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Orange County
Virginia

Cemeteries and Memorial Sites ofPoliticians in Orange County

William Fitzhugh Gordon (1787-1858) — ofCharlottesville,Va.Born inSpotsylvaniaCounty, Va.,January13, 1787.Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during the War of 1812; member ofVirginiastate house of delegates, 1818-29;delegateto Virginia state constitutional convention, 1829-30;U.S.Representative from Virginia, 1830-35 (10th District 1830-33,12th District 1833-35).Slaveowner. Died inAlbemarleCounty, Va.,August28, 1858 (age71 years, 227days).Interment in a private or family graveyard.

Index to Locations

Private or family graveyards

BarboursvilleBarboursville Vineyardsand Winery

Montpelier StationMontpelierPlantation

OrangeGraham Cemetery

OrangeSt. Thomas Episcopal Church

Private or familygraveyards
Orange County, Virginia

James Lawson Kemper (1823-1895) — of Virginia. Born inMadisonCounty, Va.,June 11,1823.Member ofVirginiastate house of delegates, 1853; general in the Confederate Armyduring the Civil War;Governor ofVirginia, 1874-78.Died inOrangeCounty, Va.,April 7,1895 (age71 years, 300days).Interment in a private or family graveyard.

Politicians buriedhere:

	Relatives: Thirdcousin ofHenryWharton Conway,JamesSevier Conway,EliasNelson Conway andHenryMassey Rector.
		Political family:FourThousand Related Politicians..
		See alsoNationalGovernors Association biography

Robert Taylor (1763-1845) — of Virginia. Born in Virginia,1763.Member of Virginia state legislature, 1804;U.S.Representative from Virginia 11th District, 1825-27.Slaveowner. Died in1845(ageabout82 years).Interment in a private or family graveyard.

BarboursvilleVineyards and Winery
Barboursville, Orange County, Virginia

James Barbour (1775-1842) — of Barboursville,OrangeCounty, Va.Born near Gordonsville,OrangeCounty, Va.,June 10,1775.Whig.Lawyer;member ofVirginiastate house of delegates, 1798-1812;Speaker ofthe Virginia State House of Delegates, 1809;Governor ofVirginia, 1812-14;U.S.Senator from Virginia, 1815-25;U.S.Secretary of War, 1825-28; U.S. Minister toGreat Britain, 1828-29; delegate to Whig National Conventionfrom Virginia, 1839 (Convention President; speaker).Presbyterian.Member,Freemasons.Slaveowner. Died in Barboursville,OrangeCounty, Va.,June 7,1842 (age66 years, 362days).Interment at Barboursville Vineyards and Winery.

Politicians buriedhere:

	Relatives: Sonof Col. Thomas Barbour and Mary (Thomas) Barbour; brother ofPhilipPendleton Barbour; married1792 to LucyJohnson; cousin *** ofJohnStrode Barbour.
		Political family:Barbourfamily of Virginia.
		Barbour County,Ala. is named for him.
		The World War IILibertyshipSS James Barbour (built 1942-43 atHouston,Texas; scrapped 1970) wasnamed forhim.
		See alsocongressionalbiography —Govtrack.uspage —National GovernorsAssociation biography —Wikipediaarticle —U.S. State Dept career summary —NNDBdossier —Find-A-Gravememorial

MontpelierPlantation
Highway VA 20
Montpelier Station, Orange County, Virginia
Listed in National Register of Historic Places, 1966

Dolley Madison (1768-1849) — also known asDorothea Dandridge Payne;DolleyTodd —Born in New Garden (now part of Greensboro),GuilfordCounty, N.C.,May 20,1768.FirstLady of the United States, 1809-17.Female.Quaker;laterEpiscopalian.Slaveowner. Died inWashington,D.C.,July 12,1849 (age81 years, 53days).Original interment atCongressionalCemetery, Washington, D.C.; reinterment in 1858 at MontpelierPlantation.

Politicians buriedhere:

James Madison (1751-1836) — also known as"Father of the Constitution and the Bill ofRights" —of Virginia. Born in Port Conway,King GeorgeCounty, Va.,March16, 1751.Democrat. Served in the Continental Army during the RevolutionaryWar; member of Virginia state legislature, 1776;Delegateto Continental Congress from Virginia, 1780-83, 1787-88;member,U.S. Constitutional Convention, 1787;U.S.Representative from Virginia, 1789-97 (at-large 1789-91, 5thDistrict 1791-93, 15th District 1793-97);U.S.Secretary of State, 1801-09;Presidentof the United States, 1809-17.Episcopalian.Englishancestry.He was elected in 1905 to theHallof Fame for Great Americans.Slaveowner. Died in Montpelier,OrangeCounty, Va.,June 28,1836 (age85 years, 104days).Interment at Montpelier Plantation.

