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Bracken County Cemeteries Tombstone Transcriptions and Photographs Contributed by Suzan Taylor | ||
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| All transcriptions and photographs were taken by Suzan Taylor and contributed for use by the KYGenWeb. Suzan has undertaken a project to record several Bracken County cemeteries and add them to this site as time permits. We all owe a big "thank you" to Suzan for sharing this important resource with family historians.
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Items in [brackets] are transcriber notes. Entries are displayed in alphabetical order by surname. | ||
Demoss-Fisher Cemetery, Bracken County, Kentucky | ||||
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This cemetery is on private property located on 1019/Lenoxburg-Foster Road about a quarter mile from KY Route 9. It is in very bad shape and I could only locate a small number of stones that are said to be there. | ||||
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[Same stone] Maria E. Anderson 1831-1872 Eliza E. 1865-1871 |
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[Broken stone] Caleb Biddle Sept. 1861 Aged 77 years | |
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John Clark Born 1820 Died Mar. 24, 1881 Aged 61 Yrs. |
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Valentine Metzger Died Aug. 13, 1881 In the 66 years of his age | |
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Gone Home [Name couldn't be read only letters of it. From the BCHS it is:] Harvey Riadon Born Dec. 7, 1830 Died May 10, 1877 Happy soul thy days are ended All thy mourning days below Go by angel guards attended To the sight of Jesus go. [At the bottom of the stone it says:] Silcott & Hyette Felicity, O. |
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Elmer Son of T. B. & A. B. Taylor Died Apr. 4, 1872 Aged 7 Mo. & 19 Da. | |
These two stones are inside an iron fence. There is no gate to the fence. | ||||
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James Thomas Taylor Born Aug. 10, 1832 Died April 18, 1860 |
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Mary Louisa Taylor Died Aug. 30, 1859 Aged 21 yrs. 5 mos. 11 ds. | |
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J. H. Son of T. B. & S. E. Taylor Born Nov. 11, 1873 Died Oct. 19, 1875 |
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[Toppled stone] Sarah Armenia Wife of H. C. Taylor Born Sept. 27, 1840 Died March 3, 1872 |
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Broken Stone #1 |  |
Broken Stone #2 | |
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No Visible Writing #1 |  |
No Visible Writing #2 | |
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Toppled Stone |  |
Base #1 | |
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Base #3 | |
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Field Rock #1 |  |
Field Rock #2 | |
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Field Rock #3 | |||
Contact the Bracken County Historical Society about inventories contained in their copyrighted books, Bracken County Cemeteries & Burial Sites 1796-1999 and Bracken Co. Cemetery Location Map. A KYGenWeb Bracken County lookup volunteer may be able to provide you with a full inscription for one or two specific names above, or a lookup for other cemeteries in Bracken County. If you have photos of other tombstones in Bracken County cemeteries, please consider contributing them to the KYGenWeb. Formatted for web display by Marla McCullough, Bracken County KYGenWeb Coordinator. | ||||
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