. Born in Barbour County, W.Va., August 19, 1945. Member of West Virginia state house of delegates, 1992-99; died in office 1999. Church of Christ. Member, Freemasons; Lions; American Legion. Died in Broaddus Hospital, Philippi, Barbour County, W.Va., September 1, 1999 (age 54 years, 13 days). Interment at Barbour Memorial Cemetery.


    Fraternity Cemetery
    Philippi, Barbour County, West Virginia
    Politicians buried here:
      Alston Gordon Dayton (1857-1920) — also known as Alston G. Dayton — of Upshur County, W.Va.; Philippi, Barbour County, W.Va. Born in Philippi, Barbour County, Va. (now W.Va.), October 18, 1857. Republican. Lawyer; Upshur County Prosecuting Attorney, 1879; Barbour County Prosecuting Attorney, 1884-88; U.S. Representative from West Virginia 2nd District, 1895-1905; resigned 1905; U.S. District Judge for West Virginia, 1905. Died,in a sanitarium at Battle Creek, Calhoun County, Mich., July 30, 1920 (age 62 years, 286 days). Interment at Fraternity Cemetery.
      Relatives: Son of Spencer Dayton and Sarah (Bush) Dayton; married, November 26, 1884, to Columbia M. Sinsel.
      See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — Wikipedia article — Find-A-Grave memorial


    Masonic Cemetery
    Philippi, Barbour County, West Virginia
    Politicians buried here:
      Thomas Armistead Bradford — also known as Thomas A. Bradford — of Barbour County, W.Va. Served in the Confederate Army during the Civil War; member of West Virginia state house of delegates from Barbour County, 1872-73, 1879. Interment at Masonic Cemetery.


    Mt. Olive Cemetery
    Philippi, Barbour County, West Virginia
    Politicians buried here:
      Joseph James Wrightsman Gawthrop (1842-1910) — also known as James W. Gawthrop — of Barbour County, W.Va. Born January 31, 1842. Member of West Virginia state house of delegates from Barbour County, 1897-98. Died February 2, 1910 (age 68 years, 2 days). Interment at Mt. Olive Cemetery.
      Henson L. Hoff — of Barbour County, W.Va. Member of West Virginia state house of delegates from Barbour County, 1864. Interment at Mt. Olive Cemetery.

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