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Index to Locations
Elm Grove Stone Church Cemetery
West Liberty Short Creek Methodist
Church Cemetery
Wheeling Unknown location
Wheeling Elm Grove Cemetery
Wheeling Greenwood Cemetery
Wheeling Mt. Calvary Cemetery
Wheeling Mt. Wood Cemetery
Stone Church
Cemetery
Elm Grove, Ohio County, West Virginia
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Lewis Steenrod (1810-1862) —
of Virginia.
Born in Virginia, 1810.
Democrat. U.S.
Representative from Virginia, 1839-45 (19th District 1839-41,
21st District 1841-43, 15th District 1843-45); member of Virginia
state legislature, 1850.
Slaveowner.
Died in 1862
(age about
52 years).
Interment at Stone Church Cemetery.
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James Paull (1818-1875) —
of Wheeling, Ohio
County, W.Va.
Born in Ohio, July 6,
1818.
Democrat. Mayor
of Wheeling, Va., 1855; judge of
West Virginia supreme court of appeals, 1873-75; died in office
1875.
Died May 11,
1875 (age 56 years, 309
days).
Interment at Stone Church Cemetery.
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Relatives: Son
of George Paull and Elizabeth (Woods) Paull; married to Jane Ann Fry
and Eliza Jane Ott. |
| | | Epitaph: "He giveth his beloved
sleep." |
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memorial |
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Daniel Cruger (1780-1843) —
of Bath, Steuben
County, N.Y.
Born in Sunbury, Northumberland
County, Pa., December
22, 1780.
Democrat. Newspaper
publisher; lawyer;
major in the U.S. Army during the War of 1812; member of New York
state assembly, 1813-16, 1826 (Allegany and Steuben counties
1813-16, Steuben County 1826); Speaker of
the New York State Assembly, 1816; postmaster at Bath,
N.Y., 1815-17, 1821-22; U.S.
Representative from New York 20th District, 1817-19; Steuben
County District Attorney, 1818-21.
Slaveowner.
Died in Wheeling, Ohio
County, Va (now W.Va.), July 12,
1843 (age 62 years, 202
days).
Interment at Stone Church Cemetery.
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John Thomas Carter (1878-1946) —
also known as John T. Carter —
of Elm Grove, Ohio
County, W.Va.
Born near Wheeling, Ohio
County, W.Va., April
24, 1878.
Republican. Deputy
sheriff; banker;
member of West
Virginia state house of delegates from Ohio County, 1929-32;
justice of the peace.
Presbyterian.
Member, Freemasons;
Knights
of Pythias.
Died in Wheeling, Ohio
County, W.Va., December
30, 1946 (age 68 years, 250
days).
Interment at Stone Church Cemetery.
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Relatives: Son
of Arthur Emery Carter and Sara Alma (Hervey) Carter; married, February
28, 1907, to Laura Hand; married to Sara May
Dimmack. |
| | | Image source: West Virginia Blue Book
1929 |
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Short Creek
Methodist Church Cemetery
West Liberty, Ohio County, West Virginia
See also Findagrave
page for this location.
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Milton McColloch (1874-1972) —
of Wheeling, Ohio
County, W.Va.
Born in Ohio
County, W.Va., June 29,
1874.
Republican. Farmer;
member of West
Virginia state house of delegates from Ohio County, 1921-22,
1925-30.
Member, Freemasons;
Scottish
Rite Masons; Shriners;
Order of the
Eastern Star.
Died in Ohio
County, W.Va., 1972
(age about
98 years).
Interment at Short Creek Methodist Church Cemetery.
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Relatives: Son
of Abram Innskeep McColloch and Rebecca Jane (North) McColloch;
married 1896 to
Lillian M. Emsley. |
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memorial |
| | | Image source: West Virginia Blue Book
1929 |
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Unknown
Location
Wheeling, Ohio County, West Virginia
| Politicians buried
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Charles Lee Spillers (b. 1901) —
also known as C. Lee Spillers —
of Wheeling, Ohio
County, W.Va.
