Movatterモバイル変換

[0]ホーム
URL:

PoliticalGraveyard.com

Halifax County
North Carolina

Cemeteries and Memorial Sites ofPoliticians in Halifax County

Willis Alston (1769-1837) — of Greenville,PittCounty, N.C.; Hyde Park (unknowncounty), N.C.Born near Littleton,HalifaxCounty, N.C.,1769.Member ofNorthCarolina house of commons, 1790-92, 1820-24; member ofNorthCarolina state senate, 1794-96;U.S.Representative from North Carolina, 1799-1815, 1825-31 (at-large1799-1803, 2nd District 1803-05, at-large 1805-07, 2nd District1807-09, at-large 1809-11, 2nd District 1811-13, at-large 1813-15,2nd District 1825-31).Slaveowner. Died in Halifax,HalifaxCounty, N.C.,April10, 1837 (ageabout 67years).Interment in a private or family graveyard.

Index to Locations

  • Private or family graveyards
  • Aurelian SpringsEbenezer ChurchCemetery
  • EnfieldElmwood Cemetery
  • HalifaxChurchyard Cemetery
  • LittletonCity Cemetery
  • Scotland NeckBaptist Cemetery
  • Scotland NeckEpiscopal ChurchCemetery
  • Near Scotland NeckTrinityCemetery

    Private or familygraveyards
    Halifax County, North Carolina
    Matt Whitaker Ransom (1826-1904) — also known asMatt W. Ransom — of Warrenton,WarrenCounty, N.C.; Weldon,HalifaxCounty, N.C.Born inWarrenCounty, N.C.,October8, 1826.Lawyer;Whig Presidential Elector for North Carolina,1852;NorthCarolina state attorney general, 1853-55; member ofNorthCarolina house of commons, 1858-60; general in the ConfederateArmy during the Civil War;U.S.Senator from North Carolina, 1872-95; member ofDemocraticNational Committee from North Carolina, 1876-88; U.S. Minister toMexico, 1895-97.Slaveowner. Died near Garysburg,NorthamptonCounty, N.C.,October8, 1904 (age78 years, 0days).Interment in a private or family graveyard.
    Politicians buriedhere:
     
     Relatives:Father-in-law ofEdwardRawles; cousin *** ofWhartonJackson Green.
     Political family:Walker-Edwardsfamily of North Carolina and Georgia (subset of theFourThousand Related Politicians).
     See alsocongressionalbiography —Govtrack.uspage —U.S. State Dept career summary
    •  
     Relatives:Nephew ofNathanielMacon; uncle of Henrietta Alston (who marriedAugustusHolmes Kenan), Philoclea Alston (who marriedDavidShelby Walker) andAugustusA. Alston; granduncle ofRobertAugustus Alston andLewisHolmes Kenan.
     Political family:Walker-Edwardsfamily of North Carolina and Georgia (subset of theFourThousand Related Politicians).
     See alsocongressionalbiography —Govtrack.uspage

    Ebenezer ChurchCemetery
    Aurelian Springs, Halifax County, North Carolina
    Enoch Dana Dickens (1887-1964) — also known asE. Dana Dickens — of Halifax,HalifaxCounty, N.C.BornAugust20, 1887.Republican. Delegate to Republican National Convention from NorthCarolina,1932,1944.DiedNovember5, 1964 (age77 years, 77days).Interment at Ebenezer Church Cemetery.
    Politicians buriedhere:
     
     Relatives:Married to Maude Sturdivant.
     See alsoFind-A-Gravememorial

    ElmwoodCemetery
    Enfield, Halifax County, North Carolina
    John Branch Jr. (1782-1863) — of Enfield,HalifaxCounty, N.C.Born in Halifax,HalifaxCounty, N.C.,November4, 1782.Democrat.Lawyer;member ofNorthCarolina state senate, 1811, 1813-17, 1834;Governor ofNorth Carolina, 1817-20;federaljudge, 1822;U.S.Senator from North Carolina, 1823-29;U.S.Secretary of the Navy, 1829-31;U.S.Representative from North Carolina 5th District, 1831-33;delegateto North Carolina state constitutional convention, 1835;Governorof Florida Territory, 1844-45.Episcopalian.Slaveowner. Died ofpneumonia,in Enfield,HalifaxCounty, N.C.,January4, 1863 (age80 years, 61days).Interment at Elmwood Cemetery.
    Politicians buriedhere:
     
