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Barbour County
West Virginia

Cemeteries and Memorial Sites ofPoliticians in Barbour County

Index to Locations Cross Roads Cemetery PhilippiBarbour Memorial Cemetery PhilippiFraternity Cemetery PhilippiMasonic Cemetery PhilippiMt. Olive Cemetery Cross RoadsCemetery Barbour County, West Virginia Dayton R. Stemple (b. 1900) — of Philippi,BarbourCounty, W.Va.Born inBarbourCounty, W.Va.,September8, 1900.Republican.Farmer;funeraldirector;lawyer;BarbourCounty Prosecuting Attorney, 1925-29, 1933-35; member ofWestVirginia state senate 15th District, 1947-62; candidate forjudge ofWest Virginia supreme court of appeals, 1956, 1960; circuit judgein West Virginia for the 19th Judicial Circuit, 1963.Methodist.Member,Kiwanis;FarmBureau;Elks.Interment at Cross Roads Cemetery. Politicians buriedhere:   Relatives: Sonof James D. Stemple and Mary C. (Hershman) Stemple; married,August30, 1922, to Ethel Virginia Park.   Image source: West Virginia Blue Book1951

Richard Hugh Everson (1945-1999) — also known asRick Everson — of West Virginia. Born inBarbourCounty, W.Va.,August19, 1945.Member ofWestVirginia state house of delegates, 1992-99; died in office 1999.Churchof Christ. Member,Freemasons;Lions;AmericanLegion.Died in BroaddusHospital,Philippi,BarbourCounty, W.Va.,September1, 1999 (age54 years, 13days).Interment at Barbour Memorial Cemetery.

Alston Gordon Dayton (1857-1920) — also known asAlston G. Dayton — ofUpshurCounty, W.Va.; Philippi,BarbourCounty, W.Va.Born in Philippi,BarbourCounty, Va. (now W.Va.),October18, 1857.Republican.Lawyer;UpshurCounty Prosecuting Attorney, 1879;BarbourCounty Prosecuting Attorney, 1884-88;U.S.Representative from West Virginia 2nd District, 1895-1905;resigned 1905;U.S.District Judge for West Virginia, 1905.Died,in asanitariumat Battle Creek,CalhounCounty, Mich.,July 30,1920 (age62 years, 286days).Interment at Fraternity Cemetery.

	Relatives: Sonof Spencer Dayton and Sarah (Bush) Dayton; married,November26, 1884, to Columbia M. Sinsel.
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Thomas Armistead Bradford — also known asThomas A. Bradford — ofBarbourCounty, W.Va.Served in the Confederate Army during the Civil War; member ofWestVirginia state house of delegates from Barbour County, 1872-73,1879.Interment at Masonic Cemetery.

Joseph James Wrightsman Gawthrop (1842-1910) — also known asJames W. Gawthrop — ofBarbourCounty, W.Va.BornJanuary31, 1842.Member ofWestVirginia state house of delegates from Barbour County, 1897-98.DiedFebruary2, 1910 (age68 years, 2days).Interment at Mt. Olive Cemetery.

Henson L. Hoff — ofBarbourCounty, W.Va.Member ofWestVirginia state house of delegates from Barbour County, 1864.Interment at Mt. Olive Cemetery.

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