Ashe, John Baptista [cenotaph] b. 1748 d. November 27, 1802 US Congressman. Elected to represent North Carolina as At-Large in the United States House of Representatives, serving from 1789 to 1793. Also served as a Member of the North Carolina State Legislature from 1784 to 1786, Delegate to the Continental Congress from North Carolina in 1787, and Member of the North Carolina State Senate in 1789. Ashe also served as a Colonel in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War. Ashe Cemetery, Rocky Point, Pender County, North Carolina, USA
Ashe, William Shepperd b. August 12, 1813 d. September 14, 1862 US Congressman. Ashe was a member of the North Carolina state senate (1846). He was then elected as a U.S. Representative from North Carolina in 1849, and remained in office until 1855. He served as a major in the Confederate Army. During the Civil War, Ashe was in charge of all rail transportation east of the Mississipi. He died in 1862 in a railroad accident. (Bio by: Evening Blues) Ashe Cemetery, Rocky Point, Pender County, North Carolina, USA
Lillington, John Alexander b. 1725 d. 1786 Revolutionary War Patriot. Gen. Lillington was only prudently active in local and provincial affairs. However, as the Revolution approached, he was elected to the New Hanover County Safety Committee in 1775 and as one of the county's delegates to the Third Provincial Congress, which met at Hillsborough in August 1775. He immediately joined the Patriots and began to organize a company of troops known as Minute Men of Wilmington and New Bern, of which Colonel Caswell and himself were joined by a...[Read More] (Bio by: Caroline) Lillington Cemetery, Rocky Point, Pender County, North Carolina, USA
McClammy, Charles Washington b. May 29, 1839 d. February 26, 1896 US Congressman. An 1859 graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, he taught school after graduation until enlisting in the Confederate Army in 1861. He was successivly promoted to major in the Third North Carolina Cavalry Regiment and served throughout the Civil War. He served in both the North Carolina House of Representatives and State Senate before his election to Congress as a Democrat in 1886. He served two terms, from 1887 to 1891, before his defeat for reelection in...[Read More] (Bio by: Garver Graver) McClammy Cemetery, Scotts Hill, Pender County, North Carolina, USA
b. 1748 d. November 27, 1802