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Yazoo County
Mississippi

Cemeteries and Memorial Sites ofPoliticians in Yazoo County

Index to Locations Private or family graveyards MidwayBethany Primitive BaptistChurch Cemetery Yazoo CityUnknown location Yazoo CityGlenwood Cemetery Private or familygraveyard Yazoo County, Mississippi John Sharp Williams (1854-1932) — of Yazoo City,YazooCounty, Miss.Born in Memphis,ShelbyCounty, Tenn.,July 30,1854.Democrat.Lawyer;cottonplanter;delegate to Democratic National Convention from Mississippi,1892,1904(TemporaryChair; member,Platformand Resolutions Committee; chair,Committeeto Notify Vice-Presidential Nominee;speaker),1912(speaker),1916(member,Platformand Resolutions Committee),1920;U.S.Representative from Mississippi, 1893-1909 (5th District1893-1903, 8th District 1903-09);U.S.Senator from Mississippi, 1911-23.Episcopalian.Member,Societyof the Cincinnati;Freemasons;Elks.Died near Yazoo City,YazooCounty, Miss.,September7, 1932 (age78 years, 39days).Interment in a private or family graveyard. Politicians buriedhere:   Relatives: Sonof Christopher Harris Williams (Confederate Army colonel; killed inbattle of Shiloh) and Annie Louise (Sharp) Williams; married,October2, 1877, to Elizabeth Dial 'Bettie' Webb; father ofJohnSharp Williams Jr.; grandson ofChristopherHarris Williams (1798-1857); second great-grandson ofJohnWilliams.   Political family:Williams#1 family of North Carolina (subset of theFourThousand Related Politicians).   The World War IILibertyshipSS John Sharp Williams (built 1943 atNewOrleans, Louisiana; scrapped 1961) wasnamed forhim.   See alsocongressionalbiography —Govtrack.uspage   Image source: Men of Mark in America(1906)

Beverly Robinson Grayson (1782-1843) — also known asBeverly R. Grayson — Born inPrinceWilliam County, Va.,September3, 1782.MemberMississippi territorial council, 1814.Died inBentonCounty, Miss.,July 29,1843 (age60 years, 329days).Interment at Bethany Primitive Baptist Church Cemetery.

	Relatives: Sonof Spencer Monroe Grayson and Mary Elizabeth (Wagener) Grayson;married to Sarah Chew; nephew ofWilliamGrayson; great-granduncle ofJohnBrady Grayson; first cousin ofAlfredWilliam Grayson; first cousin thrice removed ofCarterHenry Harrison II; second cousin ofJamesMonroe (1758-1831); second cousin once removed ofThomasBell Monroe andJamesMonroe (1799-1870); second cousin twice removed ofJohnStrother Pendleton,AlbertGallatin Pendleton andVictorMonroe; second cousin four times removed ofTheodoreDouglas Robinson,SidneyFletcher Taliaferro andCorinneAlsop Cole; second cousin five times removed ofCorinneAlsop Chubb andJohndeKoven Alsop.
		Political family:Breckinridge-Preston-Harrison-Richardsonfamily of Virginia (subset of theFourThousand Related Politicians).
		See alsoFind-A-Gravememorial

William H. Barbour (1914-1999) — of Yazoo City,YazooCounty, Miss.BornJune 26,1914.Democrat. Delegate to Democratic National Convention fromMississippi,1940,1948(alternate).DiedJanuary1, 1999 (age84 years, 189days).Interment somewhere.

J. O. Stricklin (1872-1930) — of Yazoo City,YazooCounty, Miss.BornJuly 9,1872.Mayorof Yazoo City, Miss., 1929-30; died in office 1930.Indictedby a Yazoo County grand jury in 1929 forstealing acow; details of the case were printed in theYazooSentinel newspaper, leading to a feud between Stricklin and theSentinel's editor, Frank R. Birdsall; a year later, on Main Street infront of the Sentinel office, Stricklin was talking with Dr.R.E. Hawkins, his opponent in the last election, when Birdsallapproached; Stricklin pulled out a pistol,shotBirdsall three times (he died the next day), andshotat, but missed, Dr. Hawkins; he then went to his son's funeralparlor, where he died by aself-inflictedgunshot,in Yazoo City,YazooCounty, Miss.,April 1,1930 (age57 years, 266days).Interment at Glenwood Cemetery.

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