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Cave Hill National Cemetery, located in Louisville, Kentucky, is comprised of six burial sections at the northwest corner of the privately owned Cave Hill Cemetery , (a separate project on Geni), a grand Victorian-era cemetery that provided a proper resting place for the dead within a beautiful park setting. The national cemetery features rows of marble headstones following the curvilinear path...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky. Official Website History Louisville is the historical and nominal county seat of Jefferson County. It was named after King Louis XVI of France, and was founded in 1778 by George Rogers Clark, making it one of the oldest cities west of the Appalachians. The city's early growth was influenced b...
Wikipedia The University of Louisville (UofL) is a public university in Louisville, Kentucky, a member of the Kentucky state university system. When founded in 1798, it was the first city-owned public university in the United States and one of the first universities chartered west of the Allegheny Mountains. The university is mandated by the Kentucky General Assembly to be a "Preeminent Metro...
Wikipedia Zachary Taylor National Cemetery is a United States National Cemetery located at 4701 Brownsboro Road (US-42), in Louisville, Kentucky. Find a Grave
The cemetery is located in Hoosier Township on the northeast corner of the intersection of Moonstone Drive and County Road 1525 E, in Louisville, Clay County, Illinois. The cemetery was established in 1859. The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) feature ID for the cemetery is 1821628 (Hoosier Prairie Cemetery / Baptist Cemetery ). Find a Grave
The Chenoweth Massacre of July 17, 1789 was the last major Native American raid in present-day Jefferson County, Kentucky (Louisville Metro).Captain Richard Chenoweth, builder of Fort Nelson, was stationed with his family northeast of present-day Middletown when a large band of Native Americans (likely Shawnee) attacked from across the Ohio River. They killed three of Chenoweth's children, Levi...
Wikipedia =Bellarmine University is an independent, private, Catholic university in Louisville, Kentucky. The liberal arts institution opened on October 3, 1950, as Bellarmine College, established by Archbishop John A. Floersh of the Archdiocese of Louisville and named after the Cardinal Saint Robert Bellarmine. The name was changed by the Board of Trustees in 2000 to Bellarmine University. The...
This project is for those buried in Resthaven Memorial Cemetery, Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky. The cemetery is located on 4400 Bardstown Road and is also known as Resthaven Cemetery and Resthaven Memorial Park . Notable Burials Joe Guyon (1892-1971) - NFL & MLB Player Marvin Hart (1876-1931) - Professional Boxer Max Cullen Macon (1915-1989) - MLB Player Charles Franklin ...
The Bethany Memorial Cemetery, located on 10917 Dixie Highway, Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky, was established in 1931. It has an on-site office that is open during regular weekday hours. The office staff is courteous and helpful. Note: It is important not to confuse the locations of graves in the Bethany Memorial Cemetery with those of the adjoining and non-related South Jefferson Ce...
Eastern Cemetery is a 28-acre cemetery located at 641 Baxter Avenue in Louisville, Kentucky, United States, abutting Cave Hill Cemetery. It contains about 16,000 graves, though documentation for about 138,000 bodies. This imbalance is due to the cemetery formerly being a site for mass paupers' graves and from the reuse of grave sites. Originally known as The Methodist, the 28-acre Eastern Ceme...
Evergreen Cemetery was dedicated 24 May 1914. The program that day included an invocation by Rev. Richard Willkinson, entitled "Come, Ye Disconsolate," performance by the St. Andrew's Male Quartet, prayers by Rt. Rev. Charles E. Woodcock, D.D., and Rev. William W. Landrum; an unveiling of the Moose monument by Arthur H. Jones, member of the Supreme Council of the Loyal Order of Moose of the Wor...
DO NOT CONFUSE WITH CAVE HILL NATIONAL CEMETERY , also in Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky. Cave Hill National Cemetery is located in the northwest corner of Cave Hill Cemetery. The City fathers did not have a cemetery in mind when they acquired part of the old farm that the Johnston family called Cave Hill. The farm had a good spring emanating from a cave, but its stone quarries were o...
St. Stephen Cemetery is unusual in the Louisville of modern times. Unlike other active cemeteries, it is actually located in the fairly urban part of inner Louisville, rather than the suburban fringe of the town. This helps to date it and place it in the context of Louisville history. Upset by the $6 burial charge put in place by the Portland Cemetery, a group of German Catholics decided to op...
Calvary Cemetery was established in 1921. With over 200 acres, it is the largest of the Archdiocesan Catholic Cemeteries. Calvary Cemetery houses the centralized office for Calvary, Saint Louis, Saint Michael and Saint John cemeteries. Archbishops Kelly, McDonough and Floersh and Bishop Maloney are buried at Calvary Cemetery in the section for diocesan priests. The Sisters of Mercy, Resurrecti...
The focus of this project is to collect profiles of anyone involved in the Kentucky Derby from the star jockeys to the financiers, to the owners and the stable boys and everyone in between.The Kentucky Derby /ˈdɜːrbi/ is a horse race held annually in Louisville, Kentucky, United States, almost always on the first Saturday in May, capping the two-week-long Kentucky Derby Festival. The competitio...
Please add to this project the profiles of Civil War soldiers, both Union and Confederate, who died in Jeffersonville, Indiana and Louisville, Kentucky. Since the two cities are across the Ohio River from each other, it is often difficult to locate exactly which city the soldiers died in.==Jeffersonville, Indiana==* Camp Joe Holt * Jefferson General Hospital ==Louisville, Kentucky==* United Sta...
This cemetery started out about 1860 as the Schardein family burial site, with other Jewish families living in the area also using it. The family held the property until the Louisville Crematory and Cemeteries, Incorporated purchased it, in the early 1960s. The circumstances are not known. There are no well-kept records available for a long time. Recently some records were found, and they were...
The Louisville Colonels were a Major League Baseball team that played in the American Association (AA) throughout that league's ten-year existence from 1882 until 1891. They were known as the Louisville Eclipse from 1882–1884, and as the Louisville Colonels from 1885 to 1891. The latter name derived from the historic Kentucky colonels. After the AA folded in 1891, the Colonels joined the Nation...
The Louisville Colonels were a Major League Baseball team that played in the American Association (AA) throughout that league's ten-year existence from 1882 until 1891. They were known as the Louisville Eclipse from 1882–1884, and as the Louisville Colonels from 1885 to 1891. The latter name derived from the historic Kentucky colonels. After the AA folded in 1891, the Colonels joined the Nation...
The Louisville Grays were a 19th-century United States baseball team and charter member of the National League, based in Louisville, Kentucky. They played two seasons, 1876 and 1877, and compiled a record of 65–61. Their home games were at the Louisville Baseball Park. The Grays were owned by businessman Walter Newman Haldeman, owner and publisher of the Louisville Courier-Journal newspaper.The...
This is my mom's father's family. They came from germany around 1854 to Louisville KY & then some of them moved to St Louis Mo.