Born in Russellville, Pope
County, Ark., August
6, 1901.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Marine Corps during World War I; lawyer;
member of West
Virginia state senate 1st District, 1935-36; resigned 1936; Ohio
County Prosecuting Attorney, 1937; U.S.
Attorney for the Northern District of West Virginia, 1947-51;
candidate for U.S.
Representative from West Virginia 1st District, 1956.
Presbyterian.
Member, Freemasons.
Interment somewhere.
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Relatives: Son
of Dr. Henry Franklin Spillers and Lula (Shinn) Spillers; married, December
2, 1933, to Elizabeth Reymann. |
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Elm Grove
Cemetery
Wheeling, Ohio County, West Virginia
Greenwood
Cemetery
1526 National Road
Wheeling, Ohio County, West Virginia
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Lewis Baker (1832-1899) —
of Wheeling, Ohio
County, W.Va.; St. Paul, Ramsey
County, Minn.
Born in Belmont
County, Ohio, November
11, 1832.
Democrat. Newspaper
editor; member of West
Virginia state senate 1st District, 1871-72; President
of the West Virginia State Senate, 1872; West Virginia
Democratic state chair, 1872-76; member of Democratic
National Committee from West Virginia, 1884-88; Minnesota
Democratic state chair, 1892; delegate to Democratic National
Convention from Minnesota, 1892;
U.S. Minister to Costa Rica, 1893-97; Salvador, 1893-97; Nicaragua, 1893-97.
Died, from pernicious
anemia, in Washington,
D.C., April
30, 1899 (age 66 years, 170
days).
Interment at Greenwood Cemetery.
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Alexander Hillyard Caldwell (1774-1839) —
also known as Alexander Caldwell —
of Westville, Jefferson
County, Pa.; Wheeling, Ohio
County, Va. (now W.Va.).
Born in New Jersey, November
1, 1774.
Lawyer;
U.S.
District Judge for the Western District of Virginia, 1825-39;
died in office 1839.
Died in Wheeling, Ohio
County, Va (now W.Va.), April 1,
1839 (age 64 years, 151
days).
Interment at Greenwood Cemetery.
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Carl George Bachmann (1890-1980) —
also known as Carl G. Bachmann —
of Wheeling, Ohio
County, W.Va.
Born in Wheeling, Ohio
County, W.Va., May 14,
1890.
Republican. Lawyer; Ohio
County Prosecuting Attorney, 1921-24; U.S.
Representative from West Virginia 1st District, 1925-33;
defeated, 1934; delegate to Republican National Convention from West
Virginia, 1932
(alternate), 1936,
1944,
1948,
1952,
1956;
chair
of Ohio County Republican Party, 1940; candidate for U.S.
Senator from West Virginia, 1940; mayor
of Wheeling, W.Va., 1947-51; member of West Virginia
Republican State Executive Committee, 1949-51.
Presbyterian.
Member, Elks.
Died in Wheeling, Ohio
County, W.Va., January
22, 1980 (age 89 years, 253
days).
Interment at Greenwood Cemetery.
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Benjamin Stanton (1809-1872) —
of Logan
County, Ohio.
Born in Mt. Pleasant, Jefferson
County, Ohio, June 4,
1809.
Republican. Member of Ohio
state senate, 1841-43; delegate
to Ohio state constitutional convention from Logan County,
1850-51; U.S.
Representative from Ohio, 1851-53, 1855-61 (4th District 1851-53,
8th District 1855-61); Lieutenant
Governor of Ohio, 1862-64; candidate for Presidential Elector for
West Virginia.
Died in Wheeling, Ohio
County, W.Va., June 2,
1872 (age 62 years, 364
days).
Interment at Greenwood Cemetery.
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Aquilla Bolton Caldwell (1814-1893) —
also known as Aquilla B. Caldwell —
of Wheeling, Ohio
County, W.Va.
Born in Ohio
County, Va. (now W.Va.), February
11, 1814.
Republican. Lawyer; U.S.
Attorney for the Western District of Virginia, 1861-62; West
Virginia state attorney general, 1863-64, 1869-70.
