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• Byrnes, James Francis    b. May 2, 1879  d. April 9, 1972
  US Congressman, Senator, Presidential Cabinet Secretary, US Supreme Court Associate Justice, South Carolina Governor. He was admitted to the bar in 1903, commenced law practice in Aiken, South Carolina, was elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-second Congress and to the six succeeding Congresses, serving 1911 to 1925. In 1930, he was elected as a Democrat to the US Senate and served until his resignation in 1941, having been appointed US Justice Supreme Court Associate, serving until 1942. In...[Read More] (Bio by: John "J-Cat" Griffith)
  Trinity Episcopal Cathedral Cemetery, Columbia, Richland County, South Carolina, USA
   
• Capers, Ellison    b. October 14, 1837  d. April 22, 1908
  Civil War Confederate General, Anglican Bishop. Raised in Charleston, he was educated in the local schools and in 1857 graduated from The Citadel, of which his older brother Francis Withers Capers was founding president, and became an instructor at that institution. Appointed Major of South Carolina Volunteers he took part in the 1861 shelling of Fort Sumter, initially served in coastal defense, and in 1863 was promoted to Lieutenant Colonel after helping to recruit the 24th. South Carolina...[Read More] (Bio by: Bob Hufford)
  Trinity Episcopal Cathedral Cemetery, Columbia, Richland County, South Carolina, USA
   
• Gist, States Rights    b. September 3, 1831  d. November 30, 1864
  Civil War Confederate Brigadier General. He was born in Union, South Carolina, and was a graduate of South Carolina College and the Harvard University Law School. An attorney in his home state, he became active in the militia, and rose to state Brigadier General in 1859. His brother Joseph was also a Brigadier of the militia and was a Major in the Fifteenth South Carolina. His cousin, William Henry Gist, was Governor of South Carolina during the war. Governor Gist's son, William, was also a...[Read More] (Bio by: Ugaalltheway)
  Cause of death: Killed in battle
  Trinity Episcopal Cathedral Cemetery, Columbia, Richland County, South Carolina, USA
   
• Hampton III., Wade    b. March 28, 1818  d. April 11, 1902
  Civil War Confederate Lieutenant General, South Carolina Governor, US Senator. He was one of three civilians who attained the rank of Lieutenant General in the Confederate Army without formal military training (the other two being Nathan Bedford Forrest and Richard Taylor). A highly successful plantation owner in South Carolina, he carried on the...[Read More]
  Trinity Episcopal Cathedral Cemetery, Columbia, Richland County, South Carolina, USA
   
• Hampton I., Wade    b. 1752  d. February 4, 1835
  Lieutenant colonel, Revolutionary War; United States Representative from South Carolina, 1795-1797 and 1803-1805; brigadier general and major general, War of 1812; grandfather of Wade Hampton III.
  Trinity Episcopal Cathedral Cemetery, Columbia, Richland County, South Carolina, USA
   
• Haskell, John Cheves    b. 1841  d. June 26, 1906
  Civil War Confederate Army Officer. Attended South Carolina College (now the University of South Carolina). During the Civil War served as a staff officer to Generals Joseph E. Johnston and G. W. Smith, lost an arm at the battle of Gaines Mill, Va. June 27, 1862. Upon his recovery he entered the artillery branch where he eventually commanded a battalion of artillery in General James Longstreet's 1st Corps, Army of Northern Virginia with the rank of Lieutenant Colonel. At Appomattox he was sent...[Read More] (Bio by: Steve Dunn)
  Trinity Episcopal Cathedral Cemetery, Columbia, Richland County, South Carolina, USA
   
• Horry, Peter   b. 1747  d. February 28, 1815
  Revolutionary War Militia Officer. A Planter of French Huguenot descent, hewas born in South Carolina circa 1747. A Lieutenant Colonel in the Revolution and later Brigadier General in the South Carolina Militia, he represented Prince George Winyah and All Saints parishes in the South Carolina State House and Senate. In 1801, Kingston County was renamed Horry County in his honor. (Bio by: Anonymous)
  Trinity Episcopal Cathedral Cemetery, Columbia, Richland County, South Carolina, USA
   
• Manning, Richard Irvine   b. May 1, 1789  d. May 1, 1836
  South Carolina Governor, US Congressman. He served as the 50th Governor of South Carolina from 1824 to 1826. Born near Sumter in the Sumter District, Manning graduated from South Carolina College at Columbia in 1811. During the War of 1812 he served as a Captain of Volunteers in the State Militia, after which he was active as a planter in Clarendon County. He was a member of the State House of Representatives (1820 to 1822) and the State Senate (1822 to 1824) prior to his election as Governor...[Read More] (Bio by: Robert Edwards)
  Trinity Episcopal Cathedral Cemetery, Columbia, Richland County, South Carolina, USA
   
• Manning III., Richard Irvine    b. August 15, 1859  d. September 11, 1931
  Governor of South Carolina, 1915-1919. (Bio by: Laurie)
  Trinity Episcopal Cathedral Cemetery, Columbia, Richland County, South Carolina, USA
   
• Preston, John Smith    b. April 20, 1809  d. May 1, 1881
  Civil War Confederate Brigadier General. Born in Abington, Virginia, he was an ardent secessionist in favor of Virginia withdrawing from the Union at the start of the Civil War. He joined the Confederate Army, was appointed Lieutenant Colonel attached to the staff of General Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard and fought at the Battle of the First Manassas. He was then assigned as an Assistant Adjutant General in South Carolina where he supervised the prison camp in Columbia, performed recruiting...[Read More] (Bio by: John "J-Cat" Griffith)
  Trinity Episcopal Cathedral Cemetery, Columbia, Richland County, South Carolina, USA
   
• Preston, William Campbell    b. December 27, 1794  d. May 22, 1860
  US Senator. He served as a United States Senator from South Carolina from 1833 to 1842. Also served as a Member of the South Carolina State Legislature. (Bio by: K)
  Trinity Episcopal Cathedral Cemetery, Columbia, Richland County, South Carolina, USA
   
• Thompson, Hugh Smith    b. January 24, 1836  d. November 20, 1904
  South Carolina Governor. A graduate of The Citadel, in 1861 he led a battalion of Citadel cadets who fired the first shots of the American Civil War when they opened fire on the Union ship 'Star of the West' when it entered Charleston Harbor. He served two terms as the Democratic Governor of South Carolina, from 1882 to 1886. He later became an executive of the New York Life Insurance Company. (Bio by: Garver Graver)
  Trinity Episcopal Cathedral Cemetery, Columbia, Richland County, South Carolina, USA
   
• Timrod, Henry    b. December 8, 1828  d. October 6, 1867
  Poet. Known as 'The Laureate of the Confederacy, he compsed such poems as 'Ode to the Confederate Dead at Magnolia Cemetery', 'Carolina', 'The Cotton Ball', and 'Ethnogenesis'. Fought in the Confederate Army during the Civil War, and died in poverty of Tuberculosis.
  Trinity Episcopal Cathedral Cemetery, Columbia, Richland County, South Carolina, USA
   

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