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• Craige, Francis Burton    b. March 13, 1811  d. December 30, 1875
  U.S. Congressman. A former member of the State legistlature, he served as a United States Representative from North Carolina from 1853 until the beginning of the Civil War in 1861. (Bio by: Evening Blues)
  Old English Cemetery, Salisbury, Rowan County, North Carolina, USA
   
• Ellis, John Willis    b. November 23, 1820  d. July 7, 1861
  35th North Carolina Governor (1859 to 1861). At the start of the Civil War he was responsible for leading his state out of the Union and joining the Confederate States of America. Raised on his family's plantation in what is now Davidson County, he graduated from the University of North Carolina in 1841, studied law with future State Chief Justice Richmond Mumford Pearson, and became a practicing attorney in Salisbury. From 1844 to 1848 he was a member of the State House of Commons, and from...[Read More] (Bio by: Robert Edwards)
  Old English Cemetery, Salisbury, Rowan County, North Carolina, USA
   

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