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Breathitt County
Kentucky

Cemeteries and Memorial Sites ofPoliticians in Breathitt County

Index to Locations Unknown location Cope Family Cemetery Private or family graveyards JacksonCombs Cemetery JacksonHargis Family Cemetery JacksonSewell Cemetery UnknownLocation Breathitt County, Kentucky Thomas Perrin Cardwell (1829-1915) — of Kentucky. Born inBreathittCounty, Ky.,July 12,1829.Member ofKentuckystate house of representatives, 1864-65; member ofKentuckystate senate, 1865-69.Died inBreathittCounty, Ky.,December27, 1915 (age86 years, 168days).Interment somewhere. Politicians buriedhere:     Relatives:Son-in-law ofJeremiahWeldon South; brother ofIsaacNewton Cardwell; uncle by marriage ofSouthTrimble andJohnGlover South; granduncle ofSouthStrong.   Political family:Cockrell-Southfamily of Kentucky.

Archibald Calloway Cope (1828-1907) — of Kentucky. Born inBreathittCounty, Ky.,May 10,1828.Member of Kentucky state legislature, 1887-88. Died inBreathittCounty, Ky.,November8, 1907 (age79 years, 182days).Interment at Cope Family Cemetery.

	Relatives:Son-in-law ofJohnLouis Hargis; brother-in-law ofThomasFrazier Hargis.
		Political family:Cockrell-Southfamily of Kentucky.

Alexander Hamilton Hargis (1859-1943) — Born inBreathittCounty, Ky.,August21, 1859.Member ofKentuckystate senate, 1892.Died in Lexington,FayetteCounty, Ky.,April30, 1943 (age83 years, 252days).Interment in a private or family graveyard.

	Presumably namedfor:AlexanderHamilton
		Relatives: Son ofJohnSeldon Hargis; brother ofJamesHenderson Hargis; grandnephew ofJohnLouis Hargis; first cousin once removed ofThomasFrazier Hargis.
		Political family:Cockrell-Southfamily of Kentucky.

South Strong (1880-1939) — of Jackson,BreathittCounty, Ky.Born in Lost Creek,BreathittCounty, Ky.,July 23,1880.Democrat.Lawyer;delegateto Kentucky state constitutional convention, 1912; alternatedelegate to Democratic National Convention from Kentucky,1912.Member,Freemasons;OddFellows;Knightsof Pythias.Died, ofpneumonia,at Jackson,BreathittCounty, Ky.,November29, 1939 (age59 years, 129days).Interment at Combs Cemetery.

	Relatives:Grandnephew ofIsaacNewton Cardwell andThomasPerrin Cardwell; great-grandson ofJeremiahWeldon South; first cousin once removed ofJerryCurtis South andJohnGlover South; first cousin thrice removed ofHarrisonCockrill; second cousin ofEleanorHume Offutt.
		Political family:Cockrell-Southfamily of Kentucky.

John Seldon Hargis (1820-1892) — of Kentucky. Born inLeeCounty, Va.,November11, 1820.Member ofKentuckystate senate, 1892; died in office 1892.Died in Frankfort,FranklinCounty, Ky.,February28, 1892 (age71 years, 109days).Interment at Hargis Family Cemetery.

	Relatives:Father ofAlexanderHamilton Hargis andJamesHenderson Hargis; nephew ofJohnLouis Hargis; first cousin ofThomasFrazier Hargis.
		Political family:Cockrell-Southfamily of Kentucky.

James Henderson Hargis (1862-1908) — also known asJames H. Hargis;"BigJim" —of Jackson,BreathittCounty, Ky.Born in Jackson,BreathittCounty, Ky.,October13, 1862.Democrat. County judge in Kentucky, 1890; member ofKentuckyDemocratic State Central Committee, 1899-1907.Triedand acquitted for the 1902-03murdersofJ.B. Marcum and two others, but found liable forplottingthe killings in a 1904 civil suit for money damages by survivingfamily members.Shotandkilled byhis son, Beech Hargis, in the Hargis Brothersgeneralstore, Jackson,BreathittCounty, Ky.,February6, 1908 (age45 years, 116days).Interment at Hargis Family Cemetery.

	Relatives: SonofJohnSeldon Hargis; brother ofAlexanderHamilton Hargis; grandnephew ofJohnLouis Hargis; first cousin ofThomasFrazier Hargis.
		Political family:Cockrell-Southfamily of Kentucky.

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SewellCemetery
Jackson, Breathitt County, Kentucky
James Buchanan Marcum (1858-1903) — also known asJ. B. Marcum — of Kentucky. BornJanuary9, 1858.Republican.KentuckyRepublican state chair, 1903.Shotandkilled,by Curtis Jett and Tom White, at the behest of county judgeJamesH. Hargis, on the steps of the BreathittCountyCourthouse, Jackson,BreathittCounty, Ky.,May 4,1903 (age45 years, 115days).Interment at Sewell Cemetery.

Politicians buriedhere:

	Presumably namedfor:JamesBuchanan
		Relatives: Nephew by marriage ofThomasFrazier Hargis.
		Political family:Cockrell-Southfamily of Kentucky.

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