Died in Wheeling, Ohio
County, W.Va., June 18,
1893 (age 79 years, 127
days).
Interment at Greenwood Cemetery.
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John Overton Pendleton (1851-1916) —
also known as John O. Pendleton —
of Wheeling, Ohio
County, W.Va.
Born in Wellsburg, Brooke
County, Va. (now W.Va.), July 4,
1851.
Democrat. Candidate for West
Virginia state senate, 1886; U.S.
Representative from West Virginia 1st District, 1889-90, 1891-95;
defeated, 1895.
Died in Wheeling, Ohio
County, W.Va., December
24, 1916 (age 65 years, 173
days).
Interment at Greenwood Cemetery.
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Alfred Caldwell Jr. (1847-1925) —
Born in Wheeling, Ohio
County, Va. (now W.Va.), July 14,
1847.
Democrat. Lawyer;
member of West
Virginia state senate 1st District, 1875-77; West
Virginia state attorney general, 1885-93.
Presbyterian.
Member, Elks.
Died in Wheeling, Ohio
County, W.Va., March
11, 1925 (age 77 years, 240
days).
Interment at Greenwood Cemetery.
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Chester Dorman Hubbard (1814-1891) —
also known as Chester D. Hubbard —
of Wheeling, Ohio
County, W.Va.
Born in Hamden, New Haven
County, Conn., November
25, 1814.
Republican. Member of Virginia
state house of delegates, 1852-53; delegate
to Virginia secession convention from Ohio County, 1861; member
of West
Virginia state senate 1st District, 1863-64; U.S.
Representative from West Virginia 1st District, 1865-69; delegate
to Republican National Convention from West Virginia, 1880.
Died in Wheeling, Ohio
County, W.Va., August
23, 1891 (age 76 years, 271
days).
Interment at Greenwood Cemetery.
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William Pallister Hubbard (1843-1921) —
also known as William P. Hubbard —
of Wheeling, Ohio
County, W.Va.
Born in Wheeling, Ohio
County, Va. (now W.Va.), December
24, 1843.
Republican. Served in the Union Army during the Civil War; member of
West
Virginia state house of delegates from Ohio County, 1881-82;
candidate for West
Virginia state attorney general, 1888; U.S.
Representative from West Virginia 1st District, 1907-11;
defeated, 1890; delegate to Republican National Convention from West
Virginia, 1912.
Died in Wheeling, Ohio
County, W.Va., December
5, 1921 (age 77 years, 346
days).
Interment at Greenwood Cemetery.
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Robert White (1833-1915) —
of Romney, Hampshire
County, W.Va.; Wheeling, Ohio
County, W.Va.
Born in Romney, Hampshire
County, Va. (now W.Va.), February
7, 1833.
Democrat. Lawyer;
colonel in the Confederate Army during the Civil War; West
Virginia state attorney general, 1877-81; member of West
Virginia state house of delegates, 1885, 1891.
Presbyterian.
Member, United
Confederate Veterans; Sons of
the American Revolution; Freemasons.
Died in Wheeling, Ohio
County, W.Va., December
12, 1915 (age 82 years, 308
days).
Interment at Greenwood Cemetery.
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John Richard Adams (1895-1975) —
also known as Jack R. Adams —
of Wheeling, Ohio
County, W.Va.
Born in Wheeling, Ohio
County, W.Va., August
10, 1895.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during World War I; member of West
Virginia state house of delegates from Ohio County, 1935-36,
1941-42, 1955-56, 1965-66; resigned 1936; defeated, 1942, 1956, 1960,
1966; colonel in the U.S. Army during World War II; candidate for West
Virginia state senate 1st District, 1946; mayor
of Wheeling, W.Va., 1955-59.
Presbyterian.
Member, Freemasons;
Farm
Bureau; American
Legion; Forty and
Eight; Veterans of
Foreign Wars.
Died in November, 1975
(age 80
years, 0 days).
Interment at Greenwood Cemetery.
