Find A Grave - Rockingham County

Anderson, Robert N. b. December 15, 1843 d. June 20, 1900
Civil War Congressional Medal of Honor Recipient. Born in Ireland, he was awarded the CMOH for his bravery and service on board the warships "USS Crusader" and "USS Keokuk" while serving as a Quartermaster in the Union Navy. His citation reads "Carrying out his duties skillfully while on board the U.S.S. Crusader, Q.M. Anderson, on all occasions, set forth the greatest intrepidity and devotion. During the attack on Charleston, while serving on board the U.S.S. Keokuk, Q.M. Anderson was...[Read More] (Bio by: Don Morfe)
Calvary Cemetery, Portsmouth, Rockingham County, New Hampshire, USA
Bartlett, Ichabod b. July 24, 1786 d. October 21, 1853
US Congressman. He graduated from Dartmouth College in 1808, studied law, and began practice in Durham in 1811. He moved to Portsmouth in 1816 and continued his law practice. From 1817 to 1818 he was Clerk of the State Senate. Bartlett was Rockingham County Solicitor from 1819 to 1821. He served as a member of the New Hampshire House of Representatives from 1819 to 1821, and was Speaker in 1821. In 1822 he was elected to the US House of Representatives as an Adams-Clay candidate. He was...[Read More] (Bio by: Bill McKern)
Harmony Grove Cemetery, Portsmouth, Rockingham County, New Hampshire, USA
Bartlett, John Henry b. March 15, 1869 d. March 19, 1952
New Hampshire Governor.Born in Sunapee, he served in the New Hampshire House of Representatives in 1918 and was elected Governor on the Republican ticket, serving from 1919 to 1921. After leaving the Governor's office, he became president of the United States Civil Service Commission and was then appointed as the first United States Assistant Postmaster General. Upon his retirement from federal government service, he switched to the Democratic Party and ran unsucessfully for the US Congress...[Read More] (Bio by: MayflowerPilgrim332)
Harmony Grove Cemetery, Portsmouth, Rockingham County, New Hampshire, USA
Plot: Bartlett
Bartlett, Josiah b. November 21, 1729 d. May 19, 1795
Signer of the Declaration of Independence from New Hampshire. He was also the first man to vote for independence, when the issue came up for vote on July 2, 1776. Born in Amesbury, Massachusetts, the youngest of seven children, where his parents ran a farm called "The Lion's Mouth" in Amesbury, Massachusetts. Josiah's father was also a shoemaker. After some formal schooling, 16 year old Josiah was apprenticed to an Amesbury physician, where for the next five years, he studied medicine and...[Read More] (Bio by: Kit and Morgan Benson)
Plains Cemetery, Kingston, Rockingham County, New Hampshire, USA
Bartlett Jr., Josiah b. August 29, 1768 d. April 16, 1838
US Congressman. The son of Continental Congress Member, Declaration of Independence signer and Governor Josiah Bartlett, he graduated from Exeter Academy, studied medicine, and became a doctor in Stratham. He served in the State Senate from 1809 to 1810. In 1810 he was elected to the US House as a Democratic-Republican and served from 1811 to 1813. He returned to his medical practice and served as Rockingham County Treasurer. Bartlett was elected to the State Senate for the second time in 1824...[Read More] (Bio by: Bill McKern)
Stratham Cemetery, Stratham, Rockingham County, New Hampshire, USA
Bell, Charles Henry b. November 18, 1823 d. November 11, 1893
US Senator, New Hampshire Governor. After a long career in the New Hampshire State Legislature, he was elected as a Republican Senator to the United States Senate, serving from March 13, 1879, to June 18, 1879 (his brief term was spurred by a vacancy in the seat, which he held until a successor, Senator Henry William Blair, was elected). He was elected Governor of New Hampshire, serving from 1881 to 1883. He came from a...[Read More] (Bio by: Russ Dodge)
Exeter Cemetery, Exeter, Rockingham County, New Hampshire, USA
Bell, James b. November 13, 1804 d. May 26, 1857
