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• Anderson, Lucien    b. June 23, 1824  d. October 18, 1898
  Civil War US Congressman. Elected to represent Kentucky's 1st District in the United States House of Representatives, serving as an Unconditional Unionist from 1863 to 1865. (Bio by: Russ Dodge)
  Anderson Family Cemetery, Mayfield, Graves County, Kentucky, USA
   
• Boone, Andrew Rechmond    b. April 4, 1831  d. January 26, 1886
  Kentucky secessionist leader 1861. Member of the United States Congress, Kentucky's first district (1875-1879). He was elected and served as judge of the Graves County Court from 1854 to 1861. member of the State house of representatives in 1861; circuit judge for the first judicial district of Kentucky 1868-1874; elected as a Democrat to the Forty-fourth and Forty-fifth Congresses (March 4, 1875-March 3, 1879); chairman of the State railroad commission 1882-1886. (bio by C. Doyle)
  Maplewood Cemetery, Mayfield, Graves County, Kentucky, USA
   
• Camp Beauregard Memorial [memorial]  
  Erected by the United Daughters of the Confederacy in 1909, the monument is dedicated to the over 1,500 soldiers who died of disease at Camp Beauregard Kentucky, during the Civil War. In 1930, the memorial was approved by the addition of a concrete base. (Bio by: John "J-Cat" Griffith)
  Camp Beauregard Cemetery, Graves County, Kentucky, USA
   
• Crossland, Edward    b. June 30, 1827  d. September 11, 1881
  Confederate officer from 1861-1865. Member of US Congress from Kentucky's First District 1875-1879. (Bio by: Tim Crutchfield)
  Maplewood Cemetery, Mayfield, Graves County, Kentucky, USA
   
• Gregory, Noble Jones   b. August 30, 1897  d. September 26, 1971
  US Congressman. He was elected to represent Kentucky's 1st District in the United States House of Representatives, serving from 1937 to 1959.
  Maplewood Cemetery, Mayfield, Graves County, Kentucky, USA
  Plot: Block 16
   
• Gregory, William Voris   b. October 21, 1877  d. October 10, 1936
  US Congressman. He was elected to represent Kentucky's 1st District in the United States House of Representatives, serving from 1927 until his death in office in 1936. (Bio by: Tim Crutchfield)
  Maplewood Cemetery, Mayfield, Graves County, Kentucky, USA
  Plot: Block 16
   
• Humphreys, Robert    b. August 20, 1893  d. December 31, 1977
  US Politician. Served in the United States Army during World War I (1914-1918), and World War II (1939-1945). He served in many posts- Member of the Kentucky State House of Representatives in 1920, Member of Kentucky State Senate from 1932 to 1936, Delegate to Democratic National Convention from Kentucky in 1936 as an Alternate, Delegate in 1952, and in 1956, Kentucky Democratic State Chair in 1937, and as a United States Senator from Kentucky in 1956. (Bio by: K)
  Highland Park Cemetery, Mayfield, Graves County, Kentucky, USA
   
• Murdock, Lesley    b. 1909  d. 1979
  Founder of Paradise Friendly Home, Graves County Kentucky's only orphanage. The Home closed down in 1976, and all of the children were transferred to Potter's Home in Bowling Green, Ky. There was an attempt to reopen the Home by one of the former Home kids in the early 1980's, but the plans fell through. The remains of the home are still standing just down the highway from Mr. Murdock's grave. The main building burned in the late 1980's, but the boy's building and the old gym are still standing...[Read More]
  Murdock Mausoleum, Tri City, Graves County, Kentucky, USA
   
• Ross, Chester "Buster"  b. March 11, 1903  d. April 24, 1982
  Major League Baseball Player. The left-hander pitched three years for the Boston Red Sox in 1924-26. When the St. Louis Browns beat the Red Sox 11-6 on May 17, 1925, Ross committed four errors for an American League record. His career totals were 7-12 with a 5.01 earned run average. He had one complete game in 10 starts and was 5-5 in relief. He walked 76 and struck out 31 in 190 innings. (Bio by: Ron Coons)
  Maplewood Cemetery, Mayfield, Graves County, Kentucky, USA
   
• Wooldridge, Henry   b. January 29, 1822  d. May 30, 1899
  Folk Figure. Colonel Wooldridge was a Civil War veteran and lifelong bachelor, noted for his eccentric behavior. He moved to Graves County, Kentucky after the war and made his fortune as a horse trader. In 1892 he purchased a large plot at Mayfield's Maplewood Cemetery and surrounded it with 18 statues of himself (including one astride his favorite horse, Fop), his family, a young woman said to have been a childhood sweetheart, and his hunting dogs. The centerpiece is a life-size marble...[Read More] (Bio by: Robert Edwards)
  Maplewood Cemetery, Mayfield, Graves County, Kentucky, USA
   

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