     Relatives: Sonof Col. John Branch and Mary (Bradford) Branch; married to ElizabethFort and Eliza Jordan; uncle ofLawrenceO'Bryan Branch; granduncle ofWilliamAugustus Blount Branch.
     Political family:Branchfamily of Enfield, North Carolina.
     Branch County,Mich. is named for him.
     The World War IILibertyshipSS John Branch (built 1943 atWilmington,North Carolina; sold 1947, scrapped 1962) wasnamed forhim.
     See alsocongressionalbiography —Govtrack.uspage —National GovernorsAssociation biography —Wikipediaarticle —Find-A-Gravememorial
     Robert Hunt Parker (1892-1969) — also known asR. Hunt Parker — of Roanoke Rapids,HalifaxCounty, N.C.Born in Enfield,HalifaxCounty, N.C.,February15, 1892.Served in the U.S. Army during World War I; member ofNorthCarolina state house of representatives, 1923-24; superior courtjudge in North Carolina 3rd District, 1932-52;justice ofNorth Carolina state supreme court, 1952-66;chiefjustice of North Carolina state supreme court, 1966-69; died inoffice 1969.Episcopalian.Member,AmericanLegion;Forty andEight;Veterans ofForeign Wars.DiedNovember10, 1969 (age77 years, 268days).Interment at Elmwood Cemetery.
    ChurchyardCemetery
    Halifax, Halifax County, North Carolina
    John Baptista Ashe (1748-1802) — of North Carolina. Born in Rocky Point,PenderCounty, N.C.,1748.Colonel in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War; memberof North Carolina state legislature, 1784-86;Delegateto Continental Congress from North Carolina, 1787; member ofNorthCarolina state senate, 1789;U.S.Representative from North Carolina at-large, 1789-93; electedGovernor ofNorth Carolina 1802, but died before taking office.Slaveowner. Died in Halifax,HalifaxCounty, N.C.,November27, 1802 (ageabout 54years).Interment at Churchyard Cemetery; cenotaph atAsheFamily Cemetery, Rocky Point, N.C.
    Politicians buriedhere:
     
     Presumably namedfor:Johnthe Baptist
     Relatives: Son ofSamuelAshe and Mary (Porter) Ashe; married to Elizabeth Montfort; uncleofJohnBaptista Ashe (1810-1857),ThomasSamuel Ashe andWilliamShepperd Ashe; cousin four different ways ofGeorgeDavis andHoratioDavis; cousin two different ways ofAlfredMoore Waddell; second cousin once removed ofWilliamHenry Hill.
     Political family:Ashe#1 family of North Carolina (subset of theFourThousand Related Politicians).
     The World War IILibertyshipSS John B. Ashe (built 1942 atTerminalIsland, California; sold 1947, scrapped 1962) wasnamed forhim.
     See alsocongressionalbiography —Govtrack.uspage —Wikipedia article —Find-A-Gravememorial

    CityCemetery
    Littleton, Halifax County, North Carolina
    Peter Hansborough Bell (1812-1898) — also known asPeter H. Bell — of Austin,TravisCounty, Tex.Born inSpotsylvaniaCounty, Va.,May 12,1812.Democrat. Served in the Texas Army during the Texas War ofIndependence; colonel in the U.S. Army during the Mexican War;Governor ofTexas, 1849-53;U.S.Representative from Texas 2nd District, 1853-57; colonel in theConfederate Army during the Civil War.Slaveowner. Died in Littleton,HalifaxCounty, N.C.,March 8,1898 (age85 years, 300days).Original interment at City Cemetery; reinterment in 1930 atTexasState Cemetery, Austin, Tex.; memorial monument atCourthouseGrounds, Belton, Tex.
    Politicians formerlyburied here:
     
