Loy Cemetery

(Adapted from The Family of James Blair and Nancy Day, by Roger D. Grider, copyright 2007;

This material used with author's permission. All but one of the head markers may be viewed at <http://www.findagrave.com/cgi‑bin/fg.cgi?page=cr&CRid=1309156&CScn=loy&CScntry=4&CSst=19&>

"Located on J. Kerr Road, off Free Union Church Road, Sano community, Adair County, Kentucky."

Laura L. Alley 9-22-1876 - 3-12-1904, "wife of James H. Alley" (From Adair Co. vital stats: Laura Z. Alley, 28, married, died 22 March 1904 from heart failure. Parents: J.Z. & Cathrine Brockman.)

Arthur B. Brockman 10-17-1884 - 4-26-1942

Bernice Brockman born and died 11-5-1918 "daut. of P. & S.B. Brockman"

J.L. Brockman 5-12-1839 - _________ 12 (Everything but the last two digits of the death date is obliterated. The death certificate gives his birth date as 9-12-1839 and death date as 9-12-1912 but gives his age as 73 years, four months. The birth inscription on the marker is clearly "Born 1839 May 12," and what remains of the death date is "Died ______ 12." If his birth date were 12 May 1839 and his death date were 12 Sept. 1912, that would exactly match the 73 years, four months age shown on the death certificate.)

Lester O. Brockman 9-15-1906, "inf. son of M.T. & B.E. Brockman"

Mary Brockman 4-28-1846 - 11-2-1916

Mary Brockman born and died 8-29-1904

Mary Vertie Brockman 5-14-1891 - 2-13-1949 (Death certificate gives death date as 2-10-1949.)

Milton W. Brockman 5-15-1847 - 10-19-1914

Nannie I. Brockman 8-10-1848 - 9-26-1906 (Initial verified as "I" both on head and foot marker.)

T.J. Brockman 4-12-1845 - 3-22-1927

Brockman, [unnamed] "Inf. son of W.J. & B.Z. Brockman born & died 12-5-1891."

Wilmer Brockman 4-5-1886 - 10-20-1918

Zella Brockman 7-11-1882 - 10-22-1918 (Death certificate gives birth date as 8-1-1882, death date as 10-19-1918.)

Fannie Blair 9-2-1858 - 9-3-1912, "wife of J.M. Blair"

Francis E. Blair 1854 - 1929 (Her death certificate gives her birth year as 1855 -- month/day not indicated -- and her death date as 15 June 1929.)

H.T. Blair 5-7-1868 - 9-3-1941 (Hiram T. Blair)

James Alvis Blair 11-4-1915 - 11-26-1924

Laura Blair 9-13-1867 - 9-18-1903

Mary Blair 7-7-1827 - 1-19-1896

Oren Blair 10-30-1890 - 3-22-1919

T.L. Blair 10-31-1823 - 6-7-1905 (Thomas Leftridge Blair)

Austin Bryant 3-1-1870 - 3-25-1947, OSSW Ruthie Bryant

Ruthie Bryant 8-20-1871 - 10-12-1963, OSSW Austin Bryant

Sirena Bryant 1-29-1840 - 7-19-1903

Zilpha B. Bryant 1-2-1897 - 1-12-1897 "daut. of T.W. & M.D. Bryant"

Melvinie Cravens 8-3-1858 - 12-1-1906

M.V. Cravens 12-8-1845 - 8-3-1932 (KY death record gives name as Van B. Cravens)

John Lovless 4-10-1813 - 3-15-1895 (A small marker, apparently a foot marker, photographed in 2003 by Blair descendant Morris Shepherd, reads "here is the leg of J.L.")

Millie Lovless 10-12-1813 - 6-20-1867 (The death year on the marker unquestionably is 1867, but Millie appears in the 1870 Adair Co. census.)

S.E. Lovless 8-3-1843 - 3-5-1873

"Little Allice A." [Shaw] 3-29-1907 - 5-9-1907, "daughter of W.E. & N.J. Shaw"

Nora J. Rutherford [Shaw] 5-15-1887 - 5-5-1907, "married W.E. Shaw March 31, 1906."

R.W. Smiley Co. B 13th Ky. Inf. (Military marker. The Adjutant General's Report for Kentucky [Union, Vol I] states that Robert W. Smiley was mustered into Co. B 13th Ky. Infantry, Union, at Camp Hobson, Ky., on Dec. 31, 1861 and died February --, 1862 in Adair Co. KY.)

There are an estimated 16 to 20 field markers in this cemetery.