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Relatives: Son
of Effie Russell (Updegraff) Adams and Archibald Lynn 'Archie' Adams;
married, April
18, 1928, to Helen McCoid; married to Frances
Grant. |
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memorial |
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Jesse Aaron Bloch (1879-1951) —
also known as Jesse A. Bloch —
of Wheeling, Ohio
County, W.Va.
Born in Wheeling, Ohio
County, W.Va., November
2, 1879.
Republican. Vice-president, Bloch Brothers Tobacco
Co.; member of West
Virginia state house of delegates from Ohio County, 1913-16;
member of West
Virginia state senate 1st District, 1919-22; alternate delegate
to Republican National Convention from West Virginia, 1944,
1948.
Died in Wheeling, Ohio
County, W.Va., January
17, 1951 (age 71 years, 76
days).
Interment at Greenwood Cemetery.
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Relatives: Son
of Samuel Simon Bloch and Bertha (Prager) Bloch; married 1905 to Jessie
Thornton Moffat. |
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memorial |
| | | Image source: West Virginia Blue Book
1919 |
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James Ballentyne Taney (1839-1915) —
also known as James B. Taney —
of Wheeling, Ohio
County, W.Va.
Born in Newark, Essex
County, N.J., December
11, 1839.
Served in the Union Navy during the Civil War; newspaper
editor; U.S. Consul in Belfast, 1893-96.
Died in Wheeling, Ohio
County, W.Va., May 20,
1915 (age 75 years, 160
days).
Interment at Greenwood Cemetery.
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George F. Beneke (1914-2001) —
of Wheeling, Ohio
County, W.Va.
Born in Wheeling, Ohio
County, W.Va., January
9, 1914.
Republican. Lawyer;
served in the U.S. Navy during World War II; member of West
Virginia state house of delegates from Ohio County, 1947-56,
1967-68, 1971-74; defeated, 1940; resigned 1974; chair of
Ohio County Republican Party, 1961-63.
Lutheran.
Member, Freemasons;
Shriners;
Jesters;
Elks; Moose; Lambda
Chi Alpha; Phi
Delta Phi; American Bar
Association; American
Legion.
Died September
11, 2001 (age 87 years, 245
days).
Interment at Greenwood Cemetery.
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Joseph Henry Pendleton (1827-1881) —
also known as Joseph H. Pendleton —
of Wheeling, Ohio
County, Va. (now W.Va.).
Born in Louisa
County, Va., January
16, 1827.
Delegate
to Virginia secession convention from Ohio County, 1861; member
of Virginia
state house of delegates, 1863-65; major in the Confederate Army
during the Civil War.
Died in Wheeling, Ohio
County, W.Va., February
2, 1881 (age 54 years, 17
days).
Interment at Greenwood Cemetery.
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Relatives: Son
of Joseph Winston Pendleton and Elizabeth Hawse (Goodwin) Pendleton;
married to Margaret Campbell Ewing; father of John
Overton Pendleton; grandnephew of John
Pendleton Jr.; great-grandnephew of Edmund
Pendleton; first cousin once removed of William
Barret Pendleton; first cousin twice removed of Nathaniel
Pendleton; second cousin once removed of Philip
Clayton Pendleton, Edmund
Henry Pendleton and Nathanael
Greene Pendleton; second cousin twice removed of John
Penn; third cousin of Henry
Gaines Johnson, John
Strother Pendleton, Albert
Gallatin Pendleton, Philip
Coleman Pendleton and George
Hunt Pendleton; third cousin once removed of James
Madison, William
Taylor Madison, Zachary
Taylor, Francis
Key Pendleton and Charles
Rittenhouse Pendleton; third cousin twice removed of Sidney
Fletcher Taliaferro; fourth cousin of Coleby
Chew; fourth cousin once removed of George
Cassety Pendleton, James
Benjamin Garnett, Hubbard
T. Smith, Charles
M. Pendleton and Daniel
Micajah Pendleton. |
| | | Political family: Pendleton-Lee
family of Maryland (subset of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
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memorial |
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John Ulrich (1871-1943) —
also known as Honus Ulrich —
of Wheeling, Ohio
County, W.Va.