     Bell County,Tex. is named for him.
     ThecityofBelton,Texas, isnamed forhim.
     See alsocongressionalbiography —Govtrack.uspage —NationalGovernors Association biography

    BaptistCemetery
    Scotland Neck, Halifax County, North Carolina
    See alsoFindagravepage for this location.William Walton Kitchin (1866-1924) — also known asWilliam W. Kitchin — of Roxboro,PersonCounty, N.C.; Raleigh,WakeCounty, N.C.Born near Scotland Neck,HalifaxCounty, N.C.,October9, 1866.Democrat.Newspapereditor;lawyer;candidate forNorthCarolina state senate, 1892;U.S.Representative from North Carolina 5th District, 1897-1909;Governor ofNorth Carolina, 1909-13.Died in Scotland Neck,HalifaxCounty, N.C.,November9, 1924 (age58 years, 31days).Interment at Baptist Cemetery.
    Politicians buriedhere:
    William W. Kitchin
     Relatives: SonofWilliamHodges Kitchin and Maria (Arrington) Kitchin; brother ofClaudeKitchin; married1893 to SueMusette Satterfield; uncle ofAlvinPaul Kitchin; first cousin thrice removed ofArchibaldHunter Arrington; second cousin twice removed ofArchibaldHunter Arrington Williams; third cousin once removed ofWilliamTerrell Kitchens,WadeHampton Kitchens andClaudeSteward Kitchens.
     Political family:Kitchin-Kitchensfamily of Scotland Neck, North Carolina.
     Cross-reference:JamesS. Manning
     See alsocongressionalbiography —Govtrack.uspage —NationalGovernors Association biography —Find-A-Gravememorial
     Image source: Autobiographies andPortraits of the President, Cabinet, etc. (1899)
     Claude Kitchin (1869-1923) — of Scotland Neck,HalifaxCounty, N.C.Born near Scotland Neck,HalifaxCounty, N.C.,March24, 1869.Democrat.Lawyer;U.S.Representative from North Carolina 2nd District, 1901-23; died inoffice 1923.Died in Wilson,WilsonCounty, N.C.,May 31,1923 (age54 years, 68days).Interment at Baptist Cemetery.
     Relatives: SonofWilliamHodges Kitchin and Maria (Arrington) Kitchin; brother ofWilliamWalton Kitchin; married,November13, 1888, to Kate B. Mills; uncle ofAlvinPaul Kitchin; first cousin thrice removed ofArchibaldHunter Arrington; second cousin twice removed ofArchibaldHunter Arrington Williams; third cousin once removed ofWilliamTerrell Kitchens,WadeHampton Kitchens andClaudeSteward Kitchens.
     Political family:Kitchin-Kitchensfamily of Scotland Neck, North Carolina.
     See alsocongressionalbiography —Govtrack.uspage —NNDBdossier —Find-A-Gravememorial
     William Hodges Kitchin (1837-1901) — also known asWilliam H. Kitchin;"Buck" —of Scotland Neck,HalifaxCounty, N.C.Born inLauderdaleCounty, Ala.,December22, 1837.Democrat. Served in the Confederate Army during the Civil War;U.S.Representative from North Carolina 2nd District, 1879-81.Member,Freemasons.Died in Scotland Neck,HalifaxCounty, N.C.,February2, 1901 (age63 years, 42days).Interment at Baptist Cemetery.
     Relatives: Sonof Boaz Kitchin and Arabella (Smith) Kitchin; married,January5, 1864, to Maria F. Arrington; father ofWilliamWalton Kitchin andClaudeKitchin; grandfather ofAlvinPaul Kitchin; second cousin twice removed ofWilliamTerrell Kitchens,WadeHampton Kitchens andClaudeSteward Kitchens.
     Political family:Kitchin-Kitchensfamily of Scotland Neck, North Carolina.
     See alsocongressionalbiography —Govtrack.uspage —Find-A-Gravememorial