US Senator. The son of Samuel Bell, the 14th Governor of New Hampshire, he was born in Francestown, Hillsborough County. He received an excellent education, attending the Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts, Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine, and the Litchfield Law School in Connecticut before being admitted to the bar in 1825. Returning to his home state, he had a successful practice in Gilmanton and, after 1831, in Exeter. In 1846 he closed his law office and moved to...[Read More] (Bio by: Robert Edwards)
Exeter Cemetery, Exeter, Rockingham County, New Hampshire, USA
Bell, John b. July 20, 1765 d. March 23, 1836
Governor of New Hampshire 1828-1829. Elected as State Representative from Londonerry (1799-1800), before moving to Chester. Also elected State Senator (1803-1804) and Councillor (1817-1823). Served as High Sheriff of Rockingham County (1823-1828). An Adams Democrat, he defeated incumbent Governor Benjamin Pierce, father of the 14th U.S. president Franklin Pierce, in 1828. However, as an incumbent, he lost to Benjamin Pierce in the next election for Governor in 1829. Also elected as New...[Read More] (Bio by: Bruce)
Chester Village Cemetery, Chester, Rockingham County, New Hampshire, USA
Bell, Louis b. December 6, 1864 d. June 14, 1923
Scientist, Inventor. A pioneer in the field of electricty, he designed and installed the first Three Phase generators in industrial plants in America. Editor of The Electrical World, Professor of Physics, Purdue University, and a Chief Engineer, General Electric Company. A leading lecturer on the field of electricty at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, John Hopkins and Harvard Universities. A Fellow American Academy Arts and Sciences. President Illuminating Engineering Society. Vice...[Read More] (Bio by: Bruce)
Chester Village Cemetery, Chester, Rockingham County, New Hampshire, USA
Bell, Louis b. March 8, 1837 d. January 16, 1865
Civil War Union Army Officer. Mortally wounded during the Union attack on the Confederate Fort Fisher, North Carolina, January 15, 1865, he died of his wound from a Confederate sharpshooter the day after the battle. During the attack, he commanded the Third Brigade, Second Division, XXIV Army Corps. An account was written in September 1865, by John Bell Bouton, claiming Colonel Louis Bell was awarded a Brevet Brigadier General of Volunteers rank by Secretary of War Edwin Stanton per order of...[Read More] (Bio by: Bruce)
Chester Village Cemetery, Chester, Rockingham County, New Hampshire, USA
Plot: Samuel Bell Family Plot
Bell, Samuel b. February 9, 1770 d. December 22, 1850
New Hampshire Governor. Served as the Governor of New Hampshire from 1819 to 1823. Also served as a Member of the New Hampshire State House of Representatives from 1804 to 1807, New Hampshire State Attorney General from 1806 to 1807, Member of the New Hampshire State Senate for the 7th District from 1807 to 1809, Justice of the New Hampshire State Supreme Court from 1816 to 1819, and United States Senator from New Hampshire from 1823 to 1835. (Bio by: K)
Chester Village Cemetery, Chester, Rockingham County, New Hampshire, USA
Betton, Silas b. August 26, 1768 d. January 22, 1822
US Congressman. Elected to represent New Hampshire's 1st Distict and as At-Large in the United States House of Representatives, serving from 1803 to 1807. Also served as a Member of the New Hampshire State House of Representatives from 1797 to 1799, and 1810 to 1811, and Member of the New Hampshire State Senate for the 3rd District from 1800 to 1803. (Bio by: K)
Salem Center Burying Ground, Salem, Rockingham County, New Hampshire, USA
Brady, James b. 1842 d. October 7, 1904
Civil War Congressional Medal of Honor Recipient. He served as a Private in the US Army in Company F, 10th New Hampshire Volunteer Infantry (Irish Regiment). He was awarded the Medal of Honor for action at Chapin's Farm, Virginia, on September 29, 1964. His citation reads "Capture of flag." (Bio by: Don Morfe)
Pine Grove Cemetery, Raymond, Rockingham County, New Hampshire, USA
Brodhead, John b. October 5, 1770 d. April 7, 1838
