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Lincoln County
Missouri

Cemeteries and Memorial Sites of Politicians in Lincoln County


Index to Locations

  • Private or family graveyards
  • Elsberry Elsberry City Cemetery
  • Near Elsberry Bryants Creek Pioneer Cemetery
  • Troy City Cemetery


    Private or family graveyard
    Lincoln County, Missouri
    Politicians buried here:
      David Dalton Dyer (1791-1844) — Born in Henry County, Va., 1791. . Died in Lincoln County, Mo., October 8, 1844 (age about 53 years). Interment in a private or family graveyard.
      Relatives: Brother of Benjamin Dyer; uncle of Benjamin F. Dyer, Jr.; father of David Patterson Dyer. See Dyer family of Virginia.


    Elsberry City Cemetery
    Elsberry, Lincoln County, Missouri
    Politicians buried here:
      Clarence Andrew Cannon (1879-1964) — also known as Clarence Cannon — of Elsberry, Lincoln County, Mo. Born in Elsberry, Lincoln County, Mo., April 11, 1879. Son of John Randolph Cannon and Ida Glovina (Whiteside) Cannon. Democrat. College professor; lawyer; farmer; U.S. Representative from Missouri, 1923-64 (9th District 1923-33, at-large 1933-35, 9th District 1935-64); died in office 1964; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Missouri, 1928; Parliamentarian, 1948. Died in Washington, D.C., May 12, 1964 (age 85 years, 31 days). Interment at Elsberry City Cemetery.
      Relatives: Married, August 30, 1906, to Ida Dawson Wigginton.
      See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page


    Bryants Creek Pioneer Cemetery
    Highway B
    Near Elsberry, Lincoln County, Missouri
    Politicians buried here:
      Philip Sitton (b. 1774) — of Lincoln County, Mo. Born in North Carolina, March 7, 1774. Member of Missouri state house of representatives, 1822. Died in Lincoln County, Mo. Interment at Bryants Creek Pioneer Cemetery.


    City Cemetery
    Troy, Lincoln County, Missouri
    Politicians buried here:
      Richard Henry Norton (1849-1918) — of Missouri. Born in Missouri, 1849. Democrat. U.S. Representative from Missouri 7th District, 1889-93. Died in 1918 (age about 69 years). Interment at City Cemetery.
      See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page
      Thomas G. Hutt (1817-1892) — of Troy, Lincoln County, Mo. Born in Westmoreland County, Va., May 21, 1817. Democrat. Member of Missouri state house of representatives, 1870-72; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Missouri, 1876; member of Missouri state senate, 1880. Member, Freemasons. Died in Cleburne, Johnson County, Tex., September 5, 1892 (age 75 years, 107 days). Interment at City Cemetery.
      Edgar Bailey Woolfolk (1865-1956) — of Missouri. Born in Flint Hill, St. Charles County, Mo., November 22, 1865. Member of Missouri state legislature, 1899-1901; state court judge in Missouri, 1913-43. Methodist. Member, Freemasons; Odd Fellows. Died in Troy, Lincoln County, Mo., January 2, 1956 (age 90 years, 41 days). Interment at City Cemetery.
      Relatives: Second cousin thrice removed of James Madison and Zachary Taylor; cousin of Elliot Woolfolk Major. See Livingston-Seymour-Lee-Williams family of New York.


     

     


     
       
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