Find A Grave - Knox County

Allen, Abner b. October 9, 1839 d. August 22, 1905
Civil War Congressional Medal of Honor Recipient. Served in the Civil War as a Corporal in Company K, 39th Illinois Volunteer Infantry. He was awarded the CMOH for his bravery at Petersburg, Virginia on April 2, 1865. His citation reads simply “Gallantry as color bearer in the assault on Fort Gregg”. His Medal was issued on May 12, 1865. (Bio by: Russ Dodge)
Centerburg Cemetery, Centerburg, Knox County, Ohio, USA
Cooper, William Craig b. December 18, 1832 d. August 29, 1902
US Congressman. He was elected to represent Ohio's 9th Congressional District in the United States House of Representatives, serving from 1885 to 1891.
Mound View Cemetery, Mount Vernon, Knox County, Ohio, USA
Delano, Columbus b. June 4, 1809 d. October 23, 1896
US Congressman, Presidential Cabinet Secretary. Born in Vermont but raised in Ohio, he was a lawyer and Whig party loyalist who represented the Buckeye State in Congress from 1845 to 1847. When the Whig Party folded he became a Republican actively backing Abraham Lincoln's 1860 presidential run. In 1862 he lost, by two votes, a bid to become a member of the United States Senate. However he successfully ran again for the United States House of Representatives, serving in Congress from 1865 to...[Read More] (Bio by: Bigwoo)
Mound View Cemetery, Mount Vernon, Knox County, Ohio, USA
Emmett, Dan (Daniel Decatur) b. October 29, 1815 d. June 28, 1904
He was a composer best known for writing "Dixie". (Bio by: Ron Moody)
Cause of death: Unknown
Mound View Cemetery, Mount Vernon, Knox County, Ohio, USA
Plot: Section 1 Lot 37 Grave 5
Hurd, Frank Hunt b. 1840 d. 1896
U.S. Congressman. Elected to represent Ohio's 6th, 7th and and 10th Districts in the United States House of Representatives, serving from 1875-1877, 1879-1881 and 1883-1885. Member of Ohio State Legislature.
Mound View Cemetery, Mount Vernon, Knox County, Ohio, USA
Plot: Lot # 17, Section Norton Reserve, Row 4 [unmarked]
Kester, Vaughan b. November 15, 1869 d. July 4, 1911
Novelist, Journalist. His mother's cousin, William Dean Howells, influenced him, as well as his playwright brother, Paul Kester, throughout their literary careers. He was a staff member of Cosmopolitan Magazine, International Literary and News Syndicates, and Irvington-on-Hudson. He moved to New York in 1892 and lived there until 1900, when he...[Read More] (Bio by: MiKester)
Mound View Cemetery, Mount Vernon, Knox County, Ohio, USA
Plot: Section 14, Lot 34, Grave 3
Lynde, Paul Edward b. June 13, 1927 d. January 10, 1982
Actor. Lynde played Samantha's mischievous Uncle Arthur (the practical joker) on the television show "Bewitched." Comic-Actor-Panelist. Born in Mount Vernon, Ohio, Paul Lynde was one of six children of Hoy and Sylvia Lynde. Upon viewing the original “Ben-Hur” film at the tender age of five, little Paul announced he would be a rich and famous actor when he grew up. By the end of his life 50 years later, he was indeed both. Paul Lynde attended Mount Vernon High School, graduating in 1944...[Read More]
Cause of death: Heart attack
Amity Cemetery, Knox County, Ohio, USA
McNabb, Edgar J. 'Texas' b. October 24, 1865 d. February 28, 1894
Major League Baseball Player. Born in Coshocton, Ohio, he was a right handed pitcher making his debut for the Baltimore Orioles on May 12, 1893. After one season in Major League Baseball, he committed suicide after shooting his girl friend when argument developed. He died at age 38 in Pittsburg, Pennslyvainia, ending his career with a record of 8 wins, 7 loss, 12 complete games, 18 strikeouts and a 4.12 earned run average. (Bio by: John "J-Cat" Griffith)
Mound View Cemetery, Mount Vernon, Knox County, Ohio, USA
Miller, John Krepps b. May 25, 1819 d. August 11, 1863
U.S. Congressman. Elected to represent Ohio's 11th District in the United States House of Representatives, serving from 1847 to 1851.
