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• Alexander, Sydenham Benoni    b. December 8, 1840  d. June 14, 1921
  US Congressman. He enlisted in the Confederate Army upon the outbreak of the Civil War, rising to Captain and commander of Company K, 42nd North Carolina Infantry regiment. Late in the war he was detailed to serve as Inspector General on the staff of Confederate Major General Robert F. Hoke. Following the war, he served as a member of the North Carolina state senate before being elected to represent North Carolina's 6th...[Read More] (Bio by: Evening Blues)
  Elmwood Cemetery, Charlotte, Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, USA
  GPS coordinates: 35.2351608, -80.8457031 (hddd.dddd)
   
• Barringer, Rufus    b. December 2, 1821  d. February 3, 1895
  Civil War Confederate Brigadier General. He attended the University of North Carolina, graduating in the class of 1842. He then practiced law in Concord, North Carolina and served in the State General Assembly in 1848 and 1850. He was a Presidential Elector in the critical election of 1860. Barringer entered Confederate service as the Captain of Company F ("The Cabarrus Rangers"), 1st Regiment North Carolina Cavalry. He was promoted to Major in August of 1863, and by June 1st, 1864 he had been...[Read More] (Bio by: Jeff Stepp)
  Elmwood Cemetery, Charlotte, Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, USA
  GPS coordinates: 35.2354393, -80.8462524 (hddd.dddd)
   
• Dowd, Clement    b. August 27, 1832  d. April 15, 1898
  Civil War Veteran US Congressman. He served in the Confederate Army during the Civil War. In 1869, he was elected to a term as the mayor of Charlotte. He was elected to represent North Carolina in the United States House of Representatives, serving from 1881 until 1885. (Bio by: Evening Blues)
  Elmwood Cemetery, Charlotte, Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, USA
  Plot: Section B, Lot 39, Grave 4
  GPS coordinates: 35.2353706, -80.8455963 (hddd.dddd)
   
• Drayton, Thomas Fenwick    b. August 24, 1808  d. February 18, 1891
  Civil War Confederate Brigadier General. He graduated from West Point in 1828, where he formed a lifelong friendship with Jefferson Finis Davis. In 1836, Drayton resigned his commission from the Army, to run his plantation and served as South Carolina State Legislator. When the Civil War began, Confederate President Jefferson Finis Davis commissioned him a Brigadier General in September 1861. Placed in command of the military district at Port Royal, South Carolina, he was unable to defend the...[Read More] (Bio by: John "J-Cat" Griffith)
  Elmwood Cemetery, Charlotte, Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, USA
  Plot: Section H, Lot 56 E1/2, Grave 1
  GPS coordinates: 35.2350006, -80.8474808 (hddd.dddd)
   
• Lee, Charles Cochrane   d. July 30, 1862
  Civil War Union Army Officer. He graduated from the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York in 1856, and was assigned as a 2nd Lieutenant in the Army Ordnance Department. Serving in that branch for the next three years, he resigned from the Army on July 31, 1859. When the Civil war started, he was residing in his native North Carolina, and offered his services to the new Confederacy. Mustered into the 1st North Carolina Infantry regiment, he participated in the conflict's first...[Read More] (Bio by: Russ Dodge)
  Elmwood Cemetery, Charlotte, Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, USA
  GPS coordinates: 35.2353706, -80.8462906 (hddd.dddd)
   
• Morehead, John Motley   b. July 20, 1866  d. December 13, 1923
  US Congressman. Morehead was a U.S. Representative from North Carolina from 1909 to 1911. (Bio by: Evening Blues)
  Elmwood Cemetery, Charlotte, Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, USA
   
• Morrison, Cameron A.    b. October 5, 1869  d. August 20, 1953
  North Carolina Governor, US Senator, US Congressman. He served as the Governor of North Carolina from 1921 to 1925. He was appointed to fill a vacancy in the U.S. Senate in 1930, serving until 1932. In 1943, he was elected to serve a term as a U.S. Representative from North Carolina. (Bio by: Evening Blues)
  Elmwood Cemetery, Charlotte, Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, USA
  Plot: Section S, Lot 138, Grave 6
   
• Parker, John Johnston   b. November 20, 1885  d. March 17, 1958
  American Jurist. He graduated from the University of North Carolina in 1907, received a law degree in 1908, and became an attorney. A Republican, he ran unsuccessfully for a number of offices during the post-Reconstruction era when North Carolina was dominated by Democrats, including a 1920 campaign for Governor. From 1923 to 1925 he was a Special Assistant to the US Attorney General, and in 1924 he became North Carolina's Republican National Committeeman. In 1925 he was named to the US Fourth...[Read More] (Bio by: Bill McKern)
  Elmwood Cemetery, Charlotte, Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, USA
   
• Scott, Randolph    b. January 23, 1898  d. March 2, 1987
  Actor. He was born George Randolph Crane in Orange County, Virginia while his parents were on a vacation. His father was a textile manufacturer in Charlotte, North Carolina where George spent his boyhood and had the privilege of attending private college-prep schools. At age twenty, he was conscripted into the army during World War I and saw service in Europe. Upon discharge, he attended Georgia Tech, transferred to the University of North Carolina coming away with a degree in engineering...[Read More] (Bio by: Donald Greyfield)
  Elmwood Cemetery, Charlotte, Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, USA
  Plot: Section R
   

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