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Greenbrier County
West Virginia

Cemeteries and Memorial Sites of Politicians in Greenbrier County

Index to Locations Clintonville At the End of the Trail Cemetery Fort Spring McVey-Stephen Cemetery Lewisburg Old Stone Presbyterian Church Cemetery Lewisburg Rosewood Cemetery Lewisburg Stuart Burying Ground White Sulphur Springs Copeland Hill Cemetery At the End of the Trail Cemetery Clintonville, Greenbrier County, West Virginia Politicians buried here: Brack L. Campbell (1912-2002) — of Rupert, Greenbrier County, W.Va.; Lewisburg, Greenbrier County, W.Va. Born in Dawson, Greenbrier County, W.Va., March 26, 1912. Democrat. Member of West Virginia state house of delegates from Greenbrier County, 1949-52. Protestant. Member, Rotary; Elks; Moose; Lions. Died July 26, 2002 (age 90 years, 122 days). Interment at At the End of the Trail Cemetery.   Relatives: Son of John L. Campbell and Lillie D. (Woollard) Campbell; married, October 22, 1935, to Mildred Smith.   See also Find-A-Grave memorial   Image source: West Virginia Blue Book 1951 McVey-Stephen Cemetery Fort Spring, Greenbrier County, West Virginia Politicians buried here:   Howard Rodgers McVey (1903-1979) — also known as H. Rodgers McVey — of Alderson, Greenbrier County, W.Va. Born in Fort Spring, Greenbrier County, W.Va., February 21, 1903. Democrat. School teacher; member of West Virginia state house of delegates from Greenbrier County, 1945-48. Member, Freemasons; Order of the Eastern Star; Rotary. Died in Alderson, Greenbrier County, W.Va., August 13, 1979 (age 76 years, 173 days). Interment at McVey-Stephen Cemetery.   Relatives: Son of John Hawver McVey and Elsia L. (Coffman) McVey; married, March 27, 1926, to Gretis Lee Roles.   See also Find-A-Grave memorial Old Stone Presbyterian Church Cemetery Lewisburg, Greenbrier County, West Virginia Politicians buried here:   Henry Mason Mathews (1834-1884) — of Greenbrier County, W.Va. Born March 29, 1834. Democrat. Member of West Virginia state senate 9th District, 1866; West Virginia state attorney general, 1873-77; Governor of West Virginia, 1877-81. Died April 28, 1884 (age 50 years, 30 days). Interment at Old Stone Presbyterian Church Cemetery.   See also National Governors Association biography   Edgar Parks Rucker (1861-1908) — also known as Edgar P. Rucker — of McDowell County, W.Va. Born December 23, 1861. Republican. West Virginia state attorney general, 1897-1901. Died April 21, 1908 (age 46 years, 120 days). Interment at Old Stone Presbyterian Church Cemetery.   Relatives: Son of William Parks Rucker and Margaret Rucker; married to Maude Applegate; grandson-in-law of William Clark.   John Mathews (1768-1849) — of Lewisburg, Greenbrier County, Va. (now W.Va.). Born in Rockbridge County, Va., October 30, 1768. Surveyor; lawyer; member of Virginia state house of delegates from Greenbrier County, 1798-1802, 1803-05, 1813-15, 1816-17. Scotch-Irish ancestry. Died in Lewisburg, Greenbrier County, Va (now W.Va.), November 10, 1849 (age 81 years, 11 days). Interment at Old Stone Presbyterian Church Cemetery.   Relatives: Son of William Mathews and Frances (Crowe) Mathews; brother of James William Mathews; married to Catharine Pope; granduncle of Peter Johnston Otey; great-grandfather of Wythe Leigh Kinsolving.   Political family: Kinsolving-Mathews family of Virginia.   See also Wikipedia article — Find-A-Grave memorial Rosewood Cemetery Lewisburg, Greenbrier County, West Virginia Politicians buried here:   Gory Hogg (1873-1963) — of Harvey, Fayette County, W.Va.; Lewisburg, Greenbrier County, W.Va. Born in Point Pleasant, Mason County, W.Va., June 29, 1873. Democrat. Physician; president, Greenbrier Valley Bank; director, New River Banking and Trust Co.; director, Scotia Coal & Coke Co.; director, South Side Coal Co.; member of West Virginia state senate 9th District, 1915-18; member of Democratic National Committee from West Virginia, 1936-40. Presbyterian. Member, Freemasons; Scottish Rite Masons; Knights Templar; Shriners; Phi Sigma Kappa. Died in March, 1963 (age 89 years, 0 days). Entombed at Rosewood Cemetery.   Relatives: Son of Walter Harden Hogg and Elizabeth (McGuffin) Hogg; married, September 9, 1903, to Caroline James Butterfield.   Claude Earl McLaughlin (1895-1978) — also known as Claude E. McLaughlin — of Lewisburg, Greenbrier County, W.Va. Born in Dunmore, Pocahontas County, W.Va., October 21, 1895. Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during World War I; livestock raiser; feed dealer; mayor of Lewisburg, W.Va., 1944-46; member of West Virginia state house of delegates from Greenbrier County, 1947-50. Presbyterian. Member, Freemasons; Lions; American Legion. Died in 1978 (age about 82 years). Interment at Rosewood Cemetery.   Relatives: Son of Margaret Clementine (Mann) McLaughlin and Edward Franklin McLaughlin; married, November 14, 1923, to Mary Agnes Sydenstricker.   See also Find-A-Grave memorial   Emory Julian Reaser (1911-1997) — also known as Emory J. Reaser — of Princeton, Mercer County, W.Va. Born in Ronceverte, Greenbrier County, W.Va., May 2, 1911. Mayor of Princeton, W.Va., 1982. Methodist. Died in Princeton, Mercer County, W.Va., April 19, 1997 (age 85 years, 352 days). Interment at Rosewood Cemetery.   Relatives: Son of Andrew Joseph Reaser and Rosbella (Moorehead) Reaser; married 1933 to Mary Alice Howard.   See also Find-A-Grave memorial Stuart Burying Ground Lewisburg, Greenbrier County, West Virginia Politicians buried here:   Samuel Price (1805-1884) — of Wheeling, Ohio County, Va. (now W.Va.); Greenbrier County, Va. (now W.Va.). Born in Fauquier County, Va., July 28, 1805. Democrat. Lawyer; member of Virginia state house of delegates, 1834-36, 1847-50, 1852; delegate to Virginia state constitutional convention, 1850-51; delegate to Virginia secession convention from Greenbrier County, 1861; Lieutenant Governor of Virginia, 1864-65; delegate to West Virginia state constitutional convention, 1872; U.S. Senator from West Virginia, 1876-77. Slaveowner. Died in Lewisburg, Greenbrier County, W.Va., February 25, 1884 (age 78 years, 212 days). Interment at Stuart Burying Ground.   See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — Wikipedia article Copeland Hill Cemetery White Sulphur Springs, Greenbrier County, West Virginia Politicians buried here:   Thomas Bolling Robertson (1779-1828) — of Louisiana. Born near Petersburg, Dinwiddie County, Va., February 27, 1779. Democrat. Secretary of Orleans Territory, 1807-11; U.S. Representative from Louisiana at-large, 1812-18; Governor of Louisiana, 1820-24; U.S. District Judge for Louisiana, 1825. Episcopalian. Died in White Sulphur Springs, Greenbrier County, Va (now W.Va.), October 5, 1828 (age 49 years, 221 days). Interment at Copeland Hill Cemetery.   Relatives: Brother of John Robertson and Wyndham Robertson.   Political family: Robertson family of Virginia.   See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — National Governors Association biography

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