Born in Sharon, Mercer
County, Pa., June 14,
1871.
Republican. Steelworker;
member of West
Virginia state house of delegates from Ohio County, 1927-32;
defeated, 1934; alternate delegate to Republican National Convention
from West Virginia, 1932.
Member, United
Steelworkers of America.
Died in Wheeling, Ohio
County, W.Va., May 20,
1943 (age 71 years, 340
days).
Interment at Greenwood Cemetery.
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Malcolm Taney Brice (1876-1971) —
also known as Malcolm T. Brice —
of Woodsdale (now part of Wheeling), Ohio
County, W.Va.; Wheeling, Ohio
County, W.Va.
Born in Wheeling, Ohio
County, W.Va., December
28, 1876.
Democrat. U.S. Vice & Deputy Consul in Belfast, 1895-99; newspaper
editor and publisher; member of West
Virginia state house of delegates from Ohio County, 1937-38.
Episcopalian.
Died in Wheeling, Ohio
County, W.Va., April
27, 1971 (age 94 years, 120
days).
Interment at Greenwood Cemetery.
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Eleanor Steber (1914-1990) —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Wheeling, Ohio
County, W.Va., July 17,
1914.
Democrat. Opera
singer; performed, Democratic National Convention, 1944.
Female.
Presbyterian.
Died, from congestive
heart failure, in the Attleboro Nursing
Home, Langhorne, Bucks
County, Pa., October
3, 1990 (age 76 years, 78
days).
Interment at Greenwood Cemetery.
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Mt. Calvary
Cemetery
Wheeling, Ohio County, West Virginia
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Andrew Charles Schiffler (1889-1970) —
also known as A. C. Schiffler —
of Wheeling, Ohio
County, W.Va.
Born in Wheeling, Ohio
County, W.Va., August
10, 1889.
Republican. Lawyer; Ohio
County Prosecuting Attorney, 1925-33; U.S.
Representative from West Virginia 1st District, 1939-41, 1943-45;
defeated, 1940, 1944; alternate delegate to Republican National
Convention from West Virginia, 1952.
Presbyterian.
Member, American Bar
Association; Freemasons;
Shriners;
Odd
Fellows; Knights
of Pythias; Elks; Eagles.
Died in Wheeling, Ohio
County, W.Va., March
27, 1970 (age 80 years, 229
days).
Interment at Mt. Calvary Cemetery.
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John Joseph Mathison (1892-1973) —
also known as John J. Mathison —
of Wheeling, Ohio
County, W.Va.
Born in West Virginia, March
18, 1892.
Democrat. Mayor
of Wheeling, W.Va., 1938-43; postmaster at Wheeling,
W.Va., 1944-62.
Died in Wheeling, Ohio
County, W.Va., March
10, 1973 (age 80 years, 357
days).
Interment at Mt. Calvary Cemetery.
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John William Cummins (1881-1965) —
also known as J. William Cummins —
of Wheeling, Ohio
County, W.Va.
Born in Wheeling, Ohio
County, W.Va., July 24,
1881.
Republican. Lawyer;
served in the U.S. Army during World War I; member of West
Virginia state house of delegates from Ohio County, 1927-32,
1939-40; defeated, 1940.
Member, Elks; American
Legion; Phi
Kappa Sigma.
Died in Wheeling, Ohio
County, W.Va., December
27, 1965 (age 84 years, 156
days).
Interment at Mt. Calvary Cemetery.
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Relatives: Son
of John William Cummins (1849-1931) and Annie (Campbell) Cummins;
married 1912 to Jean
Welty. |
| | | Image source: West Virginia Blue Book
1929 |
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Mt. Wood
Cemetery
Wheeling, Ohio County, West Virginia
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Thomas Owen Edwards (1810-1876) —
of Ohio.
Born in Williamsburg, Wayne
County, Ind., March
29, 1810.
U.S.
Representative from Ohio 9th District, 1847-49.
Died in Wheeling, Ohio
County, W.Va., February
5, 1876 (age 65 years, 313
days).
Interment at Mt. Wood Cemetery.
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