	Relatives: Sonof James Madison (1723-1801) and Eleanor Rose (Conway) Madison;brother ofWilliamTaylor Madison; married,September15, 1794, toDolleyTodd (sister-in-law ofRichardCutts andJohnGeorge Jackson); first cousin once removed ofGeorgeMadison; first cousin twice removed ofEdmundPendleton; second cousin ofZacharyTaylor; second cousin once removed ofJohnPenn,JohnPendleton Jr.,NathanielPendleton andColebyChew; second cousin twice removed ofHenryGaines Johnson,JohnStrother Pendleton,AlbertGallatin Pendleton,SamuelBullitt Churchill andJosephHenry Pendleton; second cousin thrice removed ofWilliamBarret Pendleton,GeorgeCassety Pendleton,JohnOverton Pendleton,HubbardT. Smith,BickertonLyle Winston,CharlesM. Pendleton,ElliotWoolfolk Major,EdgarBailey Woolfolk andDanielMicajah Pendleton; second cousin four times removed ofCharlesSumner Pendleton andSidneyFletcher Taliaferro; third cousin ofClementF. Dorsey,PhilipClayton Pendleton,EdmundHenry Pendleton andNathanaelGreene Pendleton; third cousin once removed ofGabrielSlaughter,AndrewDorsey,PhilipColeman Pendleton andGeorgeHunt Pendleton; third cousin twice removed ofRobertPryor Henry,JohnFlournoy Henry,GustavusAdolphus Henry,DavidShelby Walker,AlexanderWarfield Dorsey,FrancisKey Pendleton andCharlesRittenhouse Pendleton; third cousin thrice removed ofCharlesRice Slaughter,JamesDavid Walker,DavidShelby Walker Jr. andEliHuston Brown Jr.; fourth cousin ofWilliamByrd III; fourth cousin once removed ofCharlesWilling Byrd.
		Political families:Jackson#1 family of West Virginia;Madisonfamily of Montpelier Station, Virginia (subsets of theFourThousand Related Politicians).
		Cross-reference:EdwardColes
		Madison counties inAla.,Ark.,Fla.,Ga.,Idaho,Ill.,Ind.,Iowa,Ky.,La.,Miss.,Mo.,Mont.,Neb.,N.Y.,N.C.,Ohio,Tenn.,Tex. andVa. arenamed for him.
		ThecityofMadison,Wisconsin, isnamed forhim. —MountMadison, in the White Mountains,CoosCounty, New Hampshire, isnamed forhim. —FortMadison (1808-13), and the subsequentcityofFortMadison, Iowa, werenamed forhim. — The World War IILibertyshipSS James Madison (built 1942 atHouston,Texas; scrapped 1966) wasnamed forhim.
		Other politicians named for him:JamesMadison Broom—JamesMadison Hite Beale—JamesMadison Porter—JamesM. Buchanan—JamesMadison Gregg—J.Madison Wells—JamesM. Tarleton—JamesMadison Hughes—JamesM. Marvin—JamesM. Edmunds—JamesMadison Gaylord—JamesM. Leach—JamesTurner—JamesM. Harvey—JamesM. Seymour—JamesMadison Bowler—JamesMadison Barker—JamesMadison Mullen—JamesM. Candler—JamesMadison McKinney—JamesM. Morton—JamesMadison Barrett, Sr.—JamesM. Gudger, Jr.—JamesMadison Morton, Jr.—JamesMadison Woodard—JamesM. Waddell, Jr.
		Coins and currency: Hisportraitappeared on the U.S. $5,000 bill in 1915-46.
		See alsocongressionalbiography —Govtrack.uspage —Wikipedia article —NNDBdossier —Find-A-Gravememorial —OurCampaignscandidate detail
		Books about James Madison: Ralph LouisKetcham,JamesMadison : A Biography — Garry Wills,JamesMadison — Robert Allen Rutland,ThePresidency of James Madison — Charles Cerami,YoungPatriots: The Remarkable Story of Two Men. Their Impossible Plan andThe Revolution That Created The Constitution — SamuelKernell, ed.,JamesMadison: The Theory and Practice of RepublicanGovernment — Kevin R. C. Gutzman,JamesMadison and the Making of America
		Image source: Portrait & BiographicalAlbum of Washtenaw County (1891)

	Relatives:Daughter of John Parish Payne and Mary Winston (Coles) Payne;married,September15, 1794, toJamesMadison (brother ofWilliamTaylor Madison); married,January7, 1790, to John Todd.
		Political family:Madisonfamily of Montpelier Station, Virginia (subset of theFourThousand Related Politicians).
		See alsoWikipediaarticle —Find-A-Gravememorial —OurCampaignscandidate detail

William Taylor Madison (1762-1843) — also known asWilliam Madison — ofMadisonCounty, Va.Born inOrangeCounty, Va.,May 1,1762.Served in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War; memberofVirginiastate house of delegates, 1791-94, 1804-11 (Culpeper County1791-94, Madison County 1804-11); general in the U.S. Army during theWar of 1812.Member,PhiBeta Kappa.Died inMadisonCounty, Va.,July 19,1843 (age81 years, 79days).Interment at Montpelier Plantation.

