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From Glasgow, in Barren County, Kentucky, go west on Hwy 90 to the Lee Fendell Road, it will be on the left. Pass Lee Fendell Road, turning left at the next lane, Harlow Cemetery Road. and follow .4 mile to the farm formerly owned by C H Harlow. The cemetery is between the house and barn. It is fenced and well kept. Find a Grave
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Pike County, Kentucky. Official Website The county was founded in 1821 and was named for General Zebulon Pike, the explorer who discovered Pikes Peak. Between 1860 and 1891 the Hatfield-McCoy feud raged in Pike and in bordering Mingo County, West Virginia. Adjacent Counties Martin County Mingo County, WV Floyd County Kn...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Daviess County, Kentucky. Official Website History Daviess County was established in 1815. The county is named for Major Joseph Hamilton Daveiss (a recording error in the State Clerk's office accounts for the error in spelling, which was never corrected), the United States Attorney who unsuccessfully prosecuted Aaron Burr. The cou...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Johnson County, Kentucky. Official Website History Johnson County was formed on February 24, 1843 by the Kentucky General Assembly. At that time, its county seat of Paintsville had already been a chartered city for nine years. Homes had been built in Paintsville as early as the 1810s. Many of the families at the beginning of Johnso...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Laurel County, Kentucky.Laurel County was established by an act of the general assembly, December 21, 1825 and was named for the Laurel River.Laurel County was the location of the Battle of Wildcat Mountain, a pivotal yet little known battle during the American Civil War that kept Confederate armies from advancing on Big Hill, a major...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Breathitt County, Kentucky. History The area now encompassed by Kentucky's Breathitt County was first bounded in 1772, when all of what is now the state of Kentucky was in the frontier county of Fincastle County, Virginia. Fincastle was divided in 1776, with the western portion named Kentucky County, Virginia. In 1780, Virginia se...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Harlan County, Kentucky. History Harlan County was formed in 1819. It is named after Silas Harlan. With the help of his uncle Jacob and his brother James, Harlan built a log stockade near Danville, which was known as "Harlan's Station". The Harlan County War in the 1930s consisted of violent confrontations among strikers, strikeb...
From The First American West: The Ohio River Valley, 1750-1820 The opening of the trans-Appalachian West launched one of the greatest land rushes in American history. Contrary to legend, however, most of the land was won not by hardy pioneers seeking a family farmstead but by wealthy individuals and powerful companies who quickly claimed possession of all the prime areas. By the beginning of th...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Clay County, Kentucky. Official Website The county was formed in 1807 and named in honor of Green Clay (1757–1826). Clay was a member of the Virginia and Kentucky State legislatures. Adjacent Counties Owsley County Perry County Leslie County Bell County Knox County Laurel County Jackson County
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Cumberland County, Kentucky. Official Website Cumberland County was created in 1798 from land given by Green County. It was named for the Cumberland River. In 1829, the first oil well in the United States was dug three miles north of Burkesville. However, it is usually not recognized as such because the drillers were looking for sal...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Owsley County, Kentucky. History Owsley County was formed in 1843 and was named for Governor William Owsley. It is known as the poorest white county in the United States. The first settlers in Owsley County were John Renty Baker and John Abner. They settled there in about 1780 near the present Clay County line at Courtland. A gra...
This cemetery is located on 1287 Chalybeate School Road, Chalybeate, Edmonson County, Kentucky. It's also known as Chalybeate Springs Cemetery . Find a Grave
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Knott County, Kentucky. Official Website Knott County was established in 1884 and was named for James Proctor Knott, Governor of Kentucky (1883-1887). Adjacent Counties Floyd County Magoffin County Pike County Breathitt County Perry County Letcher County Cities & Communities Anco | Bath | Bearville | Betty | ...
Other than a few badly weathered/broken grave markers and possibly a number of unmarked graves that can not be read, every name on every tombstone that is readable has been entered into this Find A Grave cemetery. The oldest internment date, as determined by tombstone dates, is 1878. A picture of every tombstone that could be found in this cemetery was taken July 2011. It is located on Greenbri...
This cemetery is located on KY Highway 70, Hiseville, Barren County, Kentucky. Find a Grave So-KY.com
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Jessamine County, Kentucky. Official Website Located within the Inner Blue Grass region, long a center of farming and blooded stock raising, Jessamine County was established in 1798 and was named for Jessamine Douglass, the daughter of a pioneer settler. Most of the early pioneers were from Virginia, who came through the mountains a...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Bourbon County, Kentucky. History Bourbon County was established in 1785 from a portion of Fayette County, Virginia, and named after the French House of Bourbon, in gratitude for Louis XVI of France's assistance during the American Revolutionary War. Bourbon County, Virginia, originally comprised 34 of Kentucky's 120 current ones...
Please add profiles for those who were born, lived or died in Fayette County, Kentucky. Overview Fayette County—originally Fayette County, Virginia—was established by the Virginia General Assembly in June 1780, when it abolished and subdivided Kentucky County into three counties: Fayette, Jefferson and Lincoln. Together, these counties and those set off from them later in that decade separa...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Jackson County, Kentucky. Official Website The county was formed in 1858 and was named for Andrew Jackson, seventh President of the United States. Adjacent Counties Estill County Madison County Lee County Clay County Owsley County Laurel County Rockcastle County
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in McCracken County, Kentucky.= Official Website =McCracken County was founded in 1825 from Hickman County; it was named for Captain Virgil McCracken of Woodford County, Kentucky, who was killed in the Battle of Frenchtown in southeastern Michigan during the War of 1812.The Battle of Paducah occurred during the American Civil War in McCr...
Land was donated to Spring Bayou Baptist Church for the establishment of the cemetery in 1895. Currently, there are 396 marked and legible gravesites,369 actual buried individuals, and one unmarked/unknown grave in the cemetery. The general area of the unmarked/unknown grave is known and a photo of the temporary metal marker was made, but is not legible. USGW Archives Find a Grave
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Monroe County, Kentucky.= Official Website = History The county was formed in 1820; and named for James Monroe the fifth President, author of the Monroe Doctrine.Confederate Gen. John Hunt Morgan's first Kentucky raid occurred here on July 9, 1862. Morgan's Raiders, coming from Tennessee, attacked Major Thomas J. Jordan's 9th Pennsylv...
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...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Pulaski County, Kentucky. Official Website The county was founded in December 1798 from land given by Lincoln and Green Counties and named for Polish patriot Count Casimir Pulaski. Adjacent Counties Lincoln County Rockcastle County Casey County Russell County Laurel County McCreary County Wayne County
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Lincoln County, Kentucky. Official Website Lincoln County—originally Lincoln County, Virginia—was established by the Virginia General Assembly in June 1780, and named in honor of Revolutionary War general Benjamin Lincoln. Adjacent Counties Boyle County Garrard County Rockcastle County Casey County Pulaski County ...