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Charles City County
Virginia

Cemeteries and Memorial Sites ofPoliticians in Charles City County

Index to Locations

  • Berkeley Plantation
  • Westover Plantation Cemetery
  • Private or family graveyards
  • ShirleyShirley PlantationCemetery

    BerkeleyPlantation
    Charles City County, Virginia
    Benjamin Harrison (1726-1791) — also known as"The Signer" — ofCharlesCity County, Va.Born inCharlesCity County, Va.,April 5,1726.Planter;member ofVirginiaHouse of Burgesses, 1749-75;Delegateto Continental Congress from Virginia, 1774-77;signer,Declaration of Independence, 1776; member ofVirginiastate house of delegates, 1776-81, 1787-91;Speaker ofthe Virginia State House of Delegates, 1778-81;Governor ofVirginia, 1781-84;delegateto Virginia convention to ratify U.S. constitution from CharlesCity County, 1788.Died inCharlesCity County, Va.,April24, 1791 (age65 years, 19days).Interment at Berkeley Plantation; memorial monument atConstitutionGardens, Washington, D.C.
    Politicians buriedhere:
     
     Relatives: Sonof Benjamin Harrison (1693-1745) and Ann (Carter) Harrison;brother-in-law ofPeytonRandolph (1721-1775); married1748 toElizabeth Bassett; father ofCarterBassett Harrison andWilliamHenry Harrison (1773-1841) (who marriedAnnaTuthill Symmes); uncle ofBeverleyRandolph; grandfather ofJohnScott Harrison (1804-1878); great-grandfather ofBenjaminHarrison (1833-1901) andJohnScott Harrison (1844-1926); great-granduncle ofCarterHenry Harrison andJohnBreckinridge Castleman; second great-grandfather ofRussellBenjamin Harrison; second great-granduncle ofCarterHenry Harrison II; third great-grandfather ofWilliamHenry Harrison (1896-1990); ancestor *** ofJamesThomas Harrison; first cousin ofRobertCarter Nicholas (1729-1780) andWilliamFitzhugh; first cousin once removed ofGeorgeNicholas,WilsonCary Nicholas andJohnNicholas; first cousin twice removed ofPeytonRandolph (1779-1828) andRobertCarter Nicholas (1787-1857); first cousin thrice removed ofThomasMarshall,JamesKeith Marshall,PeterMyndert Dox,EdmundRandolph andWilliamHenry Fitzhugh Lee; first cousin four times removed ofEdmundRandolph Cocke,ConnallyFindlay Trigg,RichardEvelyn Byrd,HarryBartow Hawes andWilliamWelby Beverley; first cousin five times removed ofFrancisBeverley Biddle andHarryFlood Byrd; first cousin six times removed ofHarryFlood Byrd Jr.; second cousin once removed ofBurwellBassett; third cousin twice removed ofRobertMonroe Harrison.
     Political families:Livingston-Schuylerfamily of New York;Breckinridge-Preston-Harrison-Richardsonfamily of Virginia (subsets of theFourThousand Related Politicians).
     Harrison County,W.Va. is named for him.
     See alsocongressionalbiography —Govtrack.uspage —NationalGovernors Association biography —Wikipediaarticle

    • WestoverPlantation Cemetery
    Charles City County, Virginia
    Richard Crane (1882-1938) — of Chicago,CookCounty, Ill.; Westover, Arlington,ArlingtonCounty, Va.Born inDenver,Colo.,August12, 1882.Democrat. President, Crane Valve Company, Chicago, 1910-14; privatesecretary to U.S. Secretary of StateRobertLansing, 1915-19; U.S. Minister toCzechoslovakia, 1919-21; delegate to Democratic NationalConvention from Virginia,1924(alternate),1928(member,Committeeon Permanent Organization);real estatebusiness.Member,Council onForeign Relations.DiedOctober3, 1938 (age56 years, 52days).Interment at Westover Plantation Cemetery.
    Politicians buriedhere:
     
