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Taylor County
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Cemeteries and Memorial Sites of Politicians in Taylor County

Index to Locations Grafton Bluemont Cemetery Bluemont Cemetery Grafton, Taylor County, West Virginia See also Findagrave page for this location. Politicians buried here:   Marmaduke Herbert Dent (1849-1909) — also known as Marmaduke H. Dent — of Grafton, Taylor County, W.Va. Born in Granville, Monongalia County, W.Va., April 18, 1849. Democrat. Lawyer; judge of West Virginia supreme court of appeals, 1893-1904. Presbyterian. Died September 11, 1909 (age 60 years, 146 days). Interment at Bluemont Cemetery.   Relatives: Son of Carrie (Roberts) Dent and Marshall Mortimer Dent; married, October 10, 1876, to Mary Jones Warder; father of Herbert Warder Dent; ancestor *** of Virginia Dent Reay Kurtz.   Political family: Kurtz-Dent family of West Virginia.   Guy D. Haymond (1874-1932) — of Taylor County, W.Va. Born in West Virginia, March 14, 1874. Republican. Member of West Virginia state house of delegates from Taylor County, 1929-30. Died in Grafton, Taylor County, W.Va., June 16, 1932 (age 58 years, 94 days). Interment at Bluemont Cemetery.   Relatives: Son of Jacob M. Haymond and Sarah E. (Barnes) Haymond; married to Sarah R. Good; grandnephew of Daniel S. Haymond; first cousin four times removed of Daniel Haymond; second cousin of Ellen 'Ella' Haymond (who married Joseph Thatcher Hoke); second cousin thrice removed of Thomas Sherwood Haymond, Daniel Haymond Polsley and William Summerville Haymond; third cousin twice removed of Alpheus Forest Haymond, Edwin Maxwell, Creed Haymond and Henry Haymond; fourth cousin of George S. Snodgrass; fourth cousin once removed of William Stanley Haymond, William Edgar Haymond, Thomas S. Haymond and Haymond Maxwell.   Political family: Haymond family of West Virginia (subset of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).   See also Find-A-Grave memorial John Gough Ridenour (1918-1963) — also known as Gough Ridenour — of Grafton, Taylor County, W.Va. Born in Buckhannon, Upshur County, W.Va., August 11, 1918. Republican. Served in the U.S. Army during World War II; geologist; member of West Virginia state house of delegates from Taylor County; elected 1950, 1952; defeated, 1954. Baptist. Member, Freemasons; Veterans of Foreign Wars. Died in Grafton, Taylor County, W.Va., July 3, 1963 (age 44 years, 326 days). Interment at Bluemont Cemetery.   Relatives: Son of Alston Gordon Ridenour and Grace Maude (Gough) Ridenour; married, November 1, 1948, to Betty Louise Robinson.   See also Find-A-Grave memorial   Image source: West Virginia Blue Book 1951

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