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William Jasper Slayden

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William Jasper Slayden Veteran

Birth
Graves County, Kentucky, USA
Death
30 Sep 1918 (aged 75–76)
Asheville, Buncombe County, North Carolina, USA
Burial
Mayfield, Graves County, Kentucky, USA Add to Map
Plot
Lot 20, Block 6, Grave 5
Memorial ID
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Although the Maplewood Cemetery records show no burial date for William Slayden, only recording that a plot was purchased (http://www.cityofmayfield.org/Cemeteries/maplewoodburials.pdf), it appears from the following obituary published in the Washington Post at the time of his death that he was to be buried in Maplewood with the other members of his family.

From the births, marriages and deaths listed in The Washington Post on Tuesday, October 1, 1918

SLAYDEN, Wm. J., 76 yrs, Garfield Hospt.

DEATH OF W. J. SLAYDEN
Was Brother of Representative and Served in Confederate Army
William J. SLAYDEN, of Ashville [sic], N. C., 76 years of age, died yesterday at Garfield Hospital. Mr. SLAYDEN is survived by two sisters, Miss Rena SLAYDEN and Mrs. B. R. FAKES, of Asheville, N.C.; one brother, Representative SLAYDEN, of Texas, and by a son and daughter, Acton SLAYDEN and Mrs. Allen (sic Alain) de LOTBINIERE of Canada.
His body will be buried at Mayfield, Ky., near where he was born. Mr. SLAYDEN served in the Confederate army and had large business interests in the South.



Although the Maplewood Cemetery records show no burial date for William Slayden, only recording that a plot was purchased (http://www.cityofmayfield.org/Cemeteries/maplewoodburials.pdf), it appears from the following obituary published in the Washington Post at the time of his death that he was to be buried in Maplewood with the other members of his family.

From the births, marriages and deaths listed in The Washington Post on Tuesday, October 1, 1918

SLAYDEN, Wm. J., 76 yrs, Garfield Hospt.

DEATH OF W. J. SLAYDEN
Was Brother of Representative and Served in Confederate Army
William J. SLAYDEN, of Ashville [sic], N. C., 76 years of age, died yesterday at Garfield Hospital. Mr. SLAYDEN is survived by two sisters, Miss Rena SLAYDEN and Mrs. B. R. FAKES, of Asheville, N.C.; one brother, Representative SLAYDEN, of Texas, and by a son and daughter, Acton SLAYDEN and Mrs. Allen (sic Alain) de LOTBINIERE of Canada.
His body will be buried at Mayfield, Ky., near where he was born. Mr. SLAYDEN served in the Confederate army and had large business interests in the South.





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