Francis H. Pierpont, governor of the Restored Government of Virginia and the "Father of West Virginia," died on March 24, 1899, and is buried here with his wife, Julia Augusta Robertson Pierpont. They first met in 1847 when he interviewed her for a governess position for his neighbor Judge Thomas Haymond, and she later married him in 1854. Three of their four children are also buried here, while the fourth, Mary Augusta, died in Laurel, Maryland, where the family lived while Pierpont served as Virginia's governor in Alexandria. After returning from Richmond, Virginia, to Fairmont and their Quincy Street house in 1868 when his term ended, Pierpont resumed his career as an attorney, served in the West Virginia legislature, and taught school for Fairmont's African Americans. After becoming ill in 1896, he lived with his daughter Anna Siviter in Pittsburgh until his death. Julia Pierpont died in Fairmont on March 25, 1886, and in May 1866, while in Richmond, she, her children, and several friends cleaned and decorated neglected graves of Union soldiers in Hollywood Cemetery, an event that was among the origins of the nation's Memorial Day. Elsewhere in the cemetery are buried two West Virginia governors, 113 Civil War veterans, and West Virginia's first state school superintendent. On April 20, 1910, during day long ceremonies in the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., Governor William E. Glasscock presented a statue of Pierpont to the United States Congress and said that without the restored government of Virginia, there would have been no State of West Virginia.