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Ritchie County
West Virginia

Cemeteries and Memorial Sites ofPoliticians in Ritchie County

Index to Locations AuburnAuburn Cemetery HarrisvilleHarrisville Cemetery HarrisvilleOdd Fellows Cemetery MountainMole Hill Cemetery AuburnCemetery Auburn, Ritchie County, West Virginia Talmage Somerville (d. 1992) — of Auburn,RitchieCounty, W.Va.Republican.Chair ofRitchie County Republican Party, 1969.DiedDecember30, 1992.Interment at Auburn Cemetery. Politicians buriedhere:   HarrisvilleCemetery Harrisville, Ritchie County, West Virginia Romeo Hoyt Freer (1846-1913) — also known asRomeo H. Freer — of Charleston,KanawhaCounty, W.Va.; Harrisville,RitchieCounty, W.Va.Born in Bazetta,TrumbullCounty, Ohio,November9, 1846.Republican. Served in the Union Army during the Civil War;lawyer;KanawhaCounty Prosecuting Attorney, 1871-73; Republican PresidentialElector for West Virginia,1872(voted forUlyssesS. Grant andHenryWilson); U.S. Commercial Agent (Consul) inSan Juan del Norte, 1873-77; member ofWestVirginia state house of delegates from Ritchie County, 1891-92;RitchieCounty Prosecuting Attorney, 1893-97; circuit judge in WestVirginia for the 4th Judicial Circuit, 1897-99;U.S.Representative from West Virginia 4th District, 1899-1901;WestVirginia state attorney general, 1901-05;postmaster.Member,OddFellows;GrandArmy of the Republic.DiedMay 9,1913 (age66 years, 181days).Interment at Harrisville Cemetery. Politicians buriedhere:     Relatives: Sonof Josiah D. Freer and Caroline P. (Brown) Freer; married,July 8,1884, to Mary Iams.   See alsocongressionalbiography —Govtrack.uspage —Wikipedia article

Gordon Pressley Fought (1877-1964) — also known asGordon P. Fought — of Wheeling,OhioCounty, W.Va.Born in Newark,WirtCounty, W.Va.,June 27,1877.Democrat.Automobiledealer;druggist;newspaperpublisher;insuranceandrealestate business;mayorof Wheeling, W.Va., 1932-35;citymanager of Wheeling, West Virginia, 1932-35; member ofWest VirginiaDemocratic State Executive Committee, 1945-49; DemocraticPresidential Elector for West Virginia,1948.Presbyterian.Member,Freemasons;Elks;Moose.Died in Wheeling,OhioCounty, W.Va.,August5, 1964 (age87 years, 39days).Interment at Odd Fellows Cemetery.

	Relatives: Sonof Paschal Fought and Mary Jane (Foutty) Fought; married to GraceMusgrave.
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Daniel Haymond (1787-1874) — ofRitchieCounty, W.Va.Born in Clarksburg,HarrisonCounty, W.Va.,April28, 1787.Republican. Member ofWestVirginia state senate 4th District, 1863-67.Died in Mountain,RitchieCounty, W.Va.,December10, 1874 (age87 years, 226days).Interment at Mole Hill Cemetery.

	Relatives: Sonof William Haymond and Cassandra (Clelland) Haymond; married to MaryAnn Bond, Elizabeth Griffin and Hannah Pindell; uncle ofThomasSherwood Haymond,DanielHaymond Polsley andWilliamSummerville Haymond; granduncle ofAlpheusForest Haymond,EdwinMaxwell,CreedHaymond andHenryHaymond; great-granduncle ofWilliamStanley Haymond,WilliamEdgar Haymond,ThomasS. Haymond andHaymondMaxwell; second great-granduncle ofFrankCruise Haymond; first cousin twice removed ofDanielS. Haymond; first cousin four times removed ofGuyD. Haymond andGeorgeS. Snodgrass.
		Political families:Haymondfamily of West Virginia;Haymond-Maxwellfamily of West Virginia (subsets of theFourThousand Related Politicians).
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