Find A Grave - Winchester

Allan, Chilton b. April 6, 1786 d. September 3, 1858
US Congressman. Elected to represent Kentucky's 3rd and 10th Districts in the United States House of Representatives, serving from 1831 to 1837. Also served as a Member of the Kentucky State House of Representatives in 1811, 1815, 1822, 1830, and 1842, and Member of the Kentucky State Senate from 1823 to 1827.
Winchester Cemetery, Winchester, Clark County, Kentucky, USA
Beckner, William Morgan b. June 19, 1841 d. March 14, 1910
US Congressman. Elected to represent Kentucky's 10th District in the United States House of Representatives, serving from 1894 to 1895. Also served as a County Judge in 1870, Delegate to the Kentucky State Constitutional Convention in 1890, and Member of the Kentucky State House of Representatives in 1893. (Bio by: K)
Winchester Cemetery, Winchester, Clark County, Kentucky, USA
Clark, James b. January 16, 1770 d. September 27, 1839
Governor of Kentucky, U.S. Congressman, Judge. A native of Virginia, his family moved to Clark County, Kentucky in 1794. He attended the Pisgah Academy, studied law, and became an attorney in Winchester, Kentucky. Clark became a member of the Kentucky legislature in 1807 and 1808 and was appointed as a Judge of the Court of Appeals in 1810. Elected as a Democratic Republican to represent Kentucky in the United States House of Representatives, he served from 1813 until his resignation in 1816...[Read More] (Bio by: Kevin Guy)
Clark Family Burial Grounds, Winchester, Clark County, Kentucky, USA
Epperson, Harold Glenn b. July 14, 1923 d. June 25, 1944
World War II Congressional Medal of Honor Recipient. He was killed in action. He served as a Private First Class (Machine Gunner) in the United States Marine Corps Reserve in the 1st Battalion, 6th Marines, 2d Marine Division. He was awarded the Medal of Honor for action on June 25, 1944 at Saipan Island, Mariana Islands. His citation in part reads "Suddenly a Japanese soldier, assumed to be dead, sprang up and hurled a powerful hand grenade into the emplacement. Determined to save his comrades...[Read More] (Bio by: Don Morfe)
Winchester Cemetery, Winchester, Clark County, Kentucky, USA
Plot: Section H, Lot 202
Hathaway, Leeland b. June 4, 1834 d. October 23, 1909
Civil War Confederate Army Officer. Educated at Transylvania University, he was an attorney by profession. He entered the Confederate army in 1862 serving in General John Hunt Morgan's cavalry and rising to the rank of Lieutenant in the 14th Kentucky (CSA) Cavalry. Captured at Buffington Island, Ohio during Morgan's Ohio raid he was released just prior to the collapse of the Confederate government. Finding himself in Abbeville, South Carolina with two companions at the same time Mrs. Jefferson...[Read More] (Bio by: Steve Dunn)
Winchester Cemetery, Winchester, Clark County, Kentucky, USA
Lisle, Marcus Claiborne b. September 23, 1862 d. July 7, 1894
US Congressman. Elected to represent Kentucky's 10th District in the United States House of Representatives, serving from 1893 until his death in 1894. Also served as a State Court Judge in 1890. (Bio by: K)
Winchester Cemetery, Winchester, Clark County, Kentucky, USA
Niles, John Jacob b. April 28, 1892 d. March 1, 1980
Musician. A noted collector of American folk ballads, composer, and singer. He is best-known for his song "Go 'Way From My Window". Niles was responsible for a folk music revival in the Appalachians, and he influenced performers as diverse as Bob Dylan and Marlene Dietrich. He served as a ferry pilot in the U.S. Air Corps during World War I. The John Jacob Niles Center for American Music at the University of Kentucky in Lexington is named for him. (Bio by: Imagine)
Saint Huberts Episcopal Church Cemetery, Winchester, Clark County, Kentucky, USA
Williams, John Stuart b. June 28, 1818 d. July 17, 1898
U.S. Senator, Civil War Confederate Brigadier General. Born near Mount Sterling, Kentucky, he graduated from Miami University at Oxford, Ohio in 1839. He studied law and became an attorney in Bourbon County, Kentucky. He enlisted to serve in the Mexican American War and was commissioned as a Captain of an independent company attached to the 6th U.S. Infantry. He later became a Colonel with the 4th Regiment of Kentucky Volunteers and earned his nickname, "Cerro Gordo Williams" for gallantry that...[Read More] (Bio by: Kevin Guy)
Winchester Cemetery, Winchester, Clark County, Kentucky, USA
Plot: Section F. He is buried with the Holloway family, and the names onthe marker cannot be seen from the

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