    Episcopal ChurchCemetery
    Scotland Neck, Halifax County, North Carolina
    Mark Alexander (1792-1883) — of Lombardy Grove,MecklenburgCounty, Va.Born near Boydton,MecklenburgCounty, Va.,February7, 1792.Member ofVirginiastate house of delegates, 1815-19, 1845-46;U.S.Representative from Virginia, 1819-33 (18th District 1819-21, 4thDistrict 1821-33);delegateto Virginia state constitutional convention, 1829-30.Slaveowner. Died in Scotland Neck,HalifaxCounty, N.C.,October7, 1883 (age91 years, 242days).Interment at Episcopal Church Cemetery.
    Politicians buriedhere:
     
     See alsocongressionalbiography —Govtrack.uspage —Wikipedia article —Find-A-Gravememorial

    TrinityCemetery
    Near Scotland Neck, Halifax County, North Carolina
    Whitmell Hill (1743-1797) — of North Carolina. Born inBertieCounty, N.C.,February12, 1743.Colonel in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War;delegateto North Carolina state constitutional convention, 1776; memberofNorthCarolina house of commons, 1777;Delegateto Continental Congress from North Carolina, 1778-80; member ofNorthCarolina state senate, 1778-80, 1784-85.Died inMartinCounty, N.C.,September26, 1797 (age54 years, 226days).Original interment ataprivate or family graveyard, Martin County, N.C.; reinterment atTrinity Cemetery.
    Politicians buriedhere:
     
     See alsocongressionalbiography —Govtrack.uspage

    "Enjoy the hospitable entertainment of apolitical graveyard."
    Henry L. Clinton, Apollo Hall, New York City, February 3, 1872    		The Political Graveyard

    The Political Graveyardis a web site about U.S. political history and cemeteries.Founded in 1996, it is the Internet's most comprehensive free source for American political biography, listing 338,260politicians, living and dead.
     
     The coverage of this site includes (1) the President, Vice President,members of Congress, elected state and territorial officeholders inall fifty states, the District of Columbia, and U.S. territories; andthe chief elected official, typically the mayor, of qualifyingmunicipalities; (2) candidates at election, including primaries, forany of the above; (3) all federal judges and all state appellatejudges; (4) certain federal officials, including the federal cabinet,diplomatic chiefs of mission, consuls, U.S. district attorneys,collectors of customs and internal revenue, members of majorfederal commissions; and political appointee (pre-1969) postmastersof qualifying communities; (5) state and national political partyofficials, including delegates, alternate delegates, and otherparticipants in national party nominating conventions;(6) Americans who served as "honorary" consuls for other nationsbefore 1950. Note: municipalities or communities "qualify",for Political Graveyard purposes, if theyhave at least half a million person-years of history, inclusive ofpredecessor, successor, and merged entities. 
     The listings areincomplete; development of the database is a continually ongoing project. 
     Information on this page — and on all other pages of thissite — is believed to be accurate, but isnotguaranteed. Users are advised to check with other sourcesbefore relying on any information here. 
     The official URL for this page is:https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/HL-buried.html. 
     Links to this or any other Political Graveyard pageare welcome, but specific page addresses may sometimeschange as the site develops. 
     If you are searching for a specific named individual, try thealphabetical index of politicians. 
    Copyright notices: (1) Facts are not subject to copyright; seeFeistv. Rural Telephone. (2) Politician portraits displayed on this siteare 70-pixel-wide monochrome thumbnail images, which I believe toconstitutefair use under applicable copyright law. Wherepossible, each image is linked to its online source. However,requests from owners of copyrighted images to delete them from thissite are honored. (3) Original material, programming, selection andarrangement are © 1996-2025 Lawrence Kestenbaum.(4) This work is also licensed for free non-commercial re-use, with attribution, under aCreative CommonsLicense.
    What is a "political graveyard"? SeePoliticalDictionary;UrbanDictionary.
    Site information: The Political Graveyard is created and maintained byLawrence Kestenbaum, who is solely responsible for its structure and content. — The mailing address isThe Political Graveyard, P.O. Box 2563, Ann Arbor MI 48106. — This site is hosted byHDLmi.com. —The Political Graveyard opened onJuly 1, 1996; the last full revision was done onFebruary 17, 2025.
    [8]ページ先頭
    ©2009-2025 Movatter.jp