	Relatives: Sonof James Madison (1723-1801) and Eleanor Rose (Conway) Madison;brother ofJamesMadison (1751-1836) (who marriedDolleyMadison); married,December20, 1783, to Francis Throckmorton; first cousin once removed ofGeorgeMadison; first cousin twice removed ofEdmundPendleton; second cousin ofZacharyTaylor; second cousin once removed ofJohnPenn,JohnPendleton Jr.,NathanielPendleton andColebyChew; second cousin twice removed ofHenryGaines Johnson,JohnStrother Pendleton,AlbertGallatin Pendleton,SamuelBullitt Churchill andJosephHenry Pendleton; second cousin thrice removed ofWilliamBarret Pendleton,GeorgeCassety Pendleton,JohnOverton Pendleton,HubbardT. Smith,BickertonLyle Winston,CharlesM. Pendleton,ElliotWoolfolk Major,EdgarBailey Woolfolk andDanielMicajah Pendleton; second cousin four times removed ofCharlesSumner Pendleton andSidneyFletcher Taliaferro; third cousin ofClementF. Dorsey,PhilipClayton Pendleton,EdmundHenry Pendleton andNathanaelGreene Pendleton; third cousin once removed ofGabrielSlaughter,AndrewDorsey,PhilipColeman Pendleton andGeorgeHunt Pendleton; third cousin twice removed ofRobertPryor Henry,JohnFlournoy Henry,GustavusAdolphus Henry,DavidShelby Walker,AlexanderWarfield Dorsey,FrancisKey Pendleton andCharlesRittenhouse Pendleton; third cousin thrice removed ofCharlesRice Slaughter,JamesDavid Walker,DavidShelby Walker Jr. andEliHuston Brown Jr.; fourth cousin ofWilliamByrd III; fourth cousin once removed ofCharlesWilling Byrd.
		Political family:Madisonfamily of Montpelier Station, Virginia (subset of theFourThousand Related Politicians).
		See alsoWikipediaarticle —Find-A-Gravememorial

GrahamCemetery
Orange, Orange County, Virginia

George Scott Shackelford (1856-1918) — also known asGeorge S. Shackelford — Born in Warrenton,FauquierCounty, Va.,December12, 1856.Member ofVirginiastate senate 15th District, 1904-07.Episcopalian.Died in Orange,OrangeCounty, Va.,December30, 1918 (age62 years, 18days).Interment at Graham Cemetery.

Politicians buriedhere:

	Relatives: Sonof Benjamin Howard Shackelford and Rebecca Beverly (Green)Shackelford; married,July 1,1884, to Virginia Minor Randolph (great-granddaughter ofThomasMann Randolph Jr.); father of Nancy Holladay Shackelford (whomarriedKarlMorgan Block).
		Political family:Livingston-Schuylerfamily of New York (subset of theFourThousand Related Politicians).
		See alsoFind-A-Gravememorial

Greenville Osborne McAlexander (1871-1940) — also known asG. O. McAlexander — of Endicott,FranklinCounty, Va.; South Salem, Roanoke County (now part ofSalem),Va.Born inPatrickCounty, Va.,January15, 1871.Republican.Deputysheriff;postmaster;candidate forVirginiastate house of delegates, 1905; member ofVirginiastate senate 26th District, 1908-11.Died inOrangeCounty, Va.,January4, 1940 (age68 years, 354days).Interment at Graham Cemetery.

	Relatives: Sonof Charles Peter McAlexander and Lucinda Ann (Wood) McAlexander;married,December25, 1890, to Metamora Ingram.
		See alsoFind-A-Gravememorial

Nathaniel B. Early Jr. (1902-1979) — ofRichmond,Va.Born inAlbemarleCounty, Va.,March 4,1902.U.S.Collector of Internal Revenue at Richmond, Virginia, 1941-47.Died inRichmond,Va.,November12, 1979 (age77 years, 253days).Interment at Graham Cemetery.

	Relatives: SonofNathanielBeazaleel Early and Sudie (Brown) Early; married,June 12,1943, to Jessie Catherine Garnette; fourth cousin ofWilliamNelson Brown.
		Political family:FourThousand Related Politicians..

Norman Calvin Bailey, Sr. (1890-1969) — also known asNorman C. Bailey — of Orange,OrangeCounty, Va.Born inOrangeCounty, Va.,June 22,1890.Democrat.Wholesalegrocer; member ofVirginiastate house of delegates, 1944-57.Methodist.Member,Rotary.DiedJuly 23,1969 (age79 years, 31days).Interment at Graham Cemetery.

See alsoFind-A-Gravememorial

St. ThomasEpiscopal Church
Orange, Orange County, Virginia

Murat Willis Williams (1914-1994) — also known asMurat W. Williams — Born inRichmond,Va.,June 11,1914.Rhodesscholar; served in the U.S. Navy during World War II; ForeignService officer; U.S. Ambassador toEl Salvador, 1961.DiedMarch31, 1994 (age79 years, 293days).Cremated;ashes interred at St. Thomas Episcopal Church.

Politicians buriedhere:

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