US Congressman. Born in Lower Smithfield, Pennsylvania, he studied theology at the Stroudsburg (Pennsylvania) Academy and was ordained a Methodist minister in 1794. Two years later he moved to New England as a supervisor of Methodist societies in the Connecticut Valley, and in 1809 settled in Newfields, New Hampshire. He was a member of the New Hampshire State Senate from 1817 to 1827, and also officiated as chaplain of the State House of Representatives (1825). Brodhead was elected as a...[Read More] (Bio by: Robert Edwards)
Locust Grove Cemetery, Newfields, Rockingham County, New Hampshire, USA
Butler, Josiah b. December 4, 1779 d. October 27, 1854
US Congressman. Elected to represent New Hampshire At-Large and its 1st District in the United States House of Representatives, serving from 1817 to 1823. Also served as a Member of the New Hampshire State House of Representatives from 1815 to 1816, and State Court Judge from 1825 to 1835. (Bio by: K)
Granite Cemetery, South Deerfield, Rockingham County, New Hampshire, USA
Christensen, Anethe b. October 1, 1847 d. March 6, 1873
Murder Victim. A Norwegian immigrant, she lived on an island off the shore of Portsmouth, New Hampshire, with her sister-in-law, Karen Anne Christensen. On March 6, 1873, Louis Wagner came to shore in hopes of robbing the two ladies and instead hacked them to death with an axe. The force of the blows was so terrible that the handle of the axe broke. Wagner was tried and hanged in Maine on June 25, 1875. The murders were the subject of many books and poems. They include, "The Weight Of Water" by...[Read More] (Bio by: K)
South Cemetery, Portsmouth, Rockingham County, New Hampshire, USA
Christensen, Karen Anne b. June 13, 1833 d. March 6, 1873
Murder Victim. A Norwegian immigrant, she lived on an island off the shore of Portsmouth, New Hampshire, with her sister-in-law, Anethe Matea. On March 6. 1873, Louis Wagner came to shore in hopes of robbing the ladies, but instead hacked them to death with an axe. The force of the blows to the ladies were so terrible that the axe handle broke. On June 25, Wagner was tried and hanged in Maine on June 25, 1875. The murders inspired many books and poems. They include, "The Weight Of Water" by...[Read More] (Bio by: K)
South Cemetery, Portsmouth, Rockingham County, New Hampshire, USA
Cilley, Bradbury b. February 1, 1760 d. December 17, 1831
US Congressman. A member of a family prominent in New Hampshire politics and government, he was educated locally and became a farmer. In 1798 he was appointed US Marshal for New Hampshire, an office he held until 1802. In 1812 he was elected to the US House of Representatives as a Federalist and served two terms, 1813 to 1817. An active militia officer, Cilley served as a Colonel and military aide to Governor John T. Gilman from 1814-1816. After leaving Congress Cilley retired from public life...[Read More] (Bio by: Bill McKern)
General Joseph Cilley Burying Ground, Nottingham Square, Rockingham County, New Hampshire, USA
Cilley, Gen. Joseph b. January 4, 1791 d. September 6, 1887
Liberty Senator from New Hampshire and General during the War of 1812. He served in the US Senate from 1846-1847. (Bio by: Tim Crutchfield)
General Joseph Cilley Burying Ground, Nottingham Square, Rockingham County, New Hampshire, USA
Cushman, Samuel b. June 8, 1783 d. May 20, 1851
US Congressman. He was born in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, where most of his subsequent career would be based. After operating a private law practice for several years, he served as a judge of the Portsmouth police court, as County Treasurer (1823 to 1828), and as a member of the New Hampshire House of Representatives (1833 to 1835). In 1834 President Andrew Jackson nominated Cushman for the post of New Hampshire District Attorney, but he was not confirmed. Instead he successfully ran...[Read More] (Bio by: Robert Edwards)
Proprietors Burying Ground, Portsmouth, Rockingham County, New Hampshire, USA

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