Mound View Cemetery, Mount Vernon, Knox County, Ohio, USA
Moore, Bert C. b. March 3, 1935 d. June 8, 2000
Iranian Hostage. A Foreign Service Officer with the United States Department of State, he was one of the 52 Americans held hostage by Iran from 1979 to 1981. (Bio by: Erik Lander)
Mound View Cemetery, Mount Vernon, Knox County, Ohio, USA
Plot: Cremated in Homosassa, FL-ashes at Mound View.
Morgan, George Washington b. September 20, 1820 d. July 26, 1893
Civil War Union Brigadier General, US Congressman. Born in Washington, Pennsylvania, he was commissioned Colonel of the 2nd Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry and served the Mexican War. At the out break of the Civil War, he was appointed Brigadier General of the 7th Division of the Union Army of the Ohio in November 1861 and served until he resigned in June 863, on account of ill health. In 1869, he was elected as a Democrat to the Forty-first and Forty-second Congresses, serving until 1873. (Bio by: John "J-Cat" Griffith)
Mound View Cemetery, Mount Vernon, Knox County, Ohio, USA
Ransom, John Crowe b. April 30, 1888 d. July 3, 1974
Poet and critic. Founder of the Kenyon Review and a father of the New Criticism. During the 1930s to the 1950s Ransom served as a professor at Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio. As a mentor to young people he turned the Ohio campus into a literary Arcadia of who's who of poetry, they included the likes of Randall Jarrell, Robie Macauley and Robert Lowell. In 1941 Ransom expressed his views on poetry and there meaning in his book "The New Criticiasm."
Kenyon College Cemetery, Gambier, Knox County, Ohio, USA
Sapp, William Fletcher b. November 20, 1824 d. November 22, 1890
U.S. Congressman, Civil War Union Officer. Born in Ohio, he studied law at the office of his uncle, William R. Sapp (United States Congressman from Ohio, 1853 to 1857). In 1850, he was admitted to the bar in Ohio and became a popular and successful attorney in Mount Vernon. He was appointed as the prosecuting attorney of Knox County in 1854. He continued his law practice after moving to Omaha and became the adjutant general for the Federal Territory of Nebraska when the Civil War began. He was...[Read More] (Bio by: Kevin Guy)
Mound View Cemetery, Mount Vernon, Knox County, Ohio, USA
Sapp, William Robinson b. March 4, 1804 d. January 3, 1875
U.S. Congressman. Born in Cadiz, Ohio, his family moved to Knox County, Ohio when he was a child. He engaged in local business while studying law and was admitted to the bar in Ohio in 1833. He moved to Holmes County and practiced as an attorney in Millersburg. He became the prosecuting attorney of Holmes County until 1846, and moved back to Knox County to continue his law profession. Elected as a member of the Whig Party to represent Ohio's 15th District in the United States House of...[Read More] (Bio by: Kevin Guy)
Mound View Cemetery, Mount Vernon, Knox County, Ohio, USA
Thomas, Jesse Burgess b. 1773 d. May 3, 1853
Politician. First US Senator from Illinois, 1818-1829. Author of the Maine-Missouri-Thomas Compromise Bill, commonly known as the Missouri Compromise. The part Senator Thomas played in the enactment of this unique legislation is avouched for by James G. Blaine in his book "Twenty Years of Congress". (Bio by: Imagine)
Cause of death: Suicide
Mound View Cemetery, Mount Vernon, Knox County, Ohio, USA
West, Charles Franklin b. January 12, 1895 d. December 27, 1955
US Congressman. Elected as a Democrat to represent Ohio's 17th District in the United States House of Representatives, he served from 1931 to 1935. After graduating from Ohio Wesleyan University in 1918, he became Vice-Consul for the United States in Naples, Italy. He returned to America in 1919 and became a college professor, first at the College of Wooster (Ohio), then at Harvard University and Dennison University. He was elected to Congress in 1930 and reelected in 1932. He was an...[Read More] (Bio by: Kevin Guy)
Mound View Cemetery, Mount Vernon, Knox County, Ohio, USA

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