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Nantucket County
Massachusetts

Cemeteries and Memorial Sites ofPoliticians in Nantucket County

Gideon Gardner (1759-1832) — of Massachusetts. Born in Nantucket,NantucketCounty, Mass.,May 30,1759.U.S.Representative from Massachusetts 8th District, 1809-11.Died in Nantucket,NantucketCounty, Mass.,March22, 1832 (age72 years, 297days).Interment at Friends Burying Ground.

Index to Locations

NantucketFriends Burying Ground

NantucketNew North Cemetery

NantucketProspect Hill Cemetery

Siasconset, NantucketSiasconsetChapel

Friends BuryingGround
Nantucket, Nantucket County, Massachusetts

Walter Folger Jr. (1765-1849) — of Nantucket,NantucketCounty, Mass.Born in Nantucket,NantucketCounty, Mass.,June 12,1765.Democrat.Lawyer;member ofMassachusettsstate senate, 1809-15, 1822;U.S.Representative from Massachusetts 9th District, 1817-21.Died in Nantucket,NantucketCounty, Mass.,September8, 1849 (age84 years, 88days).Interment at Friends Burying Ground.

Politicians buriedhere:

	Relatives: Sonof Walter Folger and Elizabeth (Starbuck) Folger; married,December29, 1785, to Anna Ray; first cousin thrice removed ofBenjaminFranklin; second cousin twice removed ofWhartonBarker; second cousin thrice removed ofThomasMott Osborne; second cousin four times removed ofCharlesDevens Osborne andLithgowOsborne; third cousin once removed ofRichardBache Jr.; fourth cousin once removed ofCharlesJames Folger,BenjaminDexter Sprague andRobertWalker Irwin.
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New NorthCemetery
Nantucket, Nantucket County, Massachusetts

Whiting Willauer (1906-1962) — of Massachusetts. Born in1906.U.S. Ambassador toHonduras, 1954-58;Costa Rica, 1958-61.Died in1962(ageabout56 years).Interment at New North Cemetery.

Politicians buriedhere:

James Cowles Hart Bonbright (1903-1993) — also known asJames C. H. Bonbright — of Rochester,MonroeCounty, N.Y.Born in Rochester,MonroeCounty, N.Y.,January19, 1903.Foreign Service officer; U.S. Vice Consul inCanton, 1929; U.S. Ambassador toPortugal, 1955-58;Sweden, 1958-61.DiedFebruary10, 1993 (age90 years, 22days).Interment at New North Cemetery.

Prospect HillCemetery
Nantucket, Nantucket County, Massachusetts

Barker Burnell (1798-1843) — of Nantucket,NantucketCounty, Mass.Born in Nantucket,NantucketCounty, Mass.,January30, 1798.Whig. Member ofMassachusettsstate house of representatives, 1819;delegateto Massachusetts state constitutional convention, 1820; member ofMassachusettsstate senate, 1824-25; delegate to Whig National Convention fromMassachusetts, 1839 (member, Balloting Committee; speaker);U.S.Representative from Massachusetts, 1841-43 (11th District1841-43, 10th District 1843); died in office 1843.Died inWashington,D.C.,June 15,1843 (age45 years, 136days).Original interment and cenotaph atCongressionalCemetery, Washington, D.C.; reinterment in 1844 at Prospect HillCemetery.

Politicians buriedhere:

SiasconsetChapel
Siasconset, Nantucket, Nantucket County, Massachusetts

Reginald Bragonier Jr. (d. 1982) — ofBaltimore,Md.U.S. Vice Consul inMontevideo, as of 1938-43.Died in1982.Interment at Siasconset Chapel.

Politicians buriedhere:

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