Barry, Frederick George b. January 12, 1845 d. May 7, 1909 US Congressman. Served in the Confederate Army during the Civil War. Elected to represent Mississippi's 4th District in th United States House of Representatives, serving from 1885 to 1889. Also served as a Member of the Mississippi State Senate from 1875 to 1879. (Bio by: K) Odd Fellows Rest Cemetery, Aberdeen, Monroe County, Mississippi, USA
Davis, Reuben b. January 18, 1813 d. October 14, 1890 US Congressman, Civil War Confederate Militia General, CSA Congressman. He served during the Civil War as a Major General of Mississippi State Militia, and commanded a division of state troops who served in Kentucky in the Winter of 1861. He had previously been elected to represent Mississippi's 2nd District in the United States House of Representatives, serving from 1857 to 1861. After resigning from the Militia, he was elected to represent Mississippi in the Confederate Congress, serving from...[Read More] (Bio by: Russ Dodge) Odd Fellows Rest Cemetery, Aberdeen, Monroe County, Mississippi, USA
Gholson, Samuel J. b. May 19, 1808 d. October 16, 1883 Civil War Confederate Brigadier General, US Congressman. Born in Madison County, Kentucky, he migrated to Mississippi in 1830 from his family's Alabama home, where he had studied law privately, having been admitted to the bar in 1829. Appointed in 1839 by the Martin Van Buren administration to the Federal bench in Mississippi, he was a United States district judge for 22 years before the Civil War. His early public career also included terms in the state legislature and a brief, stormy period...[Read More] (Bio by: Ugaalltheway) Odd Fellows Rest Cemetery, Aberdeen, Monroe County, Mississippi, USA
Gregg, John b. September 28, 1828 d. October 7, 1864 Civil War Confederate Brigadier General. At the start of the Civil War, he was a member of the Provincial Congress of the Southern Confederacy in Montgomery, Alabama and later in Richmond, Virginia. He resigned his congressional seat, formed the 7th Texas Infantry and was commissioned Brigadier General in September 1862. In the succeeding years, he led the 7th Texas Infantry, 3rd, 10th, 30th, 41st, 50th Tennessee Infantries and the 1st Tennessee Battalion in many southern battles. While...[Read More] (Bio by: John "J-Cat" Griffith) Odd Fellows Rest Cemetery, Aberdeen, Monroe County, Mississippi, USA
b. January 12, 1845 d. May 7, 1909