The Political Graveyard: Clarke County, Va.

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Clarke County
Virginia

Cemeteries and Memorial Sites of Politicians in Clarke County

Index to Locations

Old Chapel Cemetery
Millwood, Clarke County, Virginia

Politicians buried here:

Edmund Jenings Randolph (1753-1813) — of Virginia. Born in Williamsburg, Va., August 10, 1753. Served in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War; delegate to Virginia state constitutional convention, 1776; Virginia state attorney general, 1776-82; Delegate to Continental Congress from Virginia, 1779-82; Governor of Virginia, 1786-88; member, U.S. Constitutional Convention, 1787; member of Virginia state house of delegates, 1788; U.S. Attorney General, 1789-94; U.S. Secretary of State, 1794-95. Episcopalian. Member, Freemasons. Died in Millwood, Clarke County, Va., September 12, 1813 (age 60 years, 33 days). Interment at Old Chapel Cemetery.

		Relatives: Nephew of Peyton Randolph; second cousin once removed of Thomas Mann Randolph; second cousin of John Randolph of Roanoke; second cousin twice removed of George Wythe Randolph; ancestor of Francis Beverley Biddle. See Livingston-Seymour-Lee-Williams family of New York.
		Randolph County, Ill. is named for him.
		See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — National Governors Association biography — Wikipedia article — NNDB dossier
		Books about Edmund Jenings Randolph: John J. Reardon, Edmund Randolph : A Biography

Robert Page (1765-1840) — of Virginia. Born in Gloucester County (part now in Mathews County), Va., February 4, 1765. Served in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War; lawyer; planter; member of Virginia state house of delegates, 1795; U.S. Representative from Virginia at-large, 1799-1801. Died in Clarke County, Va., December 8, 1840 (age 75 years, 308 days). Interment at Old Chapel Cemetery.

See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page

Raymond R. Guest (1939-2001) — also known as Andy Guest — of Front Royal, Warren County, Va. Born in Manhattan, New York County, N.Y., September 29, 1939. Son of Elizabeth Polk Guest and Raymond Richard Guest. Republican. Farmer; banker; member of Virginia state house of delegates, 1973-99. Episcopalian. Member, Elks; Rotary; Izaak Walton League; Ruritan. A state park in Warren County was named for him in 1995. Died, of cancer, in Front Royal, Warren County, Va., April 2, 2001 (age 61 years, 185 days). Interment at Old Chapel Cemetery.

		Relatives: Nephew of Winston Frederick Churchill Guest. See Polk-Ashe family of North Carolina.
		See also Find-A-Grave memorial

Hugh Mortimer Nelson (1811-1862) — of Clarke County, Va. Born in Hanover County, Va., October 20, 1811. Lawyer; delegate to Virginia secession convention, 1861; major in the Confederate Army during the Civil War. Died, of typhoid, in Albemarle County, Va., August 6, 1862 (age 50 years, 290 days). Interment at Old Chapel Cemetery.

		Relatives: Married to Maria Adelaide Holker.
		See also Find-A-Grave memorial

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