D. D. T. Farnsworth
Inscription
Daniel Duane Tompkins Farnsworth was born in New York in 1819 and later moved to Buckhannon. Member of second Wheeling convention and Reorganized Government of Virginia. He was President of West Virginia Senate in 1869 when resignation of Gov. A. I. Boreman made Farnsworth the state's second governor from February 26 to March 4, 1869.
He died in Buckhannon in 1892.
Location
AddressOld Heavener Cemetery, Weston Road, Buckhannon
CityBuckhannon
CountyUpshur
StateWest Virginia
Coordinates38.930950, -80.277820
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