     Relatives: SonofCharlesRichard Crane and Cornelia Workman (Smith) Crane; married,September22, 1909, to Ellen Douglas Bruce; nephew ofRichardTeller Crane Jr..
     Political family:Cranefamily of Chicago, Illinois.
     See alsoU.S. State Dept career summary —Find-A-Gravememorial
     William Byrd III (1728-1777) — also known asWilliam Evelyn Byrd — Born inCharlesCity County, Va.,September6, 1728.Planter;member ofVirginiaHouse of Burgesses from Lunenburg County, 1752-54; member ofVirginiaGovernor's Council, 1755-75.Slaveowner. Died, bysuicide,CharlesCity County, Va.,January1, 1777 (age48 years, 117days).Interment at Westover Plantation Cemetery.
     Relatives: Sonof William Byrd II and Maria (Taylor) Byrd; married1748 toElizabeth Hill Carter; married to Mary Shippen Willing; father ofCharlesWilling Byrd; second great-grandfather ofConnallyFindlay Trigg andRichardEvelyn Byrd; third great-grandfather ofHarryFlood Byrd; fourth great-grandfather ofHarryFlood Byrd Jr.; fourth great-granduncle ofWilliamWelby Beverley; first cousin six times removed ofWilliamBradley Umstead andAngierBiddle Duke; first cousin seven times removed ofJuliaGrimmet Fortson; second cousin twice removed ofEdmundPendleton; third cousin once removed ofJohnPenn,JohnPendleton Jr. andNathanielPendleton; fourth cousin ofJamesMadison,WilliamTaylor Madison,PhilipClayton Pendleton,ZacharyTaylor,EdmundHenry Pendleton andNathanaelGreene Pendleton; fourth cousin once removed ofHenryGaines Johnson,ColebyChew,JohnStrother Pendleton,AlbertGallatin Pendleton,PhilipColeman Pendleton,GeorgeHunt Pendleton andJosephHenry Pendleton.
     Political families:Shippen-Byrdfamily of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania;Byrd-Floodfamily of Virginia (subsets of theFourThousand Related Politicians).
     See alsoWikipediaarticle —Find-A-Gravememorial

    Private or familygraveyard
    Charles City County, Virginia
    John Tyler (1747-1813) — ofCharlesCity County, Va.Born inJames CityCounty, Va.,February28, 1747.Lawyer;planter;delegateto Virginia convention to ratify U.S. constitution from CharlesCity County, 1788;Governor ofVirginia, 1808-11.Died inCharlesCity County, Va.,January6, 1813 (age65 years, 313days).Interment in a private or family graveyard.
    Politicians buriedhere:
     
     Relatives: Sonof John Tyler (1710-1773) and Anne (Contesse) Tyler; father ofJohnTyler (1790-1862) (who marriedLetitiaTyler andJuliaTyler); grandfather ofDavidGardiner Tyler andLyonGardiner Tyler; second great-grandfather ofAdeleGoodwyn McNeel; second cousin once removed ofGeorgeMadison; second cousin twice removed ofZacharyTaylor; second cousin thrice removed ofJohnStrother Pendleton,AlbertGallatin Pendleton andAylettHawes Buckner; second cousin four times removed ofJamesFrancis Buckner Jr. andBronsonMurray Cutting; second cousin five times removed ofSidneyFletcher Taliaferro andMaxRogers Strother; relative *** ofWilliamTyler Page.
     Political family:Tylerfamily of Richmond, Virginia (subset of theFourThousand Related Politicians).
     Tyler County,W.Va. is named for him.
     See alsoNational GovernorsAssociation biography —Find-A-Gravememorial

    ShirleyPlantation Cemetery
    Shirley, Charles City County, Virginia
    James Harrison Oliver (1857-1928) — also known asJ. H. Oliver — of Shirley,CharlesCity County, Va.Born inHoustonCounty, Ga.,January15, 1857.As a naval commander, he wasarrestedandcourt-martialedoverhisrole in a 1904 collision in Delaware Bay; acquitted andreinstated;Governor ofU.S. Virgin Islands.Died, ofheartdisease, inCharlesCity County, Va.,April 6,1928 (age71 years, 82days).Interment at Shirley Plantation Cemetery.
    Politicians buriedhere:
     
     Relatives: Sonof Thaddeus Oliver and Sarah Penelope (Lawson) Oliver; married,December7, 1893, to Marion Carter.
     See alsoWikipediaarticle —Find-A-Gravememorial

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