The Political Graveyard: Johnson County, Mo.

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Johnson County
Missouri

Cemeteries and Memorial Sites of Politicians in Johnson County

Index to Locations

Private or family graveyards

Holden Holden Cemetery

Warrensburg Sunset Hill Cemetery

Private or family graveyard
Johnson County, Missouri

Politicians buried here:

Simon Cockrell (1745-1835) — of Virginia. Born in 1745. Member of Virginia state house of delegates, 1791-93, 1798-1800. Died in Jackson County, Mo., 1835 (age about 90 years). Interment in a private or family graveyard.

Relatives: Father of Moses Cockrell; grandfather-in-law of Jeremiah Weldon South; grandfather of Harrison Cockrill, Jeremiah Vardaman Cockrell and Francis Marion Cockrell; granduncle by marriage of James Kimble Vardaman. See South-Cockrell-Hargis-Morrow family of Kentucky.

Holden Cemetery
Holden, Johnson County, Missouri

Politicians buried here:

Thomas Jefferson Halsey (1863-1951) — also known as Thomas J. Halsey — of Holden, Johnson County, Mo. Born in Dover, Morris County, N.J., May 4, 1863. Republican. U.S. Representative from Missouri 6th District, 1929-31; defeated, 1930. Died in Westfield, Union County, N.J., March 17, 1951 (age 87 years, 317 days). Interment at Holden Cemetery.

		Presumably named for: Thomas Jefferson
		See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page

Sunset Hill Cemetery
Warrensburg, Johnson County, Missouri

Politicians buried here:

Francis Marion Cockrell (1834-1915) — also known as Francis M. Cockrell — of Warrensburg, Johnson County, Mo. Born in Warrensburg, Johnson County, Mo., October 1, 1834. Son of Joseph Cockrell and Nancy (Ellis) Cockrell. Democrat. Lawyer; general in the Confederate Army during the Civil War; U.S. Senator from Missouri, 1875-1905; candidate for Democratic nomination for President, 1904; member, Interstate Commerce Commission, 1905-10; alternate delegate to Democratic National Convention from Missouri, 1912. Died in Washington, D.C., December 13, 1915 (age 81 years, 73 days). Interment at Sunset Hill Cemetery.

		Presumably named for: Francis Marion
		Relatives: Grandson of Simon Cockrell; son of Joseph Cockrell and Nancy (Ellis) Cockrell; first cousin of Elisha Logan Cockrell and Harrison Cockrill; brother of Jeremiah Vardaman Cockrell; married, July 17, 1853, to Arethusa Stapp (died 1859); married 1867 to Anne E. Mann (died); married, July 23, 1873, to Anna Ewing; first cousin thrice removed of Eleanor Hume Offutt. See South-Cockrell-Hargis-Morrow family of Kentucky.
		See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page

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